Use Google for Finding Images You Can Use!
Happy Monday everyone. Today I was met with a really cool article on how Google has since changed their Image searching… for the WAY Better. Check this blurb out Terry Stone at Creative Pro):
“…In a July 9 blog post, Google software engineers Lance Huang and George Ruban quietly and calmly unveiled a change to Google’s Image Search that could save countless designers from violating image copyrights.
By checking a few boxes in the “Usage rights” section of the advanced image search page, you can now filter every image Google has ever indexed so that you see only files tagged with a license that allows re-use of the image.”
This is going to be a HUGE thing for the creative professional, so I suggest you guys hit this article up and check it out. Much thanks to Terri and Creative Pro for the info. Click on the link below for more info:
Safely Find and Use Images Via Google by Terri Stone – Creative Pro
Lightroom Galleries with External Drives
If you use Lightroom, youre a Photographer that is doing a bit of shooting (even though I think ANYONE shooting pictures should get Lightroom). If you are doing a lot of shooting.. you are invariably going to run out of space. This means that you will need to get a bigger hard drive. OR!!! You can setup your Lightroom catalog to stay on your machine and have all the IMAGES on a removable hard drive. Check out the video below to see what I mean:
Lightroom Galleries with External Drives – by RC!
Contest Time
Go to the Contact page, select the Layers Blog drop-down, then fill in your name, email address and answer to this week’s following question. Remember, the contest will end Thursday 5PM,. and the winner will be announced Friday morning.
The Contest Question:To create his newest masterpiece, Photoshop Guru Bert Monroy uses many tools. In his latest column available here, he is using one specific effect to add some depth to some iconic text. What’s the text he’s working on, and what effect is he using?
The Prize:
A copy of Adobe CS4 Real World HDR by Matt Kloskowski
We’ll see you back here tomorrow morning!!
Tony Zeoli is an innovative digital media product development executive who has been at the forefront of the convergence of music and technology since he founded Netmix.com in 1995.




