Kervin Brisseaux is a digital art hobbyist bursting with talent. While he has no big-name design gigs in his portfolio, partly due to his commitment to studying architecture, Kervin’s work speaks for itself. Those of you interested in blending Illustrator and Photoshop elements will find particular inspiration in Kervin’s work. In this interview we delve into the making of an intensely likeable Photoshop genius.
Could you introduce yourself to PSDTUTS?
“This tutorial will guide you through the steps needed to change the color of a red car. Once you learn to do this you can use any car so don’t worry it won’t have to be a red to black change every time. If you have any questions let me know.” - FullAperture.
A great tutorial showing how you can get your design onto a shirt ready for your promotional material.
“Create a shirt mockup so convincing, you’ll have people emailing you asking where you got it printed! Watch this video to see how to use the new features included in Fitted Ladies Apparel Templates Vol. 1!” - GoMedia
Photoshop Version: CS
Size: 1700px by 1700px
License: Creative Commons License
Different types of bugs and beetles to add creepy crawlies to your work.
Maybe the Clone Stamp Tool is one of the most known tools in Photoshop, but have you ever wondered: what else can I do with the cloning stamp than duplicating pixels and hiding objects? These two short tutorials will show you some new uses for this wonderful tool.
Before we get started, let’s take a look at the image we’ll be creating. Want access to full PSD files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one? Join PSDTUTS PLUS for just $9/month. You can view the final image preview below or view a larger version here.
Described as a multicore-friendly, lightweight parallel framework, fork/join uses the strategy of recursively splitting a task into smaller subtasks; forking the subtasks into separate processes or threads, so that they run in parallel on multiple cores; and joining all subtasks to compose a result to return. Expected to be added to Java 7, it will boost the ease of writing parallel programs in Java.
A few weeks ago Filip Hanik and I gave the second in a series of webinars on Optimising and Tuning Apache Tomcat. A recording of the webinar and a copy of the slides can be obtained from the webinars section of the SpringSource website. The same page has links for all the previous SpringSource webinars, as well as the Covalent webinar archive.
We weren't able to get to all of the questions during the Q&A session so, as promised, here are the remaining questions and our answers.
A common question on Wicket mailing lists is “Why doesn’t my ListView work as expected in a Form?”. There can be many possible answers, but the core issue is that ListView was never designed to work as a form component. ListView is great when it comes to displaying a list of elements, but in order to be a good citizen in Wicket’s form processing a list editor should possess the following features:
They call this continuation-passing style (though callback passing style might be more appropriate).
Reminds me of monads.
Building a site that can withstand a huge surge of traffic on one day takes considerable planning and work, as well as a little creativity. Collis has shared with me some of the inner workings of the Blog Action Day site and how they built the website to provide a platform for action, bring a community together and handle torrents of traffic on one day.
