I guess we create a new entry ever time we blog. If I am wrong someone please set me straight. My review is posted and hopefully it is good enough to please our sponsors. I love my Bamboo tablet. I finally got through the tutorials on Corel Painter and they were really fun. I am excited about life, and having such wonderful toys to play with. I see my creativity opening up and flooding me with talent and idea to use my tablet and software.

I figured out how to upload the picture of my bothers dogs where I used E-Z Mask Photoshop plugin.

Here it is.

Anyone with basic computer knowledge and Adobe Illustrator CS4 software can use The Professioal Portfolio to create professional looking portfolio projects. Included at the back of the book is a resource CD of files, which simulate information provided by clients, to be used in the project. Each of the 8 projects has a real world feeling induced by including client comments, art director comments, and project objectives.

Hands on, step by step, easy to follow instructions are easily read and presented in a large spiral binding. The layout and fonts are inviting and provide a pleasant experience. I am a graphic design student who has taken a semester with Illustrator. I was able to learn new ways to use Illustrator and take what I had learned to the next level.

Shalom

To whoever reads this. I think a few will and maybe more as the year and projects progress. Not sure what I want to say blogging is new to me. When I was a lot younger, I loved to write Sci-fi stories and Journal. After spending my life raising my kids and working at UPS, I feel as if I am finally waking up and living again. THANK-YOU all for this group, THANK-YOU for our magazine, Thank-YOU for my tools, career contacts, potential friends and collegues. On to post my book review (or at least get the draft).

Wacom Bamboo Review

I have used Photoshop for years, but after just a few minutes using Photo Tools 2.5, I was having results that I couldn't achieve with Photoshop alone. In the past, with Photoshop, I have worked to create layers of textures and color to make my images unique. For just one picture, that can translate into an hour, or more, of my time. 

With Photo Tools 2.5,  I have a multitude of special effects options from which to choose that can be adjusted to give me the exact look I want. Instead of spending my time experimenting and tweaking to get the effect I am looking for, I can simply choose an effect and my image is transformed and professional looking. I can also save my favorite effects to simplify my work even more.

EZMask has a very well-branded name. If you currently scratch your head in frustration whenever you try to create a mask around a detailed image (think: grass, fur or hair) you'll appreciate this software. That being said, it doesn't make things quite as "easy" as I'd hoped. Download the free trial and you'll be thrilled to know that it is fully functional - for a certain amount of time. If you plan on evaluating the software, be sure to evaluate it immediately after downloading. Also, be warned: most of the "tutorials" are just before-and-after images with no written instructions.

Photo Tune 3 is a plug-in developed by onOne Software for a variety of digital photo editing software programs like Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Apple Aperture.  onOne Software's mission is to develop software that gets you back to shooting.  The purpose of the plugin is to provide you with a useful way to correct or enhance the color of the photos you've taken.  This reviewer is a budding photoshop professional, but a novice in the digital photography world.