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July 5, 2011 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:

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.
Photoshop workflow, Android apps in under 10 minutes, and I’m even giving a session on InDesign techniques.
Networking as a social experiment. See what happens when people actually interact in real time with beer.
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.
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.

June 29, 2011December 5, 2018 by A.J. Wood

How To Use Layer Comps to Organize Designs in Photoshop – I Create Content #8

If you’re reading this then that means you’re catching me on a better faster webserver. I want to thank @VSellis for connecting me with @Orangecast as my WordPress setup is screaming fast compared to my old host. Speed baby! Yeah!!!

Alrighty, on today’s episode we’re talking Layer Comps in Photoshop. If you’re not using them, you’re missing out on a cool way to track multiple designs without creating unnecessary duplicate layers. Check it out, let me know what you think.

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August 17, 2010 by A.J. Wood

Tip Tuesday – 08/17/2010

Hello everyone! Today I’m going to show you that it’s okay to destroy pixels. Sometimes making a composite image doesn’t require fancy layer masks or clipping paths, a good ole Eraser tool will do just fine. Have a look.

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April 16, 2009 by A.J. Wood

Effective Use of Lightroom Identity Plates

Which Lightroom Catalog is it?

Identity Plates in Lightroom allow you to quickly recognize which catalog you are working in. If you live in multiple catalogs this can be extremely useful. (And if you use Lightroom to present images to your clients, the added branding always helps)

Managing Metadata in Lightroom

Lightroom (LR) enthusiasts marvel at its ability to streamline our digital image workflow. However, working with a Lightroom catalog (its database) can be a task when it comes to syncing metadata changes to outside applications. During last Friday’s Lightroom workshop an attendee mentioned a bug in the 2.3 release of Lightroom. Upon reviewing the link to the Adobe forums that Tom sent me, I realized the issue was not a bug, but an unfortunate misunderstanding of how Lightroom handles metadata. Here are the steps for manually or automatically syncing metadata info between a Lightroom catalog and individual image files.