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May 16, 2007
John Nack presents Photoshop to Robert Scoble for close to an hour, Bert Monroy offers secret shadow effect techniques, and Deke McClelland shares some of his Photoshop wisdom. In the brush department Stephanie posts some nice "tech" brushes, Enrique gives us progressive rock logos and album cover brushes, and Jennifer offers a set of hi-res brushes made up of skulls.
John Nack
Scoble, the Phillustrator, & me
A couple of weeks ago, Robert Scoble (former Microsoft blogfatha) visited the Adobe San Jose office. We spent just under an hour talking about Photoshop, and you can catch the broadcast here (also available fullscreen). Our chat touches on engineer/pilot Thomas Knoll's frugal Midwestern ways; HDR imaging; Eyes Wide Shut incantations; raw Smart Objects; the redemption of Brightness/Contrast; and more...
Helping the Help: Photoshop now on LiveDocs
The Help files that ship with Adobe products seem to catch a lot of slings and arrows from users. There are some fair points to be made, and one small team of writers can never be as specific, detailed, or personable as the many third-party books out there. Recognizing this, the documentation team is now publishing the help content via LiveDocs -- the user-editable Web publishing system rolled out by Macromedia...
Bought Photoshop, but really want Extended?
In the last few days, a couple of people have remarked that they've purchased Photoshop CS3, only to realize later that they really want Photoshop Extended. There's no upgrade path that lets you go CS3->CS3 Extended for less than the price of the CS2->Extended upgrade, but you do have another option: Adobe Customer Service can work with you to return your standard license, then purchase an upgrade to Extended instead. Lavi Shepard-Moran from customer service points out that only customers within the 30-day money back guarantee window can return/swap product.
The Photoshop Roadmap
Progressive Rock Logos and Albums Photoshop Brushes
This is something I always wanted to do. I’m turning 44 this year and I must admit that I still listen to progressive rock with passion. And this is precisely what I love about Photoshop. You can turn anything you like into brushes and start writing about something that you normally wouldn’t, in your blog. Sadly, it was only when I started this brush set that I noticed that except for a couple of bands, no one had a steady logo over time.
A Complete Guide to Digital Makeover in Photoshop
Fake images are all around us. Almost every fashion model or artist photo is digitally beautified prior to its public release. Sometimes this goes too far and the photos are so fixed that leaves almost no traces of the original natural beauty of the subject being retouched. This digital enhancement of human faces and bodies is called Digital Makeover. It usually involves techniques such as skin smoothing, red eye removal, hair color replacement an so on.
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Making Photoshop Selections With the Keyboard
William McBee shows how to speed your Photoshop production via the keyboard.
Photoshop Layer Tips
Mike Crawford provides some quick tips on working with layers in Photoshop.
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Photoshop How-To: Better Black and White
Imagine a future where you capture only color images and transform them into tonally rich black-and-white works of art. Then go one step further and imagine morphing that grayscale masterpiece into a stunning infrared image. Good news: The future has arrived.
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Free Photoshop Brushes : High Resolution Skulls
Arghhh me hearties... Today I have a new Photoshop brush set for you to enjoy... Skulls. This brush set has 6 high resolution brushes featuring skulls in different styles. They are about 2000 pixels wide and you can use them for whatever purpose you want. I’d love to hear back from you if you do find them useful.
Photoshop : Tutorial - Using A Layer Mask
Here’s a method to use a gradient with a layer mask in Photoshop to produce a very cool effect. Layer masks are great because they allow you to make dramatic changes to an image without damaging any pixels in your original picture.
dekeBytes
Fusing Two Images, Automatically!
This new feature in Photoshop CS3 allows you to automatically align multiple images captured from a single vantage point, even if you shot them without a tripod. For instance, let's say we have these pictures of me and my wife...
Your Basic Smart Filter Mask
Last week, I showed you how to use Smart Filters, a new feature in Photoshop CS3, to apply non-destructive filter effects to an image. Well, just as you can use layer masks with adjustment layers, you can apply masks...
Welcome to Smart Filters
In this installment of dekeBytes, I'll give you a sense for how this new feature in Photoshop CS3 works by applying some detail sharpening...
LightroomNews
Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom Support Center
Adobe has posted a Lightroom Support Center including TechNotes about Lightroom.
PixelPerfect With Bert Monroy
PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy - Shadows
What lurks in the shadows? Is it something scary and frightening? Nothing so nefarious in this insightful episode of PixelPerfect in which Bert casts light upon the mysteries behind creating advanced shadow effects within Photoshop.
Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes
Tech Photoshop Brushes
These 23 brushes are all made up of various “tech” (technology, Sci-Fi, whatever you want to call them!) designs and shapes. Includes various circle designs, hexagons, lines, blueprints, diagrams, binary (including a Matrix-style binary design), circuits, and various other tech shapes and diagrams.
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Using the New Clone Source Panel in PS CS3
Very special guest Russell Preston Brown aka Dr. Brown comes to us in this episode and shows off the new Clone Source panel in Photoshop CS3. See how this creative genius takes the Clone Source feature to a whole new level.
CS3 Production Premium - Let's go to the movies!
In this episode we'll take the wraps off the brand New Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium. Production Premium includes brand new versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects Professional, Encore, Flash, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator and a brand new app called Soundbooth CS3. Sit back and buckle up, it's going to be one heck of a ride!
Photoshop QuickTips
Episode 47: Clip it Good
In this weekâs episode we take a break from the CS3 'exclusive' content and get back into a creative mindset using clipping masks.
This is a very popular technique that is used in all sorts of magazine ads, posters, invitations, and book covers.
You'll learn how to quickly 'clip' your photographs into your text layer to create a very eye-catching effect, without harming any pixels in the image and keeping your text live and editable.
As always, a special Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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Photoshop CS4 & Photoshop CS4 Extended - Best Deals From Adobe
Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended feature a newly refined, tab-based interface in a single, integrated window, with self-adjusting panels arranged in docked groups. Automatically keeping tools well organized and away from your work area means you get greater efficiency, less clutter, and better results, faster than before.
Delivering all the features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 software, including the new Adjustments and Masks panels, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended also provides breakthrough 3D editing and compositing power to paint directly on 3D models, create 3D animations, convert 2D images to 3D objects, and more; richer motion graphics editing; and more powerful and flexible image analysis and tracking. Learn more on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page. To download the free trial, see details on our Photoshop CS4 Free Trial Download Page.
Find upgrade options and package deals at the Adobe USA Store. Teachers and students get special pricing at the Adobe Education Store. You can also buy in your country currency and language at the following Adobe International Stores:
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Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium - Complete CS4 Bundle
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium software is the designer's dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. Creativity is rarely confined to one medium, so put your vector illustrations in motion, moving fluidly between Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Adobe Flash CS4 Professional. And use Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended to design and slice a web page for publishing with Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium combines essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment. Also includes Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, Adobe InDesign CS4, plus Adobe Fireworks CS4.
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Plugins for Photoshop allow you to either do something that you cannot do with the features included in Photoshop or they allow you to do something easier, faster or better than you could do in Photoshop without the plug-in. Whether it is color correction, resizing, masking or creating an effect, you can find a Photoshop plug-in that can help you be more efficient with your time.
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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Find more Photoshop CS4 tutorials on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page.
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