Hoffman Art Design http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com The Creative Ninja Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:04:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 No Entry http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2012/02/no-entry/ http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2012/02/no-entry/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:16:28 +0000 Mike Hoffman http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/?p=35816 Nothing says "welcome" less than bars over the windows – except, perhaps also adding a plywood barrier inside. With a small peephole, of course, for surveillance purposes.

Of course, in this window, there seems to be a small can for donations available – just in case you're so inclined!

This image is part of the excellent +#Window Wednesday series on G+.

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In album Windows (6 photos)

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It seems that nearly every third party plug-in these days has some ability to provide a variety of image borders, but so far that capability isn’t in Pho…

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]]> http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2012/01/easy-image-borders-with-smart-filters/feed/ 0 An Adobe Lightroom catalog is like a real library's card catalog http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2012/01/an-adobe-lightroom-catalog-is-like-a-real-librarys-card-catalog/ http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2012/01/an-adobe-lightroom-catalog-is-like-a-real-librarys-card-catalog/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:51:54 +0000 Mike Hoffman http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/?p=35810 Understanding Lightroom's treatment of photos is always a challenge for people new to the program. The concept that a photo is "IN" Lightroom, or needs to be gotten "OUT" of Lightroom, is quite common. And the relationship between the thumbnails in the catalog and the actual, real images (be they JPG, TIFF or Raw) is equally confusing. Here's how I like to look at it:

Think of your images as books in a library. Each book is on a shelf somewhere (folders of your hard drive). The books and shelves may be organized in some fashion that may or may not make it easy to locate an individual book.

The catalog is the little cabinet in the front of the library that is full of cards describing each book – who is the author, where is it located in the library, what keywords it has, and so forth. When you look at a card in the catalog, you see a thumbnail of the image, and have a pointer to exactly where in the library that image is located.

A collection is a list of some of the cards in the catalog that meet certain criteria. In a regular collection, you pick and choose which cards to include in a new list (for example, my favorite images). In a smart collection, you pick the criteria to match, and the computer does the work of searching through the catalog for cards that match (all images with keyword "vacation" that were taken in 2011). With Smart Collections, the list is generated automatically.

Catalogs and collections do NOT contain images. They contain the cards that tell about the image – its location, information about the image, even a thumbnail of what the image looks like.

This is why moving images around outside of Lightroom is bad. You move the image on you hard drive, and the catalog of cards is still indicating that the image is located where it used to be. Try to find it there, and you get a big question mark.

When you move an image within Lightroom, the catalog of cards is updated with the new location if the image. And, since catalogs are just groups of copies of the cards, they are all updated too.

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]]> http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2012/01/an-adobe-lightroom-catalog-is-like-a-real-librarys-card-catalog/feed/ 3 Package Lost In Transit http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/package-lost-in-transit/ http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/package-lost-in-transit/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:17:00 +0000 Mike Hoffman http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/?p=35808 On a recent visit to Nelson, NV I had a chance to photograph lots of the wonderful old stuff they keep lying around. In particular, this old delivery truck caught my eye, and it seems to be appropriate to post it for this season, in which 99.9% of us received our packages on time, and a few did not. Perhaps this was one of the deliveries that didn't make it through!

In album Windows (5 photos)

An old delivery truck in Nelson, Nevada.

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In album Eccentricity (3 photos)

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In album Windows (4 photos)

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]]> http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/breakfast-window/feed/ 4 Christmas Cookies with Photoshop 3D http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/in-todays-tutorial-on-the-photoshop-tips-site-of-greyson-tipsquirrel-i-create/ http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/in-todays-tutorial-on-the-photoshop-tips-site-of-greyson-tipsquirrel-i-create/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:09:00 +0000 Mike Hoffman http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/?p=33589 In today's tutorial on the Photoshop Tips site of +Greyson TipSquirrel , I create a tasty plate of Christmas cookies using the 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS5 Extended. CS5 makes it easy to create very interesting and realistic 3D models and environments, and with Photoshop, you have the ability to mix 2D and 3D together for a very nice composition.

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The gifts are wrapped, the tree is decorated, and you’re ready for your long winter’s nap. But wait – you’ve forgotten something: the cookies! …

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]]> http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/in-todays-tutorial-on-the-photoshop-tips-site-of-greyson-tipsquirrel-i-create/feed/ 0 Windows in Boston http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/windows-in-boston/ http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/windows-in-boston/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:48:36 +0000 Mike Hoffman http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/?p=27608 Here is my contribution to this week's #WindowWednesday effort! Boston is home to so many amazing old buildings, but sometimes you have to look at them just a little differently…

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Window Wednesday December 7 2011

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Windows in Boston
by Michael Hoffman

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Window Wednesday November 30 2011

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Reflections in windows in Vegas
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Michael Hoffman

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]]> http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/12/window-washers-nightmare/feed/ 0 Copenhagen Windows http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/11/copenhagen-windows/ http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/2011/11/copenhagen-windows/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:25:44 +0000 Mike Hoffman http://www.hoffmanartdesign.com/?p=20626 In my strolls through Copenhagen, I was repeatedly taken in by the architecture (we don't have a high concentration of older buildings in Florida!). I liked this one, with the gutter running through the pattern of open windows, and it seems appropriate to post for #WindowWednesday on G+. This photo has rule of thirds all over it.

In album Travel (20 photos)

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