Turn your photo and picture into statue

Posted on October 11th, 2006 in General by daya

 

Web site ReviewZine has a step-by-step for turning a flesh-and-bones portrait into an image of a stone statue with Photoshop.

I’d put this one in the beginner to intermediate school for young Photoshoppers, since the stone statue effect is accomplished in about 9 fairly simple steps. The result looks pretty good, though I’d imagine the most important part of the process is finding yourself a really good source image for the stone texture (which ReviewZine doesn’t really provide).

Turning Portrait Into Stone Statue with Photoshop [ReviewZine.com]

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Google Merges Services

Posted on October 11th, 2006 in General by daya

Google’s merged their Spreadsheets product with Writely into the beginnings of an online office suite called Google Docs.

Google Docs is a collaboration tool. You can create, upload, and share documents with anyone, plus, each created spreadsheet can be up to 10,000 rows - which gives you quite a lot of breathing room. Your work can be stored on Google’s servers if you elect that option, and you can also choose to share your documents with the world, however, the default is private.

You’ll need to have a Google account in order to take advantage of this new service, just like any other Google app (excepting search), and if you have been using Writely, all your docs are now moved over to the new Google Docs service. I took Google Docs for a quick spin late last night and it’s pretty powerful, well worth spending some time getting to know all the features.

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