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A few hints on using the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop to remove objects from photos.
Open the image that you want to work with. You can practice with this image of a church with a telephone pole and lots of other objects: removeobjectsmall.jpg
Rotate the Image by 90 degrees counter clockwise. Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW. [...]

Since most of you will be in a postition to have to provide feedback or receive critiques regarding web site designs and usability, I thought that you might find this article by Scott Berkun on How to give and receive criticism helpful.
WhatTheFont? allows you to submit images of fonts that you are trying to identify to [...]

Here are some of the galleries from out photographic adventure on May 17.
Lillian – http://llee.f2o.org/photogallery/
Rebecca – http://rebecca.f2o.org/farmer
Georgia – http://gwill.f2o.org/psslideshow/index.html
Yvonne – http://yvonne.f2o.org/samplegallery/index.htm
Yoko – http://aimawaru.f2o.org/paint/index.htm
If you didn’t send me your gallery address, please add it to the comments below. We want to see your results!

Workshop Prep:
Please create a folder called f2o in your PM directory (drive F:\) using Windows Explorer. Move the photo gallery that you would like to upload into the f2o folder.
For our workshop today I thought I would post a few resources on removing objects from photos:
Removing a person or object from a photo – This technique uses the [...]

Jason Santa Maria has a great article on Maintaining Motivation when you’re a freelancer. I think this is a good article for everyone to read.
MarkTAW.com also has an article on Getting Things Done. I’m starting to see a theme here.
For those of you working on the PHP/MySQL unit, bookmark and print these MySQL and PHP cheatsheets. [...]

Last week I showed your browsershots.org for testing your web sites, this week I have one better, BrowserCam.com. From the BrowserCam web site:
“Frequently web pages will look dramatically different depending on the configuration of the visitor’s computer. Internet users utilize a broad range of operating systems, browsers, screen resolutions, and plug-ins. Nothing is more tedious for Web [...]

To continue our Photoshop theme I thought it would be fun to create a Web Photo Gallery in Photoshop. For our practice session you can use the photos that we worked with yesterday during the “Heal Thy Self” lecture or I have a folder of cute doggie images you can use at J:\webclass\galleryoriginals.
Here are sample [...]

Here is a challenge for students who have completed Flash. Try to Build A Video Jigsaw Puzzle in Flash.
The Weekly Standards features corporate web sites that use standards based design.

Modular stylesheets at Content with Style is an article about grouping related styles into separate stylesheets. A CSS Framework illustrates the basic steps to creating a reusable CSS framework that can be used on different project.
I know that some of you really enjoy Photoshop, so I thought you might like to enter some of the Photoshop [...]

I mentioned a few of programs today during our workshop.

Gimp is a free image editor
Irfanview is a free image viewer that can be used to convert and optimize images
The Adobe Studio Exchange has all kinds of free Photoshop actions, filters, brushes, and other goodies.
Photofiltre is also a free image editor

I personally use BreezeBrowser to view images from [...]