Very clever. A real life Adobe Photoshop CS4 interface inspired art installation.

Artist and illustrator Bob Staake's take on Photoshop 3.0 versus Creative Suite, or CS2. "When I open up Photoshop 3.0, it's there and ready to go in four seconds flat, and when I have opened CS2 my fingernails will have grown a quarter inch before the app appears," Staake says. It is for this reason I also prefer to use a simple text editor with a spell-checker, rather ... Read full entry

This gives a whole new meaning to the legal term "decree absolute" in divorce proceedings... a recently divorced US woman asked a Photoshop savvy friend to erase all likenesses of her ex-husband from photos taken during holidays while they were married. Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on ... Read full entry

The pen is mightier than the web design world's favourite image creation and manipulation application, Photoshop, when it comes to preparing website mockups, according to Jason Fried. Photoshop is repeating yourself. Ok, so you've spent 3 days on a mockup in Photoshop. Now what? Now I have to make it all over again in HTML/CSS. Wasted time. Just build it in HTML/CSS and spend ... Read full entry

Web Design 101: Photoshop by Anton Peck. I'm still using Photoshop 5.5 (I hear your sniggers) so when I finally get around to buying the latest version, Photoshop CS3, I'll probably have relearn how to use it all over again. Photoshop promises great power, but can be more than a little challenging when it comes to clarity and patience. New users can easily get frustrated at how daunting some ... Read full entry

Top 10 Design Questions: Student Edition Jason A. Tselentis invites Speak Up readers to answer ten questions he is often asked by design students. 3. Is it true that I have to know Quark? I started learning web design in 1997 and while some people were telling me Quark was passe, and of no use to web designers, others considered it an industry standard. One web designer looking for help ... Read full entry

Photoshop vintage effect. A detailed guide to applying a "vintage" or aged effect to photos, by Veerle. First of all I need to mention that some pictures are better suitable than others. It's a good thing to experiment a lot and find out if the result is to your liking. Btw, not all settings I suggest are written in stone. Sometimes you discover the best effect by accident. How it ... Read full entry