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Photoshop: Secrets Of The Pros
by: Anna Lim
Photoshop: Secrets of the Pros is a book that features
one-on-one competitions between twenty top artists and designers.
Designers include some of the most talented web, print, broadcast, 3D
designers in the world. This friendly competition was called the
Photoshop Tennis.
Sounds like another tiring outdoor game? It’s not an
outdoor game and it’s not tiring. Well, it may be tiring in a way but
not, at least, for those skilled designers.
The Photoshop Tennis was invented by Jim Coudal, founder
of Coudal Partners, a Chicago advertising and design agency, one summer
before the September 11 terrorist attack. He and a friend “whacked” a
file back and forth to kill time. Then he invited designers he knew to
play in official matches.
Photoshop Tennis is an on-line game in which players are
mostly web designers. The object of the game is to add one layer of
design on an image document that is sent back and forth by two players.
Only one image document is used. Players are allowed to put different
layers of designs such as background and foreground. Results are posted
on a website in real time. The game ends whenever the players decide to
end it or if it takes hours the decision will be based on the number of
votes.
After the four test matches and four official matches
were completed, designers from ad agencies and design shops visited his
site. Some of them contacted Coudal for a chance to play in a match.
The book PhotoShop: Secrets of the Pros is all about
this type of competition. It is the first book to feature such game. As
explained by the author of the site http://photoshop.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=22104,
in Photoshop Tennis in this book, two designers take on one another
over the internet over a ten round or volley period. In each volley,
the designer either creates a new theme (in the initial volley), or
they take what has been sent to him or her and start playing off of
what was previously created. The competition results to a different
appearance each time out. Programs used in this competition range from
Illustrator and Freehand to Flash to 3D Studio Max and Maya. The
designers used the basic tools and the basic commands like, brushes,
and fills instead of shortcuts.
The book is not about web designing, it is about the 10
different competitions played by 20 professional designers. It is about
teamwork and adaptation of different styles from their competitors.
One thing that is frustrating about this game is that
sometimes it takes hours for a player to finish his work while keeping
the other player waiting and it will only take minutes for the other
player to destroy the art work. You can tell a story out of it but most
of the time players tend to make his own story. Next thing you’ll
notice is that the story of the image focuses on the destruction of the
flow of two different stories.
Here is today's feature Photography article.
Enhance Your Digital Photos Using Photoshop CS
by: Brad Bagherian
As more and more people are buying digital cameras and uploading their photos onto their PCs, people are starting to experiment with what things they can do to their photos to enhance them, cut out unwanted people from their photos, or take the people in their photos and place them on a different background. The enhancements you can carry out on your photos are endless. In this article I will give you a few tips on how to get the most out of Photoshop to take your photos to the next level.
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