Hey everyone! I am in the middle of a flight to San Diego to teach the Creative Suite Unleashed tour with Dave Cross tomorrow (Make sure you come if youre in the area!)- 35,000 feet up in the air at that. While i’m up here, I figured it’d be a good idea to let you guys know of a couple of things that I think would really interest you:
Humble Arts Foundation Open
Humble Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that works to advance the careers of emerging fine art photographers by way of exhibition and publishing opportunities, limited-edition print sales, twice–annual artists grants, and educational programming.
Jon Feinstein sent an email over letting us know that there is an open call for women photographers for an upcoming exhibition! If you are a woman and would love to get your photography noticed, I’d definitely recommend clicking on this link to check out the cast call details for Humbles open call!. Let me know how you do!
onOne Software Releases Plug-In Suite 5
I keep very few third party plugins on my computer – onOne Software is one of those that AUTOMATICALLY gets installed in my machine as soon as I install Photoshop. To that, i’m really happy to announce that they have taken it to the next level announcing the Plug-In Suite 5! For me, its the ability to be able to get things done fast that is the biggest allure. From masking to framing to effects, using onOne just makes for creative and quick – two things that I think really help me out!
In fact, we believe in this software so much, all of us Photoshop Guys actually created a series of our favorite presets for NAPP members!
SXSW Interactive Web Awards: Accepting Entries
The 13th Annual SXSW Interactive Web Awards is happening in Austin (now one of my fav cities.. thanks to buddies Christina and Dan), March 14, 2010. SXSW is just one of those things that can’t really be described in a short amount of words. It’s an experience. Check out the video below to see what’s it all about.
The Interactive Web Awards is a subsection of SXSW and it highlights some of the best websites and really stands as the cutting edge of web showcase. Right now they are accepting entries for the Interactive Awards through Dec 18. Have a great site. Know someone with a kick tail site? Make sure they know about this:
Make way, San Diego! Dave Cross and I are bringing our Creative Suite Unleashed Tour to California this Friday. In one day, he and I will talk about how to make the most out of using Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Flash, and even a little bit of Dreamweaver thrown in there for good measure!
I’m a big fan of being able to maximize your use of all of the applications. These days its not enough to do just one thing. If you are a photographer, it’s becoming more and more important to leverage the web. If you are into Video, the advances in photography are making it more and more compelling for you to take a look at it as a craft again. Photoshop is now helping make basic video animations. Indesign lets you create Flash experiences. Now more than ever, the person who can leverage all of these together is the person who gets the callback!
The tour is 49.00 and does not contain a workbook. However, you DO get a copy of Dave’s Adobe CS4 Suite Integration by Dave Cross. That’s almost like us paying YOU to attend.
Today we have a review of the Olympus E620 from Steve Baczewski . Check it out below:
The 12.3-megapixel Olympus E-620 is one of the lightest, most compact DSLRs on the market. It succeeds Olympus’s E-520 and inherits features from the higher end E-30 DSLR. The E-620 has built-in image stabilization that works with any Four Thirds lens, and an articulated 2.7″ LCD that makes shooting with Live View efficient. Buttons on the back are illuminated for easy identification in low-light shooting, and Olympus has added the E-30’s wonderful Creative Art and Multiple Exposure filters to the E-620’s conventional command dial. Curiously, the E-620 bucks a trend by not including video capture—a compelling feature in this very competitive price range.
Back Page Contest Deadline Extended!!!
So, I wrote yesterday about the Layers Back Page Design Contest and how you can win a 1.5-TB Guardian MAXimus quad interface hard drive courtesy of our friends at Fotolia and all of a sudden people are fired up and sending information for the contest. So much so, the editor decided to extend the contest to November 30! I thought that was pretty magnanimous of him considering.. well.. its a 1.5TB drive!! Make sure you go into the Back Page Contest and enter!
Contest Time
Go to the Contact page, select the Layers Blog drop-down, then fill in your name, email address and answer to this week’s following question. Remember, the contest will end Thursday 5PM,. and the winner will be announced Friday morning.
The Contest Question:
One of my favorite web ladies, Janine Warner, wrote a cool piece about something in the latest Layers magazine. What did she write about?
Hey everyone! Just wanted to get one more post in there before I took off for the weekend. We are presently running a Layers Back Page Design Contest that is scheduled to end on November 30, 2009 – and the winner of it get’s a sweet drive, courtesy of our friends at Fotolia. Our editor, Chris Main shares with us the details of this contest. Now, obviously I can’t win the contest, but I thought it be fun to make up something to share of what I would like an AR thing to do, conceptually:
The Mission
In the “How’d They Do That?” cover story in the September/October 2009 issue of Layers magazine (p. 30), we learn about augmented reality (AR). Most of the AR examples mentioned in the article use a printed marker to trigger the AR experience. Your mission is to create an AR marker for a fictitious movie appropriately titled The Marker. You can give your movie any theme you desire (i.e., science fiction, action/adventure, drama, comedy, etc.). For marker examples, check out the one for District 9 at www.multinationalunited.com/training.
Dreamweaver makes it easy to add Flash Video to your webpages, but if you want to display your video in QuickTime format, you’ll have to take care of the various settings and other options yourself. In the following steps, you’ll learn how to easily control and customize your QuickTime videos in Dreamweaver. (Note: This tutorial works for both Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 and CS4. The instructions will also work with Windows Media video and other formats, but the parameters will have to be adjusted for those formats).
1 PREPARE QUICKTIME VIDEO IN A VIDEO EDITOR
Although you can insert many different types of video into your pages in Dreamweaver, you’ll first need to edit and convert the video in a video editor, such as Adobe Premiere Pro (shown here).
Humble Arts Foundation Open
onOne Software Releases Plug-In Suite 5
The 12.3-megapixel Olympus E-620 is one of the lightest, most compact DSLRs on the market. It succeeds Olympus’s E-520 and inherits features from the higher end E-30 DSLR. The E-620 has built-in image stabilization that works with any Four Thirds lens, and an articulated 2.7″ LCD that makes shooting with Live View efficient. Buttons on the back are illuminated for easy identification in low-light shooting, and Olympus has added the E-30’s wonderful Creative Art and Multiple Exposure filters to the E-620’s conventional command dial. Curiously, the E-620 bucks a trend by not including video capture—a compelling feature in this very competitive price range.
by Janine Warner: 
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