If your anything like me i use Photoshop near enough every day weather I’m cropping images or designing a poster for a client, i’m always on the hunt for new Photoshop tutorials in order to help expand my knowledge and to learn new Photoshop techniques. This is a compilation of 100 best photoshop tutorials from 2009. The collection of tutorials feature text effects, illustration, web designs, photo effects and much more every aspect of Photoshop every designer should look into learning showcased all within one post. The Creative Nerds team also run another blog called Design Chair which features the best Photoshop tutorials, illustrator tutorials and resources for designers worth checking out if you have some spare all want to search for a specific design tutorial.
- "MackRulZ"
from Bookmarklet
Ugh. Just... Ugh. Sorry, dark dreary days with no viable job prospects make me meh. I'm *this* close to applying for a call center rep job. My luck I'd wind up with someone I used to train as a supervisor. UGH...
Tina.morale.reboot(); // Keep trying Tina!
- Mo Kargas
Development is my weaker skillset: I'm slow as molasses at it. Wind up making peanuts per hour in order to make a competitive bid on a project.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Hmm, I have to agree with the 'peanuts' part. Maybe look at a career change ?
- Mo Kargas
Someone told me that despite my first impression of Mechanical Turk that the tasks are not necessarily programming. Just tasks that humans can do better than computers.
- Spidra Webster
Okay, I just checked on AMT. It seems that "secret shopper" people and content farmers have discovered the site. So it looks like you don't need to be a programmer at all but it might be hard separating the wheat from the chaff.
- Spidra Webster
A lot of Mechanical Turk stuff is busy-work, though - you'd have to do a ton of it to actually make much money. One thing for a little supplemental income, but I doubt you could get enough to survive on. Rochelle does some MTurk stuff, as I recall, she'd probably know more about what's available.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy, it was kinda looking like that to me but I've not dug into the projects very much. Might as well take a look, though: might be the way to work towards getting the skates I want...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yeah, I was thinking of it just a way to make a little $ after all the day's jobhunting is done...
- Spidra Webster
in 5 years I went from frontline call center Internet Repair rep to telephone repair rep to telephone lead to anti-virus & wireless lead to Commercial Business frontline rep to Interner Repair Lead, I suspect within 4 months I'll be a sup and a project manager of some sorts by the end of 2010, it's not so bad when you're off the phones, but if I had to spend another day listening to the crap coming through these days, I'd have to do a /wrists
- Tsali, The Native of FF
The hardest part when I was on the lines is that I worked a 10 hour shift; I would lose my voice the last two hours for the first month!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Chin up, Tina. At the very least, it's a means to an end - pays a few bills; allows you to have a few treats. You never know; you might make a bunch of great new friends. And, there's nothing to stop you from continuing to look for something more rewarding in the meantime. xx
- Andrew Terry
hugs it will get better. i know the feeling well. i went six months with no luck back in the day when i first moved out of town...
- Terry O'Fee
Actually, Andrew, that seems to be the problem when I apply for a lower level job: they always assume that I'm going to take it as a stop gap and will leave when/if I find something better. So they don't hire me. Grrr....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Been there, done that Tina. :) You will make it through, and someone will see the wisdom of hiring you. I hope it's soon, and you don't go too crazy before then.
- Bette Cooper
Well, we'll hope I don't go too much MORE crazy: I've always been a little off ;-)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I do Mechanical Turk (and have for about 2 years now) and don't/can't program at ALL.
- Rochelle
Rochelle, how much time would you say you put towards MT each week?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It really varies. I used to spent 10+ each week. These days, maybe an hour. Depends on how bored or busy I am.
- Rochelle
"We test a lot of software around here, on the web, on our desktop and on our phones. It's a great job to have, but only so much of what we test really sticks and becomes a part of our daily routines. Every once in awhile we like to compare lists in our team chat room and then share them with you. Here are the latest tools and services we've come to love, maybe you'd like to give them a try too."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Have always liked Seesmic Web. Not too many bells and whistles you don't need.
- rowlikeagirl
The Seesmic interface looks appealing. What I am going to need is a way to group people whom I follow on twitter based on how often they tweet, not based on userids.
- TrafficBug
Seesmic Web is good but I prefer Seesmic Desktop (to Matthew's distaste ;-)).
- Kol Tregaskes
"Monopoly the movie will be done weirdly, thanks to director Ridley Scott's science fictional plans for the board game adaptation. The good news is that Uncle Pennybags made the cut."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
This looks good but I prefer Directory Opus, myself.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I personally prefer tabbed explorer, like CubicExplorer and ExplorerXP.com, rather than the dual-pane ftp-like interface. I also believe the explorer app should be MDI so you could tile and cascade explorer windows within a single explorer instance.
- TrafficBug
"Get the best reading experience available on your PC. No Kindle required. Access your Kindle books even if you don't have your Kindle with you. Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync"
- Bryan Zirkel
from Bookmarklet
for those of you wanting the shirt: http://www.zazzle.com/in_case... ... we should all get one, take a photo of it at our desks and blame Darren for starting yet another meme!
- pea
"It's not new—we've all seen pics of artistic prank houses built totally upside down—but just get a look at this perfect example: Even the toilet brushes, potted plants and fruit bowls are in place. It's a dizzying set of photos—I bet that walking through would lay you flat on your ass, but on the ceiling. No word if they're selling this thing or not, but if you buy it, I'd ask for seatbelts (and maybe airbags too)"
- CW™
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