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A photographer’s best friend: lensrentals.com

This a thank you, better yet, a love note to my new favorite service: Lensrentals.com.

[ photo by Jeremy Johnson ]
When I bought my Canon 40D last year, I opted not to get the kit lens and went straight for the Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM. While I really, really love this lens, in some situations […]

Job chooser made complex (the details)

UPDATED November 17, 2007: This is a modified and reposted version of an entry made back in September. I removed where I found this at the owner’s request.
To the untrained eye this set of select boxes may look harmless, but a careful examination of the details reveals a potential roadblock to finding what you are […]

Leopard text effects

Veerle posted a great tutorial on how to recreate Leopard’s “inset” text effect in Photoshop and Illustrator.
I wanted to offer up alternative way to recreate it in Photshop. Like Veerle’s method, I use layer styles, however instead of using a drop shadow I use a gradient stroke on the text.
Step 1:
Add a layer style to […]

Details aren’t details, they are the design

If you are a designer, you’ve heard that a million times before. It’s so very true.
Here is an example I snapped today while redeeming a gift certificate:

The system is telling the user to click here for their receipt (click here and do what?), but then says, “oh, you might want to wait a second, […]