Photoshop and Web 2.0
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I am a student in high school and I like to write Photoshop Tutorials in my free time on my blog so that I can get some earnings through AdSense. After writing them I use to add them to Good-Tutorials.com so that I could get some extra traffic. While browsing through the tutorials by others I noticed a very peculiar thing.At several places people had added the word “Web 2.0″ to the title of there tutorials. Some example of this would be -
After seeing some of these tutorials you would understand what I am talking about.
Well, according to O’Reilly Web 2.0 basically means -
- Services, not packaged software, with cost-effective scalability
- Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data sources that get richer as more people use them
- Trusting users as co-developers
- Harnessing collective intelligence
- Leveraging the long tail through customer self-service
- Software above the level of a single device
- Lightweight user interfaces, development models, AND business models
I do not understand how putting a circle over a text with 33% of opacity or making a stroke of 3px or using the rounded rectangle tool in Photoshop can make something Web 2.0. The authors are fooling there audiences into believing that Web 2.0 is a design feature!
2 Comments
dirtgoddess
February 23rd, 2007
at 11:25pm
Prateek,
I have enjoyed reading your blogs so far. It’s nice to have someone who is interested in graphics in the nexus. I’ve been blogging but have not gotten into graphics subjects yet, mostly because I don’t feel very qualified. So far I have learned Paintshop Pro and am trying to find time to learn GIMP. I am very new to computers and digital art, but enjoy it very much. My husband and I have a website where he has done the design and I do the artwork and photography.
http://www.don-guitar. com
I looked at your site and am impressed. As well as being very talented in art, you have a feel for design and write a good tutorial, too. If you’d like more people to go to your site, don’t forget to put a link in every post, the only one I could find was in the post entitled “Photoshop and Web 2.0″
Hoping to hear more from you in the future,
Lisa Miller
pra2
February 25th, 2007
at 1:04am
I have sent you an email