Architectural Photoshop Brushes
New Photoshop Brushes based on antique architectural engravings. Get ’em right here! The file is zipped, but is still around 2.2MB. View all my Photoshop Brushes
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Photoshop Battles – Art with attitude
In the increasingly popular “BattleBay” format, multiple opponents create a smooth vertical or horizontal transition from the previous image to their own new one, usually incorporating the web version of graffiti tags (their web name or their site URL) and any appropriate symbolism. It helps to have a very cool name, and a logo so you can be inserted in people’s “respect” areas. All the efforts are combined in a single long horizontal or vertical scrolling page.
Artists with confidence in their Photoshop Chops are battling it out all over the web. Photoshop Battles (sometimes called Photoshop Tennis) allow you to smackdown your opponent with nothing more than a Wacom Pen and overwhelming ego. One person creates a file in Photoshop and sends it off to their opponent, who then adds a layer and “improves” the image, usually covering it up almost entirely with their own contribution.
Continue reading“Disappearing” Entries in Movable Type
Yesterday I found that all the entries had disappeared off my main moveable type index page. I had recently posted an entry about popup windows, and another about Photoshop brushes, so I knew there should
Continue readingPop-up Menus Revisited
One of the most popular parts of my site seems to be the collapsible menu shootout – a comparison of various collapsible menu approaches (menus that shift downward to reveal submenus.) At the time I
Continue readingPhotoshop Brushes based on Ernst Haeckel’s engravings
For my first contribution to the Photoshop Brushes community, I made a few high-resolution brushes from some of the more elaborate items in Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen in Natur. There are only 3 brushes in this
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Photoshop Brush Fever!
Photoshop brushes are incredible! I just discovered them and have been playing with them for two days straight.
They’re like rubber stamps on steroids. You can control the brush dynamics – the separation of each individual “stamp”, the color and brightness “jitter”, randomness, edges, etc.
I’ve found many sites that offer free brush sets, but
Truly-Sarah.com
and
AnnikaVonHoldt.com
are my current favorites. AnnikaVonHoldt’s brushes are like instant creativity! You will be creating beautiful and mysterious fantasy images almost automatically.
Continue readingJavascript validation as a condition for a second function in the same event handler
We use Questionmark quizzing software at my job to create quizzes and tutorials. One of several issues we have had with it has been a login page which did not validate for the kind of ID number we wanted to use. In fact it did not validate at all! We were told that either it couldn’t be done because it would not work with the software (the login page submits some .asp variables), or it would cost us to have it done by their programmers – so we set about trying to make it happen.
The problem was that it uses the onSubmit event to trigger some fancy new window actions. I wanted the validation to take place and stop the new window action as well as the “submitting” action itself. So my first thought was to put a standard validation script on an onBlur event. In other words when people moved the cursor from the validated field to the next field, the validation would occur.
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