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Photoshop: Prep & Color Scanned Drawings

Monday, 10.26.09 at 12:48 pm

Written by Matthew, Comments (10)

For years now, we have been using and teaching a slightly more powerful approach to digitally coloring scanned sketches/drawings/artwork (art) in Adobe Photoshop. The de-facto technique for coloring scanned art in Photoshop is to switch the document color mode to ‘RGB Color,’ set the blending mode of the layer containing your artwork to ‘Multiply’, and [...]

Classic Filters ––> Heroic Personification

Monday, 08.24.09 at 12:21 pm

Written by Tom, Comments (5)

Chop Shop is excited to release its latest tee design, “Filter Heroes”. The original concept was actually hatched during The Chopping Block’s formative years in the late 90’s. At that time the studio repeatedly re-worked their company website to look like anything but a design studio’s website. The first versions included a Nascar site, a [...]

Photoshop Photo Gallery Flash Detect Update

Friday, 05.29.09 at 2:25 pm

Written by Matthew, Comments (24)

A few years back the studio designed and developed the HTML and Flash Web Photo Galleries (WPG) that shipped within Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS3 and are optionally available for CS4. Despite the development constraints of the older WPG export engine, the galleries did (and still do) get a fair amount of use. I still see [...]