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Woman Turns Alien via Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is useful for many things, whether it’s touching up old photos, refining recent photographs or even creating completely new digital compositions.

As a graphic designer with a fascination for digital art, I am always on the lookout for new things to create. As an example, a few weeks ago I was searching the web for fun-looking tutorials, and I came across this tutorial at marcofolio.net on how to transform a human into an alien using Photoshop. I was intrigued, so I followed the tutorial using an image I got from iStockphoto, occasionally modifying steps as I went along.

In just a little under ten minutes, I was able to totally transform a picture of a pretty young woman into a strange-looking alien. What do you think? Pretty cool eh?

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If you’re interested in learning how to master Photoshop, be watching for our new Photoshop CS5 training that we will be filming next week or check our product page here for the Photoshop CS4 course.

Tricky Trivia Winner and New Question!

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Hey, hey… It’s that time again!

First, CONGRATULATIONS to Jake Toughill for being the winner of last week’s Trivia Question!! The answers to the question- In “The 10 Commandments of a PC Tech” with Mike Meyers, what are the 2nd, the 4th and the 10th commandments– are:

2nd: DON’T TECHNO BABBLE OTHER TECHNICIANS

4th: PASS IT FORWARD

10th: ASK FOR HELP

Second, here are the rules for this week’s question…

Just answer the question correctly in the comments to be eligible to win . Once you’ve submitted the correct answer in your comment, we’ll have a drawing and randomly pick a winner. The winner, who will be contacted via email by a LearnKey staff member, will be posted next Thursday, along with a new trivia question for the week.

Here we go!

How about a little LearnKey history this week… (answer can be found on learnkey.com)

Since LearnKey’s earliest days, when founder and CEO John Clemons filmed training videos for users of WordPerfect in a small basement studio, LearnKey has remained at the forefront of evolving technology, pioneering multimedia-based training. What year was LearnKey founded?

GOOD LUCK!

This week’s prize: A totally rockin’ LK tie-dye bandana!

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Contest run time: Thursday July 1st- Wednesday July 7th

Winner posted: Thursday July 8th

* North American residents only*

*In order to receive prize notification, you must provide a valid email address with your comment*

ISTE Winners!

ISTE 2010 has been GREAT so far! We are on our last day and we have had so much fun here in Denver. Here’s a recap of what we’ve been up to.

As a part of the show, we thought it would be fun to hold a contest where you could literally Unlock Your Potential. Prior to the show, we sent out a bunch of keys to educators across the nation and we asked them to bring the key with them to ISTE. The participants were then given the opportunity to see if their key unlocked the LearnKey prize box for a chance to win a Kindle, i-Pod shuffles, or flash drives!

Here are a few of our winners!

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Kindle Winner: Lisa Westmoeland from Derby, KS

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iPod Shuffle Winner: Helen mowers from Killeen, TX

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iPod Shuffle Winner: Peggy Perkins from Bastrop, TX

Tom’s Blooper Reel

We love Tom Carpenter here at LearnKey! Actually he’s heading back into our studio today to begin the filming of Server+ and because we love him so much, we thought that this time around we should honor him! So, we brainstormed for a couple of weeks about what we could do to express our gratitude publicly and well, we all agreed that this video would do the job perfectly!

ENJOY!

Thanks for being a good sport Tom!