Photoshop tutorials links for October

1. Create Simple Glowing Animation

A simple power button animation done by Richard Carpenter. Click here for the tutorial.

2. Create a login form

 Create a attractive and modern login form in Photoshop. Get tutorial here. (Its not a free site)

3. Create branch texts

 
learn to create text like a tree branch. Click here for tutorial.


4. Futuristic Abstract portrait

 


Create your own futuristic artistic portrait. click here for the tutorial.

"Google Plus is a complete failure" says Google engineer

Image by O'Reilly Conferences via FlickrSteve Yegge, a senior engineer at Google, has accidentally and publicly posted a critical analysis about his company's understanding of platforms, calling Google Plus a "complete failure." Its already known to the public that Google's top management aren't big users of Google plus. but this time its worst for Google.

In a 4,000-plus-word deconstruction of Google+, intended for his co-workers' eyes only, Yegge critiqued his former employer Amazon before mentioning Google's failure to create a platform that works as well as Facebook.

"Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo)," he wrote. ”That one last thing that Google doesn’t do well is platforms. We don’t understand platforms. We don’t ‘get’ platforms,”

According to a post from a Google engineer, intended to be private to the search giant’s employees, the Google+ API was not ready at launch. Google’s Steve Yegge also badmouthed the read-only, public API. When the company’s new service was only two weeks old, I wondered whether the Google+ API was intentionally late. Maybe it was just truly late.

Facebook releases iPad app

 Facebook has finally launched its own iPad app, but there has been little fanfare and some users have even commented that they’re having trouble downloading the app. It’s been a long time coming, but Facebook has finally pulled the switch to release its official iPad app.

Facebook dedicated a page for it. Click here to go.

Image courtesy Buzfairy

Facebook for iPad is available through Apple's iTunes App Store.The Facebook Platform enhancements bring social channels like Bookmarks, Requests, and News Feed to mobile apps. Bookmarks, for example, offer an easy way to engage with apps developed on the Facebook Platform. Previously they were available when accessing Facebook through a desktop browser. Now Bookmarks appear on Facebook's mobile clients, like Facebook for iPad or the iOS Facebook app.



The app also includes a left-hand navigation panel to make it easy to interact with Facebook's various features. It supports chatting with friends, games, and the ability to view high-resolution videos inline.

It supports HD videos and hi resolution photos. It got drop down menu to send messages. Play games in full screen. You can also check your near by friends via the map.

Apple releases iOS 5 and iCloud

Image via CrunchBaseApple introduced iOS 5 on October 12, 2011. For those who got iPhone, iPad and iPod could be getting upgrade. "It's going to be over 200 updates to the software, and you know, there are going to be some things in there that iPhone users have been asking for and clamoring for," said Marguerite Reardon of CNet.com.

Also new to iOS5 is iMessage, a function similar to blackberry messenger. It allows users to share texts, pictures and videos with other Apple devices for free.

Its a good news as Apple has launched iClouds.com for Apple users. This service will allow users to save videos, photos and calenders in the cloud.

After effects site: Vidocopilot review

Image via WikipediaVideocopilot is a site full of after effects tutorials and many after effects products. It's a useful site for the beginners of After effects and also for professionals. The site is presented by Andrew Kramar. Andrew Kramer.

He has hosted more than 100 tutorials in this site. Andrew Kramer is the creator of some title sequences like Star Trek, Fringe, Super 8 etc. He got got skills and is helping people in learning about after effects via his site.

Videocopilot is the best tutorial site for after effects. Even a beginner with no prior experience in visual effects can learn after effects. Andrew got many products which can help you in creating big projects in After effects. They have a good team and everything from acting, videos to tutorials are done perfectly. Its a ad free site. I don't believe that they have ad free site. They can earn thousands of dollars per month via advertising.

Lets get to discuss pros and cons of the site.

Pros
Got a good way to show the preview. You just have to point the cursor about the image to display the video (or output preview). They have a perfect team. The actor Sam specially acts accordingly. The tutorial video is the best way to understand. Andrew explains everything perfectly and clears any doubts asked by the public.
The best thing is that they got the download option for all their tutorials. Its the best because people hate to learn in streaming videos. Once you downloaded the video, you can learn anytime you want. The tutorials are categorized and people can view them as per their wish like motion graphics, special effects etc.
The additional tools used are given for each tutorials. They also provide source files. 
Its growing up. They got studio to shot and good crew.
Andrew Kramer is a good teacher. He know how to teach people in an interesting way. 

Cons
Well the fact is, they don't have any cons.  But for reviewing purpose, I will add some.
They put the AE symbol near all the tutorials and the fact is that they have all the tutorials for After effects except a couple of tutorials for 3D max, one for cinema 3D, some using 3D Max and After effects and some using Photoshop and After effects.
The small popup window for preview is unable to detect. I was confused the first time I went to the site and was searching for preview option. (I had opened a lot of sites and downloading some software which slowed my internet). I got a blank screen and I had no idea that the blank screen is for preview. I never keep my cursor in a single place. You need to keep your cursor for a couple of seconds for the preview to load. They should have a text somewhere saying "Keep your cursor on the image to display the preview" or something like that which can aware the users.
It will be good if they provide some more categories. They just have five categories.

Steve Jobs dies from Cancer

Image via CrunchBaseSteve Jobs, the inventor and entrepreneur died due to lung cancer on Oct 5, 2011 at 56. He was the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. He also served as the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. Steve Jobs was one among the greatest inventors.

He along with some other people founded Apple in 1976. He was 21 years old at that time. Jobs also founded NeXT computers in 1985. He acquired Lucasfilm Ltd (now Pixar Animation Studio) and produced many successful animation movies including Toy story (1995), A Bug's life (1998),), Toy story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009) and Toy Story 3 (2010).

Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his pancreas in 2004. Many notable people released statement reactions including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Stephen Elop, and Bob Iger.

Movie Poster in Photoshop

In the video, you can learn about how to create movie poster images in Adobe Photoshop.