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A couple of nights ago, too much traffic knocked the site down for 10 full hours. Which made me ecstatic. Thanks for the chaos!

Meanwhile, the purpose for today’s post is to alert you of ongoing progress made on my CS5 One-on-One video series for lynda.com. First, regarding the Photoshop series (which goes live next week), below is a still from a video that I shot a couple of days ago. I had to rerecord a handful of movies because an image license fell through. So naturally I was working through some anger issues. But as always happens in these cases, the new videos are better than the old ones. Plus they include hand-drawn demos of a few tips and tricks, which are new to Photoshop CS5. The image below documents how to resize and adjust the hardness of a brush on-the-fly, if only you can interpret it.

Oh, and did I mention Photoshop CS5's revamped sharpen tool, once the worst tool in the program, now produces halfway decent results? Check it out. Read more » 

No, no, it's not how it sounds. I'm really quite modest and unassuming. See, here's the thing: My head is literally huge.

If by any chance you decide to visit Amazon to check out my Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One book, please be advised that the moment you scroll down the page, you'll be accosted by a gigantic picture of my face.

Which is unfair, because it's unexpectedly whopperian. By which I mean hippopotamuginormus. Or, if you prefer, leviathanomonstrobrobdingnagian. Read more »