I just got this via email and thought I should pass it on.

LCC FIRST DAYS OF SCHOOL TO POSE TRAFFIC CHALLENGES

Road closures in downtown Lansing, particularly the recent closure of Grand Avenue between Ottawa and Ionia streets, will present traffic challenges for students and employees at the start of Lansing Community College’s Fall Semester, which begins Thursday, August 20. Grand Avenue between Ottawa and Ionia Streets will be closed for most of fall semester. The City of Lansing has posted detour signs.

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One of my favorite blogs, the Graphic Mac has a post that shows you how to get the most out of your Photoshop’s History panel.

Here’s some of what they have to say but be sure to visit them to read the whole thing.

You may have noticed that the History panel doesn’t save a history state when you hide or show a layer. If you’re not paying attention, this can throw you off a bit when you’re working on a complex layered document.

You can adjust Photoshop to save that layer visibility state by visiting the History options via the fly-out menu in the History panel and turning on “Make Layer Visibility Changes Undoable.”
Photoshop History Options

Turning on the “Allow Non-Linear History” option allows you to selectively turn on and off items in the History panel without affecting the items below them in the list.

Source: the Graphic Mac

Here’s a new web site called BigWords.com that (supposedly) helps you find text books and much reduced prices. I say supposedly because I just learned about this place today and haven’t had a chance to try them out yet. Let us know by filling out a comment if it works out or not.

Not sure where I found this picture but I think it’s from a field trip my gaming class took last semester to the Tetris factory.


I jest. This isn’t a picture from our field trip.It’s from this web site.

Sorry for the crap quality but I shot it with my camera phone while I was driving.

What does it say about our society? What does it say about me that I wonder about such things?

Here’s a Photoshop trick you might not know. I didn’t. Well, maybe I did but I forgot and maybe this refreshed my memory:

Need to match a color from a web page or something else while working in Photoshop? Just click with the eyedropper tool somewhere in your Photoshop file, and drag the cursor off to sample colors from anything visible on your screen.

That’s it!

From one of my favorite blogs: CreativeIQ

Source: CreativeIQ

Helen Bradley at Digital Photography School has a good post called “5 Secrets of the Photoshop Crop Tool”. In the post, Helen shares five secrets of the crop tool in Photoshop. (Bet you didn’t see that coming did you?) The folks who just finished ARTS171 know all about couple of these but a couple more are probably new to most of us.

1. Rotate as you Crop
2. Perspective Crop
3. The Crop that’s not a Crop
4. Create and Use Crop Presets
5. Crop to the Same Size

Source: Digital Photography School

Some guys have a thing for legs, others like breasts. I have a thing for old computers. Does this make me odd? I don’t feel odd. Anyway, there’s a place called the DigiBarn that tracks technological evolution through a large collection of vintage computer systems, manuals, videos, interviews, and other fossil relics of the “Cambrian explosion” of personal computing that ignited in 1975. Their website says some visitors “burst into tears” when they see a computer system that played a part of their lives.

Well, bursting into tears isn’t my normal reaction when I get to see some ancient hardware. Not me, I just get goose bumps.

The DigiBarn has a nice set of pictures of the interface of the Xerox Star. The Star is what influenced the Mac. It’s kinda fun to see how far we’ve come in 28 years.

See the pretty pictures