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July 10, 2007
Enrique from Photoshop Roadmap has a quick and easy trick to get an illustrated effect, the demented Dr. Brown has resurfaced with another round of free scripts, Jennifer Farley has some nice tutorials on using the blur filters in Photoshop, and LightroomNews offers more Martin Evening articles. Go get 'em!
The Photoshop Roadmap
Photo to Illustration Effect
Give your photos an illustration effect in only two steps. Also, add a realistic folded paper effect to the final image.
Gordon McKinney
Optimizing Photoshop Performance on Windows (RAM Disk)
All of this is recommended if you have 4GB of installed RAM. On Windows XP some of that memory will be unavailable due to your graphics card. On my system I have 3.5GB of physical memory available, my graphics card eats 512MB. ext, download this RAM Disk software. Configure it to use 1GB of RAM, FAT32. Don't worry about all the other fancy options...
LightroomNews
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book 1.1 update: Sharpening and noise reduction
In this feature story I wanted to concentrate on the new sharpening and noise reduction controls in Lightroom 1.1. But before discussing the new sharpening controls, I should briefly explain the principle behind capture sharpening and the difference between this and output sharpening.
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book 1.1 update: The new look Develop module menu
If you thought that the Library module had a lot of new additions, just wait till you see what the Develop module has in store. The recent Adobe Camera Raw 4.1 update offered a few clues as to what you might expect to see in Lightroom 1.1, things like the new sharpening and clarity adjustments.
Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes
Fireworks Celebration Photoshop Brushes
Took these at the Fort Rucker fireworks display this year. I keep meaning to make brush sets for each holiday, but I just keep getting distracted with other stuff! But, here’s your independence day fireworks brush set. Or... any other kind of celebration with fireworks brush set. A quick word on using these brushes. You can use them with a solid color, yes. They’ll look great. But, to help make them even more colorful and/or realistic, apply a radial gradient to the layer!
George Jardine
Lightroom Tutorial Podcast #34, Refine Photos Basics
A new mini-tutorial showing how the Refine Photos command works, to help you quickly edit a shoot down into picks and rejects.
Lightroom Podcast #35, with Eric Scouten
A conversation with Eric Scouten from the Lightroom team.
Smashing Magazine
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
“The world has seen thousands of artists and millions of great pieces of art, but we chose just a handful of pieces of art from some of greatest masters of painting to show a little of how they were inspired by color... or perhaps, how they inspire us with color.”
SwissMiss
90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources
Photos are everywhere on the web. From sharing with friends, to editing, printing, buying, selling, searching, remixing and free hosting, Mashable lined up a plethora of resources for photo friends: 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources.
Jennifer Farley's Digital Design Cottage
Blurring Filters in Photoshop: A closer look at the Smart Blur and Lens Blur (Part 1)
For a lot of Photoshop users, blur tends to mean just one thing – that is Gaussian Blur. The other blur filters, “Blur” and “Blur More” have been part of Photoshop for a long time, but they generally require that you use the filter repeatedly before you start seeing the effects you’re after.
Blurring Filters in Photoshop: A closer look at the Smart Blur and Lens Blur (Part 2)
Earlier in the week I wrote a post about the Smart Blur filter in Photoshop. Today I’m looking at the Lens Blur filter.
Classic Photoshop Action Of The Week
A bit of an oldie (by internet standards) but goodie from PanosFX - The B & Big picture. This action can be applied to an image, with the result forming a superb collage that looks like it has been created using over 25 individual photographs. The photographs even look like they have been slightly tossed by the wind! It would take AGES to recreate all of these steps.
John Nack
New Dr. Brown scripts for Photoshop
Adobe's resident character-in-chief Russell Brown has unveiled a new revision to his popular set of image-processing scripts for Photoshop. Downloadable from his site (installers for Mac, Win), these latest scripts buff up an already robust set of tools. Numerous enhancements to the Image Processor that ships with CS3 are visible in the 1-2-3 Process tutorial movie. In the Stack-A-Matic movie you can see an automated way to blend images using stack modes, as well as useful keyboard shortcuts installed by the script. The core functions run in both Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, while the stack- and time-based functions work only with Extended. The scripts are free for download.
As always, a special Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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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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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.
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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.
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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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