The (almost) perfect Mac backup solution

Feb 10th // 15 comments

Sorry Windows folks, Mac only. I really like, no, love Leopard’s Time Machine backup feature. It’s transparency is perfect for me. I plugged in my drive, turned on Time Machine, and forgot about it. A few weeks ago I launched Aperture and found a completely empty library. That’s 14gb of photos gone folks. After the initial panic and […]

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Leopard text effects

Nov 5th // 3 comments

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 […]

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