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The Photoshop Blog offers the latest Photoshop news and software updates, Photoshop tips and tutorials, and random thoughts from graphic artist and Photoshop expert Jennifer Apple.
May 23, 2007
More high-res Photoshop brushes from BittBox, John Nack points you to a new and improved Adobe Exchange, Layers Magazine serves up 10 great Lightoom tips, PhotoshopNews provides links to free PDFs from Martin Evening, George Jardine posts 2 new Lightroom podcasts, and CreativeTech offers a useful Pen Tool cheatsheet that's ready to print. Not a bad catch...
Layers Magazine
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 Tips
Here are ten great tips to get you started in Lightroom 1.0.
PixelPerfect With Bert Monroy
Complex Interlocking Patterns
Interlocked patterns. Little holes cut in metal. Perfect symmetry.
PhotoshopNews
New Photoshop CS3 tutorials on photoshopforphotographers.com
First copies of Martin Evening’s new book: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers have just come off the press and are about to go on sale soon. In preparation for the launch of this latest edition to the Adobe Photoshop for Photographers series, Martin has updated the book website to provide some sample pages and chapter extracts that you can download for free.
John Nack
New Adobe Exchange goes live
Last year the Adobe Web team integrated the former Macromedia and Adobe Exchanges into a single content repository. A number of customers complained about slow performance and difficulty navigating the new site, so the Web team has been hard at work conducting interviews & building a revised system. The new Adobe Exchange launched today as a beta, using an HTML interface in place of the former SWF UI.
BittBox
Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II
My first set of Photoshop brushes (high-res watercolor) was pretty popular, so I thought I would feed you all some more. I’m beginning to make a lot of brushes for myself because I can’t find exactly what I want online. Of course, I would never do that without sharing them...
Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
Take advantage of the enhanced slideshows in Bridge CS3
Adobe Bridge in CS2 had a slideshow feature that did a basic slideshow. The slideshow in Bridge CS3 has come a long ways and adds a few very nice features for showing slideshows to your clients as well as giving you more options over controlling the look and feel of your show. In this episode we'll explore those options.
Photoshop QuickTips
Episode 48: Perspective Crop
In this episode of Quicktips I show you how to crop in perspective using one of the often overlooked features of the crop tool. This is a great little trick that will allow you to rip photos from frames, take posters off walls, and even (as we see in this podcast) rip images from a computer screen.
Graphics.com
Creating Toned Black and White Images
Mike Crawford shows how to extend the versatility of monochrome by replicating conventional toning processes.
George Jardine On Lightroom - Podcast
Lightroom Tutorial Podcast #31 - Develop Module Basics
A mini-tutorial showing you the basics of working with the Develop Module to help you correct a slightly underexposed photo.
Lightroom Tutorial Podcast #30 - Compare View and Quick Develop
A mini-tutorial showing you how the Quick Develop Panel can help you make a snap correction in the middle of an edit using Compare View, without breaking your concentration or workflow.
LightroomNews
Formatting in the Text Template Editor for Web
In the Web Module there is a wonderful HTML template called EXIF Metadata, which displays beautifully crafted EXIF information in Bold under the image. Each new piece of information is situated on a new line and looks well formatted and neat. It includes things that people may not want visible however, e.g. the camera serial number. So wouldn’t it be nice to create our own version of this, but with the information we want in it?
CreativeTech
Adobe Pen Tool Cheatsheet
Adobe's pen tool works pretty much the same across Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Yet, as important as this ubiquitous tool is, many people get confused with how to handle certain tasks, and the differences between the various pen symbols. CreativeTechs' electronic production guru, Jason Hoppe, has put together a quick Adobe Pen Tool cheat-sheet to help keep some of the basic techniques straight. Download the PDF, and pass it along to a friend.
Jennifer Farley's Digital Design Cottage
Photoshop Tutorial : Using the Crop tool to ADD canvas
The Crop tool is generally used to crop or make an image smaller, but this trick shows you how to add to the canvas area. This is a nice way to add a larger border or white space around an image. It works well for posters and you could also easily adapt it to create a Polaroid style image.
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.
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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.
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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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Skin Retouching Tips In Photoshop CS4
Transforming Smart Objects In Photoshop CS4
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Adjusting Exposure in Adobe Camera Raw CS3
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