Flipbooks Using Photoshop Actions

Many designers and crafts savvy creatives are now thinking about cool things they can design for the upcoming holiday season. If you're a designer in business, a creative "gift" for clients and friends will add further pizazz to your identity and illustrate your abilities.

One very cool project comes from the age-old world of movie making. At some point, someone discovered that if you saw a series of progressive images very rapidly, they would give the visual illustion of motion.

 

ipad Effortless Photo Searching

Sort Shots - iPad Edition 2.0, is the first and only iPad app that utilizes metadata information from photographs for easy image searching. Additionally, the latest release retains original image qualities including full resolution.

 

Watermarking in Lightroom

BragIt has rolled out a new update for 'BragIt HTML Slideshow', a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Publish a collection of photos to your web site, like a slideshow, telling a story. Visitors to the website can scroll through thumbnails of all photos, and then start the slideshow to see large photos sequentially with annotations below each photo.

BragIt HTML Slideshow

Photography Expert Inside iPad

Aspyre Apps has rolled out PhotoCaddy -- now available for the iPad. PhotoCaddyHD is a handbook for photographers of all skill levels, with content that is constantly evolving thanks to an active user community.

PhotoCaddyHD 

Users of PhotoCaddyHD have access to a broad range of photography topics, with each topic containing a number of built-in suggestions on how to take better photos. To supplement this content, customers are able to contribute their own tips and advice. "Users can vote for the tips they find useful, which means the content is continually expanding and improving." said Ben Williams, founder of Aspyre Apps.

Illustrator: The wizard's hat

Welcome back to the virtual space where some of the secrets for creating iconic beauties are unveiled.

The word 'wizard' has its root on concepts like wisdom and guidance. Most probably that's the reason why those helping user interface elements, the assistants, are also called wizards and are represented by default with a wizard's hat and wand icon.

The spell will be performed using Illustrator CS4.