It is 12:30 AM and I am just starting to type up my book review for history. And tomorrow I get to type up a 4.5 page essay for English. And on Friday I have my doctor’s appointment. For once I was actually glad that I got my period this morning because I thought I wouldn’t have to go to the doctors anymore. But nope! Mom says I still have to because it won’t effect the tests. I want to cry right now. Out of fear and exhaustion.

But, I am looking forward to Saturday! Today Tina from the Academy of Design and Technology called me asking about my interest in graphic design and invited me to an open house. Supposedly there are going to be workshops at the school, one of them being a Photoshop workshop which I’m really excited about. It starts at 1 PM, I think. HOPEFULLY it starts in the afternoon because I want to sleep in…SLEEP HOW I MISS YOU SO.

I also miss YOU…

Olá leitores, após pesquisar muito e passar muitos dias fuçando em blogs e sites de vendas e reviews de computadores eu decidi adquirir o meu Pc atual, e é este do qual eu vos falo. Se trata de um Asus EEE PC 1008HA, um netbook lançado em junho de 2009 que alem de ser bastante útil é também muito bonito.

As configurações da maquina são modestas comparadas ao meu antigo notebook, mas o 1008HA me surpreendeu na sua capacidade de processamento. Ele tem 1GB de memória ram, 160GB de HDD 5400rpm, Wifi nos padrões B, G, e N, Windows XP home SP3 e um touchpad que aceita multiplios toques (pré programados).

A primeira coisa a fazer após liga-lo foi instalar os programas básicos que eu utilizava no meu antigo notebook, eles são : Skype, Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Babylon, Windows live messenger, iTunes 9, Notebook Hardware Control, BrOffice e alguns outros programas técnicos para o gerenciamento de redes WI-FI.

A instalação de todos estes programas levou pouco mais de quarenta minutos, e o consumo de memoria Ram do sistema em repouso ficou entre 400 e 420 Mb. Logo depois disso foi a vez dele, do essencial, do maravilhoso, do extremamente útil Photoshop!.

Photoshop CS3

Eu testei duas versões do PSCS3, uma portátil e a versão original do cd de instalação. Após instaladas as duas versões, a que mais apresentou estabilidade e se manteve sem travar foi a versão completa. Mas tanto esta quanto a portátil se mostraram lentas. mesmo em edição de imagens pequenas, como um wallpaper de resolução 1024×768, o programa se mostrou irritantemente lento. Não recomendo a não ser que você tenha muito tempo, e paciencia, livres.

Photoshop CS2

Logo que eu desintalei a versão CS3 do Photoshop foi hora de partir para a sua versão anterior. A instalação foi rápida e tranquila, sem problemas. O programa iniciou rapidamente, em aproximadamente 14 segundos e após menos de 10 minutos, o tempo levado na instalação e inicialização do programa, eu já estava editando imagens. O PSCS2 editou imagens de até 3000×3000px sem apresentar muita lentidão nos processos. Vale apontar aqui que em todos os testes realizados nas versões dos programas, só o photoshop estava aberto. Apesar de mostra um bom desempenho, o Photoshop travou em diversos momentos de uso. Não travou por problemas de desempenho da maquina, mas sim por bugs do próprio programa. Provavelmente este foi um defeito de integração Photoshop/Sistema operacional ja que o PSCS3 não travou, mesmo em tarefas pesadas. Recomendo que você teste por si mesmo, ja que aparentemente o problema é com o meu Windows.

Photoshop CS

Depois de me decepcionar com o Photoshop CS3 e encontrar bugs no CS2, foi a vez de partir para a minha ultima esperança : O Photoshop CS. Assim como foi com o PSCS2, a instalação foi rapida e sem problemas. O boot do programa se deu em apenas 9 segundos, um ótimo desempenho, mesmo para um netbook. A edição de imagens transcorreu sem problemas e eu consegui até editar um poster de 33×27 cm em 300dpi. Não tive problemas com nenhum aspecto do programa, inclusive ele me permitiu usar o Firefox 3.5 com 21 tabs abertas e escutar musicas no iTunes sem problemas de travamento ou demora sem-fim. Versão totalmente recomendada!.

Espero que este mini-guia tenha sido util, provavelmente as recomendações dadas aqui sirvam para modelos com com configuração similar.

Links Interessantes

Site Oficial do Asus EEE PC 1008HA

Pagina do Mercado Livre onde eu comprei o 1008HA. (recomendo o vendedor, muito honesto)

Imagens do Asus 1008HA No google images

Video do Photoshop CS4 rodando em um EEE PC

Vida Longa e Próspera!

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Hi folks, Today’stopic is Copyright Watermark!

I do remember, once blog buddy ~ Jennifer asked me about, How to stamp copyright watermark on top of the photographs?  It is very useful to protect your photographs, when you post your photos in less secured sites/servers!

Hope you like today’s Tut! Feel free to ask me more on variations of copyright watermarks!!!

Software used: Photoshop CS2 (Features used: Layers, Pattern & Layer blending options)

Step 1: Open A New Blank Document With A Transparent Background

Go to  File > New > to bring up the New Document dialog box.

(enter 6 inches for the width, 4 inches for the height, and 300 pixels/inch for the resolution.)

For Background Contents > Transparent (by clicking on the drop down menu)
Click OK!!

Step 2: Type Your Copyright Information

Grab your Type tool from the Tools palette or by pressing T on your keyboard.

Then press D on your keyboard to set black as your foreground color if it isn’t already, and enter your copyright information.

Select Font & its size from the above tool bar.(Try a bigger size this time!)

To access the copyright symbol “©”,
Press Option-G on a Mac, or hold down the Alt key on Windows and enter 0169 on the numeric keypad. I entered

“Copyright © 2009 WB Photography”
(An easier way to get the copyright sign ~ just copy the above sign and paste it where you want it)

Step 3: Rotate The Text With Free Transform

The copyright watermark tends to look better with the text rotated a bit, so once you’ve entered your text,
Press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) to bring up the Free Transform handles around your text,

then place your mouse cursor just outside one of the corner handles and drag left or right with your mouse to rotate the text. Hold down the Shift key as you drag to rotate in nice, even increments!

Press Enter (Win) or Return (Mac) to apply the rotation when you’re done.

Step 4: Trim The Document Around The Text

Go to the Image menu > Trim.

(This brings up the Trim dialog box).We want to trim away all the extra space around the text, and since all the extra space is made up of transparent pixels, Select the first option > Transparent Pixels

Click OK, and Photoshop trims away all the extra space around the text

Step 5: Define The Text As A Pattern

Go up to the Edit > Define Pattern.

(We‘re going to create a pattern out of our copyright information. The Pattern Name dialog box appears)

Name your new pattern “copyright” and then click OK.

Step 6: Close The Copyright Document

We’ve done everything we need to do with our copyright document, so go ahead and close out of it at this point. No need to save anything!!
Open an image in photoshop, which you want to watermark with copyright!

Step 7: Add A New Layer In The Original Image Document

Back in our original image document, we currently have one layer, the Background layer, which contains our image. We don’t want to add our copyright information directly to the Background layer, so either click on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette or use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N (Win) / Shift+Command+Option+N
(Mac) to create a new layer above the Background layer, which Photoshop names “Layer 1″:

Step 8: Fill The New Layer With The Copyright Pattern

With our new layer selected in the Layers palette,

Go to the Edit menu > Fill, which brings up the Fill dialog box. For “Contents”, click on the down-pointing arrow and Select Pattern from the list!

Then, with Pattern selected, click on the little thumbnail image beside the words Custom Pattern and then choose your copyright pattern from the list that appears. It will be the last pattern at the bottom!!

Click OK!

(and your new layer is filled with a repeating pattern of your copyright information)

Step 9: Change The Blend Mode To “Overlay” and Lower The Opacity

The only problem now is that the text is too prominent. It’s blocking much of the image from view.

To fix that, with the new layer selected, go up to the layer blend mode options in the top left of the Layers palette,(click F7 for layer palette, if its missing)

Click on the down-pointing arrow beside the word “Normal” and select Overlay from the list.

Then move over to the Opacity option beside it and reduce the opacity as needed. I tried 60% and you can see the results below!!!!

You can try other words, instead of copyright! You can also try a single line of words in the centre of the photograph, with the layer blending options as above! or just play with it! Layer blending options are too coooool!!!!

You can even stamp a personal signature of yours on your photographs! Just like mine!! How?? Maybe next week!

Take care!

Original Image by Sinned-angel-stock

Well. . .  these 11 photoshop cs2 actions are conversions to black and white and to sepia tones. Great for Weddings and Portraits and Landscapes. Enjoy!!!

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Hi folks, Today’s is very similar to the last one.

As per the request of my dear blog friend ‘Jo’, Today’s Topic is: Zoom Blur! This is an easy way to highlight the subjects by simply blurring the background with a zoom effect!

Software used: Photoshop CS2 (Features used: layers & Eraser tool)

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Open up an image of a Car/Bike in Photoshop, preferably the one on the road or with a very colorful background!

2. Goto Layer > Duplicate Layer… and when the pop-up appears, name the duplicate layer “Zoom”.

3. Goto Filter > Blur > Radial Blur.

Move the slider and select amount to 15. Blur Method to Zoom. Quality to Best. (try the other options too! Not now..Later!!) The “Zoom” duplicate layer should look blurred with centered zoom. (…..You can add more filters and effects  to this layer)

4. With the “Zoom” layer active, select the Eraser tool. Select an appropriate brush size. Then zoom in and begin erasing the areas of the photo where you want the focused subject to appear. Exactly like the last tutorial (Try appropriate hardness for your brush tip ~ from the brush drop down menu on the top bar)

5. Continue to erase any other aspects of the photo until you have the final result that you are looking for.

6. Then……now you know what to do, right?!! Have Fun

Thank you all for the comments and support for the 4Tp I’ll bring you more tougher and more exciting tutorials in the coming weeks!  I’ll catch up with you all soon

Publisher: Wiley
Paperback: 454 pages
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This is absolutely the ultimate guide to hacking Adobe’s wildly popular graphics software, written by an Adobe Certified professional photographer and designer.
This is serious, down and dirty, tweaking – blowing away the default settings, customizing appearance, optimizing performance, customizing tools and offering readers total control over Photoshop like never before. With these 300+ hacks, readers will find their work with Photoshop faster and easier than ever.
Roll up your sleeves, and dive into these hacks including:
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Publisher: Wiley
Hardcover: 650 pages
File Size: 79.3 Mb

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Inside, you’ll find advanced coverage of Photoshop CS2
* Explore new ways to adjust and enhance color
* Use retouching and color adjustment techniques to correct seemingly impossible-to-fix images
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* Master complex filter techniques and create your own custom filter
You already know your way around Photoshop. You want to focus on creative expression, and that’s what you’ll find in this streamlined, lavishly illustrated volume. A Photoshop Hall of Fame inductee, a master trainer, and a Web graphics expert have collected the most important Photoshop CS2 techniques, tips, and twists to share with you-along with their enthusiasm and experience. Completely and painstakingly updated for CS2, this is truly the ultimate professional guide.

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Publisher: For Dummies
Paperback: 656 pages
File Size: 56.0 Mb

Product Description:
Brace yourself—this For Dummies guide is in full, dazzling color! That way you can see how you can lighten, brighten, blur, sharpen, or even age your digital images with Photoshop CS2. Chances are you have Photoshop CS2 and have explored it enough to know that you need a good guide to make the most of all its capabilities and get up to speed fast. Odds are you’ve experimented with some photos and spent hours tweaking them. Maybe you’re a veteran and used Photoshop CS2 to turn the gray sky to blue in a resort photo or to brighten the CEO’s smile. Maybe you’re a novice and gleefully extracted your ex from old photos and gave yourself a flattering mini-makeover at the same time. Maybe you used it to remove a scratch from a treasured family photo.
Regardless, you probably haven’t scratched the surface. Photoshop CS2 gives you so many options and tools for digital image creation, correction, and enhancement that even experienced pros can discover new techniques and shortcuts. With explanations for working on a PC or a Mac, Photoshop CS2 All-In-One desk Reference For Dummies is your complete resource that:
* Combines nine minibooks: (1) Photoshop Fundamentals (2) Image Essentials (3) Selections (4) Painting, Drawing, and Typing (5) Working with Layers (6) Channels and Masks (7) Filters and Distortions (8) Retouching and Restoration (9) Photoshop and Print
* Has more than 650 pages of tips, techniques, and plain-English explanations
* Is in glorious, full color, with all kinds of photographs and examples
* Has tons of screen shots so you’ll know exactly what to look for on your screen
* Provides a tear out Cheat Sheet that’s your instant reference for finding your way around Photoshop CS2, accessing the tools palette through shortcuts, and making selections
* Gets you up to speed on the new Adobe Bridge that lets you view, search, and organize your files, edit Camera Raw files, search for and purchase royalty-free stock photography, synchronize color settings, and more
* Introduces you to the 58 tools in the Tools palette, from the Pen to the Eraser… the Spot Healing Brush to the Burn…the Clone Stamp to the Red Eye
* Explains how to work with Vanishing Point—the new feature that lets you edit three dimensionally on a two-dimension image
* Features special Putting-It-Together exercises that walk you through numbered steps to show you how to do various tasks such as getting the red out of eyes, making and fine-tuning a collage, and more; images on the book’s companion Web site let you follow along

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Paperback: 432 pages
File Size: 54.1 Mb

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In this full-color, easy-to-use book, award-winning designer and best-selling author Colin Smith teaches the fundamentals of Photoshop then covers the more advanced features the software has to offer. Learn to use traditional drawing and painting tools ranging from pencils to airbrushes, then discover how to add and manipulate text, retouch photos, create special effects, and more. The techniques professional artists apply to their work are revealed in a special “Behind the Scenes” section.

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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Paperback: 272 pages
File Size: 8.5 Mb

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Adobe Photoshop is industry standard digital image software and users are hungry for solutions to their myriad concerns–from how best to manage the program’s sometimes unwieldy interface to how to use the new Vanishing Point tool. Photoshop guru David Blatner has scoured the online forums, interviewed Adobe engineers, and gathered together answers to over 200 of the most-commonly asked questions. Written in a sassy, fun-to-read style, this book tackles every major Photoshop problem with a lay-it-on-the-line solution. Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 Breakthroughs is for anyone who has been using Photoshop long enough to realize that the solution to their problems isn’t always as obvious as one would expect.

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Publisher: O’Reilly
Paperback: 224 pages
File Size: 19.1 Mb

Description:
The RAW file format is the uncompressed data file captured by a digital camera’s electronic sensor. Because RAW files remain virtually untouched by in-camera processing, working with them brings greater flexibility and control to the editing process–if you know how to use them. Adobe Photoshop CS2 has emerged as the best way to edit RAW images, and Photoshop CS2 RAW is dedicated to working with RAW in Photoshop. This comprehensive guide explores the entire RAW process, focusing extensively on Photoshop editing techniques targeted to professionals and photo hobbyists alike.

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Publisher: Adobe Press
Paperback: 592 pages
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If you’re ready to go from blindly following step-by-step instructions to “Aha, I finally GET Photoshop!” this is the place to start. In these pages, world renowned Photoshop instructor and best-selling author Ben Willmore writes in his signature style–intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depth–helping you gain the deep understanding needed to master Photoshop’s most essential features. Complex concepts like Curves and Channels are broken down into easy to digest metaphors and descriptions, and features new to Photoshop CS2–such as Bridge, Smart Objects, the revamped Layers Palette and Camera Raw dialog box, as well as the awesome new Warping and Vanishing Point features–are all covered in the depth they deserve, making it possible to quickly adapt them into your daily workflow. Whether you’re a photographer, designer, production artist or hobbyist, the knowledge you gain in this book can dramatically change the way you think about Photoshop.

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Publisher: Peachpit Press
Paperback: 336 pages
File Size: 9.9 Mb

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Call it a control thing, but until recently–or, more specifically, until the availability of digital raw camera formats–you simply weren’t ready to make the move to digital photography. Raw formats, however, changed all of that by allowing you to retrieve images before any in-camera processing has been performed. Photoshop’s Adobe Camera Raw plug-in makes that process even easier by providing a standardized way of accessing and working with these uncompressed digital negatives in your favorite image-manipulation software. In the first volume devoted exclusively to the topic, best-selling author Bruce Fraser shows you how to take advantage of Adobe Camera Raw to set white balance, optimize contrast and saturation, handle noise, correct tint, and recover lost detail in images before converting them to another format. After learning about the raw formats themselves, you’ll discover hands-
on techniques for exposing and shooting for digital raw, using Bridge, Adobe’s new standalone file browser, to preview images and automate tasks, and building a workflow around the digital raw process.

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Publisher: Adobe Press
Paperback: 304 pages
File Size: 14.2 Mb

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Everyone uses Photoshop; however, not everyone uses it efficiently! With this guide, the folks at Adobe Press are hoping to remedy that situation. Realizing that if you’re a veteran Photoshop user, you may still be using methods more suitable to long-ago versions and that if you’re new to Photoshop, you may be missing out on some of the long-honed shortcuts and automated tools, Adobe Press has come up with a guide that shows you how to tap into Photoshop’s productivity features to streamline your work whatever your level. You’ll be amazed at how much time you can save by taking advantage of Preferences, presets, Actions, scripting, batch processing, keyboard shortcuts, Workspaces, file browsing, the Bridge and more. You’ll also learn about new CS2 features that push the creative envelope even further: Image Warping, Vanishing Point, Smart Objects, and more. Simple instructions and images galore make learning easy with this smart, focused guide.

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Publisher: Focal Press
Paperback: 240 pages
File Size: 7.6 Mb

Description:
If you don’t know where to start in Photoshop and feel overwhelmed with the options, then this is the book for you. With highly visual step-by-step explanations, this concise guide gives you a solid grounding in using Photoshop to edit digital images and helps you develop a full understanding of the key tools and features of Photoshop CS2.
Brad Hinkel guides you through a simple image editing workflow to get you up and running fast. If you want solutions quickly and easy access to any basic step of the workflow, this guide provides the essential knowledge you need. Filled with step-by-step projects and covering all the key new features of Photoshop CS2: Camera RAW, Reduce Noise, Smart Sharpen and Spot Healing Brush.
* Understand the basics of Photoshop and learn the image editing skills you need with this simple, easy-to-use introduction.
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This weekend I developed an addiction – of making these circles in Photoshop CS2.

These are prepared from a collection of colorful photographs with a very quick technique that I found here (using polar co-ordinates). From bright pics to these eye-catching pieces of abstract art in a jiffy!

It’s a whole new genre of very addictive post-processing! I’m still suffering the hangover…

And here is one more… I’m spinning around!

Spinning around

À la fin août, je me suis acheté la caméra que je convoitais, la Canon EOS 50D !

Je suis encore au stade de l’expérimentation et je n’ai certainement pas encore joué avec toutes ses caractéristiques. Au fait, je compte m’acheter un livre un peu plus détaillé sur le mode de fonctionnement de l’appareil et ses capacités, le manuel de l’utilisateur de Canon, qui contient tout de même plus de 210 pages, est assez pauvre sur les explications en profondeur et ne me rejoint absolument pas.

Mais jusqu’à présent, je ne pourrais pas être plus heureuse de cet achat. Petit détail que je tiens à souligner, l’appareil vient avec le firmware version 1.07 installé, ce qui règle le problème de photos à forte tonalité de magenta sous éclairage au tungstène.

Au fur et à mesure que j’aurai du matériel à montrer, je vais ajouter des liens à mes galleries. Pour l’instant, je n’ai que celle-ci.

J’en ai une autre en attente, mais je dois convertir mes photos et ensuite les télécharger. Je dois faire des petites entourloupettes parce que je prends mes photos en RAW (à cause du meilleur contrôle sur l’image que ce type de fichier apporte) et merde de merde, j’ai Photoshop CS2.

Vu que Adobe est l’arnaqueur que l’on connaît, ils ont avertis les utilisateurs qu’ils ne feraient plus de mise-à-jour à CS2 une fois que CS3 a été lancé sur le marché : donc le type de fichier RAW de ma nouvelle caméra ne peut être lu par Photoshop CS2. À près de 1 000 $ CAN pour chaque version, je refuse d’acheter CS3 ou CS4, j’attends plutôt CS5 puisque cette version est supposée être ré-écrite en Cocoa (donc du code natif Mac OS X) et qu’elle est sensée être 64-bits ce dont mon iMac actuel est capable. On verra si Adobe respectera sa parole…

At the end of August, I bought the camera I was lusting for, the Canon EOS 50D!

I’m still in the experimenting stage and I haven’t tried out all its features yet, going through trial and error, mostly. I am planning on buying a book that will be better at explaining its Hows and Whys, Canon’s owner manual is a bit poor and doesn’t grab my attention at all, it confuses me more than anything else.

Since Adobe is the crook we all know it is, the company warned it would not update CS2 anymore once CS3 was out, so the EOS 50D’s type of RAW file format can’t be read by Photoshop CS2. At nearly $1,000 CAN a pop, I refuse to buy CS3 or CS4, I’m waiting for CS5 instead because it’s supposed to be re-written in Cocoa (Mac OS X native) and it will support 64-bit computing of which my iMac is capable of. We’ll see if Adobe sticks to its promises…

I have been working on a cd cover for a seattle band called Blood Hot Beat. This is the color progress. so far. Still have a little work with text to do.