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Halftoning 101: How to halftone images in Photoshop

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by on June 10, 2014 at 11:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's

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Jordan Roland is a staff designer/illustrator for the Shutterstock blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been adapted with permission. When developing your skill set as a designer, you also start to pick up habits. I use Photoshop differently than my coworkers, and their use of the program may vary from your own. Whatever the end result — in this case, halftoning an image — there are multiple ways to arrive at it. First, let’s talk halftones. I use halftones predominately for screen printing artwork. The idea is that you take a solid color and break it up…

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Index Ventures raises a 7th early-stage fund, worth $542m

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 11:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ seems to be the mantra at Index Ventures, which has just announced a new €400 million ($542 million) fund. As with its predecessors, the London-based firm’s seventh early-stage fund – covering from seed-stage up to €15 million ($20 million) – will invest in predominantly European startups, with US and Israeli companies thrown into the mix. The fund is sticking with the same sectors, such as big data, financial services, marketplaces, fashion and ecommerce, mobile and security, too. Looking at the performance of the Index portfolio over the past year, it’s easy to see…

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Google Glass update adds photo syncing, Google Now cards for World Cup, parking location, and package tracking

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 10:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Google

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Google today announced the latest update to its Glass project, adding five new features for those who have shelled out $1,500 for the wearable device. The new additions include better photo sharing for Android users, as well as Google Now cards for the World Cup, parking location, and package tracking. Google has also added a battery notification for when Glass drops below 20 percent, in response to feedback from current device owners. First up, the photo-sharing update means when you take a picture on Glass, you’ll see it instantly on your Android phone when you open the MyGlass app. Tap…

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5 reasons to move your startup to Southeast Asia

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 8:57 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Asia, Entrepreneur

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Thomas Clayton is the CEO of Bubbly, a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO.  Most entrepreneurs get caught up in Silicon Valley envy and decide to place their startup headquarters there without a second thought. But for most startups, this won’t necessarily lead to immediate success and riches. The Valley certainly is the mecca of the tech world; however, the Valley also isn’t the place for every tech startup. It has become extremely noisy and hyper competitive for talent, which is making it increasingly difficult to break your company away from the herd.  With the capital required to start…

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Adobe releases Flash 14 and Air 14 with anisotropic filtering, Intel x86 Android support and Gamepad API

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 8:42 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Adobe today released Flash Player 14 as well as the Air 14 Runtime and SDK. Both are considered major quarterly releases, and include new features, as well as the usual bug fixes and security updates. Both tools have received a new anisotropic filtering feature, which the company describes as a texture-sampling filter for enhancing the image quality of textures on surfaces that are at oblique viewing angles. Interested developers should know there are two ways to enable the feature: In AGAL, set one of the values – anisotropic2x, anisotropic4x, anisotropic8x, or anisotropic16x to the filter option in the sampling instructions….

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