Negative Space Exhibition Contest

Theme: It is not always the subject, but the Negative Space around the subject that truly makes a photogragraph truly stunning. This exhibition will highlight the artistic compositional element that makes up the space not commonly seen.

Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur, photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Visit their site to see how you can enter.

40 Photoshopped Images

Sometimes they can be funny, sometimes thought provoking, other times they just mess with your mind. They’ll always take your breath away though and make you wonder at the skills of the people that created them. Take a Look at them here.

Blog to Host Graphic Information

I am going to jump in and use my blog to try to help inform people about cool and interesting things in the wonderful word of graphics. Photoshop is my passion and I will be posting tons of items about it and I will also be giving tips and tricks. Along with Photoshop I will be posting information about other Adobe programs and various other software makers that I use or find helpfull in my day to day life. I hope you all enjoy this blog as much as I do creating it. You can contact me eric@eyedeas-design.com.

Thanks and have fun
Eric Saar

Clean-up script for CS3 Mac betas available

Adobe has posted a clean-up script for Mac that will remove vestiges of the Photoshop CS3 public beta as well as other pre-release apps. It's important to run this script (and not just throw the app in the trash!), and/or to use the application uninstaller, before installing the shipping version of CS3 apps.

My top 5 Photoshop Quick Tips

1. Transform. Did you ever bring an image into another Photoshop document and it is HUGE? You need to size the image down, but when you do a free transform you might not see the handles. Well if you do a Command+T (Control+T, PC) and then Command+0 (Control+0, PC) it will shrink the entire image and enlarge your clip board so that you can see the handles.
2. Brush Size. Any tool that uses a brush you can change the brush size just by using the bracket keys "[ Left bracket" will make the brush smaller and the "Right bracket ]" will make the brush bigger. This is so much better than going to the brushes palette all the time.
3. Hex Colors? If you want the Hexadecimal number from a color in an image all you need to do is get the eyedropper tool (I on the keyboard) and Control+Click or right mouse click on that color. This will bring up a menu, just pick “Copy Color as HTML”. Then in Dreamweaver you can just paste your new color number.
4. Zoom. To quickly zoom in and out on your document you can press Command + or -. If you also take your Zoom tool and use it to draw a box around a specific area of an image it will zoom you in right on that section.
5. Selections. To make a complete selection of an image on a transparent layer, just Comand (Control PC) click on the thumbnail on the layer you wish to select and it will make the selection.