Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Animal Shapes Partner Challenge
Digital 1 students recently learned how to use Photoshop’s basic shape tools. To practice using shape layers and layer stacking, students were assigned a project where they had to create various animals using only Photoshop’s basic and custom shapes. Here are the top 3 from each class period.
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Digital Media Careers
Recently, the Orlando Sentinel had some interesting articles about careers in Orlando in the field of Digital Media. Article #1: More women get jobs in video-game industry, but gender gap persists By Richard Burnett, Orlando Sentinel, 2:17 p.m. EDT, August 23, 2014 Article #2: Orlando code schools train computer programmers online By Susan Jacobson, Orlando Sentinel, 2:50 p.m. EDT, September 6, 2014
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Free Photoshop?
Now that my students are becoming hooked on Photoshop, most will ask me for a copy. As much as I would love for my students to have a copy, it is not something I can freely distribute. However, there are some free Photoshop-like software programs out there that are pretty good. Here are a few.…
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Photoshop CS6 Quick Keys
When I start using any piece of software, one of my goals is to become as efficient as possible– an easy way to start is by learning keyboard shortcuts. Aside from the standard ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+a, there are other shortcuts that you can use in Photoshop CS6 to activate various tools or change settings. Take…
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