Holiday season begins…... With the Halloween sugar buzz still resonating in my head, we begin the holiday season. Today we celebrate All Saints Day and march towards Thanksgiving. We will be inundated with countless lists of the best this or that gift for the holidays. I literally received a 3″ stack of catalogues the...

Happy Halloween!... Happy Halloween! I remember watching the Charlie Brown Halloween special as a kid. It is a great holiday institution in our family and a wonderful memory of a simpler time. These days my daughters trick-or-treat at a few friends houses and we have a special dinner together. There is not the care-free...

Tutorial – Chrome in Photoshop... Anyone who was alive in the seventies will hopefully appreciate this little tutorial. I remember airbrushing these type of effects a hundred years ago…in fact I still own several thousand dollars worth of airbrush equipment. One brush I bought for close to $700 weeks before an update to the Mac OS...

Picture is worth a thousand words... In an effort to create more quality images, and to just have fun doing things I love, last week I started posting a plog (photo blog). Ideally, it will ultimately showcase new photography, and other visual media, completely disassociated with work; it is strictly ars gratia artis. Some of these images,...

Holy @$#*... Google does it again. Their labs have opened up search for code. They have also opened up what could be sensitive information by indexing anything and everything with the appropriate extension. This could mean trouble for some who make their living by writing proprietary code for a living. It could...

20 years ago…... Been waiting 20 years since the last time they played this good. Although it has really nothing to do with design it is a good day to be a Mets fan. I have my tickets to Game 4 at Shea, if the series lasts that long. Go Mets!

Passionately Pink for the Cure™!... In conjunction with October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we will wear pink proudly on our site. The copy below is taken directly from Komen.org and promotes their new initiative in helping to find a cure for this disease. Passionately Pink for the Cure™ is a new, year-round fundraising...

Firefox ho!... I have used Safari and Firefox for ages, but the featureset for Firefox has finally made me convert to using it as my full-time browser. I had been reluctant to make the final leap since Firefox still does not address the very handy Services menu in OS X. I use this function extensively, especially...

Tutorial – Layer Adjustment in Pho... An often overlooked method of working with imagery in Photoshop is the use of Adjustment Layers. This provides the means to retouch an image in a non-destructive way. When you select an image and adjust its Levels or Curves you have altered that image, but using an Adjustment Layer for that identical...