Apr 12 2012
A detailed look at significant developments.
The Production Premium package is all about video, but it includes Photoshop, Illustrator and more.
Adobe is clearly looking to fill the void left when the professional version of Final Cut Pro left the building. We are seeing major updates for After Effects and Premiere.
I suggest taking you time and going through the videos when it is convenient.
When will all this be available? Probably in May.
Feb 16 2012
Today I gave an Intro to Painting and the Pen Tool to color some pencil line drawings using Photoshop. You might find it helpful, especially regarding the Pen. I show how to paint the same object both in Paint and with the Pen, locking a layer’s transparency, the multiply blend mode, etc. Here is the recording of our Photoshop for Children’s Book Illustrators webinar hosted by Mark Mitchell.
You can scoot past the intro to the Photoshop lesson by dragging the playback at the bottom to the second white arrow. Photoshop for Children’s Book Illustrators webinar.
Feb 12 2012
WebDesignShock talks logos – a nice analysis of the historic evolution of some major brands.
Feb 3 2012
Do a few negative space logos and you will be a better designer.
40 negative space logo designs
Jan 27 2012
This shows how to set up an image link to a pdf with fancybox for wordpress.
Make an InDesign multi-page file.
If you want your folio to fit to the viewer, make your InDesign file 7 inches wide by 3.5 inches high.
Add a shape to be an interactive button.
Right click/interactive and convert to button.
Set the button to go to another page.
Export to pdf with the interactive option turned on.
This part works if you have WordPress installed on your host provider, or you have paid for the WordPress upgrade that allows plugins to be installed.
In WordPress, go to plugins, search for then install the plugin FancyBox for WordPress.
Activate the plugin.
Go to media settings, find the Fancybox settings and enable pdf.
In Photoshop, make an image to be the thumbnail for your folio in WordPress.
You could alternatively export the cover of the folio from InDesign or any page of it to a jpeg.
Import the jpeg into the WordPress media library.
Import the pdf into the media library.
Insert the pdf into a new post.
Insert the thumbnail into the post, using the File Url option.
Insert the img src code from the image into the a href code of the pdf.
<a href=”http://deep4d.com/instant/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/interactive7x3.5.pdf”><img src=”http://deep4d.com/instant/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/my_interactive_folio_thumb-231×300.jpg” alt=”" title=”my_interactive_folio_thumb” width=”231″ height=”300″ /></a>
Here is a bare-bones example. Press the button to see the go to page interaction.
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