Save Darfur... My site is really apolitical. I have my own beliefs, but they are my own and separate from my business insomuch as they can be. I consider it a good policy to keep these items mutually exclusive, but this cause is more than I can bear and I will make this exception. In my lifetime there have been three...

Tutorial – Transparent masks in Il... Photoshop is the king of image manipulation. Adobe has done some great things with the app over the years and it has shown in every new release. Sometimes, however, it is not the first choice for creating imagery. Your needs may require an image that needs to be resolution independant which would lead...

5 years ago…... “In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.” President Abraham LincolnDecember 23, 1862 Letter to Fanny McCulloughSome of our fellow Americans who left us five years ago: 8:46 a.m. American Airlines Flight...

Photoshop Actions... One of the great things about working on a Mac is the ability to customize and script almost every aspect of your daily routine with ease. This functionality extends to every application, either by inclusion within their code or by using AppleScript. Adobe has provided Actions within Photoshop for several...

STS-115... Living in Florida, we are naturally supportive of the efforts in space exploration and our launches from the cape. Today STS-115 will launch at 11:41am, if all goes well. The crew is: Astronauts Brent W. Jett, Jr., Christopher J. Ferguson, commander and pilot. The mission specialists are, astronauts...

Design is more than a service industry.... Roger Johansson has a great site with insightful commentary, but one of his more recent musings touched upon a debate we have been having at work recently; his thesis was about the ten things a company should know before building a website. He references another designer, Andy Budd, who recently asked...