I've been asked on several occasions how I create my digital prints, so, for the sake of education, I have compiled a nice little tutorial. I may plan to do more, but for now I'll start with the creation of one my more popular prints- "Arbre mort".

( You learn something new every day )

It's Friday the thirteenth. Considered a day of bad luck in English- and Portuguese-speaking countries, in Greece and Spain, Tuesdays that fall on the thirteenth day of the month share the same superstition. Coincidentally, Steve Buscemi was born on a Friday the thirteenth, which doesn't strike me as a stroke of bad luck at all ( Read more... )

I've narrowed down a queue of Photoshop-realted questions to two. These little How-Tos, however, assume that you know how to use Photoshop well enough to know where things are and what most things do. Any other questions? Just ask. Let's take a gander:

Dear Puffy, how do people superimpose other people into pictures?

( Very carefully. )

Well, as of three hours ago, Easter began. The celebration of Jesus' rise from three days of death in his tomb after being crucified. The story always raises a fair number of questions. A hot topic among sensitive Jews who claim some editorials of the story as anti-semitic; the question of original intent on Jesus' part, or God's part, for that ( Read more... )

My goal today is to use the word 'dissent' at least once within reasonable context. Let's take a look at this word- starting with the definition:

dissent: a difference of opinion ( Read more... )

I'm sick and tired of people that download an illegal copy of Photoshop and all they know how to do is go to the filters menu and preview what they think is "cool" and end up turning their Myspace profile picture into a "painting". So, continuing with your free Puffy-Certified education, I will now give a short lesson on how to make your digital ( Read more... )

Can you name the language that is closest to English? For the longest time I could not. I always knew English was once a Germanic language, so German is similar, and especially Northern Germanic languages (a.k.a. Scandinavian languages) such as Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic and Danish. So I thought I was on the ball when I considered German and ( Read more... )