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For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Photoshop tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.
Due to this phenomenally vast amount of textures, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos [...]

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to the creation of vector graphics. Though a very robust tool – the learning curve involved in mastering it can be high. Thankfully, there are abundant resources on the web that allows you to “learn by doing”.
Video tutorials (in general) enable the learner to witness – step-by-step – how a particular technique [...]

Friday, 12/19/08, is our last day of class before the winter break. We will have a potluck on Friday; the sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board.
We will return to school on January 5, 2009.
I hope that you all have a wonderful holiday season and enjoy your time away from class!

PSDTuts has posted a very detailed tutorial on restoring old and damaged photographs.

In this tutorial, we’ll take an in-depth look at restoring an old torn photograph. Restoring old family photos is something that you can do for your relatives and bring tears to their eyes, and yes this is a service you can offer to clients as well. Let’s [...]

Photoshop users are able to benefit from the vast amount of high-quality resources that are freely available to the community. Brushes get a lot of attention, but custom shapes are also extremely useful in the right situations. Finding a custom shape that has already been created can save you some time and headaches in your design, and fortunately there is [...]

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for digital-image editing and graphics creation. Photoshop’s versatility makes it a popular choice among Web designers, graphic designers, digital media artists, print designers, photographers and other professionals in design and image-editing. Whether you’re designing a business card or website or digitally enhancing an image, you can rest assured that Photoshop will give you the [...]

Know Your Rights to the New Federal Extension of Jobless Benefits
By the National Employment Law Project
1. What is the new temporary program of federal extended benefits?
On November 21, 2008, President Bush signed into law the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 (H.R. 6867), which increases the weeks of benefits available to workers who run out of their state unemployment [...]

Six Revisions has an excellent list of 40+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Designers. These sheets are for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. You may also find 27 Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheets and Quick Reference Cards for Adobe Photoshop CS4, CS3, CS2 and Below useful.
If you’re looking for cheat sheets for coding, check Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
Edit 12/8/08: All [...]

Just Creative Design has compiled The Ultimate List of The Best Logo Design Resources. Resources include:

Logo Design Inspiration & Galleries
Logo Design Articles
Logo Design Interviews & Discussions
Logo Design Tips
Logo Design Blogs
Logo Design Trends
Logo Design Showcases
Logo Design Tutorials
Logo Design Books
Logo Designers
Logo Design Awards
History Of Logo Design
Logo Design Resources
Just For Fun
Free Logo Design Downloads
Fonts For Logos
Working With Style Guides
Large Design / Branding [...]

Calif. unemployment extension checks delayed until mid-Dec.
November 26th, 2008, 12:05 am · 11 Comments · posted by Mary Ann Milbourn
Jobless workers in California who have exhausted their benefits probably won’t be seeing their first unemployment check from the latest extension until mid-December, state employment officials say.
The reason for the delay? A clunky old computer system that takes a while to [...]