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April 04, 2007
Lots of Photoshop tips, tricks, videos and free goodies to keep us distracted while we pine for CS3 to arrive at the door...
Graphics.com
Give an Illustration a Halftone Glow
This tip provides a quick technique for adding a halftone glow border effect.
NAPP
Guru Award Winners For East Coast Photoshop World
The Guru Awards are a special Photoshop competition exclusively for conference attendees of Photoshop World that were created to recognize the innovation and creativity of our attendees. Since its humble beginnings in 1999, the Guru Awards has now become the one of the most prestigious and coveted awards in the international digital imaging industry.
PixelPerfect With Bert Monroy
PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy - The Brush Engine
Sure, lots of video games have a physics engine -- ho-hum look at gravity and inertia work their magic. None of them have what Photoshop has: a brush engine. The brush engine was developed back in Photoshop 7 (before CS) and is what makes Photoshop a true painting program and revolutionized the way Photoshop works. In the longest episode of PixelPerfect yet, Bert explains and demonstrates the inner workings of the brush engine.
John Nack
What's unique to Photoshop Extended?
I'm often asked what features of the CS3 release are unique to Photoshop Extended. This edition starts with all the capabilities of Photoshop CS3 and extends them (hence the name) with the following...
Kuler RIA -> Desktop via Dashboard
The folks behind kuler, Adobe's color-centric rich internet app, are a quietly busy bunch. Tonight they've posted a widget for OS X's Dashboard. According to kuler community PM Sami Iwata, the widget "displays RSS feeds of color themes from kuler... Browse the newest, highest rated, and most popular color themes; search for themes on the kuler site by tag, title, or creator ID; copy hex values from any theme to your clipboard."
JPEG 2000 - Do you use it?
As you may or -- as seems overwhelmingly likely -- may not know, Photoshop ships with a plug-in for reading and writing JPEG 2000-format files. So, do you use JPEG 2000? If so, please give a shout and let us know how & why you use it.
PhotoshopTV
Photoshop TV Episode 75 (April 2, 2007)
Scott uses adjustments, filters, and free transform to create a professional looking product shot, and tells you how to easily compare photos in camera raw, Matt details how to remove a color cast using curves, and Dave shows you how to fix your photos’ colors in a slightly different way, and then how to apply it to many photos using automation.
(Thanks you guys for the link to us!)
PhotoshopNews
Photoshop CS3’s Tribute to Bruce Fraser
While you might not see it in the regular Photoshop CS3/CS3 Extended splash screen, the Photoshop engineers have paid tribute to Bruce Fraser and his contributions to Photoshop over the years.
What’s new in Photoshop CS3 for Photographers
To coincide with the official announcement of Photoshop CS3, Martin Evening has released a sample chapter from his forthcoming book: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers, published by Focal Press. As a special perk for PhotoshopNews readers, Martin has made his Chapter 1: What’s New in Photoshop CS3 available for free download.
The 24 page PDF, outlines all the new features of Photoshop CS3 and Bridge 2, written from a user’s perspective. It offers an honest appraisal of what will be on offer in this new version of the program, if you really want to know what’s NEW!
CS3: The Creative License eSeminar Series for Serious Photographers
This eSeminar series is designed for professional photographers, web professionals, graphic designers, video professionals, architects, engineers, photography enthusiasts, and others. Online live seminars are scheduled events simulcast over the web via Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional. You’ll need a computer with a browser, Adobe Flash player and Internet connection. Voice-Over IP will broadcast over your computer if you have audio. Alternatively, audio is available via telephone. Access details will be provided once you register.
LightroomNews
Lightroom Podcast #29 has been posted, with Raw Engineering and Jeff Schewe
“We didn’t get local tone and color correction and that’s something Bruce Fraser had wanted, so I’m going to get Mark in a noogie and not let him out until we get a commitment for 2.0.” - Jeff Schewe
Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
New Synchronized Windows in Bridge CS3
The Bridge CS3 is loaded with New features and performance enhancements. Some of the new features aren't as obvious. In this episode we'll take a look at the New Synchronize Window command as well as some other hidden features in the slideshow area.
Editing Video in Photoshop CS3 Extended
Now that Adobe has taken the wraps off of Photoshop CS3 Extended we'll start to take an in-depth look at this new addition to the Photoshop family. In this first "extended" episode we'll take a look at Photoshop's new support for importing video files and cloning from one frame to other frames. From there we'll explore the export options back to video and a series of frames
Special interview with Johnny L, SVP Adobe Creative Solutions Business
In this NEW series: CS3 Creative License we'll continue to take a look behind the scenes at Adobe. In this episode we get to hear from Johnny L, SVP Creative Solutions Business Unit. Johnny gives his insights on the NEW CS3 products and Adobe's overall creative solutions strategy. Join us as we take a look inside Adobe.
Photoshop QuickTips
Episode 42: The Look
In this episode of Quicktips I show you how to create "The Look" on your digital photographs. It's very hard to explain exactly what "The Look" is, but it seems to be a very popular technique amongst digital photographers today. This may or may not be the exact method that the photographers use to get their "look" but I think this tutorial serves its purpose.
Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips
Working with Metadata
Metadata is the less glamorous side of Lightroom but probably just as important as any other area. So in this week’s video we’re going to take a quick look at where the metadata lives in Lightroom and how you can go about working with it.
Creative Notes/MacWorld
Getting good grayscale out of Photoshop
James Dempsey offers different techniques for turning your color images into stunning black & white photos.
Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes
Pixies / Fairy Brushes
A set of 28 brushes made up of glowing pixies. Faeries, fairies, pixies... whatever you want to call them, they're cute and they're aglow! Includes all kinds of poses - sitting, standing, playful poses, soaring / flying, etc...
As always, a special 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.
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.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Available At The Adobe Store
Adobe has announced the immediate availability of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software, the photographer's essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs. With new enhancements such as dual-monitor support, radical advances in non-destructive localized image correction, and streamlined search capabilities, Photoshop Lightroom 2 is a compelling upgrade that simplifies photography from shoot to finish. Visit the Adobe site to download a free 30 day Photoshop Lightroom trial free download.
As Adobe’s first application to support 64-bit for Mac OS X 10.5 Macintosh computers with Intel processors and Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit operating systems, Lightroom 2 also provides improved memory performance for dealing with large scale images. Find the latest Lightroom 2 tutorials on our Photoshop Lightroom 2 Tutorials page.
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Skin Retouching Tips In Photoshop CS4
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