Where did my brush go?

Ever experienced that very fastidious disappearance of the shape of your brush when you're painting in Photoshop to stare at a small crosshair? Yep, guessed so. Have you tried to change the view settings back, happily ignored by your software? I see...

All you have to do to get your brush shape back as a cursor is press the caps lock key again (check the led, it should be on).

This key allows you to switch from normal mode to precise mode and back again. Useful, but I always forget it and endlessly wander around the workspace...

Let's hope I'll remember it now that I've written it down!

Wordle

Johnatan Feinberg, a Senior Software Engineer at IBM, has developed what he calls "a toy for generating word clouds", choosing from different layout schemas, fonts and colors. The name of the toy is Wordle; also check out the blog if you want to stay tuned.

These are two examples obtained parsing a slightly modified version of my cv. As the software is an applet and there's not a "save as image" option and the printscreen leads to low quality images, I printed the clouds using PDFCreator, then enlarged it and selected the content with the snapshot tool. The final step involved some cropping and resizing in Photoshop.


My next step will probabily be a Photoshop session to blend the clouds with one of my pictures to get a sort of visual cv, maybe this could contribute to the "wow this guy's a class act!" attitude during interviews :-)