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Photoshop: Keyboard Shortcuts

September 29, 2009 – 11:05 pm

Speed in your workflow is about a lot more than your gear. Forget about the worthless buttons on your Wacom pad and learn your keyboard shortcuts.
Photoshop shortcut lists from Trevor Morris: http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/shortcuts/

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Technorati and Photoblogs.org

August 14, 2009 – 9:32 am

We are now listed on Technorati and Photoblogs.org (see sidebar –>). Make sure to link us if you like the site!

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Photoshop: Hardware Optimization

August 3, 2009 – 9:56 pm

Optimizing your hardware for heavy Photoshop work is most importantly about three elements: processor, RAM, and scratch.
Processor: It is important to have a fast processor, but that it pretty much the norm nowadays. Today we have to think about how many cores to get. Photoshop is not a program that can make use of multiple [...]

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The First Photo Assistant?

July 8, 2009 – 9:54 am

Could this guy be the first photo assistant?
Photo assistant Marcus Sparling, seated on Roger Fenton’s photographic van, 1855. Fenton used this mobile darkroom to cover the Crimean War for a publishing company with assistance from the British government. Photo from the U.S. Library of Congress Fenton collection.
Reposted/quoted from PDN Photo of the Day.

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