http://www.layersmagazine.com The How-To Magazine for Everything Adobe. Quick tips and tutorials for the entire Adobe Creative Suite. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:01:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Confessions of a Compact-camera Shooter …for once in my life I wanted to just walk around and totally enjoy the experience… Guilty as charged. It’s true, I took most of the photographs in this article with my Canon PowerShot G10 compact camera, including the opening photograph of a rusting truck. The locations ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/the-digital-camera-compact-camera-shooter.html Adobe Exchange is a free resource on the Adobe website for adding features to your Adobe applications. {module:flashlink} http://www.layersmagazine.com/using-adobe-exchange.html Nonlinear-editing systems seem especially vulnerable to these quirks, regardless of which operating system you’re running. Troubleshooting A New Version Install Anytime you upgrade to a new version of any software, you run the risk of transforming a perfectly stable system into one that has myriad little glitches—for no apparent reason. Nonlinear-editing ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/digital-video-solutions-troubleshooting.html Corey has a tutorial showing how to wrap a graphic around a 3D object in Adobe Illustrator. RC tries to clear up some of the confusion about using the Pen tool in Illustrator and Photoshop. You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes. {module:tv/episode94} Thank you so much to ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/layers-tv-episode-94.html FAST, LIGHTWEIGHT PRIME LENS If you’re a Nikon shooter and you’ve been contemplating buying a reasonably priced, professional prime lens, you should give serious consideration to the new NIKKOR AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8G. What makes this lens so special? For less than $200, you get a fast, lightweight, well-made lens that ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/nikkor-af-s-dx-35mm-f18g.html Lightroom: It's Those Little Things... I spend a lot of time in Lightroom - I happen to think its a fantastic program for a photographer to shoot, catalog, edit, preview, and print. That notwithstanding I always find myself saying "wow, yes.. wow.. yes.. wow.. awesome!" up until the point that ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/lightroom-web-galleries-need-to-go-emeril-bam-take-it-up-a-notch.html In the second part of this tutorial, Jeff Witchel continues with some tips on organizing and navigating Illustrator's drawing tools. {module:flashlink} http://www.layersmagazine.com/adobe-illustrator-drawing-tools-part-2.html It’s a truism of typography: If it doesn’t look right, it’s not right… There are many reasons why centered type often doesn’t look that way, and the fix is usually visual rather than mechanical. It’s a truism of typography: If it doesn’t look right, it’s not right—even if your accurate-to-a-micron program ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/art-of-type-getting-centered.html This was really cool news to check out on Monday. GridIron software is now shipping copies of Flow - an awesome workflow software that a couple of us have been playing with here in the office. Not only can you track assets in multiple projects, but it also lets ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/go-with-the-gridiron-flow.html Hey guys, happy Friday. Before we go sharing the tutorial, I watnted to congratulate David Poellinger for winning the Layers TV blog contest and Paul Williamson for winning the Layers TV contest. Congrats to the both of you!! IK with Flash CS4 and Lee Brimelow Inverse Kinematics (IK) is a ... http://www.layersmagazine.com/inverse-kinematics-our-contest-winners.html RC goes over the process of using the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 2 for underexposing an image. {module:flashlink} http://www.layersmagazine.com/lightroom-adjustment-brush.html Geoff Blake discusses image replacement techniques to optimize your web site images using Photoshop and Dreamweaver. {module:flashlink} http://www.layersmagazine.com/seo-image-replacement-techniques-with-cs4.html