I admit it. I’m a blog junkie. If it weren’t for Google Reader and my Reeder feed organizer, I’d spend hours (days even) wandering from blog to blog. Here are five recent posts that piqued my interest. I hope you like them, too.

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Tags: blogs | image editing | life | Photoshop | scrapbooking | tutorials

Here’s a technique I learned at Photoshop World a few years ago but it’s still one of my favorites. It was part of a workshop taught by Scott Kelby…the grand poobah of all things Photoshop.

I use it consistently and it never fails to produce sharper color to black & white conversions than any other technique I’ve tried. Here’s the technique along with my results. The steps and screenshots below were captured in Photoshop CS5, but they work just as well for Photoshop Elements. (more…)

Tags: image editing | photography | Photoshop | Photoshop Elements

Q. I have an image I want to use on my blog. At 800 x 600 pixels, it’s too wide for the space I have. I know that I want the width to be 600 pixels, how can I calculate the new height while maintaining the proportions of the image?

This is a process I use almost daily. I resize a lot of images for the site and this blog. Fortunately, there’s a simple formula you can use. (more…)

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