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I’m in Las Vegas through Wednesday. As a complete non-sequitor, you can see how to do the following YouTube tricks in the link below.

10 YouTube URL Tricks You Should Know

1. View high quality videos
2. Embed Higher Quality Videos
3. Cut the chase and link to the interesting part
4. Hide the search box
5. Embed only a part of Video
6. Autoplay an embedded video
7. Loop an embedded video
8. Disable Related Videos
9. Bypass Youtube Regional Filtering
10. Download Video

Check out my new Pricing page. It is not exhaustive of all the services I provide, nor of what you might be looking for. However, it might give you a ballpark figure of what I charge for common design needs.

Photoshop actions allow you to record a series of steps that you might do numerous times on other images, and then play back that series automatically on a new image. Photoshop CS4 comes with dozens of actions already created for you. In this article, I’ll give a pictorial run-down of Photoshop’s built-in Textures actions.

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I’ve started a new logo project for Orchestrated Home (orchestratedhome.com). He designed a serviceable and attractive logo for himself. Now he wants a logo that communicates what his company offers, and has the polish that a professional designer can create. Orchestrated Home sells home automation devices that can remotely control thermostats, sprinklers, appliances, etc. by a cell phone.

I’ll post all of the stages as the logo goes from concept to final.
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A member at PhotoshopForums.com asked how to add a pattern to an apple logo. Here’s a visual step-by-step guide to creating a logo image with a dimensional pattern on it.

 

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