Animating in Photoshop

In Photoshop CS3 (and CS4, I'm assuming) you can make simple animations. Older versions of Photoshop usually came with ImageReady, which you can animate with in much the same fashion as CS3. Here's a quick little tutorial on it.


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Adobe in a Job

Even if you don't want to create graphics, edit photos, or code websites for a living, it can still help you get a job. I hope. I'm applying for a job at my local icecream parlor. The application says to do something creative, so I used Photoshop to create what I hope is an interesting application.

(I scratched out all my info, so it might look a little weird.)

Mixed-Media on Threadless

I've mentioned Threadless before. Its a website where artists submit T-shirt designs, and every week a few are picked to be printed. I also mentioned Mathiole in my post about mixing medias. Well, he's got a new shirt design out on Threadless this week! Check it out.

Transparent PNGs in Photoshop

This is a nice little tutorial to show you how to create images that have transparent backgrounds. This is occasionally very useful in web-design, particularly if you want an image over a div or table that holds content that changes often.

All you have to do is create your image like normal, and then when you go to save it select 'Save for Web & Devices'. Then select 'PNG-8' from the drop-down menu. And then select the color(s) you want to make transparent and click the transparency icon under the color table (the one on the far left). And then just click 'save'.

There are two things you need to look out for. Firstly, make sure you don't have any of your background color in your actual image, or else it will become transparent as well. Secondly, be sure to make your background color close to the color of whatever you plan on putting behind the image.

The following images are both PNG-8s. The first has a white background set to be transparent, the second, a dark blue. You'll notice that you can still see a little white around the first image.

Smudge Style

This is an interesting "painting style" you can use in Photoshop to make your images more expressive. Its very simple, in theory, but very hard to master and make good. I am not very good at it, so I'll just show you the general idea and let you experiment.


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The photo I used to trace is by LucieG Stock.

Image-Hover Tutorial

This is a tutorial showing you how to make image hovers using HTML and CSS. This can help you make the navigation on your site more spiff. There are many other ways you can build on this coding to make it more complex, interesting, and creative. Plus hovers are just fun to play with.


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Small-Scale Photography

This has no direct relation to Photoshop or other Adobe programs, but I thought I'd share it with you anyway. Recently I've been setting up small photo-shoots, putting an abstract painting in the background and some item that I've found or made in front of it. I don't know why, but I find this very fun. Just thought I'd share the idea with you. Here are a couple of examples.





And I promise I'll come up with some new tutorials soon. = D