Archive for July, 2006

Creating curved guides in Photoshop

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Creating curved guides in Photoshop - yes you read that right… but guides not as you know them!
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Photoshop CS 3 - designers waiting to upgrade for Intel native OSX

Monday, July 31st, 2006

I think many people would agree that it is suprising that Adobe are making users wait until around start of second quarter 2007 until they release the ‘proper’ native version of Adobe Creative Suite 3 - but why such a long wait?
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Photoshop Troubleshooting - Why has my brush shape outline changed to crosshair - help!

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Have you ever come across this situation - you change to a brush based tool in Photoshop, but no matter how big or small you make the brush it just displays a small crosshair instead of the brush outline, even if you change the preference? This also might be mistaken for the brush disappearing as the crosshair is very small and tricky to see making you think that the brush size is not visible.

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Photoshop Ninja Tech Abstracts Vol 1 Custom Shapes Download

Friday, July 7th, 2006

The first in my collection of personally crafted free Photoshop downloads. I give you Photoshop Ninja Tech Abstracts Vol.1 - A very cool collection of 8 fully editable Photoshop Custom Shapes bundled together in a nice little set. Download and play, be my guest - and it is free!

Download Photoshop BrushesPhotoshopninja Tech Abstracts 1

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Better CMYK black printing

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Have you ever noticed that areas of pure CMYK 100% black doesn’t seem to be that, well…black when printed on some printed jobs, especially on uncoated stock?
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Scampenstein - Internet community funded animation project