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TUESDAY - DECEMBER 20 2005
Life In The Fast Lane: Killer Photoshop CS2 Production Tips
Informit.com has posted a really great treat for everyone — Life in the Fast Lane: Killer Photoshop CS2 Production Tips — which is 38 free tips all taken from the popular Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips book by Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson. Each tip opens on its own page and includes an image sample. Here's the complete list of the free tips:
• 1 Miss the Old Default Actions?
• 2 Rearranging your Brushes
• 3 Find the Center of Any Document
• 4 No More Jaggy Lasso Tool Selections
• 5 Open Up Some Screen Real Estate
• 6 Let Photoshop Do the Work in Curves
• 7 Want a Finer Grid? You Got It!
• 8 You Don't Need the Brushes Palette to Change Brush Size
• 9 Rotate to Any Angle the Fast Way
• 10 Get Rid of Unwanted Brushes
• 11 Brushes Right Where You Want 'em
• 12 Navigating the Brush Picker Like a Pro
• 13 Get More Control Over Your Paint Strokes
• 14 Speed Tip to Rotate Through Open Images
• 15 Instantly Find the Center of Any Object
• 16 Making Your Guide Flip
• 17 Creating Temporary Brushes
• 18 Reusing Your Last Curve Setting
• 19 Bringing Back Those Cropped-Away Areas
• 20 Fix Those Stray Pixels Fast!
• 21 Getting More Control over the Magic Wand
• 22 Making the Color Palette Work Twice as Hard
• 23 Use Your Last Settings and Save Time
• 24 Hit Those Channels Fast
• 25 How to Get an Undo After You've Closed the Document
• 26 Using the Pen? Stay Away from the Toolbox
• 27 Put Your Gradient Picker at Your Fingertips
• 28 Don't Click in That Field!
• 29 Out of Memory? Try This First
• 30 How to Unerase
• 31 Let Photoshop Straighten Your Crooked Scans
• 32 Copy One Layer, or Copy 'em All
• 33 Stuck in a Field? Here's How to Escape
• 34 Don't Cancel; Reset and Save Time
• 35 See Every Tweak with Bigger Filter Gallery Previews
• 36 Showing One Effect in the Filter Gallery
• 37 Use the Move Tool Anytime
• 38 Filter Gallery Zoom Quick Tip
Read the free Life in the Fast Lane: Killer Photoshop CS2 Production Tips.
Buy Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips (Amazon.com - $19.79 - 34% discount).
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New Blog Offers Apple Aperture Help
Scott Bourne, a professional photographer, author and educator has created ApertureTricks.com to help photographers who are trying to adjust to the new paradigm introduced by Apple. Bourne, who moderates the blog and has created most of its initial content, hopes others in the Aperture community will contribute to help make it a valuable resource site.
"Any time you have a new software program, there's just no way one person can know it all right away," said Bourne. "I want to create a community where people who are interested in Aperture can come and share their thoughts, concerns and tricks for using the software."
Bourne is giving away prizes for the best tricks posted on the blog.
If you submit an Aperture Trick, (which automatically grants them the right to publish it) your name will be entered into a free drawing for a Lensbaby (Nikon or Canon version only). The drawing will be held January 28, 2006.
For more info visit ApertureTricks.com
For more on Aperture, see our Apple Aperture Resource Center.
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Review: Apple's Aperture 1.0 - By Ben Long
(From creativepro.com) Apple's first-ever pro photography tool generated a lot of buzz when it was first announced. Ben Long spent weeks putting the shipping version of Aperture through all sorts of tests. In this thorough review of Aperture, he reveals whether the reality lives up to the buzz. From the intro:
While today's image-editing programs provide phenomenal tools for correcting and adjusting images, the digital image-editing workflow still confounds many photographers — especially those who shoot raw. Aperture 1.0, Apple's entry into the professional digital image-editing marketplace, aims to solve the photographer's workflow dilemma by providing a single application that performs sorting and cataloging, raw conversion, basic image editing, Web page generation, printing, and archiving. The program provides exceptional, unique tools for comparing and sorting images, but it's hampered by a number of weaknesses. Ironically, you may find that trying to work around these issues requires a workflow more complicated than what you already have.
Before you worry too much about whether Aperture is right for you, you need to consider whether your computer is right for Aperture. Aperture is built around Apple's Core Image technology, a term for image-processing routines that are built-in to OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Core Image makes heavy use of your computer's video card to accelerate image processing operations. As such, Aperture will work only with certain video cards. And, because not all video cards are created equal, Aperture will perform better with some cards than with others. To ensure that your video card gets image data in a timely manner, you'll also want a fast computer and a lot of RAM.
In the following review, I've broken down my findings into 11 sections:
- The Interface
- Importing
- Aperture 101
- Loupe de Loop
- Aperture Philosophy
- Metadata and Keywords
- Editing
- Moving Edits
- Organization and Output
- Workflow
- Quality and Performance
Read Review: Apple's Aperture 1.0 by Ben Long.
For more info on Aperture, see our Apple Aperture Resource Center.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Photoshop CS3 Book - CS3 Essential Skills - By Mark Galer And Philip Andrews
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The Essential Skills Photography Series from Focal Press uniquely offers a structured learning experience for photographers of all ages, with both the underlying theory and loads of invaluable 'how to' and real-life practice projects - all from the most talented photography practitioners/educators in the world.
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Whether you simply want to retouch an image, create a glamour makeover or create a highly sophisticated montage - this book will give you the essential skills to complete the work to a professional standard.
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