Flip it!

This is really important, flip your drawing!

After finishing the sketch, flip.

After laying out colors, flip.

etc. etc. flip.

Flipping gives you a new view of your drawing/painting, and what might seem OK to you while you're immersed in drawing, can actually be pretty crappy to an onlooker, so by flipping you make sure to kill any distortions and malformations in the drawing. It may even be better to keep drawing on the flipped image then flip back after reaching a milestone. (which also gives you an action point <= D&D geekstuff)

I've made myself a custom shortcut for this:

Ctrl+/

It's one of the only keyboard combinations that are free by default hehe.

Have fun!

Adjusting Photoshop Brush Size Intuitively

No, I'm not talking about the LAME [ and ] buttons, which are far on the other side of the keyboard and cause a head and finger ache when pressed repetitively. Of course I'm also not talking about right clicking and using the dorky slider which gets in the way and disrupts the FLOW.

Not long ago, When I was yet to discover this awesome method, I mapped the [ and ] keys to the wacom touchstrip, but that's over now!

Alt+Rightclick(hold)+Drag

Now, not only that dragging left/right adjusts the brush size, but dragging up/down changes the brush's softness!(in the default brush)

I'm not sure which editions have that, but I know that it works for CS4+

Cheers!

The Secret Photoshop Color Wheel

I've been searching all around for some way to get a cool color wheel in photoshop, some comfortable way to switch colors etc.

Just meshing buttons, I've discovered this:

Alt+Shift+Rightclick(Hold)

Brings up a sweet color wheel which I didn't even know existed. Strange that I haven't seen any mentions of this anywhere (or I just might be a really bad searcher/crawler)...

In Preferences>General you can change the HUD Color Picker to your liking, I prefer the Hue Wheel.

I think that was just about the missing score to make Photoshop the best drawing app EVA

P.S. I'd attach a screencap, but it's kinda problematic with the keys having to be held 'n all..

Hello world!

All right. This blog will be:

1. Cool
2. Cool
3. Interesting
4. Maybe a little techy
5. Inspirational
6. Cool

Let's Start!

P.S. It's a design blog, where I'll put stuff I find on the web, stuff I discover, ideas I have and stuff that I make. How awesome is that??