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Thanks to my fabulous art agent Ilya Gotfryd, my 5th art photography show started in “The O Gallery” (LaPlace, 2101 Richmond Road, Beachwood, OH 44122, USA).

Here are some pictures from the show opening.

On the left are Marcela and David - friends from Medellín, Colombia - the city which is portraited on the photo to the right of them.

Shrine Of City Stories, framed

Approach, framed, 24"x18"

MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel will be featured in Black Rock Studio / Disney workshop on digital panting with famous concept artist John Wallin Liberto in Brighton, UK. 3 days of the insight into his craft - don’t miss it, if you’re living in UK, or passing by. Here’s detailed info on this event.

“Another great event lined up for the Black Rock Crew. World renowned concept artist John Wallin Liberto will be spending some quality time at the studio with our teams.

The plan to is run a 3 day master class workshop in digital painting. John’s work and talent is truly incredible. We’re honored to have him come and… stay with us and share some insights into his craft. If you’re not already familiar with John’s work — check out his impressive reel at the link provided.”

Don’t miss it!

Painted from nature in Photoshop using:
MagicPicker Photoshop color wheel and color picker
John Derry’s Artist Brushes

I created the new tool dedicated to all graphic and animation designers out there dealing with fonts. It’s called DiskFonts. It allows to view fonts from disk inside Creative Suite panel. Don’t install fonts, now you can browse them from disk directly, quickly seeing, how your text looks like with different type faces with DiskFonts! The long awaited feature is here!

Supports Mac and Windows, x32 and x64, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Premiere, Fireworks! Is it Helvetica, Script font, open type font, truetype font - doesn’t matter. Unlimited collection support. You can also compare fonts and then filter the fonts you like with one click.

I was thinking about this kind of thing for years! And now, after all hard work and bugs fighting it’s been embodied in the form of a panel using the latest technologies proposed by Adobe CS5. It’s dedicated to print designers, illustrators, desktop publishing lovers, prepress maniacs, flash animators, HTML5 geniuses and even video title makers!

Ok, read more about DiskFonts here: DiskFonts, Disk font viewer inside Adobe Creative Suite CS5

I updated MagicPicker - the Color Wheel plugin for Photoshop. It now supports Adobe Photoshop CS5 and packed with a bunch of new features!

• new color is now displayed side by side with the old one, while changing
• new Compact Mode for CS4 with only two colors visible and panel enlarges automatically when moving mouse around - activated from Menu -> Compact Mode
• new “Switch Foreground and Background Colors” and “Default Foreground and Background Colors” buttons
• for print designers - CMYK colors are now get profiled based on currently chosen Photoshop CMYK profile. Use it only when needed as it will slow down the panel
• great speed improvement for H and S color modes when using Color Pane
• minor bug fixes, including keyboard when using panel, registration and autocolor update when colors are exchanged (”x” key)
• other small optimizations

read more about Photoshop Color Wheel plugin

And I can proudly present a video made by tyr, which shows how MagicPicker color wheel can bring your digital paintings to a new level:

My new photo is framed and found itself a sunny nice new white wall.

Untitled, 90×60 cm, archive paper, silver brushed frame, ©, A.Safari, http://safari.am

Finally I updated my Photoshop ColorPicker (was featured in Adobe Blogs and in many many places) with the new, long-awaited and manytime-asked option - the color wheel!

It’s now called MagicPicker and can be obtained here: Photoshop Color Wheel

Check, what famous Alex Broeckel writes about it.

The list of other features include:

• NON-MODAL panel - unlike native Photoshop color picker you don’t need to close a dialog
• Color pane, Color wheel and RGB/HSB sliders
• Supports Photoshop CS3 and CS4
• FAST!
• Sets foreground and bakground color
• Supports feeback from Photoshop. (It’s an ability to update panel automatically when a color is picked outside panel, e.g. with Alt-click on the image)
• Arbitrary panel scaling
• H,S,B and R,G,B modes support
• Numerical boxes for precise color changing
• HEX box to get color for your web page element
• NO crashes, unlike some other panels

Word press had finally fixed their act and I am happy to anounce that I can publish articles from my iPhone. This should revert the recent lack of any activity.

Another series from my show flew away to a collector! Last show in Cleveland sold a work by the name “Spirits of Fire”. This time entire series “What is in the void?” is going up on a wall of some corporate office.
(Golden fillet & priceless craft — © Ilya Gotfryd).

So far artworks usually went to friends, friends of the friends and friends trice removed. Sometimes I would give an artwork as a present. This time is different. I can say - another step to the free artist’s life!

(”Spirits Of Fire”), 61×46 cm, metallic photo-paper:

Special, biggest thanks go to Regina Vinitsker of The Silverman Group and Elizabeth Marsh of SL Management Group for facilitating this show.

It happened! Ilya made an unbelievable, 11hr-breakthrough and delivered 26 heavy framed photographs to Hartford, CT, USA! And opened a show of my works. Only 1hr drive from my favourite artist Michael Whelan (!). A bunch of posters for the opening, a sophisticated art selling site, lots of nerves - in the past, now it’s time for a little relaxation.

I had to live in two time zones during those days. It’s a pity, I cannot attend neither opening, nor the show itself Only the photos from the opening give me comfort.

Some pictures from the scene:

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