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The BrushKnob USB dial wants to help you speed up your Photoshop workflow

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External dials and gizmos have been common in the movie industry for years.  Their sole purpose in live is to help speed up workflow and productivity, assisting with things like editing and colour grading.  Now, they’re starting to become more popular for the regular desktop and stills editing with Photoshop.

BrushKnob, developed by Japanese concept artist, Wataru Kami, is a very inexpensive attempt to bring this kind of capability to the masses, releasing the entire project as OpenSource; circuit, code & all.

Instamuseum turns your Instagram account into a virtual reality 3D gallery

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If scrolling through a plain old Instagram feed isn’t exciting enough for you, a new free online app called Instamuseum lets you turn it into a virtual museum.

To create your gallery, you’ll need an account on Sketchfab, but that is also free.  To let people view them, you need simply to embed them into your website.

Will a selfie stick blend?

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‘Will it blend?’ These three simple words are known across the web thanks to Blendtec, a company famous for putting its blenders through brutal tests by grinding up everything from markers to iPhones.

In one of their most recent videos, Blendtec continues its growing collection of destroyed products by answering the question of whether or not a selfie stick will blend.

How To Do A 2.5D Parallax Animated Photo Effect Using Only Free Software

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I had been fiddling with creating these 2.5D parallax animated photos for quite a few years now, but there had recently been a neat post by Joe Fellows that brought it into the light again.

The reason I had originally played with the idea is part of a long, sad story involving my wedding and an out-of-focus camcorder that resulted in my not having any usable video of my wedding (in 2008). I did have all of the photographs, though. So as a present to my wife, I was going to re-create the wedding with these animated photos (I’m 99% sure she doesn’t ever read my blog – so if anyone knows her don’t say anything! I can still make it a surprise!).

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