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Extensis Announces Pro Photo Raw Image Filter for Portfolio 7
Extensis Inc. today announced an update to its Pro Photo Raw Image Filter for Portfolio 7. The updated filter will be a free upgrade for registered owners of Extensis' digital asset management (DAM) solution for organizing digital photos, illustrations, page layouts and presentations.
Adobe Unifies Raw Photo Formats With Introduction Of Digital Negative Specification
Adobe has introduced the Digital Negative Specification, a new unified public format for raw digital camera files.
Adobe Adds Support For New Digital Negative Specification in Updated Camera Raw Plug-in For Photoshop CS
Adobe has announced an update to the Camera Raw Plug-in, extending raw file support in Photoshop CS to more than 65 digital camera models and enabling Photoshop CS to handle files in the new .DNG format (see below).
Graphicxtras.com Ship Update To Their Frames Collection
The Frames Collection now includes a large selection of additional 'burnt edge' frames. These additional frames are available in a separate volume. The Frames Collection consists of over 2,600 frames and is available on CD from graphicxtras.com.
Photoshop Tip — Centering Dragged Layers The Easy Way
When dragging a layer from one document to another, the object will appear in the new document at the point your cursor was when you released the mouse button. If you'd prefer that the layer appear perfectly centered within the other document, just hold the shift key as you drag, and when you release the mouse button, the object will be perfectly centered.
Big Bunch Of Video Clips — POWER HOUR — Free Training From Lynda.com & Russell Brown
Lynda.com is hosting a nice selection of Quicktime clips called Power Hour, Russell Brown's Adobe Photoshop Tips and Techniques. The collection features 26 excellent clips from Photoshop guru and madman Russell Brown. Here are a selection of exceptional ones to look for:
— creative camera raw
— digital photo flow
— creating handmade books
— lighting with layers
— printing from Photoshop CS
Photoshop Tip — Speed Up Photoshop By Merging Layers
Every time you add a layer to Photoshop, it adds quite a bit of file size to your image. The larger your file size, the slower Photoshop goes. If you're creating a document that has lots of layers, before long, your file size is going to get pretty huge. One way to keep things lean and mean is to merge any layers that don't need to be separate. You do this by clicking the topmost layer in the layers palette, and then pressing Command-E (PC: Control-E). This merges the current layer with the layer directly beneath it. Think of it this way - every time you merge two layers, your file size drops and Photoshop gets faster. It's like a keyboard shortcut that adds more horsepower.
ColorVision Spyder2 Debuts at Photokina
ColorVision will unveil the all-new Colorvision Spyder2 product line at the Photokina international tradeshow on Sept 28th, 2004 in Cologne, Germany. The completely re-engineered Spyder2 colorimeter works with Macs and PCs. The Spyder2 calibrates CRT, LCD and laptop displays and includes a filter pack system and light baffle to increase color measurement accuracy.
Attention All Space Monkey People: Think Secret Says "New Adobe Creative Suite in Q1 2005"
Mac website Think Secret reports that Adobe plans to deliver the next version of Adobe Creative Suite in early 2005. Here's a quote from the article by Ryan Katz, Senior Editor:
"Adobe plans to roll-out the second version of its Creative Suite bundle in early 2005, documents obtained by Think Secret reveal. According to sources, Creative Suite 2.0, code-named Cookie Dough, will adhere to Adobe's 12-18 month refresh schedule for its flagship application suite.
"Creative Suite 2.0 will include a new version of Illustrator (presumably 12.0, but possibly 11.5 ) code-named Zodiac, a new version of Photoshop (again, likely 9.0, but possibly 8.5) code-named Space Monkey, a new version of InDesign (either 4.0 or 3.5) code-named FireDrake, and GoLive 8.0, code-named Reloaded. It's unclear at this point whether Adobe plans to tie Acrobat 7.0, code-named Vegas, into the CS suite or will keep it largely as a stand-alone product included with CS Premium. Sources indicate that Acrobat 7.0 is separately slated for release by year's end."
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Photoshop Tip — Color-Coding Made Easy
In Photoshop you can color-code layers and layer sets for quick visual identification. One way to do this is to bring up the Layer properties dialog (from the layers palette's pop-up menu) and choose your colors from a pop-up menu. But there's a much faster way - at least if you know this shortcut: Control click (PC:Right-Click) on the eye icon next to the layer you want to color code, and a pop-up menu of colors will appear where you can choose the shade you like. (For this to work, you must have more than 1 layer in the document.)
Adobe Beats 3Q Estimates; Shares Rise
Shares of Adobe Systems Inc. rose more than 3 percent in the extended session after the software company reported better-than-expected third-quarter profit. President and chief executive Bruce R. Chizen said in a press release that the company's strategy of offering "comprehensive platform solutions" has paid off in sales and Adobe plans to continue the sales momentum leading up to new product launches in the first quarter. Read the rest at Forbes.com
Speaking Of Money, Real Or Otherwise...
Deke McClelland addresses the banknote restriction controversy in tip 14 of his great Random Collection of Photoshop CS Tips:
"As you may have heard, Photoshop CS now includes technology that prevents it from opening certain kinds of banknotes. Rumor has it, the technology responds to patterns in the new $20 bill (including the yellow 0's) that also appear in Euros and other protected currency. I'm enough of a civil libertarian to find this intrusive. Designers have long been — and continue to be — permitted to reproduce money for non-fraudulent purposes at certain sizes. Meanwhile, Photoshop won't even open the treatment shown here, even though I did it in Photoshop! So naturally, there must be a workaround: Open the money in ImageReady, then click the Edit in Photoshop button at the bottom of the ImageReady toolbox. ImageReady puts the artwork on an independent layer, which prevents Photoshop from complaining. I imagine Adobe will kill this back door solution in a future release, but so long as you save the layered document as a PSD file, you're safe for now."
Free Stock Photos
Industrial Strength — David Lynch might like these. Dials and pipes are also good sources for custom brushes.
Unprofound — Use any pic anywhere you want.
Find lots more sites and articles in our Stock Photos section.
Photoshop Tip — Two Files Are Better Than One
There are times when we should be working (or experimenting) on a copy of an image - it's a shame to trash a good image then try to recreate it. You could always do a Save As and choose As a Copy, but here's a better way: Go to the bottom of the History palette and click on the Create New Snapshot icon (the one that looks like a camera). Click on the new snapshot near the top of the History palette to make it the active History state. Finally, go to the bottom of the History palette and click on the Create New Document from Current State icon. There you go, a copy of the image, just dying for you to trash it.
Brushes From The Moon
Kirsty sends this in: "At long last I finally had a chance to make 2 new brush sets, both are moon related. Please take a look at http://brushes.500ml.org if you're curious and perhaps leave a message in the new guestbook."
Inspire Me
We've been adding to our Inspiration Section. You can now see exclusive photos from Face Of Tomorrow.
Photoshop Tip — Zoom Out For Sharper Web Images
This is a tip we use almost daily when we have to greatly reduce the size and/or resolution of an image. Sometimes when you make drastic size/ resolution change, it can really make the resulting image blurry, so what we do is simply zoom out on the image so that the window and image are at either 50% or 25% view. Then, we take a screen capture of our image window at the new smaller size. That way, the image still looks sharp, but it's much smaller when we open the screen capture in Photoshop. The trick to making this work is using either a 50%, 25%, or 12.5% view size for making the capture. If you view the image at 66.7%, 33.3%, 16.7%, the image won't be as crisp (because of the way Photoshop draws the image at those views).
Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 3.0 for Macintosh
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 for Macintosh.
Adobe Announces Photoshop Elements 3.0 For WindowsPhotoshop Elements 3.0 software delivers impressive new ways to share, organize and edit photos, allowing people to easily review, compare and enhance photos and create dynamic slideshows and personalized creations.
The Face Of Tomorrow - Today
The Face of Tomorrow is a new series of works by Istanbul based photographer Mike Mike. It deals with notions of race, place, identity and belonging on both a local level as well as on a global scale.
The Face of Tomorrow attempts to find a city's identity by presenting just two faces (one male, one female), that are based on composites of local pictures of inhabitants.
I asked Mike Mike if Photoshop was part of the process. "The whole process involves two programs - Photoshop and Fantamorph," he said. "The initial photo retouching and positioning is done in Photoshop, as is color correction and sharpness. The actual morphing is done in a program called Fantamorph. Does Photoshop have a morphing plugin? The morphed image is then sent back to Photoshop for final color correction and composition."
The Face of Tomorrow is an open source project. Anyone can send in 100 photos and Mike will composite the face of that city or place.
Want to know what your child might look like? Send in a photo of you and another person and for just $15 Face of Tomorrow will email you the results.
Also look at The Face of Tomorrow (Book 1) — a 150 page book with individual and composite faces from the first 12 cities done to date. You can flip through the pages.
Photoshop Tip — Copy a Layer In The Same Location in Another Document
To make a copy of your current layer and have it appear in the exact same location in a different Photoshop document, control-click (PC: right-click) on the layer in the layers palette that you want to copy, and choose duplicate layer. When the duplicate layer dialog appears, choose the destination from the document pop-up menu, and click ok.
Celestial Inspiration
See a very beautiful celestial piece from Greg Martin — the master of stars and planets. It's all part of our new Inspiration Section.
Photoshop Tip — The Gaussian Blur Keyboard Shortcut
I thought that would get your attention. That's because you know there's no keyboard shortcut for applying a Gaussian Blur. But there is in my copy of Photoshop CS. How is that possible? Because I created one, and you can too. Just go under the Edit menu and choose Keyboard Shortcuts to bring up the Keyboard Shortcuts editor. Then, from the Shortcuts For pop-up menu, choose Application Menus. In the list of menus in the window beneath it, click on the gray, right-facing triangle next to Filter to reveal all the choices under the Filter menu. Scroll down to Gaussian Blur, then click on the name. This brings up a field where you can enter the shortcut by pressing the keys you want to use. I recommend using the Shift-Option-Command-G (PC: Shift-Alt-Control-G) because there are so few shortcuts not already being used by Photoshop. Click OK, and not only is the shortcut activated but your custom shortcut now appears in the Filter menu to the right of Gaussian Blur.
Inspiration By Photo
We've added a new entry to our Inspiration Page — FILE Magazine, which continues to astound us with their amazing photo collection. When you find a photographer you like, there will often be a link to their personal website.
Abneil Software Ltd / Graphicxtras.com Have Shipped "Andrew's Plugins" Update
A powerful set of visual effects plugins has been updated. The plugins are for RGB format but can be used in 8bit/16bit and many other color modes. The plugins include: blurs; gradients; emboss; line effects; dot effects; warp effects; wave effects; edge effects; artistic effects; vignette; smears; color effects; threshold effects; patterns; paint effects and more. For more information about the plugins, visit Graphicxtras.com.
Photoshop Tip — Moving Multiple Layers From Document To Document
Want to move more than one layer at a time from one document to another? It's easy as long as you know where to drag from. First, link your layers together, then make sure that you drag your layer from within the document itself, rather than trying to drag the layer from the layers palette. Dragging a layer from the layers palette to another document is fine, as long as you only want to drag one layer at a time.
Brushes From The Very Mysterious Annika von Holdt
We've added a link on our Brushes Page to a very beautiful and mysterious website that offers free sets of Photoshop brushes, The Fifth Muse by Annika von Holdt. Very dreamy.
Wacom Announces New Intuos3 Professional Pen Tablets, First with Built-in ExpressKeys and Zoom/Scroll Touch Strips
Wacom Technology Corporation today introduced its new Intuos 3 professional pen tablets offering an array of improvements that provide higher levels of productivity for digital photographers, designers, and artists.
Photoshop Tip — Finding the Photographic Brush Tips
Adobe hid 'em, but they're there - a few photographic brush tips, and it's worth giving them a try just to see what they can do. To find these photographic brush tips, go to the brushes palette, and from the palettes pop-down menu, load the set named Special Effect Brushes. Try the Large Roses brush (just click it a couple of times in your image), or the Ducks brush. Then click-and-drag the first brush (the flowers) and watch what happens. Try the third brush in the list, and paint a few strokes. Pretty neat stuff.
Photoshop Tips & Tutorials from CreativeBits
We're very proud to be hosting a series of great Photoshop tips & tutorials by Ivan Raszl of CreativeBits.
Adobe Updates Photoshop Plug-in for DP 2.5GHz G5
The plug-in update is designed to optimize Adobe Photoshop 7.0.1 for use with the Apple Power Macintosh G5 processor.
LookWow Launches First Web-based Photo Enhancement Service for Consumers
LookWow have announced the availability of the first solution that gives users the power of high-end graphics software on the web. LookWow can be used for online dating, sharing photos with friends and family, corporate photos and more. The service is free and requires no registration, installation or membership, works with any browser and with any operating system.
Photoshop Tip — Transforming and Copying at the Same Time
Generally, when you apply a transformation to an object (scaling, rotating, distorting, perspective), you apply that transformation to the object itself. However, here's a cool tip if you want to apply a transformation (using Free Transform) on a duplicate of your object, rather than on the original: Press Option-Command-T (PC: Alt-Control-T), then use the Free Transform tool as you usually would. You'll notice that as you begin to transform, the original object remains untouched, and copy is transformed instead.
Photoshop CS3 Upgrade Options And Bundles From The Adobe Store
Photoshop CS3 Extended is ideal for film, video, and multimedia pros and for graphic and web designers using 3D and motion. Get the full version for US $999, or upgrade for US $349. The standard version of Photoshop CS3 is available for US $649, or as an upgrade for US $199. See all upgrade options at the Adobe Store. See our CS3 Resource Center for free Photoshop CS3 tutorials.
Photoshop Extended is also available as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, which combines all-new CS3 versions of Photoshop, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat 8 Pro. Upgrade options for customers in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Asia can be found at the Adobe International Store.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Available At The Adobe Store
There are tons of new features in Adobe Lightroom 1.0 that you won't find in the beta version. From Clone and Healing functionality to metadata browsing, you'll be able to free-up post-processing time like never before. Get it now at the Adobe Store. Customers in Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Asia can find special pricing and offers at the Adobe International Store. For free Lightroom tutorials see our Lightroom tutorials page.
Special Offer - Fluid Mask - Photoshop Masking Plugin
Fluid Mask is based on breakthrough segmentation technology inspired by the way the eye, optic nerve and brain perform visual processing. When an image is loaded, Fluid Mask's segmentation engine analyses the distribution of colors, finding the natural groups within the image. Together with information calculated about edges, gradients and textures, a model is constructed which divides the images into objects.
Vertus Software is offering Fluid Mask at the special 'friends and partner' discounted rate. This is an exclusive offer to visitors of PhotoshopSupport.com. To qualify, visit the Fluid Mask Discount Price page. Find out more about Fluid Mask on our special Fluid Mask Page.
Alien Skin Software - Photoshop Plugins - Special 10% & 20% Discounts On All Alien Skin Photoshop Plugins
Our friends at Alien Skin Software have set us up with an exclusive special offer discount link that will give you some sweet savings at their online store.
Just follow this link and you'll see 10% and 20% price drops on their products when you get to the Alien Skin Online Store area (excludes the Eye Candy Bundle, which is already discounted at $199). This special offer includes a discount on Eye Candy: Textures, Eye Candy: Nature, Eye Candy: Impact, Exposure, Blow Up, and their latest release Snap Art.
Snap Art – $149 – our price $129
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Eye Candy 5: Impact – $99 – our price $79
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SiteGrinder Photoshop Plugin - Create Websites Instantly
There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.
Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.
Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool
SiteGrinder seeks to bridge this gap between design and development. Basically, this program turns Photoshop into an easy-to-use and fully functional web design tool. With SiteGrinder, designers will now have the freedom to totally let their creativity loose and then, without skipping a beat, transfer their designs to the web. Bringing esthetic concerns together with more practical considerations, this program is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks.
Generate Your Web Pages Directly From Photoshop
By generating web pages directly from Photoshop, you'll be able to spend much more time on the creative end of the spectrum, since you'll know right off the bat how well particular designs will translate to the web. No more going back to the Photoshop drawing board after getting a phone call from your development team, telling you that what you had envisioned doesn't have a chance of being displayed on the web. You can immediately visually and interactively test your designs, which permits you to then make changes to either esthetics or functions while it's still relatively early on in the design process.
Pricing and Availability
Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download. SiteGrinder can be ordered from Media Lab's online store.
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