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THURSDAY - JULY 13 2006
Here's my latest collection of Photoshop goodies.
From CreativeGuy
Tips for sharpening your image in Photoshop
Virtually every image you bring into Photoshop (scanning or digital camera) will need at least a little bit of sharpening. There are quite a few ways in Photoshop to sharpen an image (Sharpen, Sharpen More filters, the Sharpen tool and my personal favorite, Unsharp Mask). Here are a few helpful tips, no matter what method you choose to use, for sharpening your image.
Crop & straighten your images
If you’re scanning several photos in for a project, it can be quite a pain to scan them one at a time for the sake of cropping and straightening them. Then again, if you try to scan them all at once, you have to manually straighten them and break them out to separate files, right? Wrong. Photoshop has a built-in feature that will make this task much easier.
Using the Measure/Ruler tool in Photoshop
The Measure/Ruler tool can be a handy little gem when you’re working in Photoshop.
Creating a halftone dot image border
If you’re looking for a way to highlight a part of an image, or simply create a unique border, try the old halftone dot border trick. To do it, follow these six simple steps below.
Finding the CMYK equivalent of a Pantone color
Many times you are asked to find the CMYK equivalent of a particular Pantone color. If you don’t have a Pantone to Process conversion guide available, you can use Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.
Free light effects Photoshop filter
L’amico Perro Luce (Light Effects) is a nifty Photoshop filter (for Windows only) that allows you to add beams of light from any given source in your image.
From CreativeBits
Make an image look digital
An image on a computer is built up by pixels, normally they're so small so we don't see them until we zoom real close, but they are there. Here's a cool trick if you want show the pixels more and perhaps create an transition from normal on one side and pixels on the other side.
The Extract tool
One of the most common things beginners to Photoshop wants to be able todo is separate one object or so from it's background. There are as many ways to extract an object from it's background as there are languages on our earth and every one is different from each other. One way is using the filter in Photoshop called Extract.
From John Nack
Adobe's acquisition of Pixmantec: an FAQ
Following up on the announcement that Adobe is acquiring Pixmantec, we've posted an FAQ document (60KB PDF). A couple of key points:
- Registered customers who purchased RawShooter Premium will be able to download the shipping version of Lightroom 1.0 for free.
- Although RawShooter Essentials & RawShooter Premium are being discontinued, there will still be an update to add support for the Canon 30D.
From Jen deHaan
New book on Flash Video featured on Design Center
I just want to highlight some excerpts we have recently posted on the Adobe Design Center. The excerpts are from "Foundation Flash 8 Video" by Tom Green and Jordan Chilcott, a book from friends of ED. I've checked out a number of chapters from this book, and it looks great - each chapter contains a wealth of procedures that tell you how to actually do stuff (instead of talking about doing stuff... ). I also like to see that the book includes a lot of integration between Illustrator, After Effects, and Flash. Anyway, we're really happy that they agreed to let us share some of their tutorials on the Design Center.
2 From Graphics.com
Boost and Blend With the Same Tools in Photoshop
Derek Lea uses the same masks and blending modes to enhance images separately, then unify them.
Creating Carved and Sandblasted Text Effects in Photoshop
Carl West provides a simple way to create this classic text effect.
Links To Lightroom Podcasts From PhotoshopNews
Lightroom Podcast Episode 9 Posted
Fast on the heels of Episode 8 comes another Lightroom Podcast from Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe, Goerge Jardine. This time he has Lightroom engineers Kevin Tieskoetter and Andy Rahn.
Lightroom Podcast Episode 8 Posted
George Jardine, Pro Photography Evangelist of Adobe has posted a new iTunes Podcast about Adobe Lightroom with Mark Hamburg (Lightroom founding engineer), Bruce Fraser, Zalman Stern (Camera Raw engineer), and Thomas Knoll, Photoshop co-author and Camera Raw primary engineer.
From The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog
Download a chapter from Eddie Tapp's new Photoshop book
(Jan Kabili) My buddy Eddie Tapp is working on a new book, Photoshop Workflow Setups: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography. You can download a chapter of the book from creativepro.com, in which Tapp shows you how to set up efficient workspaces in Photoshop and Bridge.
Pixel Groovy - digg.com for design tutorials
(David Chartier) Sites like digg.com and the new Netscape beta (from some of our own here at Weblogs Inc.) are doing great things for the world of social news and bookmarking, but if you're looking for something a little more in tune with the designer in you, point your clicks towards Pixel Groovy.
From Dave Cross
TIP: Change the cursor size
One of the often-overlooked options in the Photoshop CS2 Preferences is to change the painting cursor to Full Size Brush Tip. This option indicates the full area affected by soft-edged brushes. There's also an option to display a crosshair in the center of the brush shape.
Adobe Lightroom for Windows
According to Tim Grey who recently saw a "sneak peek" at the Windows version of Adobe Lightroom, it's coming "soon". If you want to hear when the beta is available, you can sign up.
Guy Kawasaki video
Check out this video of a keynote presentation by Guy Kawasaki, based on his book Art of the Start. Very inspirational stuff!
As always, a big Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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Did You Know You Could Create An Entire Website In Photoshop?
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.
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