
A fabulous collection of tutorials to help you use the Wacom tablet in Photoshop, Illustrator and Painter.
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A fabulous collection of tutorials to help you use the Wacom tablet in Photoshop, Illustrator and Painter.

Fabulous bunch of Case Studies showing how Philip Rostron at Instil Productions works from many different source images to create a final image for advertising campaigns. I’ve created an animation (above) from one of them that slows down at vital frames to show you where masks and lighting are created to really give the piece realism.
Excellent discussion and code examples for 12 different ways to treat paragraphs on the web over at Jon Tangerine’s Log. There are many other articles about typography and the web there as well - be sure to look around!
Hey folks, our power knocked us offline around 6:10am today, and so it was likely if you tried to access our servers for assignments before 8:30am, you found it inaccessible. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Students from registered schools can save 15% on Ballistic Publishing books. Centre for Distance Education’s Digital Arts Technology Training Institute is registered on the Ballistic school list. Click below to take advantage of this special discount!
The Game Career Guide does it again! They’ve released all the data for their yearly salary survey for the past three years, all in one place.
Average Salaries for Artists and Animators with Three or Fewer Years Experience
Year Average Salary
2005 $45,675
2006 $42,672
2007 $43,657
Our internet provider has informed us of a planned service outage this week. This work activity will take place between 12:00am and 6:00am on November 13th, 2008.
This outage will affect all of the college’s servers. Therefore, our students’ centre websites (for testing and assignment uploads) will be unavailable during this period. Please plan your studies and submission of work accordingly.
Thank you for your cooperation!
The second teaser trailer for the newest feature film from Pixar is available at Apple. It’s gorgeous of course, and also quite funny.
A List Apart recently did a working from home survey. The results will definitely translate for studying at home!

I’m not sure I agree with them all, but PopPhoto.com has declared the 100 best album covers of all time.