Jak’s Life 2.0

Alexa’s Design Company

Posted in design, flickr, friends, photoshop by jak on November 5th, 2007

Alexa’s Design Company, originally uploaded by Jonathan Lampron.

A friend of mine designed this logo for his girl friend’s mock design company, I think that’s it’s a very good logo for only taking an hour and a half. What do you think?

Tweak Photoshop For Faster Performance

Posted in Digg, Life, design, photoshop by jak on October 28th, 2007

“Anyone who uses Photoshop all the time is looking to speed it up
—especially, if you’re like me, you’re regularly working on images larger than 200MB. The most obvious tip? Buy a new Mac Pro and load it up with 3GB to 5GB of RAM.” Here’s some alternatives, instead. This is a very useful article and I recomend it to anyone that is or ever will use photoshop.

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Filter Heart

Posted in Life, design, flickr, fun, photography, photoshop by jak on September 22nd, 2007

Filter Heart, originally uploaded by Jeffffd.

An awesome photoshop and photography job that I saw on Digg.

30 Secret Photoshop Shortcuts

Posted in Digg, design, mac os x, photography, photoshop, software by jak on September 10th, 2007

It is proven that by using software shortcuts can boost up productivity. Here are 30 secret Photoshop shortcuts that I’ve learned from years of experience. Well, what I mean by “secret” is that these shortcuts are not documented in the menus. Bet you don’t know them all! This is a great list and it really does help, best part for me is that the shortcuts are all mac friendly :). But as a rule of thumb where you see cmd it’s usually substitutable with ctrl. As a little side note too, the pictures on the site are extremely helpful and very well done I am a fan of the illustrations, they make the post so much easier to read.

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Town Hall Clock Tower

Posted in flickr, fun, photography, photoshop by jak on July 25th, 2007

Town Hall Clock Tower, originally uploaded by jak119.

A picture of my friend’s that I loved so I cleaned it up a bit in photoshop and this is the final result. Hope you like it.

Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting by COLOURlovers

Posted in photoshop by jak on June 22nd, 2007

The good folks over at COLOURlovers have made several color pallets based on famous painting including The Mona Lisa, Persistence of Memory, Starry Night, and lots more. You truly should look at the site and look at these truly inspiring colors and color pallets. (more…)