This is a tip that doesn’t just apply to layer masks, but to anything that gives you a confirmation prompt. Whenever you try to do something in Photoshop (let’s say delete a layer mask, for now) it will prompt you with a warning dialog asking if you’re sure this is something that you want to
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Deleting a layer Mask without a Prompt
In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, Travis King and Thursday Bram look at how to clock your time and how to register your business. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a new regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered, send an email to askfreelanceswitch@gmail.com
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Ask FreelanceSwitch #10
For the second consecutive year, retailers Sears and Kmart have announced that they will partner to host Design on a Dime – a fundraiser that showcases the creations of some of the world’s most notable interior designers .
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Sears and Kmart partner to host interior design event
A new exhibition of photography from Jean-Francois Rauzier is blurring the lines between technology and art, as it features “hyperphotos” that use computer programs to stitch thousands of photos together into one large image. The exhibition features images of the Library of Congress. To create them, Rauzier took thousands of up-close, detailed pictures of the library’s shelves, then combined them into single images
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New photography exhibit provides a broad view of small details
The architectural achievements of Frank Lloyd Wright are widely known, but it is less common knowledge that his son, Lloyd Wright, was an accomplished architect himself. He designed many prominent houses in Southern California between the 1920s and 1940s.
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Architecture tour gives Frank Lloyd Wright’s son the spotlight
One of the first groups that got me really into live electronics and glitch-hop back around 2005. I first stumbled across edIT on myspace which lead me to his group, the Glitch Mob which consists of three producers: edIT , Ooah , and Boreta from the west coast / Los Angeles. If anyone is out there living in Los Angeles, they will be performing on June 11th at the Henry Fonda Theater.
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The Glitch Mob
Much of the talk about public relations focuses on how you can get the news media to cover your business. If it’s good coverage, then it may have a positive effect on your sales. However, getting good coverage can burn up a lot of time and energy that might be put to better use
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Five Simple Public Relations Steps You Can Take
Affordable American Air Conditioning and Heating logo design was created for our client located in Huston, Texas who wanted an all American looking logo design. Affordable American Air Conditioning and Heating Company services and installs Air conditiong and heating equipment in Huston and other major cities in Texas
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Affordable American Air Conditioning and Heating Logo Design
The American Society of Landscape (ASLA) has announced the winner of its Honor Award in Analysis and Planning – a prize that attracted a record number of applicants this year. The Resort at Isla Palenque, which is located in the Gulf of Chiriqui off the coast of Panama, was named this year’s winner for its geo-responsible master plan, which was created through a partnership between developer Amble Resorts as well as planning and architecture firm Design Workshop. Project organizers say that their plan for the resort makes use of the land and aims to maintain the island’s natural beauty after the development has been built.
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Panama resort rewarded for sustainable architecture
A team of student designers from Texas A and M University were awarded first place in a sustainable architecture competition put on by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for their “solar pipe” system. The installation brings in daylight to office spaces without windows
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College team wins sustainable architecture competition
Spinach, tomatoes and now soup ? Every month it seems another previously-thought-to-be-safe grocery store staple is yanked from the shelves due to a food-related illness. The culprit: Disease-causing microbes like E.
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Lettuce explain: Do vegetable rinses really work?
Do you want to start using article marketing to bring traffic to your business but are not sure how to do it properly? If so then you need to know the answer to the question, how do you submit articles properly so you can get the maximum exposure for your articles
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How Do You Submit Articles Correctly?
Ever had someone find out that you’re a freelancer and say, “Can I just pick your brain?” If you agree, that person will probably ask you a whole stack of questions about how you work and how you would complete certain projects. More often than not, it’s someone who probably could use your services, although if he gets answers to all of his questions, you may never seem him again.
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Turn Free Advice Into Clients
Get the site you’re working on featured on About.com: What’s in Your Editor? More Web design resources and help: Follow me on Twitter or Become a Fan on Facebook Wordless Wednesday: What’s In Your Editor
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Wordless Wednesday: What’s In Your Editor? – Web Design Phoenix
This article will be of interest to anyone considering hiring a character design illustrator , or becoming one themselves. Regardless of which path you are on, identifying the traits of a great character design illustrator will be of great interest to you. First we must really look at the purpose behind a character design illustrator, and then analyze what it would take to be, or identify a great one.
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Traits of a great character design illustrator
HTML5 is giving web designers and developers new capabilities that were things of fantasy with previous versions of HTML. Web pages will now be more semantic with the use of structure specific tags. Visual elements like rounded corners are now built in, and so is the ability to create drag and drop interactivity
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15 Useful HTML5 Tutorials and Cheat Sheets
What’s Your Story? On Sunday night, HISTORY™ premiered its new epic series, AMERICA THE STORY OF US , to a record-breaking 5.7 million viewers and drawing a household rating of 4.0 – making it HISTORY’s highest rated and most-watched special mini series premiere of all time
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Microsoft Advertising and A&E: The Story of Us
Our guest author today – Jenni Chasteen – is a freelance blogger , web designer and self-described geek who spends as much of her time doodling as she does designing. Long before I ever picked up a Wacom tablet or even heard the word kerning, I read comic books. I absorbed the artwork, page layouts and character designs like a nerdy little sponge.
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How Comic Books Can Make You a Better Designer
Kudos to Jeff Williams, Dave Wichers, and the rest of the OWASP team for pulling together the final release of the OWASP Top 10 for 2010. Obviously, a lot of thought and work has gone into this new version. One thing that really jumps out is the document’s visual appeal.
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The new OWASP Top 10 for 2010 – Risk and Realities
There are many creative faces in the design community who are waiting to be seen. If you’re a beginner to designing for the web then this will be a great tutorial for you. In this tutorial we will be creating a creative web layout for a business type website using adobe Photoshop cs , and various design tips and techniques
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Create a Creative Web Layout for your Business using Photoshop