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Flickr is just one of many websites protesting against SOPA and PIPA today by giving Flickr users the option to blackout their images for 24 hours. If you log in and view your Flickr images today (Wednesday 18th January 2012) you will see this box appear below your photo:

Flickr Blackout

Unlike Wikipedia and a number of other websites, Flickr is not forcing its users to join the protest and is not preventing them from showing their content. This is because you own the rights to your images and so it should be your option. Respecting content ownership, nice one Flickr! If you choose to ‘darken this photo’ in protest of SOPA and PIPA here is how your photos will appear:

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Don’t worry, you can change your photos back at any time and the darken effect should disappear after 24 hours!

Create images you are proud to show off and use to make a point by coming on a Photoshop Training course in Brighton.

At this point you may be wondering (if you’ve avoided newspapers and messageboards for the past week) what on earth SOPA and PIPA are, and why you should bother covering up your lovely photos for a day in protest against them. Read the rest of "Flickr Protests Against SOPA/ PIPA"

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The Street Photography Competition is now closed! Here is the Silicon Beach Training Street Photography Winner!

Street Photography Competition

Tate Modern by Heather Buckley

Our new Street Photography Competition gives you a chance of winning onOne Software’s superb Perfect Photo Suite - more details on this great prize can be found below.

The ‘Street’ theme is open to your own interpretation, just get your feet on the street and start snapping!

If you are after some inspiration have a look at Eric Kim’s work, Eric is a well known and respected Street Photographer from LA.

The successful winner will also gain lots of exposure through our Twitter and  Facebook accounts. Follow us on Twitter to see if you’re mentioned as our own weekly favourite entry! It’s worth following Heather on Google+ too (the photographer of the image above).

Note – our Twitter mentions don’t necessarily mean you’ve been shortlisted – our Judge Eric Kim will be choosing the winner, more info on him below… Read the rest of "Competition – Street Photography"

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How to Customise Your Google+ Profile Page: Tiled Images

Check out our gallery of the most creative Google+ Profile designs – and vote for your favourite!

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Download Template

Step 1:

Download and unzip our Photoshop Template

Step 2:

Open up the template in Photoshop. We’ve left the images of my face in the template so you can see how it all works – but if you don’t want to see my face (and I can sympathise with your position if you don’t) then either hide or delete the “Colin” Layers!

Next you’ll want to import the image (or images) that you want to use in your own profile.

To do this, select File > Place and select your image file.

Drag and resize it so its in the correct position, and hit enter to place it:

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Click on the image for full size version

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COMPETITION NOW CLOSED!!

Winners to be announced by 3rd June – watch this space!

Our next photography competition has been announced follow it on twitter and facebook. The theme is be “Lifestyle” you can win prints on aluminium that look like floating panels.

Photography Competition – ‘Environment’

 

northern lights by www.heatherbuckley.co.uk

northern lights by www.heatherbuckley.co.uk

The theme for our competition this time is ‘Environment’ so no matter where you live, or what you do, you can get out there and get snapping. You can photograph your own environment or others, just post your entries on Flickr to be in with a chance of winning our fantastic prize! If you don’t already have a Flickr account it’s easy and free to set one up, then you need to join the group, then just add your image/s (you can enter up to 2 images) to the Silicon Beach Training Flickr group.

To follow this competition head to Flickr, our Facebook page,  and also follow our RSS Feed. The winner will also be announced on this blog and also on Twitter so don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @SBTtraining. We run regular photography competitions so keep in touch and let us know if you have any suggestions for the next competition theme.

Silicon Beach Training offer a full range of creative software courses including Photoshop Training, Illustrator Training and  InDesign Training in Brighton, Sussex. We also run other useful business courses including Management Training, Leadership Training, Software Testing Training and MSP Training

‘Environment’ Photography Competition Prize

adobe photoshop trainingThe prize for the winning photographer is your choice of any public one or two day training course here at Silicon Beach Training in Brighton. You could try something creative like Illustrator Training, something practical like a Management Training Course, brush up on something more technical like HTML5 Training or expand on your social media expertise with a WordPress, Blogging or Social Media course. A full list of public courses can be found on our training dates page (only public courses in Brighton with a maximum duration of two days can be claimed as your prize).

The prize is for the training course only and winners will be responsible for any travel or accommodation costs incurred.

Winning will also result in exposure across our website and various social networking sites (namely Twitter, Facebook and our blog) – excellent free promotion if you want to build your profile online.

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Silicon Beach Training offer a full range of creative software courses including Photoshop Training, InDesign Training and Illustrator Training. New courses recently added include JavaScript Training, jQuery Training and Ajax Training.

Watch out for our next competition – we will announce it soon on twitter and facebook.

Thanks to everyone who entered

To enter our current photo competition  – click here

Thanks to all who entered the Black & White photo competition – we had a staggering 1,203 entries this time and the standard was as high as ever.

Our judge Leigh Caraccioli got her judging done for us over the weekend, so we can reveal the winners…

Watch the video below to see the winning photographs, and all honourable mentions…


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photoshop lightsaber tutorial

Photoshop Lightsaber Tutorial

Find out how to create your own Photoshop lightsaber with this easy step-by-step tutorial!

Last weekend my good friend (and self-confessed Sci-Fi fan) Jen went to the London Film Museum, and had this great photo taken of herself brandishing a lightsaber in front of a piece of original Star Wars set. However the image was lacking a little something, which reminded me of a great trick in Photoshop to add a lightsaber effect.

To really get to grips with Photoshop, Silicon Beach Training offer Photoshop Training and Advanced Photoshop Training , as well as InDesign Training in Brighton, Sussex. And for all those programming geeks reading this – did you know that we also now offer JavaScript Training, jQuery Training and Ajax Training too?!

So – here’s how to add a Photoshop lightsaber effect…

How to Create a Lightsaber Effect in Photoshop CS5

Here’s the original image – as you can see Jen’s got her lightsaber, but it’s just a white stick, which looks rubbish.

photoshop-lightsaber-original

If you want to use this image for the Photoshop tutorial you can download it herebut much better to use your own. If you don’t have a toy light saber it doesn’t matter – just strike the pose with something that looks like a light saber handle, and Photoshop can do the rest!!

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Photography Competition – Black and White is NOW CLOSED!

You could enter our current photo competition though – click here

Good luck to all those that entered, now over to Leigh Caraccioli to decide the winners!

The Theme for our competition this time is ‘Black and White‘ so get out there and set your camera to Black and White (or filter them in Photoshop later!), you could even scan your old black and white photographs and enter those too.

To follow this competition head to Flickr, our Facebook page and also follow our RSS Feed. The winner will also be announced on this blog and also on Twitter so don’t forget to follow us @SBTtraining. We run regular photography competitions so keep in touch and let us know if you have any suggestions for the next theme.

Silicon Beach Training offer a full range of creative software courses including Photoshop Training, InDesign Training as well as Social Media, Blogging Training, and WordPress Training in Brighton, Sussex.

Fantastic Prizes to be Won!

 

Black and White photo comp

BBQ Sausages Brighton Festival by Brighton Photographer Heather Buckley - click image to buy

1st Place Winner will receive an Alien Skin Photo Bundle software package. The Photo Bundle gives you all five of Alien Skin’s award-winning photography plug-ins: Blow Up, Bokeh, Exposure, Image Doctor, and Snap Art. Each of these products enhances work-flow, saves time and provides creative freedom. Combining these products together is even more effective.

 

2nd Place Runner-Up will receive a £50 Park Cameras Gift Voucher. You could put it towards a nice new shiny camera, lens, tripod or anything else that Park Cameras have to offer. Read below for more information on Park Cameras and what they have to offer.

The winning entries will be announced on our Blog, Twitter and Facebook as well as other social media platforms – an excellent way to generate online exposure and increase traffic to your website! So if you’re an aspiring amateur photographer and like the sound of these fantastic prizes, then get snapping!

Read on to find out more about these prizes, our high profile photographer judge, and how you can enter. Read the rest of "Photography Competition – Black and White – NOW CLOSED!"

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Are you tired of scrolling up and down the right side of Lightroom Develop module to get to the panel you want in Adobe Lightroom? – Top Tip – try Solo Mode

If you need help learning Photoshop or Lightroom we provide both Photoshop Courses and Lightroom Training in Brighton, Sussex.

What is Solo Mode?

Adobe Lightroom Solo Mode automatically keeps only one panel open at a time. As you open another panel, the other automatically collapses. So now you don’t need to have 7 panels open and keep scrolling up and down to switch panels.

  1. To turn it on, right-click on any dark gray area (the bits that surround your panels) in your left or right side panels.
  2. A pop-up menu appears and Solo Mode will be one of the options.
  3. Click it to turn it on.
  4. Turning it on in the right side of the Develop module only turns it on for those panels – you need to turn it on for the left side too.
  5. It’s also module specific so turning it on in Develop wont turn it on in the Library module.

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Adobe Lightroom 3 - click for larger image

Once you turn it on, you’ll never go back.

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