I made this brush using a tut by corey baker

use on a separate layer then
add layer styles

outer glow > red > 100% opacity > blendmode hard light

inner glow > orange yellow > 100% opacity > blendmode > hard light

I needed to find a hopefully easy tutorial for turning day into night. I waded thru a Google search and found two that fit the requirement.

I'll list the URL's next:
http://www.adidap.com/2007/12/10/pho...ay-into-night/

This one might be a bit more detailed and the results show it I think, still easy tho. It's on dpreview.com:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/re...hread=18581140

Have as much...

It is that time of year again... Redken the Hair people want 14 images retoched... As usual, they want them done right away!..

Fine I say.. I just won't spend much time on them. Surprise. they find an extra week!

Stumbled across two new websites this week;

I was tempted to sign up for a splash page at About.me but was too embarrassed to when I realized my page would have about 20 links. It appears to be a site that creates a splash page with links to all your virtual hang-outs. Why you couldn't do this on a personal website, I dunno. There seems to be no place for false modesty in this social media...

While I was watching the latest Pirates of the Caribbean in D I started wondering about how 3D 'hacks' what we know about the brain's visual processing.

• Colin Ware's great book about visual perception in design
• Ramachandran has some interesting observations here

As 2D artists we're constantly battling with how to render a three dimensional world on a 2D screen or printed page. It's fascinating...