Monday, February 21, 2011

Get some Photoshop (and GIMP) brilliance

A while back, a blog called lifehacker posted a really nice, pretty comprehensive Photoshop tutorial some of you might want to take a look at. It's got lots of good tips for designers at a variety of levels, and the vast majority of it transaltes perfectly to GIMP. You might go check it out, but keep in mind that there are bazillions of Photoshop how-tos out there on the interwebs.

While I'm on the subject of Photoshop tutorials, I don't know how I missed the Photoshop rap when it first came out, but it is - no exaggeration at all - the greatest thing ever created in the history on mankind. Yeah, I said it. Well, it's at least tied with a couple other human accomplishments.

Serendipity in visual rhetoric?

Notice that, while the due date for our data visualization project has shifted a little, the assignment has been on the syllabus since January. The reason I point it out is only so that you'll marvel - as I marveled - at the coincidence (is there such a thing?) of Chart Porn (a favorite blog), has a recent post featuring a data visualization about data visulization.

Check it out, and prepare to be dazzled!

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

ENG 3393 Homework due 2/11

Post your links and criteria for effective/ineffective persuasion as a comment to this post (below).