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Ecological Urbanism at Harvard Graduate School of Design
What do you think it is – ecological urbanism? I’m charged with putting together a slideshow for the Saturday night cocktail party and would love to represent a broader cross-section than what gets filtered through to the GSD. Help Me! Send me images or questions – vanessalindley@gmail.com Thanks!
March Photoshop Tutorial: Advanced Blending, Part 1
Whoa, where did the month go? Well we can’t let the month get away without another Photoshop tutorial! In this tutorlal we’ll go behind blanket blend modes and look at a more advanced level of blending with a highly useful yet mostly overlooked and misunderstood feature hidden away in the Layer Style palette. This feature allows you to hide or show elements automatically without the need of a brush or mask. This is a great technique when dealing with things that are impossible to crop and even the Blend Modes won’t work right because you may not want the entire object to blend, only specific areas. What if you want to create an image montage of a kid running through a misty fountain? Or birds flying through clouds? Or a fireworks celebration off the water from your newly ...Read More
Interview with Susan Cohan
Susan Cohan, APLD is a certified landscape designer. Her practice specializes in residential landscape design in the NY metropolitan region. Susan’s work has been featured in traditional and digital print as well as other media outlets. Her blog Miss Rumphius’ Rules features work in progress, musings on the creative process and insights on design, she also edits the APLDNJ blog and is passionate about Social Media. A founding member of the NJ chapter of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), she also serves on its International Board of Directors as Membership Chair. Susan, first of all let me commend you for bringing recognition of the APLD (Association of Professional Landscape Designers) to Land8Lounge. I understand that you are the founder of the APLD’s New J...Read More