July 11, 2011
Feature request: Instagram->Facebook
I often say that if I could code, I’d never leave the basement*: I know what I want, but I have to rely on others to make it real.
At the moment I’m wishing for a way to suck up some or all of my Instagram-hosted images, then repost them on Facebook. I already share each individual image via Twitter (and thus Facebook), but these don’t end up residing on FB, where family members would be much more likely to see them. This can’t be a hard thing to implement, but I’ve yet to see it done.
Update: Thanks to Noah Mittman for pointing out Instaport, a free site that lets you download some/all of your images as a ZIP archive. It’s a great start, though just to get greedy, let me also request a way to retain image captions. For me those are often as critical as the images themselves.
* Thus it’s probably like my not being more muscular (which would lead to my getting into lots of fights): probably a blessing in disguise.
Bert Monroy speaking this Thursday in SF, plus seminars
Master digital illustrator Bert Monroy will be speaking this Thursday at the San Francisco Photoshop User Group (presentation starting at 7pm). He’ll be enlightening us with great photo editing, compositing and painting tips he picked up while working on his colossal, 750,000-layer Times Square project (see previous). Please see the meeting page for directions, RSVP info, etc.
Bert has also announced a series of one-day seminars, “The Making of Times Square: Live,” taking place this fall. He plans to cover the creation & use of brushes, use of Photoshop’s 3D tools, creating realistic hair, and more. I’ve really enjoyed Bert’s presentations at Photoshop World and elsewhere, so I’m sure these will be great sessions as well.
(rt) Typography: Great hand lettering, iPad app, & more
- Typography Insight for iPad looks like a neat way to learn about lettering. [Via]
- “Fighting for peace…”: Check out these beautifully rendered phrases from Stephen Bonner.
- “Because You Can’t Get Sh*t Done When You’re Asleep…”
- Avast–“Prosperity” is a fun, piratical calligraphic script font.
- I like John Passafiume’s dense & diggable hand lettering on a wedding invitation.
- See also Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age.
