I just stumbled across this little gem of a site - Dear Adobe - The perfect place to vent your Adobe rage

(A selection of fantastic gripes that people have with Adobe’’s software)

Dear Adobe:
Why is Adobe Reader using more RAM than Supreme Commander?

Dear Adobe:
Why does Photoshop cost as much as a pre-owned small car? Drop the price please!!

Dear Adobe:
Get your fucking installers sorted out. Why do i need to CLOSE MY BROWSER to install a graphics app? I”m doing shit with my browser, you know, during the tedious wait for your installer to finish.

Dear Adobe:
Could you make Adobe Reader start up slower? I”d like to have enough time to go get a sandwich before I read a one page document.

Dear Adobe:
Enable auto-recover for Photoshop, so when it inevitably crashes for the 9th time today I can get back to the corporate schlock I was working on.

I just had a client request that their logo be ”more prominent” on their website, which ultimately made the site’’s design look a lot worse… oh well, thems the breaks. The funny thing is, i”m not alone, it seems to be a fairly common request in the design industry and always makes me think of this funny YouTube parody I saw a year or so ago. Some people have way too much time on their hands!!

A well produced personification of fonts. Probably only of any real interest to the uber typophiles out there.

The new short film by Blu. An ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden

Well, it’’s no secret. Radiohead is my favourite band of all time, in fact I think I”m almost at a point where I may be completely and utterly obsessed with anything and everything that Thom and the lads are associated with. I think the absolute world of their music, and it always gives me great pleasure to here other artists interpretations of Radiohead’’s music.

So when I stumbled across the website Radiohead Remix, I was pretty bloody happy to see there was a massive selection of remixes of the new single ”Nude” to listen to.

Here is just one of the many remixes available on the site to listen to and vote on: 

I thought I”d spread the word on this gem of an album.

Being a fan of Morcheeba for some time, I was a little disappointed in their last album - The Antidote - I think the departure of Skye Edwards as the lead vocalist had a lot to do with the album not ”doing it” for me. So when I found out that Morcheeba had a new album out, I was a little hesitant. Luckily the amazing album artwork sucked me in, and thank dog for that!

If you are into chill out albums or something nice to wake up to on a Sunday morning after a massive night, then Dive Deep is what you need. 

1. “Enjoy the Ride“ (feat. Judie Tzuke) – 4:04
2. “Riverbed” (feat. Thomas Dybdahl) – 5:24
3. “Thumbnails” – 2:35
4. “Run Honey Run” (feat. Bradley) – 3:44
5. “Gained the World” (feat. Manda) – 2:56
6. “One Love Karma” (feat. Cool Calm Pete) – 3:32
7. “Au-Dela” (feat. Manda) – 2:15
8. “Blue Chair” (feat. Judie Tzuke) – 4:07
9. “Sleep on It” (feat. Thomas Dybdahl) – 5:34
10. “The Ledge Beyond the Edge” – 2:03
11. “Washed Away” (feat. Thomas Dybdahl) – 4:23

Adobe have just launched Adobe Photoshop Express (BETA)!It allows you to edit photos online with some of the more common tools found in the stand-alone application, like cropping, rotating, adjusting brightness/contrast, stamping/cloning etc. It also allows you to  share your photos on Facebook or your own blog and what’’s more, when you sign up, they offer 2GB of storage to house all your photos. Not bad for free!For more info check out the site - Adobe Photoshop Express

Just a quick one to say thanks to Christian ”BoneCrusher” Bowman from christianbowman.com for helping me out with some SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) tips on this rather relaxed Good Friday. He was able to offer me a bunch of tips on how to improve my ranking on search engines, including a quick 101 on the relevance of Google’’s AdWords to help get my site in the limelight. Thanks mate. Read the rest of this entry »

Extreme examples of Photoshop retouching. Check these out:

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