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July 13, 2007
Jennifer Farley offers some solid Photoshop tutorials, Martin Evening can't stop giving things away, this time a 117 page supplement to his Lightroom book, Justin Seeley is back from his Total Training gig and has revived his weekly QuickTips offerings, and John Nack continues to discover intriguing and fascinating content that can result in serious missing time experiences. You have been warned...
MacUpdate
FlickrShop 1.0 - Upload photos from Photoshop to Flickr
FlickrShop is a free plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to upload images to Flickr photo sharing website directly from Adobe Photoshop. No need to save your image to a temporary file, no more switching between applications - just open your image, tweak it in Photoshop and share it with the world via Flickr. (Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Adobe Photoshop CS2 or later, Flickr account.)
Jennifer Farley's Digital Design Cottage
Photoshop : Tutorial - Changing the direction of brush strokes
If you’re working with brushes with irregular shapes in Photoshop, you may find that you want to rotate the Brush so that you can get the same brush stroke horizontally as vertically. But how do you do it? Well the good news is that you CAN do this AND it’s easy too.
Photoshop : Tutorial - Removing Wrinkles and Keepin’ It Real!
The clone tool is one of the most often used tools when it comes to retouching in Photoshop. But two other tools that are often overlooked by people new to the sport are the Healing Brush and the Patch tools. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to remove some wrinkles from an elderly lady’s face. To ensure that we get a realistic result we’ll firstly duplicate the background layer and carry out all changes on this duplicate layer. On completion of retouching, we’ll use the two layers together to get a more natural look.
John Nack
This font goes to 10,116pt.
The designers at Pentagram talk about how they created a giant NY Times logo (10,116-point Fraktur) for the publisher's new headquarters. Interestingly, each letter is comprised of numerous small, three-dimensional "beaks" that enhance the sign's visibility from the street.
Free 177-page Lightroom 1.1 overview available
Martin Evening, photographer/author/apparent insomniac, has just released a 177-page supplement to The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book. The supplement, in which Martin describes in detail all the new features found in Lightroom 1.1, is free not only to book owners, but to everyone. The supplement is illustrated with 20MB of images and contains page cross references to the main book. Lightroom News has the details on how to download the file from Peachpit.
Time & space in photography
In honor of George Eastman's 153rd birthday (today), Slate features an interesting Magnum photo essay on the history of consumer picture-taking. Elsewhere in the air, in Me and My Human Vincent Laforet has captured a striking image from above the ice rink in Central Park. Wired hosts selections from Edward Burtynsky's documentary about China's superhuman rise & the human consequences thereof.
Interactive Adobe video wall comes to NYC
According to an article in today's NYT, "Adobe will unveil an interactive wall of projected animation [see video] this morning in Union Square, along the 14th Street side of the Virgin Megastore. As pedestrians walk past the wall, infrared sensors will lock on to the person closest to the wall, who will then be able to control a projected slider button at the bottom of the wall. As the selected pedestrian continues walking and moves the slider along, the wall will start displaying colorful animation and playing music, effects that will grow or recede at the pace that the person advances or retreats."
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Photoshop Brush Tool Cheatsheet.
How much useful information can you fit onto a standard 3x5 index card? That's the challenge our Adobe Expert, Jasson Hoppe, takes on each month with his growing collection of Photoshop cheatsheets.This month's tiny cheatsheet contribution covers shortcuts and tricks for Photoshop's Brush Tool...
Photoshop Quicktips
Episode 50: Mix and Match
After a VERY long absence, Photoshop Quicktips is back! In this week's episode we take a look at how to realistically blend a subject into a new background using a very simple yet effective technique. This tips is really cool and requires very little effort at all.
Adobe Creative SUite Video Podcast - Terry White
Take advantage of Bridge Home in Bridge CS3
Bridge CS3 comes with a completely redesigned Bridge Home that replaces Bridge Center from Bridge CS2. Bridge Home is FAST and Flash Based. It dynamic updates with the latest information. In this episode we'll learn how to use Bridge Home to get to all the FREE resources for learning more about your Adobe CS3 products. See videos, tips and more.
BittBox
Random Free Vectors - Part 6: Foliage
I haven’t released a vector set in a while so I decided to change that tonite. This is a set of free foliage vectors I made in Illustrator. They are available in AI, EPS and SVG formats, so hopefully they will be useful to a good many of you. Add them to your toolbox...
Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes
Hearts Photoshop Brushes II
Since the first set of my hearts Photoshop brushes were so popular, I figured it was high time I made another set. These are all original designs, and are all about 800 x 800 pixels. Includes: grungy hearts, heart outlines, hearts with swirls, patterned hearts, glittery hearts, basic hearts, a broken stone heart (with a bandaid!), a checkered heart, a tribal heart, a dripping heart, a heart with splatters, and more!
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 - Complete CS4 Bundle
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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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