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Photoshop Top 40, Feature #25: Selection Calculations

Submitted by deke on 27 October 2009 - 12:20am.
Feature #25: Selection Calculations

Most of Photoshop’s top features are expressed as tools or commands. But some are more conceptual, meaning that they have almost no interface associated with them. Seriously, it goes from your mind to your hands to the mouse to the keyboard to Photoshop.

Selection calculations are a fantastic example. Want to make a new selection? Just drag. Add to an existing selection? Press the Shift key and drag. And that, my friends, is only the beginning. Read more » 

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Making Interlocking Rings with Live Paint

Submitted by deke on 28 July 2008 - 3:53am.

Colleen's posting about Mordy's license plate thing reminded me of a timely newsworthy conversation I'd had with Mordy a few months ago that went something like this:

Me: Mordy, hi.

Mordy: Hi, Deke.

Me: Hey, just curious. Why is it Adobe Illustrator lacks the ability to make interlocking objects?

Mordy: Crazy. Lay it on me.

Me: You know, like the Olympic rings. I want one Olympic ring to loop into, around, and back out of another. Like in the Olympics.

Olympic rings

Mordy: Yeah, Illustrator does that. Read more » 

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