tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-318042572012-01-30T15:07:41.719-05:00Keeping up to date on what Robin Wood is up toRobin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.comBlogger2011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-21904941609854530132012-01-08T20:36:00.009-05:002012-01-08T21:11:17.071-05:00

It's been months since I blogged, because things have just been like that.As some of you might know, I spent most of 2011 being quite sick. In October (sometime after my last blog post,) it became acute enough that I went to the doctor and had Many Tests. We finally got the results in December. The good news is that all the tests came back negative. Yay! The doctor said that it looks to him like

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-81493140743485191842011-10-11T21:40:00.004-04:002011-10-11T22:16:47.749-04:00

Last week, while trying to print out a Robinton print, I had a real debacle with the printer. (Suffice it to say it took five hours of fussing with it to get a decent print.) So I decided to stop printing things myself, and instead move the print side of the store to Zazzle. Robinton, Masterharper of Pern - Print or Poster by RobinWoodEntThere are some real advantages to this. The Zazzle prints

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If you're a resident of SL™ you might be interested to know that The Nest, where I have a shop, is doing a special Labor Day/End of Summer/Sim Opening parts and celebration! The parts kicks off at 4 PM SL time, with a couple of DJs, and lots of other festivities. The Gatcha festival starts then, too. I made a little white wicker occasional table for it, with a quilted cloth that's finished with

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Mesh came to SL™ last week. For those not familiar with it, that means that, for the first time, we can now upload models that we make in other 3D applications directly to SL, with their UV Maps and everything else intact. It's a huge change, and like all other changes in SL, it's not without controversy and confusion. To help alleviate some of that, I've made a mesh object for people to

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Another Tuesday, another Photoshop Tutorial! This time, we finish up the series about brushes in Photoshop CS4 and earlier with a discussion about how to make a brush from a color image, using either a Black & White Adjustment Layer, or Lab color, to get the values you want for your brush. I'll also show you how to easily copy the settings from one brush preset to another one. Finally, we'll

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Hi everyone! I'm sorry to say that Michael and I both got sick over the weekend, and I was congested yesterday and unable to film a new tutorial. So there's not going to be one this week. However, I've been very busy with all kinds of other things, mostly in Second Life®, since I last posted. First, I just opened a new store! It's on a new sim called "The Nest" which is a home and garden

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It's Tuesday again, and in spite of being a bit hoarse, I managed to make another video tutorial yesterday so there's a new one up! This week we continue the series about brushes in Photoshop with a lesson about making your own brush! We start with a short discussion about setting up the workspace to make a new brush, and capturing a brush tip shape. Then we'll explore how to save your new

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It's Tuesday again, and although the new studio we're building isn't totally finished yet, I do have a new mic setup. So I did another tutorial! I think you guys will like the clearer, louder sound. This time, we finish up the rest of the Brushes Panel in CS4 and earlier by taking a look at all the things that are "below the line." These have no parameters; they are simple toggles that control

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It's been a very long time since I was up to doing a Photoshop Tutorial for YouTube, but I finally was able to do one!I'm continuing the Brushes in Photoshop series. This one covers the last thing "above the bar" in the Brushes Panel; Other Dynamics.In order to really cover them, I also have to discuss the differences between Brush Opacity and Brush Flow, so if you've been wondering, it's there!

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-37972358009827931752011-06-17T14:44:00.001-04:002011-06-17T14:46:04.751-04:00

It's summer! Time for outdoor living. If you're a resident of SL™ you can make your outdoors as elegant and comfortable as indoors, with my new Wicker Patio Set.It's available in either white wicker with rose cushions and pillows, and a Rose Garden teapot, (shown above), or in espresso dark brown wicker, with green cushions and pillows with a leaf motif, and a Green Willow teapot (shown below.)

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Time to break out the summer clothing, and kick off those heavy shoes and boots, and slip into a cool, comfy pair of inexpensive flip flops! If you're a resident of Second Life, you'll want to know that I've just made a bunch of beautiful new ones, using brand new, all original sculpts.The sole has been remade so it has no pinch points. This means that it looks perfect from any angle, and that

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The 2011 Second Life® Shoe Fair opens today (May 14) at noon Pacific time, and runs through May 27th. It's one of the Big Events in SL™, with 4 sims full of stores (over 60 shoe designers.)And I'm one of them!The build this year is minimalist; with a clean, white, low-lag mall which really makes it easy to get to all the booths. I set my booth up with some stunning photos taken by my friend

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-26797027406997466542011-04-27T14:34:00.006-04:002011-04-27T14:53:55.351-04:00

There's a gadget called a Gatcha in SL™. It consists of a scripted machine that gives you a random object when you pay a certain amount, like the candy and toy machines in the front of grocery stores all over the US. You never know which of the various "prizes" you'll get, and that adds to the fun.They are very popular, and Albero, one of the more successful malls in world, has a "Gatcha Festival

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Finally, we get to the really fun part of the Brushes Dialog - Color Dynamics!During this video, we'll find out how to use the Contextual Menu to choose a brush without going to the Brush Panel at all. We'll learn how all the various controls in the Color Dynamics panel work. We'll find out how to start a stroke with one color, and end with a totally different one. (Or change back and forth

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It's been a long wait, while I fought a series of infections that had me hoarse and coughing, but my voice is finally strong enough that I was able to make a new video tutorial!This is the fifth in the series about Brushes in Photoshop, and explains all about using the Dual Brush.First we learn what a dual brush is (a brush within a brush) and then we visit the parameters (which are mostly

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If you're a resident of Second Life®, and you celebrate Easter, you'll be happy to know that I now have Easter Baskets available!These beautiful baskets are only 12 prims, so you can put them out to decorate your home. Or you can hold them in your right hand (there are two carry poses built in; toggle the basket to toggle between them.)Inside the basted are 4 dyed eggs, a foil egg, a chocolate

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If you happen to be an SL™ resident, Robin just finished a beautifully detailed wooden shelf, with curved brackets and a stunning backboard that boasts 2 pegs and a heart shaped cut out between them. It also has baked on shadows that are continued on the accurate shadow prim. All this, in only 3 prims! (One for the shelf, one for the pegs, and one for the shadow.)To celebrate the shelf, the

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If you're a resident of SL™, you need something to put a bit of bounce into your steps. Spring is just around the corner; get ready with a delightful new pair of gingham chucks from Robin!These beautifully made chucks come in 7 fresh colors, and are perfect for those bright spring days. They all have tiny hearts on both the laces and the lining, and the bumper stripes match the gingham to give

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Are you a Creator in SL™? Tired of a drab, dull, boring workroom? Spruce it up with a new worktable from Robin, for only 2 prims!It's a shabby chic table, in the Arts and Crafts style. The bottom part is a single sculpty prim, with four sturdy legs and a shelf that's perfect for storing the things you need to keep rezzed in world. The top work surface is a normal prim, so it never looks like a

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The "code in by dose" has finally receded enough that I can talk normally, so I made a new Photoshop tutorial! This time, it's about using textures on brushes.Find out how to make it look like you're drawing with chalk or crayon on a textured surface. Learn what happens when you "Texture Each Tip." Discover what the Depth slider does, and how to make it look the way you want it to. Find out why

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If you're a resident of SL™, you might be interested to know that I've started to make furniture! My first set is available now!It's an Art Deco conversation/reading corner, with two chairs, an occasional table with a vase of plumeria, a fashion magazine, and a pulp murder mystery, and an oval rug.The chairs have been totally remapped, so that the stunning vintage Art Deco fabric isn't distorted

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If you're a female SL™ Resident, and you like flats, you're going to love these new Mary Janes with classic grosgrain ribbon bows on the toe top!These are Robin's original sculpt; it's been copied, but never equaled. (And no one has even tried to copy the sumptuous polished leather texture.) Now it comes with a gorgeous bow, also an original sculpt, to make it even dressier.Touch the knot on the

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The holidays are over, and I'm getting back to what passes for my normal life. So, since it's Tuesday, there's a new tutorial.We're continuing the series about brushes in Photoshop CS4 that we started before the break.First, I show you how to adjust the parameters for the Wacom stylus, to get maximum responsivity for the way your hand is working when you make the adjustments. Since this can

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Now that the Winter Holidays are over, residents of SL™ are gearing up for Valentine's Day! So I've made some new Chucks sneakers, to put a bit of spring in our steps! They were designed for the holiday, but you can wear them any time, of course.They all have pink hearts on the laces, and they come in Candy Hearts (shown), Gingham Pink, Hearts & Roses, Simple Hearts, and Vintage Rose designs.As

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It's been a busy couple of months, and I'm afraid that I haven't found time to blog very much. But I have gotten a fair amount done, and now that "Santa Season" is over, I should have more time to tell everyone what I'm doing!During November and December I made several new kinds of foot ware for Residents of Second Life®, so if you spend time in-world (as we say) don't forget to check out the

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The second in the series about brushes in Photoshop is up, and ready!This time, all about Shape Dynamics! How to change the size, angle, and roundness of your brush as you paint, using a jitter, a control, or both!You'll also find out how Fade works, how you can set the minimum size, angle, or roundness for a brush, and lots more. This one is kind of long, but it's jam packed with useful

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This has been a busy week in SL™ !Redd Columbia is sponsering a ThanksGIVING Food Market in Salchicha Harbor which benefits the World Food Programme.She's built a beautiful barn, all strung with lights, and put tables, benches, and things inside like a farmer's market. Then she invited everyone who wants to participate to put out food related items. Anything, really, just so long as it is

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Today I'm starting a series of Photoshop Tutorials about brushes. We'll probably be doing this for a few months, at one lesson a week, because brushes are so very rich and powerful, and so very, very flexible.Also, Brushes changed in CS5; so first I'm going to show you how they worked in CS4 and earlier versions, and then I'll show you the new ways. We'll start out by learning how to get the

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It's Tuesday again, and I'm (mostly) over the bug that stole my voice last week, and have another PS Tutorial done!This is the last part of the series on Gradients. This week, a few things you can do with them.I'll show you how to make a vignette using a gradient on a layer mask, with a nice big clear area in the middle, and how to combine several radial gradients to make it appear that there are

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My fascination with shoes in SL™ continues. This week, I've come out with a new finish for my popular Mary Jane shoes; Classic polished leather.The polish has been baked on, and appears to glow on the glove-soft leather. (Not SL "Glow".) There is a cut design of hearts and dots that follows the curve at the top opening of the toe, and the buckles are brass. The sole is textured, to provide firm

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The third tutorial in the series about Gradients in Photoshop. This time, noise gradients!I have a new microphone (thanks, Michael!) so hopefully it will be loud enough for everyone, and I won't have any more complaints about that. (It also lets me eliminate the buzz that caused such problems last week.)Enjoy!

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I almost forgot! I've been making so much the last few days, that I nearly forgot to post the new tea set!It's one of my Interactive Tea Sets, which serves or cleans up tea with a touch of the tray, and gives unlimited cups of tea, saucers to hold while you sip the tea, and plates of petit fours.You can also change the linens by touching the napkin. This time, you can set each napkin and the mat

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-18459874647395707722010-10-05T15:30:00.003-04:002010-10-05T15:36:18.597-04:00

If you're a Resident of Second Life, you might be interested in a couple new things that I finished recently!First is Halloween Chucks, to complete your Halloween outfit in style!Designs range from piles of Halloween candy, to candy corn, to Black Jack the Halloween cat (shown) and on to spiderwebs in four colors with a realistic orange and black spider on the heel. (Not for arachnophobes, but

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-6333336348389106822010-09-29T17:42:00.002-04:002010-09-29T17:56:04.202-04:00

If you're a resident of Second Life®, you probably know that shoes are very popular there.Until recently, I never bothered with shoes, since I'm usually barefoot in both worlds. But I decided that I wanted to have some for an outfit I was working on, and, well... turns out that shoes are really interesting to make!So, although the outfit is still on the back burner, I now have several kinds of

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-31130646060178398692010-09-29T13:39:00.003-04:002010-09-29T13:53:21.304-04:00

This tutorial was a bit late.On Monday (when I usually do the filming) I was quite surprised to find that my voice was just not working. Every few words it would seem to catch, and .. nothing would come out. Okay, I've had a sore throat, but this was ridiculous!I tried again on Tuesday morning. Except when I listened to the first take, there was a horrible annoying cyclic buzz-buzz-buzz through

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-57864335018021779592010-09-21T11:56:00.002-04:002010-09-21T12:00:17.821-04:00

It's Tuesday, and time for another Photoshop Tutorial. I've taken a suggestion from a viewer, and I'm starting a series about using the Gradient Tool. Today, we'll be finding out what all the things on the Options/Control bar do, and how the five gradient types work, so you can get the results you want when you click and drag. Next week, we'll take a look at editing gradients, so you can have

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-28167700948138099272010-09-14T11:52:00.001-04:002010-09-14T11:52:12.471-04:00

The third, and final, tutorial about live type in Photoshop.This time, some advice, and some exploration of masks on the Type Layer.Next week, something new and different! (Feel free to give me suggestions, if there's anything you've been wondering about in PS!)

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I've been working on new Chucks forSL kids! They're Chuck Pets, and are just like bunny slippers. Only they're not bunnies, and not slippers. :D The first batch are kitties!You can choose White, Calico, Siamese or Black (which is perfect for Halloween.)All of them are slip ons, which means that they don't have bows, and the laces are arranged in a ladder pattern. L$150 for a pair of shoes. No

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-84156730136323078862010-08-31T13:21:00.003-04:002010-09-14T11:52:51.996-04:00

The second tutorial about embellishing live type in Photoshop!This one starts where the last left off, and covers adding a mask to one of the clipped layers, to fade the effect in, and changing the Blending Mode of the effect. Then we learn how to change the color of type, and how to get the gradient that we thought we were going to get with the layer style in the first video, except the Layer

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This week, at the request of one of my viewers, I'm starting a new series about type in Photoshop.We're starting by applying a Layer Style, and then editing that style to get exactly what we want. Next I'll show you how to make it look like the type is "ghosted" so you can see the background through it, while keeping the style at 100% opacity. After that come a couple of tricks so you can change

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I'm back, much refreshed from my week off, with a new Photoshop tutorial. This time, it's all about the Line Tool.A friend of mine thought that there was no way to make simple straight lines in Photoshop.So I did this tut, to show her that there's a tool that not only makes straight lines in any thickness you could possibly want, using any unit of measure you're likely to need, but it can put

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There's not a new video tutorial this week, but I used the time to get a lot of things done in Second Life!I got some bracelets finished, to go with the candy necklaces!Just like the necklaces, to "bite" a piece off, you just touch it. The piece vanishes, and the bracelet announces who took a piece from whose bracelet, and what color it was. So you can have "wars" and try to bite candy from your

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-484553812425621052010-07-31T21:15:00.002-04:002010-07-31T21:20:12.408-04:00

If you happen to be a kid in SL™, I just finished making something you're sure to love!Remember those candy necklaces? When you wanted a nibble, you'd just bite a piece off. They weren't very sanitary, but they were lots of fun!Now you can have one in SL!This highly realistic necklace has seven different candy colors, arranged randomly on a sculpted "elastic" string.If anyone touches a candy, it

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-9539725656404229852010-07-27T13:29:00.002-04:002010-07-27T13:36:48.663-04:00

The five-tutorial set about Custom Shapes in Photoshop ends this week with one last lesson about Vector Masks.Learn how to use Vector Masks in tandem with Layer Masks, how to pull paths out of a vector mask to use elsewhere, and how to make your vector masks "pop" using Layer Styles. Hope you like it!I'm seriously thinking about skipping the tutorial next week, if no one objects. I've been doing

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More about shapes and paths in Photoshop!This week, we start to explore Vector Masks; what they are, when to use them, 3 ways to make them, the main differences between Vector Masks and Layer Masks, and how to change the position of the mask, or "invert" it (or parts of it) so that you can mask what you want to mask.Hope you like it!Next week we'll see more of the really cool things you can do

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The third tutorial in the Custom Shapes series is up and ready to watch!This time, we learn how to use the Preset Manager to save sets of shapes; any shapes that you want to pick out of the ones you have active.We'll also learn how to get those sets to show up in your Custom Shape menu, either at the bottom or mixed right in with the shapes that come from Adobe. And we'll take a look at how to

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-9823935669126263522010-07-06T12:53:00.002-04:002010-07-06T12:58:08.168-04:00

This week, we explore the Paths Panel!Learn how to work with the Work Path, how to move vectors from a Shape Layer into the Paths Panel, how to fill paths, stroke them with any tool you want, and simulate pressure on the stroke when using pressure sensitive tools. Find out how to load a path as a selection, and how to turn a selection into a path. Finally, learn how to make any path into a Custom

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This week, we're going to start to explore vectors in Photoshop, both Shapes and Paths.For the first tutorial, we're going to take a quick look at the Path Tool options, and then make a US Stop Sign, using the Polygon Tool on a Shape Layer. Included are things like the way that Paths interact on the same Shape Layer, converting text to a Path, and pasting that path into the Shape Layer.Next week,

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This week, the Photoshop Tutorial is all about Flipping an image over a Horizontal axis, and having it land just where it should!There are three tricks; one to make something flip across the center of the image (includes setting a new Guide Line in the middle, no matter what size the image is, and making a Drop Shadow skip a few layers, so the thing casting the shadow is on the top of the layer

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This week we finish exploring the keyboard shortcuts to use with layers with the shortcut for making a Clipping Mask, deleting a layer, and a couple of caveats about using the shortcuts.Hope you enjoy it!If you have anything you really want to ask about for next week, please do! I haven't decided what the tutorial is going to be about yet.

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-7851049562193032892010-06-14T11:34:00.003-04:002010-06-14T12:23:16.113-04:00

For many years, I've admired Bradley W. Schenck's work. If you're not familiar with him, he does jaw dropping celtic knot work, really funny, if slightly twisted, t-shirts, and amazing things from Retropolis (the future that was dreamed of in the 1920's and 30's.)His design sense is stunning; quite possibly the best I've ever seen, and completely unmistakable.Last night, I was looking at his

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-71715413014258454272010-06-08T17:49:00.002-04:002010-06-08T17:57:28.364-04:00

It's Tuesday, and that means a new tip, even if it is a bit late! (The movers went through this weekend, and today we got the last of the new cupboards installed. They are coming to put in the phones tomorrow, and the handyman is coming round to do more work on the new house on Thursday - it's been a bit hectic.)But the Tutorial is ready now! Learn how to slash your production time in Photoshop

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-45298366898284768802010-06-01T09:26:00.003-04:002010-06-08T17:53:55.730-04:00

Just posted the final segment in my Photoshop tutorials about faux wood on YouTube. This time, carving the wood, while keeping all the text, shapes, etc. live!Hope you enjoy it!

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Another Tuesday, another Photoshop Tutorial!In this, the fourth installment in the Faux Wood Grain series, we learn how to make the complex wood grain from the first two lessons seamless!These principals can be applied to any texture, to make it seamless, of course.Also of interest; I show how to manipulate a brush so that it makes a whole series of short, vertical strokes that are tapered at

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-32785637375636350802010-05-21T10:57:00.007-04:002010-05-21T11:33:48.463-04:00

I haven't had as much time to work as I'd like, the last few months. We bought a house at the end of February, and have been renovating it. (Well, mostly having it renovated. Contractors have done most of the work, but I've had to be there while they did, so time-wise it's much the same.) Currently we are moving all our stuff to the new house, one car-load at a time, so it's taking

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-11476000542755188962010-05-18T10:43:00.002-04:002010-05-18T10:53:17.505-04:00

Third in the series about creating wood grain in Photoshop without using third party plug-ins! This time, the first kind of wood grain I ever learned, ages ago. It's not for control freaks, or large areas, but if you're looking for a very easy, automatic, effective wood for small areas, you can't beat this old standby!Next week, we'll see how to make the wood created in the last two tutorials

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-40161095824762726902010-05-11T09:28:00.002-04:002010-05-11T09:37:15.554-04:00

It's Tuesday, so there's a new Photoshop Tutorial! This week, we're going to abuse - I mean use - the Action that we made last week, starting and stopping it to make wood grain that has many different colors in it.If you haven't done the previous tutorial, you won't have the Action to manipulate; so you might want to do that one first.If you have, then here you go!Hope you enjoy it!

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-22173355245959001972010-05-04T13:18:00.002-04:002010-05-04T13:26:12.563-04:00

This week starts the first of five tutorials concerning how to make woodgrain in Photoshop without using any third party plug-ins.We're starting off with a fairly complex wood grain, suitable for large areas, that allows the user to directly manipulate it and get exactly what they like. (Which means it's not a totally automatic process; you get to mess with it yourself, but there is some drawing

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-16926960465020077142010-04-20T12:50:00.003-04:002010-04-20T12:58:14.555-04:00

It's Tuesday, so there's a new Photoshop Tutorial. This week, it's a really short one, because I'm spending so much time on the move. (Some days, it feels like I'm just pouring time and money into a beautiful place that I'll never get to actually live in... but that's a different story.)So, back to the new tutorial! It's a really short one, but a good trick if you paint a lot in PS. You can keep

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-84772928675324096412010-04-13T12:59:00.002-04:002010-04-13T13:05:18.197-04:00

It's Tuesday, so there's another PS tip. This is the last one in the "Square Peg, Round Hole" series, where I've been showing how to put an image in a frame, when the image is a square or a rectangle, and the frame isn't.This time, we take a look at how simple it is when the image was built to be a frame, and has layers.Would you guys like it if I posted the source images somewhere, so you could

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-13329762450850793262010-04-06T12:53:00.002-04:002010-04-06T13:04:25.950-04:00

The third in the four part "Square Peg - Round Hole" series. This time, we take an image that wasn't exactly designed to be a frame, and make it into one by using Select > Inverse on the Mask. It's really much less confusing than it sounds. Take a look!In other news; we're continuing to renovate the house that we bought, and are going to move into early in May. Several of the rooms are freshly

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-80377419961462406992010-04-01T13:58:00.003-04:002010-04-01T14:03:41.098-04:00

We're renovating our new house (the new bamboo floor is being laid as I write this. It's very loud.) so I've fallen behind on some of the blogging.The new Photoshop tutorial went up on Tuesday. It's the second in the "Square Peg - Round Hole" series.This time, the frame isn't a regular shape, or a solid color. So I show you one way to easily select the area that's supposed to be inside it by

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Or a square image into a round frame, or a frame that's any other shape, as the case may be!This is the first of three that deal with this topic. I'm keeping them short, because of the amount of time I'm spending renovating the new house, and getting ready to move into it. (This is a question that people who are moving from PS Elements to PS often ask, which is why I'm answering it here.)So,

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-6385766986783941452010-03-17T13:00:00.006-04:002010-03-17T13:35:13.246-04:00

This week, the Photoshop Tip shows how easily to straighten a photo when the automatic Crop and Straighten are unsuccessful.Hope you like it! I'm planning to use this technique in reverse in a few weeks, which is why I'm showing it now.In other news, if all goes well I'll finish stripping the wallpaper from the new house tonight, and will be able to start painting on Friday!Man, I'm tired.

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-41125327738461450062010-03-09T13:16:00.004-05:002010-03-17T13:37:23.078-04:00

This week's Tuesday Photoshop Tip is now up on YouTube! More about using Blend If to change the sky behind a bunch of little fiddly branches without needing any kind of mask.The tips for the next few weeks are probably going to be fairly short. We bought a new house; closed on Feb. 26, and now we're in the "renovation" phase.It was a foreclosed property, like a bit more than half the homes being

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-86911156500139489082010-03-02T22:12:00.003-05:002010-03-17T13:38:24.573-04:00

This technique will let you put clouds in a clear blue sky, without using any kind of masks. It's really simple, and effective too!On other fronts, we've purchased a new house! We closed last Friday. There's a lot of work that needs to be done before we can move in. (It was a foreclosed property.) So I'm going to be kind of busy for a while. We're allowing ourselves two months to get it done,

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-56385408107107405112010-02-23T18:08:00.005-05:002010-03-17T13:48:47.280-04:00

This week, I explain how to make the Hue/Saturation dialog in Adobe Photoshop do things you might not have thought possible! Did you know, for instance, that you can change one or two colors in an image, and leave the rest untouched, just from the Hue/Saturation dialog? It's easy!In other news; we're going to be closing on a home this Friday, so for the next few weeks I'm going to be busier than

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-81539086242449711642010-02-16T13:47:00.004-05:002010-03-17T13:40:20.402-04:00

This week, the tip shows how to effectively Step and Repeat in Photoshop, using modifier keys and Transform! It's really easy, and will save you all kinds of time if you do this sort of thing very often.The video shows you how to use this trick to make a flower, but I'm sure you can think of lots of other places this will come in handy. In other news; if you're a resident of Second Life®, you

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-51001190510710437342010-02-09T16:26:00.002-05:002010-03-17T13:41:01.583-04:00

It's Tuesday, so there's a new Photoshop Tutorial posted on my YouTube channel! This week: smart objects to make reflections!Enjoy!

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-46073003103102652212010-01-05T15:02:00.003-05:002010-03-17T13:41:37.890-04:00

For the last few weeks, I've been posting a new Photoshop video tutorial on YouTube every Tuesday.Last week, it was about how to make a poster look like it's been hanging in the sun, and the yellow has faded completely out. That's done using Smart Objects to put a CMYK image inside an RGB image.This week, we make holes and tatters in the poster, using masks.Next week, it's going to be making an

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-55624276549707237932009-12-29T15:10:00.001-05:002010-03-17T13:42:08.162-04:00

I'm going to be posting Photoshop video tutorials on YouTube every Tuesday.This week, we fade a poster by showing you how to embed a CMYK image inside an RGB image, using Smart Objects.Smart Objects are so incredibly handy, and allow you to do all kinds of things that you can't do (or can't do as easily) any other way.Next week, we scarf the poster up, with holes, dirt, and tatters.If there's

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-4934783009216441222009-12-25T05:46:00.000-05:002009-12-25T05:47:19.717-05:00

Merry Christmas! Joyous Solstice! Happy Chanukah! Miraculous Festivus! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy New Year! Wonderful Whatever I Missed!It's that time of year, so all of us at Livingtree, in Second Life® have gotten together and put out a box of presents for you! I'm not going to tell you what's in it, because that would spoil the surprise! But you can come and collect yours in the middle of Livingtree

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-57225892677986638072009-12-21T21:32:00.002-05:002009-12-21T21:42:31.608-05:00

Happy Solstice!With the Christmas orders all sent, and everything that I can possibly get done in Second Life before Christmas done, I decided to take a short break, and get some things done for the Holidays!So, with the tree set up, the presents wrapped and under it, and all those things done, I spent Saturday evening knitting some Christmas Mousie Stocking Stuffers.They're based on a pattern

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-58075032904721289852009-12-15T22:23:00.005-05:002010-03-17T13:43:22.761-04:00

I've been doing regular Photoshop Tips on my facebook Page for the last few weeks.This week, I decided to post a tip that shows how you can get a drop shadow to apply to only one of the layers below the shadowed layer. But then it seemed easier to show than to explain, so I wound up making it into a video tip.And then I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get it up on YouTube from within

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-41868208895235675812009-12-15T03:53:00.002-05:002009-12-15T04:01:13.711-05:00

If you are a resident of Second Life®, and you visit my island, Livingtree, you'll find that it's covered and snow and ice.Keep your virtual self warm. Put on a little sweater! Like the ones I just made, based on the knit design used for this year's Holiday Bear, but sized to fit men and women, boys and girls!The sweater has a sculpted turtleneck collar, included in 3 sizes for your convenience.

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-48658860694566912722009-12-13T02:21:00.002-05:002009-12-13T02:41:55.635-05:00

Over the years, I've learned an awful lot from a site called Lynda.com.It's filled with wonderful on-line video tutorials, covering many of the programs that I use on a daily basis, including the entire Adobe Creative Suite.I'm not sure how I would have gotten up to speed with Dreamweaver, CSS, InDesign, or half a dozen others without the training I got there.It's not free; but for less than a

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-49856786832857661652009-12-09T06:02:00.006-05:002009-12-09T06:33:16.932-05:00

It's been a busy week for me in Second Life®, and I've gotten a fair amount done!Just yesterday, I got the 2009 Holiday Bear finished. He'll be available from now until Jan. 1, 2010.This year, he's a chocolate brown bear with bright green eyes, warmly dressed in a Holly green knitted cap with cheek flaps and a bright red tassel, and matching scarf. The year is on the scarf in gold yarn.Like all

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-2229913309882390372009-12-02T05:17:00.002-05:002009-12-02T05:35:55.387-05:00

I've started to post weekly Photoshop Tips over on my Facebook page. If anyone reading this isn't interested in facebook, and would like to have me post them here, too, let me know and I'll do that.This week it's a Very Short Tip, because I've been working on candle scripts for Second Life® and kind of ran out of time.And before someone points out that I'm really posting this on Wednesday morning

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-11605918543525473772009-11-30T03:30:00.005-05:002009-11-30T04:14:41.857-05:00

First; I want to apologize for not posting for so very long. I just got a new laptop, though; and perhaps now that I can write on the blog and put my feet up at the same time, I'll be better at keeping it up.So, on to the news!I've been working in Second Life® a lot the last few weeks; getting things ready for the Winter Holidays.

My island Sim, Livingtree, is all frozen over now, and I just

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-56380422509361110252009-08-14T03:58:00.002-04:002009-08-14T15:48:43.589-04:00

As mentioned last night, I've decided to just go frameless with the various sections of my website, and then do the actual revisions after that part is finished.That way, at least people will be able to navigate around a section, instead of having a difficult time getting to the newer tutorials.So, the Second Life tutorial pages are done now!There's one new tutorial there, about Alpha Channels of

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-30569766892314937892009-08-13T03:55:00.003-04:002009-08-13T04:00:15.302-04:00

I've come to the conclusion that the website revisions are taking too long. There is too much time while a section is being worked on, when some of the new pages are finished, but others aren't, and the section is in flux, and difficult to navigate.So, after thinking it over for a while, I've decided to get rid of all the frames first, which should be relatively simple, and just move the tables

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-26688197825472641782009-08-12T01:25:00.002-04:002009-08-12T02:03:16.611-04:00

I'm so very sorry. Life has just kind of been like this.We've been house-hunting, and I've been working on my website, and between the two of them, I haven't had much in the way of discretionary time.So, in the last three months (and a bit) I've made quite a few new things for Second Life®; most recently a washtub full of soft drinks, made with modo 401, Sculpt Studio, and Photoshop. I'm

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-12549670096918730412009-04-25T13:00:00.003-04:002009-04-25T23:12:22.719-04:00

If you like Victorian millwork, and you're in Second Life®, you'll love the texture set I just finished!I designed it to use as a porch for my Wheel Cottage textures, but it makes great free-standing buildings, like gazebos, as well.There are 30 textures here, including millwork railings, spanderels, and two kinds of brackets, both single brackets and double brackets (which work great as the

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-73558406060242947792009-04-08T05:07:00.002-04:002009-04-08T05:18:10.927-04:00

For quite some time, people have been asking me if we could take PayPal as payment at RobinWood.com, (my website.) And for just as long, I've been wanting to, but unable to figure out how to do it.Well, tonight I found out that the shopping cart we use more or less has PayPal functionality built in. All you have to do is get the certificate from PayPal, and activate it.So, as of several hours ago

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-59352677454532083622009-04-07T03:40:00.004-04:002009-04-09T20:43:38.702-04:00

I've been busy in Second Life®, since Easter is right around the corner, and I've made 3 new tea sets to grace your festivities.One is just a fun one, called "Easter Artist," with a bunny painting Easter Eggs.One is a bunch of flowers, featuring an "Easter Lily".The last one, done with a young friend in mind, is cuddly "Easter Bunnies" in a clump of violets.The latter two will also be avaiable,

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-48428716221255735812009-03-29T01:48:00.002-04:002009-03-31T19:17:17.907-04:00

I have a new set of textures for making stained glass in Second Life®.This set of 15 seamless textures is based on the Art Glass that Tiffany popularized at the turn of the last century. If you have my Stained Glass for SL book, you know how to use this.At the moment, the license will only get you usage within SL; but if you love them, contact me if you want to use them somewhere else, and I'll

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-35183866827991553202009-03-29T01:47:00.002-04:002009-03-29T02:48:12.537-04:00

For spring in Second Life®, wind chimes in large eggs with delicate, ornate kaleidoscope patterns on them, in a dozen different colors and patterns, each more beautiful than the last.Pick your favorite, or collect all twelve!They all play a totally random series of six pure sampled chime notes. There are no repeating loops to drive you crazy here, just wonderful, relaxing chimes.Touch the egg,

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-52348123339834950192009-03-27T03:03:00.003-04:002009-03-27T04:43:30.300-04:00

As I mentioned, I'm now designing textures for TRU (Textures R Us) in Second Life®.The first 3D set is now done, and available both at the TRU store and website (look under 3D Build - New Sets) and in the Texture Library at Livingtree (105, 90, 20).It comes in two sets, for the interior and exterior of a little Victorian style cottage, with gingerbread featuring a wheel in the gable. Which is why

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-17743250422157840512009-03-20T16:09:00.001-04:002009-03-20T16:11:26.817-04:00

I just finished the latest book in the Livingtree Lecture series, based on the weekly lectures that I give behind the Texture Tutorial in Second Life®.This one is a 76 page THiNC Book called Stained Glass for SL™. Like all the other books in the series, there's more here than I could cover in the one-hour lecture.It starts with a discussion of how to make your own stunningly realistic stained

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The last few weeks have been crammed with activity for me; so much so that I'm afraid I've neglected this blog (again.)To just hit the highlights, I've been dividing my time between my website and Second Life®, pretty equally.On the website side, I have remade all the catalog pages, so that there are no longer frames, and there's no presentation markup. The Essay pages are about half done as well

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If you're a resident of Second Life®, present presents to your Valentine in style!Fully scripted gift boxes use a menu system to allow you to choose from 11 different wrapping papers, 11 different color choices for ribbons, bows, or lace (depending on the box style), and 11 different colors for floating text (or none at all, if you don't like it.)Put your own sound file and particle in the box,

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The shopping cart pages look better now, and should be easier to read too. I was able to enlarge most of the mousepoint. Some of it I haven't managed (yet) because it's generated by things I can't find in the site somewhere, and doesn't seem to respond to CSS very well. Or, indeed, at all.The whole cart seems to be working quite well (I got an order in the middle of all the test orders I was

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If you tried to place an order on my site in the last few weeks, you realized that the shopping cart, she wasn't working so well after all.This was finally brought to my attention. (The whole thing had worked, so it never occurred to me to check the second "checkout" page after the old items were added back to the cart. A mistake I won't be making again.)Once I found out it wasn't working after

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The Clothing 101 book, from the Lectures that I gave in Second Life® last November, is finished and ready to read at the Texture Library on Livingtree.You can sit there and read it for free, or you can pick up a copy to take home for only L$100.It explains everything that I think you should know before you start to make clothing in SL. I start by explaining the difference between texture clothing

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The new print pages are up, and ready to go! You can find them on my site, if you'd like to see.They are all connected to the new shopping cart, too, although the shopping cart pages aren't pretty yet. That's the job I'm hoping to get done today.This is the last day of the two weeks that I decided to "take off" from Second Life® so that I could really start to make progress on my site.Having that

Robin Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15994994066531651225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31804257.post-55326938221532354872009-01-11T06:00:00.003-05:002009-01-11T06:44:27.080-05:00

that getting the new Print and Book pages together is obviously going to take far longer than I expected?As some of you might remember, I started to study CSS nearly a year ago. (The first post about it is Feb. 20. Wowzza!) I tried. I really did. But the penny didn't drop. I wrote some really easy stuff; just plain text, and it worked well. But when I tried to do more complex things, like

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I spoke to the Shopping Cart People, and it turns out that they can populate the cart with the old stuff. The downside is that the things I've added will be lost.But I can put them into a CSV file, save it, let them put all the old stock back up, save that, and then meld the two in Excel, and load all the new stuff in at once. So that's what I decided to do.Which means, as of this morning, the

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is up!Kind of.After slogging through manuals, much experimenting, and a lot of testing, you can, once again, buy my books and Tarot Decks from my website.It's not pretty yet, and you can't get anything else, and I have no clue how to make the Search or Softgoods work yet.But, on the other hand, you will now automatically get a discount if you order more than 5 copies of When, Why ...If or the

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In case you were wondering what's up with the Shopping Cart on my site, since it's not up, the answer is that it's going to be New and Improved.We ordered a new cart on Wednesday, which was installed on Friday. Since it's essentially an upgrade to the cart that we had, I didn't realize that this meant the old one was going to be disabled. I should have realized it, but I didn't.By the time that I

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As some of you know, I've been really sick with a chest cold for the last few weeks. I'm so tired of coughing all the time that I'm seriously considering actually going to a doctor! (gasp!!1!)So, because of that, and because being sick has put me waaaay behind on nearly everything, I'm going to be taking the next two weeks off, and trying my best to get really well, and to get all the things I

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