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| adobe listened to me! 01.04.2005 |
| Well, probably more people sent emails to them suggestion these things. As I work 100% of my day with photoshop is very easy to see some bugs, or think some suggestions to do.. so one year ago I sent an email to the photoshop crew with these suggestions: Instance Layers Be able to duplicate a layer as instance, so if I modify something in the first layer then will be modified automaticly on the duplicated one (could be great if that with folders as well). What can you do with that? If you are doing a design portal, with boxes, and each boxes have the sime design (like modulez.org) if you want to change something on a box design, you have to duplicate each time you modify the original one (a waste of time). Also, you could duplicate a layer and mirror it horizonally, then just draw a half of a face and you will be able to draw easily a simetric face. Embeding other PSD Be able to embed another .psd in the one you are working. So you can have a basedesign.psd and then a additions.psd where you do the embeding. How many times you had to modify the design of different flats because the client wanted a small change in the base design? Scale images but without lose the original one Scale a layer but saving (internally) the original one. Sometimes the client says, can you do the logo a bit smaller? mm.. can you do it a bit bigger now? So, that's why ;) And If you check that page, looks like they are going to release all those features (and more things) on the next version!! o/ PS: As Adobe just sent me an email with that text: "Thank you, (this is the only message you will receive for your suggestions)", I decided to let know to Gimp developers, but they were very very rude and told me, "If you want these features why don't you pay us?".. Stupids, don't hey see that that was something that photoshop didn't have and all the designers are needing? Too late now. Bye bye Gimp (forever). |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 13:31 |
1 comment| on the press! 24.03.2005 |
| Hahaha, yesterday a photographer just came to SpringDigital offices to take more or less 100 pictures of me. Click click click click! What for? Well, looks like the independent is doing like a research of how stressed are the people working on the media (audiovisual, design stuff). Spring Digital was selected for that and my lovelly boss Kerry gave me the oportunity to appear on the press. Basicly is a diary just for a week, project in hand, how stressed it was and when I left. As I don't really got the idea of how important "the independent" I didn't get stressed or intimidated by the idea.. So, lets just buy the newspaper the next Monday and see how big the article appears ;) |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 18:11 |
| breakpoint'05 21.03.2005 |
| wooow!! I really need that!. Long time ago since my last break, a long weekend with drunk computer geeks on the meadow and demoscene competitions is what I need. At the last moment I realized that there was an area for vjgigs and I wanted to do something for there but the tool and also the amount of visuals is not really enough. Perhaps I'll do a fastprod for there but that's not sure either. Anyway, looking forward for it, relax a little bit, enjoy the releases and the people on there! Have a good easter! |
| posted by trace at 14:52 |
| reluna 14.03.2005 |
| I found a great skin for XP! Some months ago I was testing with StyleXP and programs like that.. You could get nice styles but I didn't like the programs to do that at all.. After reading today a bit about that I found a miniapp that patch the file UXTheme.dll and allows the computer to add new styles just doing a doubleclick!! Here you can download the app. And here is the best skin I found. Assume it! Windows Default Skin is very ugly, you need that!! ;) |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 13:23 |
| uhm.. no, not really! 09.03.2005 |
| Latelly I'm not having a lot of luck with computers and software.. Some months ago I decided to migrate all my email from outlook to thunderbird. After some weeks using thunderbird the programm crashed and now when I open it after one second gives an error. So by now, I lost a 3 years emails.. let's wait if they update it or something.. good bless gmail. Some months after I decided to get a DVDRW for my Inspiron 8500. I bought it from ebay as I didn't find it on dell.co.uk. And the day I tested it windows were recognizing it as a Sony CDReader. And there was nothing to do, the drivers from dell didn't work and after send an email using that form with small textinputs to tecnical support they told me that I had to contact dell spain or migrate my tag.. daba daba daba.. so I will have to explain once again what's the problem after migrate my tag. Months ago I said that dell support was great, after living in london and get used to all the life style here. Dell support is very mediocre. So, to finish that post in an original way I should say that Microsoft did a great one with SP2. I really feel better when each week there are some updates to the software and installs it without problems.. Was a bit late to do it, but better late than never.. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 21:45 |
| one frontier less! o/ 08.03.2005 |
| No more "no solo, no electron!"!! ARF!! |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 17:28 |
| if05 + offf05 06.03.2005 |
| At last, here we go with the firsts confirmed gigs of the year. Will be time to test the new vjtool we are working on. So only because that the gig seems promising. The first one will be at if05 (valencia) some day between April 15th-17th. And shine where will do the djset. The second one will be at offf where the roterfleck is going to do an openroom showing their last music productions and I'll provide the visuals for each one. Some months ago I did a similar thing for them but once again the new vjtool could make it even more better! Also I'm going to do an speech with inknown on there talking about my experience moving to London. so.. that's it by now (isn't that enough? ;).. i'll see you there ;) |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 00:10 |
| buenafuente liandola hen la revival 01.03.2005 |
| El señor Buenafuente de nuevo dando que hablar con su programa ya que despues de presentar el personaje "neng" en su programa, el cual se rie de todo este tipo de gente (bakalas, chungos, makineros, como les quieras llamar..) han salido unos cuantos blogs imitando el tema. De todos los blos que he ojeado el mas logrado que he leido es este donde el tipo tambien pilla fotos de gente del palo y se monta unas ralladas terribles y parece que esta teniendo un buen exito por la cantidad de comentarios de cada post. Para rematar en el ultimo episodio de cálico electrónico también le hacen la coña. Ahora solo falta ver como se lo toman los "afectados", con un poco de suerte se reducirá ese tipo de gente ;) thx Andreu! :D |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 22:47 |
| rotten 23.02.2005 |
| Since I received some hits from google looking for "tony cabello" (my brother), and now that he is working really hard and appearing on the media because his last work also I'm sure some people will want to know about what he is doing, so lets talk a little bit about him. Since he finished the university, just the last year he was working hard on his software Iglooo with his mate Oscar Gonzalez. The project were selected at the university to do an speech about it on an important event on NY. After that he started a company with some other guys focused on his Igloo and areas to use it (if i'm not wrong the software was designed for the VJ scene long time ago, now is more open). The last movement with all that was providing the technology and visuals for a theater play called Rotten. Unfortunatelly I didn't have a chance to watch it but looks very experimental and interesting. Some media are speaking about it and this is the only one that I found online. So well done by now, lets see how it comes and the new stuff. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 12:12 |
| so.. how 2005 is looking? 20.02.2005 |
| 2005 is just starting and some events and dates are being confirmed. Breakpoint'05 on Germany from 25th to 28th March 2005 where I'll try to contribute something to that scener full of trolls and unproductive critic people (once again, why am I doing that? :D, I guess because very cool people still there :D). My friend inknown proposed me to do an speech about US and UK work experience (more focused to the move experience) for offf with the idea of doing something different and enjoyable (hard work needed for that I guess). Talking about my VJgigs.. MMT on June once again where the vj area will be more supported and looks as a great one this year, there will be perhaps the first gig with the new xplsv vjtool (neon v2), which is looking more promisind day by day (hard work done by shine). Names as sónar, apollo (barcelona) and theloft were mentioned but nothing confirmed yet. I'll let you know asap if something of that is confirmed :)~ All that, of course, mixed with my fulltime job, and my personal project in hands So, I guess, the contemplative period is something of the past and now is time to work hard to do a great year. Wish me luck! ;) |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 01:33 |
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