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Gear Explosion @ Olympics | New TSA Rules | After Effects Tutorial

CATEGORIES: Living In Layers | RC | August 18, 2008

Happy Monday everyone. Kevin, my buddy here in the office, sent me a link to this and I thought it was interesting enough to share. In photography, some people (I’ll included myself here) have a propensity for becoming gear addled — looking for the coolest camera and lens to take out there. This however, pales in comparison to the amount of gear that’s sitting out in the Olympics (Congrats Michael Phelps!). Counting everyone’s backup cameras, lenses, and the like, you are easily talking figures in the hundreds of thousands of dollars out there.

Click here to check out a cool picture and the article on gear explosion (Via Gizmodo)

New TSA Rules in Effect
And now, a Public Service announcement. It seems that the TSA is becoming a little lax on the guidelines for taking your laptops out of their casing as they go through airport security. There is now a new set of rules as to what you can leave in its case as well as what still needs to be exposed. If you are traveling, it’s definitely worth your while to make sure you are aware:

Click here to check out the new TSA rules on Laptop Baggage

Animating Splash in Photoshop and After Effects
Corey Barker has got a great Olympic-inspired tutorial on how to create an animation of water splashing using Photoshop and Illustrator. It’s short, sweet, and downright interesting. Click on the link below to go to Corey Barkers tutorial:

Splash Animation with Photoshop and After Effects

Layers Blog Contest
This week I figured I would share my love of Artistic Photo Canvas with more than just one person. Our friends there have given us five 100 dollar gift cards to give away to 5 random blog readers for this week! This is all you have to do:

Go to the Contact portion of the blog and fill out your name, email address, and the answer to these 2 questions:

What was the date of the first Layers TV Episode?
If you go to the Artistic Photo Canvas website, what is the largest Gallery Wrap that you can order?

Contest ends at 5PM on Thursday and we will announce the 5 winners on Friday at 9AM.

That’s it for today everyone. Have a wonderful week!

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