Author: Eric Brooks

Web & Graphic Designer, Blogger, Musician, Evil Clown. I also code websites and promote people for a living. Still kind of a jerk, though. Approach with food.

[#Design] Collaborative Influencer Clubs

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From TrendHunter.com – Design Trends –Collaborative Influencer Clubs – This Club in the City is a Place for Entrepreneurs to Connect (TrendHunter.com):

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Collaborative Influencer Clubs - This Club in the City is a Place for Entrepreneurs to Connect (TrendHunter.com)
(TrendHunter.com) In 2018, Vancouver will be home to a new collaborative club in the city for creative leaders and entrepreneurs. While the official name of the project has yet to be revealed, this destination is set to be a hub where like-minded individuals may gather to socialize over dinner, drinks, play or work, or use it as a meeting space for entertaining clients or catching up with friends and colleagues. The exclusive club will boast a design by Toronto’s award-winning DesignAgency, complete with a rooftop patio, food hall, a cocktail and wine bar, an auditorium, library and much more. While the club for influencers and thought leaders in Vancouver is not set to open until next year, memberships to the exclusive, upscale club in the city are now being sold to those who are interested in joining.

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[#Design] CreativePro Tip of the Week: Reduce File Size in Photoshop

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From CreativePro.com –CreativePro Tip of the Week: Reduce File Size in Photoshop by Cropping or Flattening:

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CreativePro Tip of the Week: Reduce File Size in Photoshop by Cropping or Flattening
Need to reduce the file size of a Photoshop document? You may be able to significantly reduce the file size by either cropping or flattening. If you have a layered file, notice the document sizes in the Status Bar below the image. The two values correspond roughly (sometimes very roughly) to the size of your image as a flattened file (on the left), and as a layered file (on the right). If you don’t need to preserve the separate layers, flatten the image by choosing either Layer > Flatten Image or Layer > Merge Visible. If you do need to preserve layers in the file, try cropping the image. Select the Crop tool and press Return or Enter. You will see a crop overlay fitting the canvas…

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[Cool Websites] Meme-Tracking Websites

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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Meme-Tracking Websites – Me.me Trends is a Search Engine for Popular Internet Memes (TrendHunter.com):

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Meme-Tracking Websites - Me.me Trends is a Search Engine for Popular Internet Memes (TrendHunter.com)
(TrendHunter.com) Even the most embedded internet cruiser is bound to have trouble keeping up with the torrential deluge of memes both generating and evolving constantly, but Me.me Trends is a new tool that can make it easier to track the latter. The website is similar to Google tools like Google Trends or Google Ngrams, but it’s specifically designed to graph the usage of phrases within memes. According to Me.me Trends’ page, the tool “tracks the use of words and phrases…used on at least one day within any meme in the data set.” In other words, the site contains an automatically updating log of memes being created online, and it analyzes the language within these to track the frequency or infrequency of various phrases.

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[Cracked] 19 Charts That Perfectly Explain Hollywood Logic

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From Cracked: All Posts –19 Charts That Perfectly Explain Hollywood Logic:

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19 Charts That Perfectly Explain Hollywood Logic
By CRACKED Readers Published: April 09th, 2017 – Who doesn’t love a good chart? The answer is no one. Well, except maybe the fat cats in Hollywood won’t like these ones, since these charts pretty much do an accurate job spelling out just how dumb some things are that made it to the big (and small) screen.

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[#Marketing Strategy] Top 30 Beverage #Trends in April

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From TrendHunter.com – Marketing Strategy –Top 30 Beverage Trends in April – From Custom Juice Subscriptions to Detoxifying Charcoal Lattes (TrendHunter.com):

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Top 30 Beverage Trends in April - From Custom Juice Subscriptions to Detoxifying Charcoal Lattes (TrendHunter.com)
(TrendHunter.com) The April 2017 beverage trends reveal more customized options for consumers, as well as the infusion of “on-trend” ingredients into unlikely beverages. The business Project Juice is one such example, and functions as a fresh juice delivery service. It allows consumers to customize the juices and cleanses they purchase for their health and fitness needs, and delivers them straight to the home to ensure as much convenience for the consumer as possible.

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[Trends] Risky Toddler Photography – Raise Awareness for Childhood Diseases

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From TrendHunter.com – Viral Humor and Comedy –Risky Toddler Photography – Stephen Crowley Uses Photoshop to Raise Awareness for Childhood Diseases (TrendHunter.com):

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Risky Toddler Photography - Stephen Crowley Uses Photoshop to Raise Awareness for Childhood Diseases (TrendHunter.com)
(TrendHunter.com) Stephen Crowley has found Internet fame after photoshopping his daughter Hannah into what he calls “marginally dangerous situations.” These include the 18-month-old holding a large kitchen knife, hanging over a staircase and climbing a ladder. The images were meant to be humorous, although Stephen Crowley told BuzzFeed News that some people have failed to get the joke. Crowley began snapping pictures of his young daughter after she recovered from a rare disease requiring both chemotherapy and a blood marrow transplant. He decided to have a bit of fun with his family and began using Photoshop to put Hannah in dangerous yet believable circumstances. Now that Stephen Crowley’s photos have gone viral he is using his Internet fame to ask people to donate stem cells and join the bone marrow registry.

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[#Marvel] Totally Awesome Hulk: Settling a Showdown

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From Marvel Movies News –Totally Awesome Hulk: Settling a Showdown:

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Totally Awesome Hulk: Settling a Showdown
“The Big Apple Showdown” in TOTALLY AWESOME HULK will come to a smashing conclusion with issue #18 on April 19. Written by Greg Pak and drawn by Mahmud Asrar, the storyline brings Ms. Marvel, Shang-Chi, Silk, and Jimmy Woo into Amadeus Cho’s wild world just as aliens attack. Asrar first hopped on the book with issues #11 and #12 before returning for the “Big Apple Showdown” story beginning with #15. Now, we talk with the artist about bringing all of these heroes together, making Amadeus Cho even more awesome, and continuing to work with Pak.

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[Tutorialzine] 15 Interesting #JavaScript and #CSS Libraries for April 2017

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From Tutorialzine –15 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for April 2017:

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15 Interesting JavaScript and CSS Libraries for April 2017
This April we have prepared for you a wonderful list of web dev resources, including some React libraries, a framework for cross-browser extensions, and a JavaScript physics engine! Our mission at Tutorialzine is to keep you up to date with the latest and coolest trends in web development. That’s why every month we release a handpicked collection of some of the best resources that we’ve stumbled upon and deemed worthy of your attention.

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[Photoshop Tutorial] Removing Backgrounds in Photoshop

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From Lindsay Is Awesome.Com – Latest Tutorial Listings For Photoshop –Removing Backgrounds in Photoshop:

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Removing Backgrounds in Photoshop
Removing backgrounds in images can be a daunting task for designers. You can go all out destructive and use the eraser tool – or you can use a non-destructive approach with masks in Photoshop.

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[#Design] Creating a Postcard in Photoshop

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From CreativePro.com –Creating a Postcard in Photoshop:

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Creating a Postcard in Photoshop
The Project: to make a fun postcard image from a beach vacation in the iconic “large letter” style of Curt Teich. You can learn more about Curt Teich in Greetings From Big Letters, USA, and explore the enormous digital archive of his postcards at Newberry.org. Here’s a sneak peek of what we’re making. Along the way we’ll see how to use several important Photoshop features for improving your photos, including content-aware crop and move, straighten, and the Patch tool. Using Content-Aware Crop and Straighten To begin, I have a photo I want to use as the background. It needs to be cropped to my postcard size and straightened. In CC 2017, you can take advantage of a Content-Aware option fill in any blank spots created while cropping. In the Options bar, I set the size of my image and make sure that Content-Aware is selected. To straighten my image, I use the Straighten button in the Options bar. I simply drag a line along the horizon to level it out. Since I’m taking advantage of Content-Aware crop to fill in parts of the sky, I can extend my crop area outside the boundaries of my image. Here is the result…

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