Welcome To A Whole New Planet

 

Hi everyone and welcome to the all new Planet Photoshop. I am very excited about this new look and I want to give a big shout out to our web designer, Brett Nyquist, for his hard work on making this new site a reality. We have expanded the blog space to bring you even more industry news every day, and of course a new video tutorial every week. The very best part is that it is all absolutely free. For you first-time visitors, I want to welcome you and hope you enjoy. For you loyal ‘Planeteers’ out there, I hope you enjoy this new look and easy-to-navigate content. Notice also that the blog now allows comments. Please feel free to drop me a line. Well, I hope you all have a great Friday and for those of you who will be at Photoshop World in Orlando next week, make sure you stop say Hi! See you then!

March 28th, 2008 by Corey Barker | Blog | 12 Comments

12 Comments

  1. Christy said on — March 28, 2008 @ 1:16 pm

    I love the new site! Great job! Have fun at Photoshop World!

    Christy

  2. phil said on — March 28, 2008 @ 1:27 pm

    Hi Corey,
    I like the new layout. I really appreciate your style of teaching. It makes it real easy to grasp the concepts.
    Thanks,
    Phil

  3. lp said on — March 28, 2008 @ 1:35 pm

    I like the new site design, except for the font used for main text.
    It’s unbelievably difficult to read. I hope you will reconsider it.
    This is one of my favorite sites - but it will be much harder to glean information with this font. Thanks for all the great info you provide, tips of the day, tutorials, etc.

  4. Erik Bernskiold said on — March 28, 2008 @ 3:23 pm

    Great job on the new site. Looking forward to see the blog posts and some new tutorials.

  5. koolmann said on — March 28, 2008 @ 7:25 pm

    the design is very cool. I appreciate your site. We are now in your real planet!
    Peace.

  6. NEMESIS said on — March 29, 2008 @ 9:51 am

    Hello Corey,

    My compliments to the web designer. New design is great. Anyways if i may suggest is to make users interact more with each other and with you there, you can organize some monthly contest here on Planet Photoshop so registered users can demonstrate theirs Photoshop skill on given subject. I think that would be great both for users and you guys out there. And all of us here would be able to see variety of creativity.

    Cheers

  7. Jamie said on — March 30, 2008 @ 6:42 pm

    Love the new site.

  8. Kyle said on — March 30, 2008 @ 11:44 pm

    Corey,

    Great redesign. I tip my hat both to the designer and the implementer. You guys did great things with this. I agree with NEMESIS about the contests. With the new user interactivity through comments, it wouldnt be hard to start a just-for-laughs contest on a certain weekday. Perhaps Friday. I know that other sites do this, such as Fark.com, but Im sure that you guys could do it with some style, too.

    Cant wait for that next tutorial!

  9. th-Inker said on — March 31, 2008 @ 12:26 pm

    Finally your site reflects the design standards that the content upholds. Great Job Brett!

  10. Ciggy said on — March 31, 2008 @ 3:40 pm

    Killer website update! Will visit more often!

  11. Body_of_water said on — March 31, 2008 @ 8:28 pm

    Corey, Great new look! Thanks to all, that make this site, the great site that it is. There is alot of people out there that appreciate it and I am one of them.

  12. Manda said on — April 9, 2008 @ 3:52 pm

    Wow, I like this. :)

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