Archive for September, 2005

All work and no play for Jonny!

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

For all regular visitors to this site - Im afraid new posts to the site are going to be a-lot less frequent over the next few weeks as I have a number of major design projects on at the moment that are sucking up all my resources. (more…)

Transient witticisms Easter Egg

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

You can reveal some very strange bits of text and comments from the Photoshop development team with this little hidden Photoshop Easter Egg! (more…)

Changing the surrounding background colour in full screen mode

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

This is not so much an Easter Egg in the traditional sense, more of a little known hidden feature - as this one may actually be occasionally useful, especially for web designers! When you are working in full screen mode you can change the default surrounding canvas colour (the area around the image) of neutral gray (more…)

Lots of shortcuts and techniques for working with guides effectively

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Using guides in Photoshop is a core principle that is essential for any precise work. (more…)

Image adjustment shortcuts

Monday, September 12th, 2005

There are quite a few shortcuts you can use to bring up image adjustments, rather than fishing around in the Image>Adjustments menu. (more…)

Creating your own custom brushes

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

Creating your own brushes in Photoshop is simpler than you might think, and once you have created them they can always remain in your Photoshop arsenal ready to use at any time, ready to share with your fellow designers! (more…)

Stopping Photoshop performing an action half way through

Monday, September 5th, 2005

Sometimes you realise half-way through applying a filter, transformation or anything else in Photoshop where you see a progress bar appear that you have made a mistake. (more…)


Scampenstein - Internet community funded animation project