Doug Boutwell » Video http://www.dougboutwell.com the occasional odd thought or image Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:18:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Totally Rad! Dirty Pictures Sneak Peek http://www.dougboutwell.com/totally-rad-dirty-pictures-sneak-peek/ http://www.dougboutwell.com/totally-rad-dirty-pictures-sneak-peek/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:25:09 +0000 Doug Boutwell http://gettotallyrad.com/blog/?p=352 Since we’re getting close to having all the gremlins ironed out, I thought it would be a nice time to post a little update on just what the hell I’ve been up to for the past couple months… mostly a LOT of javascript coding.  What we’ve got at this point is a VERY useable and stable program for grunge-ifying your photos with textures.  Part of what has taken so long is that I keep coming up with cool ideas for the whole package.  When we started actually building this (about a year ago!  Yikes!) all I wanted was a way to apply a texture to a photo with the click of a button, the way the rest of our actions work.  Since there’s no way to do that with just a plain action, we started looking into other, more complicated ways of automating Photoshop.  Next thing you know, we have thumbnail previews, a library manager, configurable defaults, etc, etc.  Our little set of action/textures suddenly has become a whole different animal – not quite a full-blown application, but certainly a more configurable, user-friendly, and powerful tool than we had envisioned.

All that is prologue, however, to actually SEEING what I’m talking about, so if you are still reading this far, go ahead and check out this little preview of what Dirty Pictures is all about (and apologies for the somewhat annoying mic popping…):

[See post to watch Flash video]

Update – It’s ALIVE! Head on over to Dirty Pictures at the Totally Rad Store and pick it up!

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