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I figured I would post a fun image of my crappy Tumblarity (7!), so I googled… and a post of mine from August showed up.
I guess I’m the only one with this problem. Oh well!

I figured I would post a fun image of my crappy Tumblarity (7!), so I googled… and a post of mine from August showed up.

I guess I’m the only one with this problem. Oh well!

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Fantastic logo redesign with accompanying sketches and notes. Very insightful and inspirational.
An Iconic Lion for an Iconic Institution - Brand New

Fantastic logo redesign with accompanying sketches and notes. Very insightful and inspirational.

An Iconic Lion for an Iconic Institution - Brand New

I <3  Mark Weaver, too. (via HF&J)

I <3  Mark Weaver, too. (via HF&J)

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OMG I love love love this highway map!

OMG I love love love this highway map!

Last Days of Gourmet. This is so sad.

Last Days of Gourmet. This is so sad.

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The many sliders of Photoshop CS4

Check out this assessment of the insane variety of UI inconsistencies in Photoshop CS4.



Preferences > Memory Usage


Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast


Filters


Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)


Layer Blending


Layer Style


Threshold


Color Balance

Things to keep in mind:

  1. These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
  2. The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
  3. They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
  4. None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:

UPDATE: Some clarification here.


Via mrgan.

Remember, Remember the fifth of November
A day late and a dollar short.

Remember, Remember the fifth of November

A day late and a dollar short.