Lens Reviews, Actionscripting, and Color Pickers!

Well in this upcoming week I have a nice pair of Flash tutorials to get us through the weekend and hopefully next week some more Flash and an Illustrator tutorial, but after that things look quite bleak…no, no I am kidding. I actually have about 250 tutorials in a list on my desktop as I write and hopefully every last one of them will become a reality and I also already know some will need to be updated so that will be quite the task, but boy it will be great when you will be able to find a tutorial on anything, well virtually anything, on Tutvid? Personally I can’t wait because I sometimes forget how to do things I had made tutorials on! Anyway throughout the week a few things came up and there are a couple sites and little news I would like to share with everybody.

Picking color in Photoshop CS4 has gotten a little bit easier with this new color picker available over at John Nack of Adobe’s blog check it out! http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/12/photoshop_gets_1.html

Also in that post you can check out said, new color picker, download it for free, and view the installation instructions. It is now a little easier to fine tune some color picking especially when doing just about anything involving painting. All things considered it is pretty nice, a few things I would like to see changed, but having a bigger panel floating there for you to sample from is really easy to get used to.

Some of you know that I am a Canon shooter and for those of you that are Canon shooters as well you may well benefit from this next site. Essentially the guy running the site reviews and displays lots of info on a ton of Canon bodies, lenses, tripods, filters, accessories, and more! There are also some useful resources on the site.

Check it all out here: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/

A very common question I receive and answer on a regular basis has to do with learning actionscript 3.0 and readjusting oneself to the slightly different language. My answer more often than not is a recommendation I have for the book that sealed my move from 2.0 to 3.0. Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser wrote a book called “Learning Actionscript 3.0” which is not advanced in anyway shape or form and is quite down-to-earth and easy to understand, I still find myself pulling it down from time to time to check on a thing or two! Check out the accompanying website and if you like it purchase the book! You will not be disappointed!

Check it out here: http://www.learningactionscript3.com/

Last up this time around is actually a bonus. I just finished up writing to a very kind lady named Melissa. In passing conversation see passed me her website link and I checked out some of her photography and it is quite nice! Check out her work and maybe buy a thing or two from her site which is located here: http://www.photographybymelissab.com/ While you are over there look for a photo called “Swan Grace” a very nice photo.