Portfolio site broken: Fixed

My Portfolio site www.sanjeevramanathan.com was broken for the couple of days. It was fixed now, If you click the click it will automatically re-directed.

Blog Update: Broken Links

There are some couple of broken links to the ' Windows and Mac keyboard sale ' on the Photoshop Tutorials and Essential Pages , all those are fixed. It was broken because i re-named the sales to match with the Graphicriver sale contents.

If you find any broken link, please drop a comment below.

PS-35 - How to create a Perfect Guides

Creating grid is very easy inside photoshop and there are two method to do that. One is entering the value in the popup window and another is manually. I'll explain both method here.

Guides will come in handy, in fact if you want to create a Print bleeds inside photoshop , you need to create guide first.

To Create Print Bleed inside photoshop, check this tutorial Tutorial 34 - How to create a Print bleed for your canvas

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01. Here's a simple document 8 x 10 (reduced by 50 percent). First lets create the grid with the value method, then we will see the manual method.

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02. Go to View menu and select 'New Guide...' and on the New Guide window, do not enter any value, just leave it to 0px and click OK. Repeat this step again for the other orientation.

This will creates a guide on top and left of the canvas. It does not matter even if you move the ruler. If you don't know what i am talking about, Check this tutorial Tutorial 25 - Adjusting the Scale position

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03. To create the guide on the other sides, Go to the New Guide window and enter the dimension of your canvas in the vertical and horizontal position.

Here's the thing, if you get confused between which one is width and which one is height. Remember, Vertical is for width and Horizontal is for height. You can remember 'H' in Horizontal for 'H' in height.

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04. If you prefer the manual method, just turn on the 'Snap' from the View menu, this will snap the guide to the edge of the canvas when you drag from the ruler and move closer to the edge.

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PS-34 - Creating a Print bleed to your canvas

Creating a print bleeds is something which the web designers or other web user won't use much, but when we need to print something with a proper printing guidelines then we will be wondering how to get it done.

It's the easiest thing you can do inside Photoshop. This will work on all your documents but for the sake of this tutorial i'll create from a new document.

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01. I'll create a new Wallet size document, which is 2x3 inches with 300dpi.

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02. If your ruler is in pixels, change to inches. Not that it matters, but it is a good practice when working with print documents.

Drag and drop the Guide to all four edges. The guide is the original document size, and whatever space outside the guide (after we extend the document) is the bleed.

To create a Perfect Guides, check this tutorial Tutorial 35 - How to create a Perfect guides

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03. Now go to Image menu and select 'Canvas Size.' In the Canvas size window add the bleed to the existing width and height. I'll add .25 to the width and height of my document. Leave other options as it is.

If your document ruler is set to inches, the Width and Height will show you in inches automatically, if not you have to manually use the dropdown to change from pixel to inches.

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04. Click OK on the Canvas size window to extend your document.

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05. If the foreground and the background color is set to default (foreground to black and background to white), after you extend the document the bleed area will be in white (background color)

If you want the bleed area to be in different color, then use the Canvas extension color dropdown in the Canvas size window. You can also click on the Color well (small box next to the dropdown) to open the Color picker window.

Note, the canvas extension color will change the color only to the extended area (outside the guide) and does not affect the original document background (inside the guide)

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We love to hear from you! (Graphicriver: BeekeeperDesign)

We love to hear from you!

Comments and feedbacks are greatly appreciated. To make it easier we have New Purchase Feedback and General Comments forms for the BeekeeperDesign graphicriver page. These forms are added to the main profile page and also added to all the individual sale items (you should see it at the bottom of the page, after description)

If you have purchased the item you can use the 'Purchase feedback page' or if you have any suggestions you can use the 'Comments and Suggestions.' This will help us to grow and make better items in the future. If it is required we will update the existing items. So if you have already purchased it, don't worry you can still re-download the updated version.

Sale #21 - 2015 Calendar Collection - Year Planner

Simple and Clear Year planner for 2015. Fully Customizable and created with Shapes and Smart objects (Vertical and Horizontal lines are not). The Planner comes with Ready-to-Use jpegs, simple planner, with Sundays, and with Alternative row colors.

There are three different styles for Sundays, you can use anything you want, all three different styles are there in the photoshop files with properly aligned to the dates.

Features:

• 2015 Year Planner
• 11700×8100 pixels (largest dimensions)
• Easily Customizable
• Alternative Row Colors for visibility
• Ready-to-Print JPEGs
• Free Font
• CMYK
• 300dpi High Resolution
• Clear and Organized Layout

Link: 2015 Calendar Collection - Year Planner

PS-33 - Display Font names in English

By default Photoshop displays non-Roman font names in their own language, you can show them in Roman-names.

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01. If you open the font list and you go to the bottom, you might see like this. non-Roman font names

(If your font size is smaller than the one i have here - Go to Type (menu) > Font Preview Size > Large)

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02. Go to Edit > Preferences > Type and Turn On the the 'Show Font Names in English'

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03. You don't need to re-open Photoshop. Now you scroll down the list, you should able to see all the names in english.

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50 Random things about me

50 Random things about me

1. My first Phone ‘Candlestick Phone’ bought from the exhibition in 2005. Loved it so much, still have it.
2. I have a 1976 Enfield Bullet, my friends friend sold it to me saying his wife does not like the bike.
3. My favourite colors are Green, Blue, and Gray. Green is my favourite, that explains why iam still in Kerala.
4. I like to learn new things and improve myself regularly.
5. I learned so much from Google than from teachers.
6. I have a Canon 550d, my second camera. My first one was Canon Powershot A570. Yes I like Canon.
7. I don’t like Cubicles in workspace.
8. I got my first website in 2008.
9. My last interviewer (2009) asked me ‘Have you seen iPhone’, because the company does iPhone games and apps. I told him ‘I have one’.
10. I have a notebook which I keep ideas and making sketches for Apps to make in the future.
11. I am a workaholic.
12. When I release my first app, I wanted a website, with a help of my old colleague I gave the web development to a well known company (well..that’s what they said) and they did a horrible job(I also paid them). I got so frustrated, i spend next couple of days learned the basic code and published it Apps.
13. I like Nature.
14. I got bored and made 500 textures and gave it for free 500 Free Textures.
15. I love Photography.
16. My first paid job was Bookbinder. I stayed for one day and I left.
17. I like music of any Genre. Mostly I like Rock, Heavy, Instrumental.
18. I like to Organize things, lately I’ve been doing that to my life.
19. I like Thriller, Sci-fi and Horror movies the most.
20. I don’t trust people who take work lightly.
21. To keep myself into a habit of working without loosing interest and also to keep it going, i started the Artbooks Scan as a Weekend project – Photographed all my books. Just a fun Weekend project Experiment with Color Correction . Long term project, Bowls of Life.
22. I was in this Animation company where they did french animations, we use to make traditional animation by pencil and by computer. The best company I worked so far.
23. My friend and I used to do lot of crazy experiments with water, ink, spiders, ants... back in Good ol’ days (1999) with the Pencil test camera, people used to thinks we are crazy.
24. My First Phone was Sony Ericsson K750i, my sister told me buy Nokia 6600 and I told her it looks like holding a soap in my hand.
25. I have an expensive taste.
26. A Music store guy asked me once how can you like Marilyn Manson and Ozzy at the same time, I told him ‘I also like Tori Amos and Rammstein’, and he never spoke to me after that.
27. I had a girlfriend, things didn’t work out.
28. I was born in 21 December 1979. Even though iam a cusp, my friend says iam more of Capricorn.
29. I have a sister who sings and brother-in-law plays guitar and piano.
30. I used to draw a lot on the floor. So my Uncle suggested me to join the Animation Academy which opened in hyderabad at that time (1998). I was happy and thrilled, because I don’t know anything about animation.
31. I learned my computer course in Arena in 1998. Photoshop 3.0, Illustrator 6.0, Macromedia Flash 2.0, Adobe Director, Soundforge and 3d max. I left half way to joined the Animation Academy. Although I finished Photoshop and Illustrator.
32. I have three websites – sanjeevramanathan, sanjeevbeekeeper.com/apps, beekeepersblog.
33. I once had a crush on a girl, so I made an animation ‘I can’t get over you’ by The Queers. My cousin told me to send it to the band, I thought it was ridiculous so I contacted the singer and send the video, the whole band loved it and he wanted to add to their first DVD. I re-edited the video for DVD quality and send them through post. Joe, the singer send me two DVDs of The Queers are Here. You can see my name 'Sanj' at the back of the DVD.
34. I love photoshop so much and thought I could get a certificate (ADE), so I took the test (9A0-150 – CS5) and I lost in 3 marks. I took the test again and lost in 2 marks. I said fuck it.
35. Because of the frustration i made the Photoshop Tutorials and Photoshop Essentials to cover the technical details of the software as much as possible.
36. I love Cooking.
37. Once we (me and my gf) visited old home and served food for almost 50 old peoples. One of the best thing we did so far.
38. I travel 25 km every week to go to the temple. I try to make it even if the weather is bad. Because visiting the temple gives me peace by the end of the day.
39. I quit my job in 2012 to live the life the way i wanted.
40. I have PC, iMac and Mac Book Pro. I do most of the work in PC and iMac is for iBooks and Mac Book Pro is for traveling.
41. I keep reading quotes to keep me motivated, so to keep everybody motivate I started the blog Inspirational Quotes.
42. Iam little shy, couple of months before I quit the job we had a Company Celebration, I took lot of courage and ask people to pose for the photograph.
43. I got fired from a company once, because I couldn’t do 3 episodes of animation in a month, which I thought was horrible.
44. I released a Free iBooks of the inspirational quotes blog and keep updating them every month.
45. I made 3 iPhone applications and all of them are available in the app store. I will update all and make more apps, once i get a good developer to match my taste.
46. 15 places in 3 days, me and my friend literally burned out in the Goa and Udupi trip.
47. I took more than 3500 photos with my first camera (Powershot) and i had the camera with me for only 2.5 years and gave it to my ex-gf.
48. I don’t what to regret in later stages of my life. Let me live the way i wanted.
49. I love my parents and want to be with them in their older days.
50. I like Vodka.

PS-32 - Applying the Original Color to the Color Overlay Quickly

Sometimes when you are not sure what color you need to apply and you want to see before you finalize it, you can use the Color Overlay option from the Layers Style.

But how do you pick the original layer color to the Color Overlay quickly?

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01. Here i have a stripe on a red background. The stripe colors are orange, which is the original color.
What i need here is to apply the same orange color through Color Overlay. Because it is easy to control the color through color overlay.

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02. When i 'Turn On' the Color Overlay, you can see the default color on the current layer (The white is my default color, you might have different one).

Technically it hasn't applied to the layer, notice the layer in the layers palette

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03. To change the default Color Overlay color to the original Orange (the stripe) color, i could pick the color from the foreground color well. But what if for some reason the foreground color has some different color.

What is the other method?

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04. Even thought the stripe color is white (based on the Color Overlay) i can still pick the color directly from the stripe using the eyedropper. It will change my Color Overlay to the Original layer color, which is Orange.

How does it work?

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05. Like i said earlier, technically the color is not applied to the layer. If you see on the right hand side you can see the Preview checkbox, turning off will reveal the original stripe color. Since it is a preview that is visible on the layer, you can still pick the color without turning off.

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06. Remember, when applying the Color Overlay for the 1st time, the layer is clean. So we can able to pick the orange color.

But picking the color for the second time on the same layer will not work.

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07. If you 'Group' the Stripe layer and apply color overlay, even though it is the 1st time for the group, it will pick the existing color that has been applied to the Stripe layer, which is white.

Sale #20 - 2015 Calendar Collection - Wall Calendar: Version - 3.0

A Complete Calendar with Full Year (Ver 3.0 Update).

There are 18 Photoshop files and 14 Detailed Instruction Notes (help files). All the photoshop files are neatly organized. A Normal Calendar and Transparent Calender option for two set of images (one image 12 calendar and 12 images 12 calendar). The Months are completely editable, you can change font, color, style or even place any speach photos in a particular event.

Features:

• 2015 Calendar
• Cover Design (Normal and Transparent)
• Tutorial to make Simple Calendar
• Free Font
• Everything is Customizable
• More Detailed Instructions notes
• CMYK
• 300dpi High Resolution
• Standard wall calendar dimension
• Ready-to-Print
• 11x8.5 or 11x17 - Two options for images
• Clear and Organized Layout
• Photoshop Shape layers
• Pleasing Color palette

Version 3.0 : 2015 Calendar Collection - Wall Calendar

Inspirational Quotes - iBook Update: Ver 2.2

Version 2.2

• 100 New Quotes
• 21 New Authors

iTunes (ver 2.2)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/inspirational-quotes/id826458812?ls=1&mt=11

All the quotes are taken from Inspirational Quotes Blog
http://beekeepersinspirationalquotes.blogspot.in/

Vökuró - New Board on Pinterest

Bowls of Life - Update

(Click on the image for the link)

Going Home!!

Going Home!

I won't be available for the next 10 days and will be back next week. I'll be meeting some old folks and visiting their house and possibly I might be getting some images for 'Bowls of Life' .

Sale #20 - 2015 Calendar Collection - Wall Calendar: Version - 2.0

Now you can showcase your photos edge to edge with 11x17 inches, updated on Ver 2.0 for 2015 Calendar Collection - Wall Calendar.

There are 16 Photoshop files and 11 Instruction Notes (help files). All the photoshop files are neatly organized. A Transparent Calendar for all the month images are included with the 'Full Calendar-11x17.psd' files. If you want to edit the Calendar color, font or alignments - See the Instruction Notes.

Features:

• 2015 Calendar
• Free Font
• Everything is Customizable
• Detailed Instructions notes
• CMYK
• 300dpi High Resolution
• Standard wall calendar dimension
• Ready-to-Print
• 11x8.5 or 11x17 - Two options for images
• Clear and Organized Layout
• Organized layers
• Photoshop Shape layers
• Pleasing Color palette

Version 2.0: 2015 Calendar Collection - Wall Calendar
(The Sample Images are not included with the download, those are only for advertisement purpose.)

Sale #20 - 2015 Calendar Collection - Wall Calendar

Beautiful Wall calendar for the year 2015. The design is simple and elegant and fully customizable. You can have one image with 12 months or you can have 12 images with 12 months. You can have full size image with 11’x17” (newly added in Ver 2.0) with transparent calendar.

Two photoshop files are included. The calendar is based on the standard resolution.

The included files are Photoshop file + Detailed Help files. Images are not included

Link: 2015 Calendar Collection - Wall Calendar

Learning Cooking

After working on a computer for a long hour, cooking releases tension. Yes it does.

I've started my cooking on 1998, it wasn't really a cooking, it was more like surviving. After 2000 i had a long gap and started on 2013. i have a better kitchen and useful utensils now (probably).

These are the recipes i made over the months. I learned (learning) from my mother, i have a cookbook which i write the recipes down (more like drawing) whenever i like the color, and taste.

I like the traditional way of cooking, i try to avoid ready-made stuffs but sometimes you can't. There's a different between using Ginger Garlic paste and using a real ginger and garlic, you can really tell the difference. Taste differ with person to person, and in india it differ from state to state.

More Images: Learning Cooking - Flickr

More New Quotes
http://beekeepersinspirationalquotes.blogspot.in/

Sale #19 - Halloween Collection - Gravestones

25 Different Gravestones from Halloween Collection. The Photoshop file includes all 25 Gravestones with size comparison. Plus you will also get Ready to use 2000×2000 Black and White options of Gravestones as PNG files.

The included files are Photoshop file + Photoshop Brushes (ABR) + Photoshop Shapes (CSH) + Ready-to-use 50 PNG Files.

Link: Halloween Collection: Gravestones

Other Halloween Collections
Halloween Collection - Bats
Halloween Collection - Spiders
Halloween Collection - Pumpkins
Halloween Collection - Dead Trees
Halloween Collection - Background Gradients

Sale #18 - Halloween Collection - Dead Trees

10 Different Dead Trees from Halloween Collection. The Photoshop file includes all the 10 Dead Trees. Plus you will also get Ready to use 2000×2000 Black and White options of Dead Trees in PNG file

The included files are Photoshop file + Photoshop Brushes (ABR) + Photoshop Shapes (CSH) + Ready-to-use 20 PNG Files.

Link: Halloween Collection: Dead Trees

Other Halloween Collections
Halloween Collection - Bats
Halloween Collection - Spiders
Halloween Collection - Pumpkins
Halloween Collection - Background Gradients

Sale #14 - Halloween Collection - Bats

20 Beautiful Set of Bats from Halloween Collection. The Photoshop file include 3 different options (Black, White + Icon set). Also you have ready to use 20 PNG files with 1000×1000 Resolutions. If the Photoshop Brush (1000×1000) is not enough and your document is larger than that, you can use the Custom Shapes which is also included with the download.

The included files are Photoshop file + Photoshop Brushes (ABR) + Photoshop Shapes (CSH) + Ready-to-use 20 JPG Files.

The file was updated recently and added 10 more bats. you can see the Version History in the Purchase page (link below)

Bats (2.0) : Halloween Collection: Bats

Other Halloween Collections
Halloween Collection - Spiders
Halloween Collection - Pumpkins
Halloween Collection - Background Gradients