Shortcut to switch through Photoshop tools

I had a friend of mine ask me the other day how to rotate through a grouping of Photoshop tools without having to use their mouse every time.

This is pretty easy, and it can save you a lot of time. Let’s take the Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tool grouping within the Tools palette.

The shortcut to start using the last selected tool from from that group is the “O” key. Now, let’s say you hit the “O” key, and up came the dodge tool, but you need the burn tool. To …

Mappy Cabinet in Dayton area

I had to pull teeth to get any information on this cab in Dayton area. I had seen a post right after I got back from vacation about a Mappy cabinet for $15. But for the price, the people didn’t want to do any photos.

I don’t understand people. Now hard is it to take a couple of photos? You will waste more time answering silly questions than if you take three digital photos and post them somewhere.

Well, they were going to destroy it by the 10th, and I didn’t want …

Most of Pengo Sideart Traced

I had emailed a contact about getting some vector Pengo art that I thought they had. It appeared to me as if they had traced the cardboard bezel at one time, and I thought it would be a good place to start to get some vector versions of the ice mountains, sno bees and the Pengo character himself.

But come to find out, the image of Pengo bezel I saw was just a nice raster scan. So, knowing that I already had some different pieces of the sideart traced …

Barry Bonds Hits Home Run 756, Beating Hank Aaron

I watched Barry hit is 71st home run in the second where he broke Mark McGwire’s fledging Home Run record, but I didn’t get to see him do it last night. Nor did I care.

But he did finally do it, and the pressure is off of him. Barry Bonds has finally broken Hank Aaron’s 33 year standing home run record of 755 home runs.

I wanted Barry to retire a couple of years ago, and with his knee injury I thought he may never make it here. But …

No NOS Pengo sideart exists

This week I saw someone post about wanting some NOS Sega Pengo sideart, so I got motivated to do some vectorization of the sideart of one of my favorite games.

Last night I got through 80% of the Pengo sideart. I had taken the photos, pieced them together in Photoshop and used the pieces that were already done like the Pengo lettering and Pengo himself to start my Illustrator file.

I got through everything but the sno bees on the right. Today I was having major issues trying to get

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Ms. Pac-man Stencil Separations

I bought my Ms. Pac-man last October, and even when I bought it I knew that someday I wanted to either redo the sideart or get a cabinet that had more pink in the sideart.

I have thought about checking around for how much stencils would be, but hadn’t gotten around to it. I have monitored buying another Ms. Pac-man machine and switching cabs, but a deal hasn’t fallen in my lap yet, and Saturday I took the time to email a prominent collector who also does repro art and …

Nokes first full day home alone!

Today both Sarah and I had to be gone all day, me for work and her for preparing for yet another year at school.

Nokes stayed home all day today, over 8 hours, by himself without an issue. He did have to poop quite a bit, which was weird, like four times. But we are very excited about this next step for him.

I personally still hope we can leave him in the house alone within six months, but who knows….