The Blog of Colin Smith (aka kiwicolin)

Spyros has worked as a Story Artist on a number of successful feature films including: Flushed Away, Curious George, Kung Fu Panda, The Bee Movie, Coraline, Stuart Little, Stuart Little 2 and the not-yet released Shrek Forever After.
Currently working at Lucasfilm on George Lucas’ innovative television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he has also worked at DreamWorks Animation, Walt Disney Studios [...]

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A few years ago, on a particularly hot spring day, Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin pondered the possibility of joining forces. Sharing a fascination with monsters, spacemen, and everything in between, CreatureBox crawled to life. Over the last three years, the venture has provided a manic peek at the collaborative development of characters for video [...]

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Social Network Collections.
This is perhaps the most exciting new feature for me. Adobe has realized that we don’t live in a bubble and that cloud computing is the way of the future (For some of us, it’s the way of now). You can now integrate Lightroom with Flickr. All you need to do is drag your photos into the Photostream. From there you can automatically upload to Flickr by clicking Publish. You can also add captions and photonames which will also appear on Flickr. But wait… it’s a 2 way communication. You can also view favs and comments right within lightroom from Flickr. Can I say “Brilliant!!!”

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Bridge in Shreveport

Originally uploaded by kiwicolin

This old abandoned bridge is Shreveport was very interesting. I had to tread carefully because a lot of the wood was rotten.

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We are almost fully recovered from Photoshop World, and what a time we had. Sure there were the parties, after all it is Vegas, but the highlights for us were the PhotoshopCAFE Freemont Street Photowalk and getting to meet all of you cafe crew out there. There was no shortage of enthusiasm at the convention [...]

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Here is a report and pictures from Greg Mellang (AKA Photodog). Ill post more soon
http://www.photoshopcafe.com/cafe/viewthread.php?tid=52491
Co blogging
Get a full list of Photoshop World cobloggers here …

Corey Barker
John Paul Caponigro
RC Concepcion
Dave Cross
Jim Divitale
Laurie Excell

Richard Harrington
Scott Kelby
Matt Koslowski
Deke McClelland
Joe McNally
John Nack
Moose Peterson
Jeff Schewe
Colin Smith
Ben Willmore
David Ziser

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Vectors Explained
As you know, Photoshop is primarily known for its ability to manipulate pixels, those tiny building blocks that join together so tightly that they seem to form a smooth image, usually a digital photograph. But Photoshop is also handy with the other important family of computer-graphics building blocks: the little guys called vectors.
Vectors are [...]

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RIP Les Paul

Originally uploaded by kiwicolin

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Golden Gate Shadow

Originally uploaded by kiwicolin

From the Golden Gate Bridge. Just shot this an hour ago. A little HDR and also some other little adjustments.
I wanted to do something different than the usual Golden Gate Photos you see. (Of course I captured a bunch of those too)

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#Ireland : The Immortal

Originally uploaded by Frederic Poirot

Found this on Flickr. really interesting

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