Haven’t checked out these Photoshop Actions yet, but wanted to leave myself a note here to take a look.
Yanik has a lot of very, very good text and video tutorials on a variety of photographic topics. Some great stuff about off-camera flash, macro photography, stock photography, photoshop, and so forth.
Each month, Wetzel and Company offers a free download of one of their hand-crafted backgrounds, patterns & photographic textures. These freebies are high-resolution JPGs, copyright free, culled from the company’s various themed CD collections. There are also quite a number of tutorials on the site to give you some ideas on how to work with these backgrounds and textures. This month’s tutorial is about how to use Photoshop’s Layer Adjustments to create an artistic background effect with the free digital pastels background from its Digital Pastels CD. Go to Wetzel’s site and sign up for its newsletter to receive notice when new free sample downloads are available. The newsletter also features one of Wetzel’s CDs, and an occasional tutorial.
The 45 Best Freeware Design Programs.
Found this on the Snap2Objects site, self-described as offering: “DesignTips+Freebies+Inspiration”. It’s a good list, broken down into categories, such as: Image Editing; Illustration; Authoring Tools; Animation; 3D Modeling & CAD; Flash Tools (the software, not the strobe); and more. Fun to look through and find some new toys to work with.
The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities is one of my favorite sites. Gizmo Richards writes excellent, on-point reviews of software utilities. He compares them with each other regarding features and usefulness to novices and those with more technical knowledge. The list is comprehensive and organized by type of utility, such as anti-virus, digital image viewer, digital editor, and so forth. And the list is updated frequently. I also subscribe to his premium newsletter ($10/year, U.S.), which offers information on additional utilities and helpful tips.
Mmmm, yeah. When I right-click on a folder or hard drive, the context menu list has some items I don’t need or use. I installed Mmm Free and within moments, I moved a couple of rarely used items aside. They’re still they’re, just not in the immediate way. Unfortunately, it only works with XP. But if that’s the OS you’re running, this is a simple way to configure your context menu and clean-up menu items. There’s also an Mmm+ for $9.95, which naturally has more configuration options. Visit Hace Software for more information.
Flickr: Add Referrer into Comments
Here’s a script for Flickr that will automatically add how you found the photo you’re commenting on. For instance: “Seen on your photostream.”
You’ll find it here, along with instructions on how to install it for several different browsers. I’m using it in Firefox and I had to install the Greasemonkey add on first.
I like it with one exception: because it’s filled in automatically when you enter the flickr comment box, you’ll have to manually delete it if you don’t want what the auto message says. When I have specific text that a group requests be added to a comment, I often don’t want the auto referrer script there.
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