Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:53 am Best of the Best

Here's an idea. How about a Best of the Best Contest where the winning entries from the past month are copied into a new contest. Each person gets three votes, and the winning chop is the best of th ...

Sat Mar 11, 2006 2:41 am choppin' tunes....

The reason I asked this in the first place is that last week I was teaching my Chinese ESL students about Western music through history. We started at about 1905 and went up to today. We talked abou ...

Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:14 pm crazy plane photos

wow. I'm a f*ckin schmuck. Sorry to repost a different discovery....

I will read every post that has EVER been posted on this site before I post it again. Sorry.

Ok. that's a lie. No I won' ...

Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:37 am crazy plane photos

My uncle forwarded me a group of pictures like this:

http://photos.airliners.net/photos/middle/9/1/2/0686219.jpg

At first I thought it just had to be a chopped image. But, alack!, as far as I c ...

Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:58 am a New York get together???

Forget New York! Let's all meet over here in JiuJiang, China! You'd love it!

Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:37 am Views 'n votes

I go through voting bursts, I just "Next" through all the entries, voting where appropriate, then go back later by most recent.

I'm sort of like Wendy, I'm much more inclined to vote for ...

Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:08 am choppin' tunes....

so... whatcha listenin' to?

What, if anything, were you listening to during your last chop?


me: Belle and Sebastian - soft and non distracting.


ok. back to choppin' that stained glass pho ...

Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:15 pm using a drawing tablet, yes or no?

don't know much about the tablets, I used one in high school (about 6 years ago) in a technology lab and really hated, but didn't bother to try to learn it or get used to. I recommend getting a wrist ...

Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:46 pm quick mask vs. pen tool

Claf,
don't take this the wrong way, but I bet you have the sexiest Quebecoise English speaking voice.

Ray, you fucking professional:
Pen tool is the most acurate tool for hard edges and fastest ...

Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:26 pm I'M MOVING TO KENTUCKY

Wow. That sucks. Maybe you and the Colonol can get together and have choppin' chicken parties. I hear he's a Photoshop Warrior.

Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:16 pm exhibitionism

Really interesting reading about the world o' art galleries and working in the, errr.... "professional" art world (if there is such a thing).
Actually, I was a little bit confused at firs ...

Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:31 am quick mask vs. pen tool

Wow! the lasso? I tried that and I just kept screwing everything up. I was using the magnetic lasso which to me sounded the easiest. I'll give the polygonal lasso a try later--but that too is stil ...

Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:57 pm Scary Sentence contest

"SOYLENT GREEN IS... PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!"


"Squeel, Piggy, Squeel! *Rheee! Rheeee!!"


...some classics.

Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:38 pm quick mask vs. pen tool

by the way... for my fellow newbies, PSC has some great tutorials for the pen tool:
http://photoshopcontest.com/tutorials/15/pen-tool-as-mask-selector.html
and for masking here:
http://photoshopcon ...

Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:31 pm quick mask vs. pen tool

Wendy and I were talking the other day about masking... specifically, that neither one of us are any good at it. I just don't get it (yet), but I realize I probably should. So, for making selections ...