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Who Wants Some All-Natural Hand Turkey?

Submitted by deke on 25 November 2010 - 10:15am.

Thursday is normally Martini Hour day. Except the fourth Thursday in November. That's when Colleen and I trade duties celebrating this glad time of year with our very own hand turkeys. And this year, we collaborated! Colleen provided the hand and I made the decorations. Who says I only know Photoshop? What I really know is hand turkeys!

Hand turkey 2010

And I only added one thing in Photoshop. (Can you spot it?)

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Photoshop Top 40, Feature #4: Navigation

Submitted by deke on 23 March 2010 - 12:15am.
Feature #4: Navigation

You never forget your first voyage into the great seas of graphics navigation. Mine was in 1985. I was using MacPaint, my supposed (but entirely fictional) mastery of which helped me land my first design job. I was panning an image using the scroll bars and a coworker, horrified by my behavior, showed me a trick: Hold down the Option key to get what he called "Muffy." While I found it troubling that he'd invented a pet name for something that looked and worked like a hand---did he have a nickname for his actual hand?---I had to admit, I was amazed. It had never occurred to me that such a tool (otherwise unavailable in the software) so much as existed, let alone might save me so much effort.

In creating Photoshop, Adobe "borrowed" the hand tool. But it assigned a different shortcut: the spacebar. Which just so happens to be the biggest key on the keyboard. It's as if Adobe was saying, this tool needs a shortcut more than all the others. And I couldn't agree more. Read more » 

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Visual Communications Layered Artwork

Submitted by deke on 5 June 2009 - 3:53am.

Okay, so I got two things for y'all. A layered file that you can download (you have to be a member) and a "He Said/She Said" between Colleen and I that I'd like you to weigh in on.

First, as some of you may recall from the most recent dekePod, I promised to include a layered version of the Madeover Airplane Bathroom Sign. You may recall this masterwork of modern art:

My hand, your whale

I might have even put it in projorative [ahem, that's perjorative, deke--cw] terms, as in (and I believe this is an accurate quote): "and for you sickos who go in for this kinda thing, the full-resolution annotated layered file is available as a free download to registered members of deke.com." Read more » 

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Tips 2 Wet Ur Self Bi

Submitted by deke on 1 August 2008 - 12:01am.

Hey gang,

Because today is Friday, and according to conventional wisdom, nobody reads blogs on Friday, I thought I'd invite one and all to join in on an extemporaneous contest.

So here goes: I want you to submit a really simple Photoshop tip -- one of those key-and-click things -- that absolutely blows you away each and every time you run into it. Read more » 

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