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LAYERS: The Complete Guide To Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature
When I pick up a book to read it I have an almost overwhelming desire to know something about the person writing the book before I even flip the pages of that book. I want a connection between that person and myself in order to justify committing myself to their momentary care. I look first at book forwards or introductions or at least the author’s brief inside the front cover. This... Read more »
Creating a Web Comic with Comic Life
First, this article assumes you have content (even if it is only in your head) and ready to tackle the technical aspects of web comic creation. In short, many artists still work traditionally by scanning their pencils and/or inked drawings and digitally coloring them in Photoshop. However just as many create their work digitally either in Photoshop, Illustrator, or various 3D software programs. ... Read more »
Anyone Still Using Dreamweaver Is A Chump
Web rankings depend on a mysterious mix of incoming and outgoing links, the quality of said links, and content. To achieve better rankings, most people assume external links (links from other websites) are more important. The truth is internal pages actually offer more link value. Alt tags, page titles, keywords all work together to make a site search engine friendly. Even so, content is king. ... Read more »
The Computer, The Painter, The Image and His Brushes
When Dr. Michael Roach asked me if I might consider writing an article for DigitalAppleJuice, I was taken aback. I am a painter, and, one could say, a primitive, when it comes to the making of digital images. At least I used to be. Over the past five years, for a number of very practical reasons, I have become more adept at manipulating images on my Mac, from simply adjusting and organizing photos... Read more »
ImageWell
Free is good for about anything! A well-made, extremely usable, and still free application is incredible! Check out Xtralean’s website and navigate to IMAGEWELL. First of all it’s available in fifteen different languages and…but what does it do, you ask? Well, it will open quickly without the fuss and bother of a larger application, and then take an image and (I’m... Read more »
Asset Management for The Digital Artist.
Asset Management can mean different things. In every instance, it refers to the collection and organization of data about the things an organization or individual owns. To an accountant, this data is used to manage the financial aspects of ownership- taxes, cost of ownership, etc. In essence, everything having to do with MONEY. To the digital artist, asset management refers to the organization of the... Read more »
