Use Photoshop CS4 to quickly create animated loops.

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Todays tip demonstrates a couple of simple mask and layer techniques to help draw the viewers eye to any spot in a picture.

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OmniFocus for the iPhone and iPod touch are on the way and should be appearing in the iTunes store sometime today according to this blog post.

Here are the highlights, but go read the post by Ken Case!



OmniFocus v1.5 requires iPhone OS 3.0, taking advantage of many of its new features such as Copy and Paste and integrated Maps.

OmniFocus now displays nearby contexts using a map. Touch a pin to see all the tasks in the corresponding context.

You can Cut, Copy, and Paste entire actions by holding down a checkbox in an action list. You can paste into an empty list by holding the "No Actions" text.

You can search through all your projects and actions using the new Search screen.

In Projects and Contexts screens, you can select All Actions to show a grouped list of all actions.

You can set up repeating actions and projects using the new Repeat screen.

Action lists now display each action's due date.

Web links in notes now open inside OmniFocus (rather than launching Safari).

Send Feedback now sends email inside OmniFocus (rather than launching Mail).

We've added experimental support for landscape mode and undo; both can be enabled under Settings.

Today we have a tip for altering the brightness of an image using a blend layer. The big plus here is that the original pixels are not altered and changes can be made at anytime in the future without permanent alteration.

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Here is a quick tip, if you use an image in many places within a Flex application then I think you will appreciate this one if you have ever had to go back and change that file name in your code.

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I have updated the I Paid Who video to show some of the updated features, one that I really like is the new way to display notes. Now there is an icon to indicate the record has a note attached, simply hovering over the note displays the contents meaning less screen clutter during normal operation.

Check out the updated video here.

A big thank you to Elizabeth Gast ( @Firgs on twitter) today for my shout out. I really do appreciate you taking the time to highlight a very dull guy

You can read it at http://designbyfirgs.com/blog/2009/06/shout-out-peter-witham/, and I strongly recommend you read the entire blog, so many wonderful people highlighted there that I am honored to appear with.

Adobe will be holding free eSeminars next week (online) introducing Flash Builder (Formerly Flex Builder) and Flash Catalyst.

Find the details and register for the events at this link.

I am looking forward to the Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder for PHP developers personally.

Adobe has released to the public BETA's of the newly rebranded Flex Builder which is now called Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst the design tool for interactive development between designers and developers.

You can jump to the labs to read, download the applications and watch the videos. I strongly recommend watching the videos!

Here for Flash Catalyst

Here for Flash Builder

Personally I'm pretty darn excited about Flash Builder 4 and the new features, a lot of them are great time savers for coders, testers and rapid development.

Have a Wacom tablet? Then why not control the opacity of your brushes using the pen just like pencil and paper. This video shows you how to set-up Photoshop CS4 brushes to respond to brush pressure on Wacom tablets. The harder you push the more opaque the brush will be. A bonus at the end shows how to set this globally across all the brush presets with one button click rather than setting up on a per brush basis.

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I want to give a big thank you to Lisa Sage for pointing me in the right direction on the global brush setting, Lisa is an amazing artist and you should visit her web site at http://www.sagefamilystudios.com.


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