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Looking back at 20 years of Adobe Photoshop

My longtime friend and editor at CreativePro.com, Pam Pfiffner, takes a walk down memory lane of how Photoshop came to be and how it has been used through the years. Here's to another 20 years and looking forward to what the future versions of Photoshop may bring.

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58 Incredibly Mysterious Artwork From The Highly Addictive Lost Series | Little Box Of Ideas

Some really fun ones in here.

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InDesign tip: tinting grayscale photos

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ignore the code: Removing Features

This is such a good read for anyone designing or developing user experiences. I totally agree with this entire article. I can tell you
it's happened to me and now I look up and wonder how did it get this bad? If you're not sure if your app suffers from feature bloat, try running a user test on it. The results may be eye opening. Learning to say "no" is so important.

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Devil in a Blue Dress

I don't doubt that some video standard will eventually emerge & make its way into most if not all browsers. In the meantime, Adobe spends millions of dollars a year building & giving away software--for which content viewers & even content creators don't have to pay a dime--to compensate for the rest of the world's failure to get the job done.

It's hard to find faults in John's points of Flash and what it has delivered to us — although I'm certain people will. I was there trying to find support for SVG on the other side. Here we are a decade plus later and some browsers have native support for it. That really hits home John's point of Flash pantsing the open source option.

Being a longtime Mac user, I'm conflicted about Flash. I mainly have issues with the Flash producer itself than the player itself. Even still, it does seem that it's very much in fashion to bash Flash these days.

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10 Photoshop Filters You Should Definitely Know

These are great examples of some of the effects you can pull off with some of the known and lesser known filters in Photoshop.

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Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers

Want to save more time while working with Photoshop? Check out this great round up of keyboard shortcuts and other tips for Photoshop.

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Mouse usage in a Photoshop project over time


Mouse pointer track after 3 hours of working in Photoshop. Black circles are pointer stops (not clicks). 

 (via@mesh @rlux @jnack)

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Cocoia Blog ยป Office Trouble

Thank you Adobe for killing a part of the master craft of icon design.

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10.6: How to open Freehand MX files in Snow Leopard


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10.6: How to open Freehand MX files in Snow Leopard
Authored by: sylvainlemire on Tue, Jan 19 2010 at 10:32AM PST
You could always re-install Freehand too. Just download the latest trial from Adobe. Then install this fix : http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/504/cpsid_50468.html Your trial will be transformed to an unlimited version. No need of any serial number. Works in Snow Leopard, still have the same bugs as before, but doesn't freeze. Also, Adobe Illustrator CS4 makes quite a good job at opening Freehand files now that it has multiple pages.

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