http://www.mydamnchannel.com/xml/mdc_embed.swf?episode=602 Just watch it, artard. Teletubbies? → Read More
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/xml/mdc_embed.swf?episode=578 I, too, wish I were a semi-professional go-kart racer sans restrictive unitards, though. Heh. Previous episodes can be found here. → Read More
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/xml/mdc_embed.swf?episode=566 I find it extremely ironic that the Fonz makes an appearance in this installment of the YSAP. Why? Well, after episode 6 a few people muttered something about it having jumped the shark. I personally think it’s still funny. How Donnie ends this episode is proof that it hasn’t jumped the shark. I’m still laughing. What do you guys think? {democracy:28} → Read More
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/xml/mdc_embed.swf?episode=545 Donnie really has a crappy life and I feel bad for him. When you can’t take a dump it’s really uncomfortable. Poor bastard. → Read More
If you feel like getting a legal copy of Photoshop CS3, it’ll run you North of $650 normally. But those miserly geniuses over at Photography Bay have figured that you can get it for half that if you’re careful. It seems you can upgrade Photoshop Elements to CS3 for $300 directly from Adobe, and if you don’t have Elements, you can get it for $37 at Amazon. Total cost: $337 plus shipping, call it $350, a full three bills under retail for CS3. Hell of a deal. Adobe Purchase Page [via Photography Bay] → Read More
When I first saw Aviary I called it an incredibly ambitious art project. Aviary is creating a online creativity ecosystem that consists of a Flash based graphics suite tied to a marketplace where artists can sell their creations. For the suite, the New York based team of 12 has been developing over 14 graphics tools ranging from pattern generators to vector based graphic editors. They’ve now put the finishing touches on two of their main programs (image editor Phoenix and pattern maker Peacock) and are letting in TechCrunch readers in to play around with them. I’ve been really impressed after playing around with the tools. While by no means a Photoshop master, the image editor Pheonix has all the functionality I’ve come to expect from Adobe’s image editor (drawing, smudging, layers, filters, etc.). Founder Avi Muchnick says it has the most important functionality of Photoshop 6 and is not meant to be a total replacement (see other online photo editors as well and even Adobe’s soon). Instead it’s meant to do the majority of what you want to do with an image editor, but also benefit from easy integration with the other online tools. For instance, you can use their pattern generator, Peacock, to make textures for an image you’re editing in Phoenix. If you share the pattern publicly anyone else can do it too (eventually you’ll be able to sell it). Public files can also be commented on by other users, and preserve a version history that lets anyone to go back and branch your work in a different direction. All the files generated with the tools are saved as .egg files on Aviary’s servers, making them easy to share and track the intellectual property rights of files generated from scratch or uploaded to the system. Here’s a link to what people have already created on the platform. Here’s an example of the many directions one image can be edited. Below is an example of the suite in action. Aviary is giving away 100 invites to TechCrunch readers who sign up for an early bird invite here. They’ll be handing them out by tracking referrals, so you need to click through the link. You can also share/put your name down on a waiting list for invites at InviteShare. CrunchBase Information Aviary Information provided by CrunchBase → Read More
I know many of you have grown fond of Donnie and his shenanigans. So, today we have the fifth installment of “You Suck at Photoshop.” Don’t you dare use that magic wand tool or I’ll gank that juice box and fruit roll up. → Read More
http://www.mydamnchannel.com/xml/mdc_embed.swf?episode=379 Strap on your stupid., people. This week we learn about paths and masks. I once made a path, but now I have unfulfilled dreams, too. The description for this video is classic. Does anyone know how to cancel an eBay auction? → Read More
I’ve somehow learned more about Photoshop from watching these videos than anything else. Absolutely hilarious. Episode 1 Episode 2 You Suck at Photoshop #3 [via BB] → Read More
[photopress:2192321716_b26f11f201_o.jpg,full,center] We’ve been talking quite a bit about this new MacBook Air, or whatever Steve’s going to call it (I like MacBook Shuffle™), and we’ve seen many mock-ups, but this is my favorite so far. I have a feeling that if we do see a teeny-tiny MacBook, it’ll definitely look something like this, borrowing design cues from the latest iMacs. Now we know this is a Photoshop job, mostly because the next post done is a For Dummy’s book on getting stuff posted on TechCrunch. Well, we hope this is close enough for ya, Web Squirrel! Feel free to link to your favorite fakes of the new MacBook, or create your own. We’ll see who gets close enough, and we’ll get then an internship with Ives. (Not really.) Welcome to Macworld 2008 [WebSquirrel] → Read More
Hate opening Photoshop, that resource hog, just to resize an image? Me, too! That’s why I use Picnik, an online photo editor that uses the magic of Web 2.0 to—get this—edit photos. It can grab photos from your Flickr, Facebook, Picassa, Photobucket and Webshots account, or edit photos you have on your computer. There’s a premium version, too, that, for $25 a year, gets you access to a bunch more photo filters and effects. I personally don’t use the premium, but that’s only because I rarely do anything beyond cropping, resizing, etc. Better still, the Picnik team seems to be a fun bunch. The site is peppered with little witticisms and whatnot that make you realize the people behind the curtain aren’t total jerks. I appreciate that. Picnik → Read More
Don’t get mad or anything, but technology may have killed photography. No, not photography in the “pose drunk for Facebook” sense (that’s not likely to go away any time soon), but in the “Robert Capa/I’m showing you the truth/it’s an art form” sense. That’s what Newsweek says this week, lamenting the influx of reality-altering software like Photoshop and the proliferation of cheap, garbage cameras on cellphones. Photography used to be an art, accessible only to those who could afford pricey cameras and who understood how to compose a photography. Then companies like Kodak brought it to the masses, ruining rich kids’ fun. It’s a damn shame. So go ahead, enjoy your 12-megapixel SLR. Just know that you’re killing snooty artistic types with every skin tone adjustment you make in Photoshop. Is Photography Dead? [Newsweek] → Read More
And you thought this whole Web 2.0 thing was a fad. Adobe’s CEO said yesterday that, in five to 10 years, all of its applications, including Photoshop, will be available to use online. Not only that, but that by the time that happens, Adobe said it will have completely shifted its resources from developing desktop applications like we see now to online-only apps. No more multi-gig installs at least. For my needs, a lot of these Web 2.0 apps serve me perfectly. On a daily basis I use Meebo, Google Docs and Picnik. It makes posting from one of the school’s computer labs, where apps like Photoshop aren’t installed from some reason, so much easier. EDIT: This seems like a no-brainer for software developers. By shifting their products to be exclusively Online they’ll be able to more effectively restrict piracy and better monetize their content. – Blake Adobe sees full shift to Web [Reuters] → Read More
Want to get your hands on Photoshop-killer, Pixelmator? Of course you do, you Mac OS X fanboy. I hear there are a few torrents on public trackers somewhere. Don’t know where though. Absolutely no idea. Enjoy. Official Site → Read More
Something different than the standard Photoshop layout! Crazy! On one of the underground torrent sites I visit daily, I came across a new Mac App that had been downloaded a bunch of times. It’s called Pixelmator and it’s an upcoming competitor that’s going to blow Adobe Photoshop out of the water. Right now it’s in closed beta, so this leaked version is still experimental. → Read More
Adobe Photoshop owners should be aware that there are a handful of flaws that could make your PC vulnerable to hackers. One such flaw is known to attack CS2, CS3 and Elements 5.x when users open distorted PNG graphic files. The flaw was discovered in a stack-based buffer overflow bug in a Photoshop Format Plugin involved in handling PNG files and was discovered by white hat hacker Marsu. The same hacker also discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in CS2 and CS3 that affects the handling of Bitmap files. Users are being warned by Adobe to steer clear of unknown PNG or Bitmap files until a security patch is released. If you don’t adhere to this warning then your PC is at risk of arbitrary code being executed. Just tell your boss you can’t do any work because you don’t want to unleash a nasty virus onto the network. It could work. Bug brace menaces Adobe Photoshop [The Register] → Read More
Just a few weeks after its New York event, Adobe has finally started shipping Photoshop CS3. The suite’s new mascot is unofficially called Creep-o the Clown, but that shouldn’t deter you from enjoying all the new Universal Binary goodness. Yes, if you haven’t already heard, all CS3 products for the Mac now natively support Intel processors. No more running like molasses! Other CS3 products shipping include InDesign, Illustrator and Flash. Unless you, um, find these fine applications online, expect to pay around $1,200 for the standard Create Suite. Photoshop alone will set you back $650. Adobe Creative Suite [Adobe via MacDailyNews] → Read More
Adobe will host a lavish New York City event tomorrow to announce that they’re announcing the pricing and availability of Adobe CS3, which includes a version of PhotoShop that natively runs on Intel-based Macs. (If you haven’t had the pleasure of using PhotoShop on an Intel Mac consider yourself lucky.) Too bad Amazon just leaked all of the pertinent info. The top of the line packages—Creative Suite CS3 Master Collection, which seemingly includes everything Adobe has ever released—will retail for a cool $2,499; plain jane PhotoShop CS3 will retail for $649. Depending on what suite you’re waiting for, look for either a April 20 or July 1 ship date. More, official details are just a day away. Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) Pricing and Upgrades [Mac Rumors] → Read More
from photos in-camera. Suh-wheat. We haven’t yet gotten our hands on a demo unit, but the smartipants over at Laptop did, and apparently they love this thing. The only thing wrong that they could find was audible machine noise when the 3x optical zoom was actuated. Really, that’s trivial. Besides the basics of post-photo manipulation, the camera includes HP’s “slimming effect”, a digital meshing technology that “slims down” the person in the viewfinder. It’s perfect for us aging, gut-spreading hipsters. That alone makes this camera more than attractive at $229. HP Photosmart R837 [Laptop] → Read More
You’ve got your MacBook or Mac Mini or Mac Pro, or whatever Intel-based Mac you decided on, and that’s great. The transition from PowerPC to Intel processors went much better than anyone could have expected, and Apple kicked the conversion of its own software to universal binary in almost no time. The one glaring issue you can’t turn a blind eye to, though, is the lack of an Intel-compatible version of Adobe’s Creative Suite, the graphics design powerhouse that includes the flagship Photoshop. March 27 of this year, though, is the day that changes. Adobe has confirmed that on March 27 in New York City it will be holding a special event to launch the long-awaited Creative Suite 3, the latest offering from Adobe and one it’s calling “the largest software release in Adobe’s 25-year history.” They’re totally correct on this. There’s little doubt that CS3 will be the hottest selling high-end software package of the quarter, most likely eclipsing new video editing offerings from Apple handily. And, with new Mac Pros ready to roll, Apple is suddenly in shape to re-position itself as the go-to platform for graphics pros worldwide. In the dark days of the platform, this was one of the major markets that kept Apple afloat, and everything indicates it will do nicely again in this segment. Adobe Creative Suite 3.0 launch confirmed for March 27 [Apple Insider] → Read More
