link: Urban Dirty: Free texture stock photography for your artwork, desktop and design
This makes me think I really should start doing those desktop wallpaper designs. You know the ones, with all the layers and stuff. Purely useless fluff design, but I think it would help get the creative juices flowing for those less frivolous projects that still require artistic ability.
link: Photoshop Secret Shortcuts
Some familiar, some new, all esoteric. But key commands are what it takes to be really fast in Photoshop.
link: Brand New: Photoshop 2.0: The Wrong Kind of 2.0
My first reaction after installing CS3 was, “What were they thinking?” They’ve taken everything that is wrong about web 2.0 design and totally sold out. I didn’t know about the color wheel of different products, and since I only use Photoshop I don’t really care. I don’t think it’s a good enough excuse for that plastic atrocity or dumb gradient.
link: Cardboard Cat Lounge
Dude, for $250 I’ll make my own, but what an awesome idea! Oh, and we got a new kitten. More on that later when I find my damn media card reader.
link: Accessify: Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text)
I had this same thought a while back, but without the clever biblical analogy. My thought was, we put all this effort into coding our websites well, using sane font sizing, making the layout flexible (within reason: jello mold), but do we tell our clients, let alone our users, about these features? We should. And what about those other little features, like microformats? We should tell people how to use those too! Anybody think of any other hidden features that should be explained? And where should we do the explaining, in a sidebar, on a help page, on a “power users” page?
