by A.J. Wood

Understanding Blend Modes in Photoshop – I Create Content #11

Thanks for joining me on today's show. In this episode, I'm responding to questions from our Facebook fans. Rick Seibert from Seibershots Photography wants to know a little bit more about blending modes in Photoshop. I believe the best way to understand blend modes is to see them in action. Check it in the video. For a full description of each blend mode you can read the Photoshop help file.

Remember, I read all your comments here on the blog, on my Facebook page & posts on Twitter. Keep the questions coming, and I'll keep making videos.

If you want to know more about the keyboard shortcuts used in today's video check out my Keyboard Shortcuts segment on YouTube.

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 by A.J. Wood

Top Five Reasons to Attend D2W 2011

Good morning everyone!

The conference season is upon us. Less than ten days away is the D2W Conference in Kansas City, MO scheduled July 14-16. This annual event has quickly become a sought after source of designer & developer workflow goodness. That being said, here are the Top Five Reasons to attend D2W:

  1. InDesign to iPad, Portfolios in WordPress, Get to Know JQuery – we're only in the PreCon people and there's still more kickass sessions coming.
  2. Photoshop workflow, Android apps in under 10 minutes, and I'm even giving a session on InDesign techniques.
  3. Networking as a social experiment. See what happens when people actually interact in real time with beer.
  4. Speakers. No, not the ones made by Marshall, the people who will be speaking at D2W. Some of the most entertaining creatives in our industry, e.g., Pariah Burke, Justin Seeley, Kevin Stohlmeyer, Rob Huddleston… and the infamous Tom Green.
  5. You'll learn something. Aside, from meeting great people, watching some AWESOME presentations, the purpose is to leave a little bit smarter than when you arrived. That will happen at D2W.

Dee Sadler was kind enough to extend a discount code for loyal Adobe enthusiasts. Use adobeComm when registering to get a discount off the conference passes.

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REVIEW: Cyberlink PhotoDirector 2011 vs Adobe Lightroom 3

Last month over 75,000 people participated in the beta program for Cyberlink's new photo editing tool PhotoDirector 2011. I had the opportunity to take a look at the program, and compare it to existing programs, i.e., Adobe Lightroom 3 & Apple Aperture 3.

Many initial reviews have compared PhotoDirector to Lightroom, and you cannot deny the striking similarities bordering on an exact clone of Adobe's software. The product is Windows only, so Mac enthusiasts can keeping using iPhoto, Aperture or Lightroom. Also, I cannot speak for the final release, but the beta version I tested was 32 bit only. This may be fine for consumers, but professionals using Windows 7 will want full 64 bit capabilities.

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