When it comes to taking an object out of a background there are countless techniques. Some make more sense for certain situations and not so much for other situations. I find when I’m in a rush I like to use a wand, but sometimes it will leave behind artifacts and debris only a pixel or so in size. How do I find them? I put a large red stroke on the layer, erase the junk then just take off the stroke to move on with the project.

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So my little hack, which I’m still proud of and I will be contributing to the cause, soon, is being discussed on other sites. Not just with me getting credit, of course, there were others who freely came up with the same solution. I am excited because I want to see what others come up with replacement art, tho. So here are a few others discussing the hack.

Flickr

5/8ers

iLounge

MacThemes

This has been causing me a bit of strife for the past few months and every time I get an opportunity to stop and think about it, I have forgotten about it. Well no more.

The problem? I’m using InDesign on a Mac and we have a community server running windows. We store and work off the server. It allows us to all have access so if someone works on something everyone else won’t have to hunt thru the first person’s computer. It really works.

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Okay, I’m pretty stoked with myself. I figured this one out all by myself and it worked. It doesn’t take long, and maybe I’ll post some of the images I use when I get the rest done, or if anyone else comes up with some images let me know. But what am I talking about? The new iTunes 8 has some cool features that I’m really digging and one is to group according to genre. When I looked in my movies I was to find a little surprise. I saw on the top a feature to group according to genre. But then a mess. Apple only made artwork for so many genres and I like a bit more organization than the next guy. So how could I add some? Simple.
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