http://plasticshards.com/blog Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:56:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Photoshop has a lot of little tricks and shortcuts that aren't always apparent. Some of you may already know these things, some of you may not, and latter is who I'm trying to educate :) Listen up! You might learn something! - Experiment with how Ctrl and Alt/Opt affect every tool. For instance, ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/205 Some people are curious how to do this, because the PHP links for Wordpress can be a little confusing. Well, I'm here to provide a simple solution to your problem. It's quick and painless, so listen up! Step 1. First thing's first. You have to make the images for your rollovers, ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/174 Things have been slow around here on the website because I've been hard at work on the first official version of Plastic Shards. The new design of the blog here is what the new design will mostly look like, with the new identity, look and feel. Expect the design here to shift ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/157 I've finally updated my gallery so that it no longer requires manual updating. The new look is based after a gallery theme available for WordPress, called "Gallery." See the original theme here by Chris Wallace: [click] I had to do a hell of a lot of editing to get it to ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/148 [[ DOWNLOAD WILDERNESS THEME ]] plasticshards mirror [right click, hit "save target/link as" if song plays within browser.] Just as before with the Gardens Music Theme [seen here,] I've recorded the Wilderness / Bunker Theme from LittleBigPlanet. One step closer to helping people complete their LBP soundtracks! Overall, the end result is a ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/131 Added to the "Studio" section of the gallery is part one of a three part tutorial all about Perspective and Composition. Part one centers exclusively around understanding and drawing one, two, and three point perspective. If you're an artist who needs some help in this subject, I'd highly suggest giving ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/129 In the previous blog post, Jonas, [who had not supplied a reply email,] asked whether or not some of my 2009 artworks were influenced by Mirror's Edge, and if so, I should list that they are influenced by it. While I'm glad he's concerned about this sort of thing [and I'm ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/116 I'm thrilled that Plastic Shards and my work has recently become popular among blogs and design/illustration sites, I'm grateful for the exposure! However, with all of this new exposure comes a bit of the "telephone effect." Basically, as some blogs pick up my work and publish it in a post, some ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/106 So I'm checking over my reinvigorate account and noticed that some people are looking for some specific help. Let me address some of them. 1) How do I turn off the zoomed in grid [the pixel grid] in CS4? In Photoshop CS4, when you zoom in beyond 500%, a grid appears outlining ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/104 Posted a bunch of new artworks and speed paintings. The speed paintings are apart of a new stylistic experimentation I'm conducting. I want to explore doing work looser and faster. I'm taking a break from doing super-tight technical work for a while, that stuff hurts my ... http://plasticshards.com/blog/archives/102