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Photoshop CS5 Easter Egg Fun

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Arts & Entertainment, Everything else, Photoshop, Photoshop CS5

If you have Adobe Photoshop CS5 and want to be entertained by a hilarious string of text-style messages from the Adobe Photoshop team, do this:

Choose “About Photoshop”
Wait and the list of names on the right of the splash screen starts scrolling. You can hold down the Option/Alt key to speed up the scrolling credits.
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Homage to Burt Glinn

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Arts & Entertainment, Photography

Magnum photographer Burt Glinn died this month at age 82. His work provided inspiration to me and countless other photographers growing up in the nineteen-sixties (seeing his work in countless magazines) and coming of age in the nineteen-seventies when it was easier, and more common, to build a career moving in and out of the […]

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Impressed by Light, Calotypes on display

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Arts & Entertainment, Photography

My latest tutorial at the Photoshop User web site is a tribute to the art of paper negatives, known as Calotypes. I originally wrote the tutorial to celebrate an exhibition of British Calotypes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. That show has ended but there is an excellent web site where you can […]

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Johnny & the Sprites at the Kaufman Astoria Studios

November 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Arts & Entertainment, Video

Thanks to my friend, and master puppeteer, Lara MacLean, I was able to visit the Johnny & the Sprites set at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria NY, the other day, to get a first hand view of this wonderful shows’ production, and of course give quite a thrill to my 4 yr. old. The […]

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