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Hey, my name is Kajik and I love to work with all the Adobe products to design and create graphics, motion graphics and websites. Photoshop is one of my favorite tools to bring my ideas to life.


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Get Going with Adobe Bridge CS4

Aug 11th in Tools & Tips by Kajik
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In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at one of the most underestimated and unused tool in the Adobe product family called Bridge CS4. It is available in most of Adobe’s professional Creative Suite applications and I’m sure some of you use it, but a lot of people just ignore it, not realizing its potential to speed up your workflow and help organize your files. What’s Adobe Bridge? Why should I use it? How does it work? Where to start? That’s what you’ll learn in this tutorial.

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How to Animate a GIF Inside of Photoshop CS4

Jul 17th in Effects, Interface by Kajik
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In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the Photoshop animation feature to create a nice animated GIF. I’m sure all of you already noticed the ads at the right side of this page. For some of you, they are annoying, others even click on them, which is why they are there. I personally think there’s nothing to be said against them, so I thought why not creating a nice 125 pixel by 125 pixel ad to demonstrate how easy it is to create nice animations inside of Photoshop.

All we need to do is open up Photoshop, create our final image and animate it the way we want it to move the single elements to achieve the final effect. Additionally, we’ll stop by at the beautiful GraphicRiver website, where we’ll download their logo, which we’ll use to create our GIF.

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Super-Handy Photoshop CS4 GPU Features Unraveled

Jun 5th in Tools & Tips by Kajik
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The latest version of Photoshop CS4 offers a variety of new features that save time and work. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at all the new GPU based features and how to use them. On the one hand they save you a lot of time, on the other hand they snatch your RAM away and stress your graphic card, but one things for sure, they all look cool! Let’s jump into Photoshop and take a look at what it offers!

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Professional Tips for Improving Photoshop’s Performance

Apr 24th in Tools & Tips by Kajik
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In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the Photoshop Preferences to increase our Performance. With more and more features and important improvements, Photoshop gets more effective than ever. On the other hand, depending on the Photoshop version, features for working with 3D imagery, motion-based content, and advanced image analysis, greatly increase the requirements of both Graphics and Hardware.

There’s nothing worse than being detained from your workflow because of performance deficit. That’s why you should check out this tutorial to work more efficiently without wasting your time and improve your workflow and designs!

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How to Use Content-Aware-Scaling in Photoshop CS4

Mar 17th in Tools & Tips by Kajik
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The latest version of Photoshop CS4 offers a variety of new features that save time and work. One of them is the newly added Content-Aware-Scaling feature, which automatically preserves important areas like people, buildings, objects, as you resize your images. It saves you a lot of time, since there’s no time-consuming cropping and retouching required anymore. How and why you should use this? That’s what we’ll cover in this tutorial!

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Using Adobe Kuler to Enhance Your Photoshop Color Workflow

Mar 10th in Tools & Tips by Kajik
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Let’s look closely at a crucial and time-saving product for designers called Adobe Kuler. We’ll learn to explore, create and share color themes using the Kuler website and the built in extension of Kuler in Photoshop CS4. What’s Adobe Kuler? It’s a web-hosted application, providing free color themes that can be used by anybody, in any project you are working on. Let’s jump into this article and learn more about Adobe Kuler and how to use it with Photoshop!

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