July, 2004
Archives by Month: August, 2004
Listed below are excerpts and links to all weblog, blog entries, posts published during August, 2004.
Mon
30
AUG
2004
New Web Design Usability Article
Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design is the latest website usability article by Jakob Nielsen. Whether or not you agree with everything he’s written in the past, in this new article Nielsen covers some terrific points about what works and what doesn’t work with sites. I think we’ve all visited far too many sites that don’t seem to consider users or perhaps they don’t understand much about how to create a user-friendly website. Below are some snippets from Nielsen’s new article. (411 words, 1 link)
10:24 am, pdt
30 August, 2004
Categories: Design, Development, Information Architecture, Usability
Mon
23
AUG
2004
More Insightful Photoshop CS Tutorials and Books
There’s so much to explore and inspire you just by playing around within Photoshop. Here are a couple of recent Photoshop CS tutorials and books that I discovered as I looked around for new and improved features with Photoshop’s Dynamic Brushes. (399 words, 8 links, 3 images)
12:29 pm, pdt23 August, 2004
Tue
10
AUG
2004
Tips for Traveling with a Digital Camera
Meandering through the Naturescapes.net website mentioned in my previous post, Amazing New Shadow/Highlight Tool in Photoshop CS, I came across Lessons from the Field: Avoiding Some of the Perils of Digital Photography, by Ellen Anon, an insightful article about venturing out or traveling with a digital camera. You’ll find five invaluable tips to help you avoid problems with downloading images to your laptop, compact flash card readers, external hard drives, batteries and external power sources, and more. Her helpful tips can help you eliminate potential problems, especially when you’re away from your computer traveling. (359 words, 9 links, 2 images)
08:19 pm, pdt10 August, 2004
Categories: Photography, Photoshop
Mon
9
AUG
2004
Amazing New Shadow/Highlight Tool in Photoshop CS
Have you ever taken a photo that ends up too dark or the highlight is too strong while the shadows are too dark? Haven’t we all?! The new Shadow/Highlight tool that made its debut in Photoshop CS is truly amazing and incredibly helpful with adjusting shadows and highlights. Today I explored this new tool further with a variety of my photos and was astonished with its powerful capabilities. Used in combination with other helpful tools in Photoshop CS, you can more easily transform your photos to be better balanced and even spectacular. Below are a few helpful resources to help you gain some insight into using this new Photoshop tool, with a few thoughts tossed in along the way. (470 words, 8 links, 1 image)
05:32 pm, pdt 9 August, 2004
Categories: Graphics, Photography, Photoshop, Reviews, Software
Mon
2
AUG
2004
Comment Spammers Persevere, Including Adding New Tricks
An automated spam-bomber attacked my weblog last week and again in a much bigger way over the weekend, with comment denials every 6-11 seconds, as reported in my Movable Type Activity Log. Thankfully ALL 93 attempts were futile, however, thanks to Jay Allen’s MTBlacklist. A new tactic, "spam piggybacking," is also on the rise. (830 words, 10 links)
07:00 am, pdt 2 August, 2004
Categories: Internet, Movable Type, Weblogs
Sun
1
AUG
2004
Exciting New Photoshop Plugin for ESA, NASA Space Images
Imaging scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) have created and generously provided a free Photoshop plugin, the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator v1.01, to allow all of us to work with FITS images1 from the European Southern Observatory and NASA. Although optimized for 16-bit support in Photoshop CS, this free plugin for Windows PCs and Macs will also work in Photoshop 7 and Photoshop Elements 2. As I meandered around, I also found alternatives to opening their FITS images for those who don’t have Photoshop. (866 words, 14 links, 1 image)
01:01 pm, pdt 1 August, 2004
Categories: Graphics, Photoshop, Press Releases, Software
