The many sliders of Photoshop CS4

mrgan:


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:

Vista Orange Special Advert. (via jayesh.tailor)

Vista Orange Special Advert. (via jayesh.tailor)

FFFFOUND! | things magazine: an online journal about objects and meanings

FFFFOUND! | things magazine: an online journal about objects and meanings

xkcdexplained:

In this strip, the word “sausage” is substituted for “notation” in Reverse Polish Notation. As you can see, the hot dog is lying next to, not inside of the hot dog bun.
This is funny because in Reverse Polish Notation the operator (hot dog) follows the operands (bun).

xkcdexplained:

In this strip, the word “sausage” is substituted for “notation” in Reverse Polish Notation. As you can see, the hot dog is lying next to, not inside of the hot dog bun.

This is funny because in Reverse Polish Notation the operator (hot dog) follows the operands (bun).

I love this old (1950-1969) Phillies logo.
And this one! Christ.
More here.

I love this old (1950-1969) Phillies logo.

And this one! Christ.

More here.

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Trailer on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

I saw this at the Brattle tonight, with Califone themselves in attendance playing the soundtrack live. Fantastic.

The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae: MLB.com Jumps the Gun
Oopsie.

The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae: MLB.com Jumps the Gun

Oopsie.

Capri II (via Warwick Robinson)

Capri II (via Warwick Robinson)

"The how-to guide to beat the Phillies is shrinking by the day."

Phillies 8, Dodgers 6 - Two Three-Run Homers Help Phillies Win N.L.C.S. Opener - NYTimes.com

Will Convertibles Make You Deaf? - Safety - Jalopnik

“Just the thing to read on an Indian summer day. You can hear a thousand Miatas weeping.