The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop

Infographic: The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop by Tech King

Favorite website of the day

www.adhemas.com

Sharpening in Photoshop article

A quick informative read:

Professional Sharpening in Photoshop

Adapted from Photoshop CS4 After the Shoot (Wiley Publishing)

By Mark Fitzgerald

Favorite websites of the day

loscoloresolvidados.com

xixinobanho.org.br (I don't understand this one but the animations are oh so cute)

Inspiration: Safety goat

Love the design of this website... maybe because I'm into drawing trees at the moment... anyway, I like: the autumnish colours of the tree, the 'paper / collage" feel of the whole design, the gritty background texture, the bottom curly waves... and the fact that it's a woman designer.

Klok: time management made easy

Easy to use time tracking management tool... free to download, friendly interface, excellent app...

Inspiration: Circus theme ( Behance network )

Aside from being a source of inspiration, Behance network also has a listing of creative jobs and freelance opportunities.

A "best of" creative Annual reports from last year (2008)

Source: http://www.allgraphicdesign.com

After Effect / Simple way to create menu with an animated background

This is a summary of the steps to create a simple dvd menu using Encore / AfterEffects / Photoshop:

AfterEffects

• First create the animation in After Effects, including the menu writing or movie thumbnails or anything that will be appearing as the menu screen of the dvd.
• Save the image layers at (/after) the looping point, do "Composition" / Save Frame as / Photoshop layers
• Render the movie
  

Photoshop

• Open the saved frame file in photoshop, so you have a background on which to draw your buttons
• Create a layer for each of the menu button, like a highlighted bounding box or something like that
• Name each of those layers with appropriate name, preceded by: (=1)
• Get rid of all other layers, so that only the (=1) named layers are left
  

Encore

• In Encore, Import the movie and put it in a timeline
• Import the psd file as menu
• Select the menu
• Under the layers panel, for each button layer, activate it as a button by clicking on the button little square checkbox (next to the lock checkbox)
• Under the menu / Motion tab => use the pick whip to link to the movie file, do the same for the audio.
• In the 'Loop Point', set the time to where the movie should loop from
  
• Ctrl/Right click this menu and set it as "first play"
• In the flowchart, link each button to whichever asset
• Don't forget to set the 'end actions' for each asset

Inspiration: Animation from "Tiny invenstions"

This is a really cool animation...
http://tinyinventions.com/animation/electriccar.html


Cardboard and all sorts of crafty stuff used, check the creation process in their blog: http://tinyinventions.com/blog/