Layers TV: Episode 38

Corey shares some favorite web resources for artists and designers.

• Both Corey and RC love iStockPhoto. It’s easy to search for photos and to use their credit purchase system
• dafont.com is a cool font site that’s simple, easy to search, and offers custom preview options
• If you are creating a design and need some filler copy, visit Lorem Ipsum to quickly get however much you need
• Brandsoftheworld.com has vector and hi-rez logos of many big-name companies. Make sure you are mindfull of copyright laws.
• Coolhomepages.com is great site for inspiration and to keep up with trends in web design
• Corey goes to bltomato.com a lot for inspiration. This company designs posters for big Hollywood films
• If you have a font but don’t know what style it is, take it to whatthefont.com and find out
• Typophile is a site for learning about typography. There’s a great forum that’s very useful
• Jacob Cass writes a blog called justcreativedesign.com that has a lot of good design content

RC talks about backing up your photo collection using Lightroom in combination with external drives.

• It’s important to keep plenty of free space on your computer and to backup your image catalogs
• You can set Lightroom preferences to backup your catalogs as often as you like
• Create a new backup collection in Lightroom and move all of your smaller collections into one backup collection
• Right-click on the new collection name and export collection as catalog
• Choose your backup drive as the location and export the catalog
• Holding down Option when opening Lightroom allows you to choose a catalog to work from in Lightroom
• Lightroom will work from this catalog when it opens until you change it again
• There’s no reason to catalog your images on your computer’s hard drive. Use a portable backup drive.
• RC likes using Mercury On-The-Go 300 Gig portable drive, as well as the Mercury Elite to back everything up
• You can find both of these drives, and many more, at Other World Computing

Contest Winner
RC and Corey have decided that the weekly contest winner from Layers TV will be announced in RC’s blog post. Be sure to check the front page post for the name of this week’s winner and tune in to this week’s episode to find out what the contest question and prizes are.