Neat idea. When designing something, the search for a fitting color palette is always an obligatory important first step. Sites like Adobe kuler help you here insofar as they offer the ability to share beautiful color palettes between users.

Mondrianum goes one step further in that it allows to access the kuler palettes directly from the Mac OS X system-wide color-picker. Which means that the colors are available from (for example) iLife, iWork, Photoshop, Coda, CSSEdit, and more.

Mondrianum is 10.5 only and can be found over at Lthoglyph Software.

In order to create stunning HDR Pictures, one needs a tool which allows to combine pictures of different exposures into one composition. This is possible with Photoshop or Gimp but way more difficult than achieving the same effect with a dedicated software. The standard tool for this task is Photomatix Pro. However, with Hydra there’s a new contender, and it supports integration in Apple Aperture (although still in beta). So if you’re interested in creating stunning HDR Pictures, you might hop over to www.creaceed.com/hydra and see if it’s the right tool for you. Hydra costs $59.95

If you haven’t seen the linked video yet, you should really do so. On this years SIGRAPH Ariel Shamir and Shai Avidan presented a new algorithm titled “Seam Carving”. It allows to stretch or squeeze an image without distorting the overall looks. It’s as if you shrink something, but only in one dimension. A corresponding YouTube-Video can be found here.

Now Adobe announced, that they employed one of the developers of the algorithm. So expect to have this feature in Photoshop rather sooner than later.

Here are even more Photoshop tutorials and brushes for your pleasure; Happy layouting

Free Photoshop Brushes Resources

Tutorials are like cakes; as soon as you tried some you want to have more. So if you, once again, need your daily fix, but lack a page with fresh tutorials, add FOTOFECTS to your linklist. The more, the better eh :)

http://fotofects.com/