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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.
July 20, 2007
Find tips on how to speed up your copy of Photoshop, download some free Photoshop brushes from Stephanie, see Bert Monroy razzle and dazzle and vanish, read Scott Kelby's report on a super fast card reader, and get lost in John Nack's latest discoveries, particularly those Ben Willmore HDR gems. It's a good day to go Photoshopping.
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Supercharge Photoshop
Many dedicated Photoshop users can get substantial speed gains from their existing equipment by simply optimizing their computer and software so that it runs Photoshop more efficiently. Here is a quick collection of speed-enhancing tips for getting the most efficient usage out of your software and computer...
PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy
Vanishing Points
Emulate 3D. Utilizing vanishing points. Within Photoshop.
Scott Kelby
This Super Fast Card Reader Is Hot!
I’ve been using a Firewire card reader to get my images from my memory card into my laptop for quite a while now, but I forgot to bring it with me to one of my Lightroom Tour stops and wound up borrowing a friend’s Delkin Compact Flash reader that slides directly into your laptop’s Express Card slot (so there’s no Firewire or USB cord necessary).
But beside the sheer convenience of not having to carry a reader and a connector cable, in copying the photos off my card — it absolutely hauled butt! (and “butt” isn’t the term I think best describes it). In fact, I’ve never had images copied at anywhere near that speed (up to 20MB per seconds!).
John Nack
Photography from the Four Corners
Going way out west, West, Ben Willmore has been doing some creative HDR work: I particularly like this Kingman, AZ motel; Needles to Calico; Grill; and Regulator.
Great Star Wars-related art
Something about the Star Wars franchise continues to inspire all kinds of creativity... Ryan Church has created amazing concept art for Star Wars Episodes II & III. Corel profiles Ryan on their Painter site, and on his site he discusses some details of how he uses Painter and Photoshop together.
Inside Lightroom Blog
My Favorite (simple) LR Keyboard Commands (Mikkel Aaland)
I’m visually oriented. Give me a well-designed UI and I’m happy. I have a limited memory for keyboard shortcuts. One keystroke is ok. Two is pushing it. Three or more… forget it. I especially like keyboard commands that follow some logic. Like “T” for toolbar. Maybe I’m getting old, but my brain is filling up and it takes a while for keyboard commands to stick. After using Lightroom for quite some time now, here are a few keyboard commands that have finally stuck...
Photoshop vs. Lightroom (Michael Clark)
Several days ago I spent an afternoon talking about digital workflow with a few fellow professional photographers here in Santa Fe: Nevada Wier and Jamey Stillings. Both are incredible, world-class photographers. During the course of our workflow discussion I started to think about the Photoshop & Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) versus Lightroom question. I thought I’d blog about a Photoshop/ACR workflow versus a Lightroom workflow. Both are valid workflows. What it comes down to is what makes more sense for the type of shooting that you do. Below are some pros and cons for both workflows (and I am sure I have missed lots of pros and cons - feel free to let me know any I’ve missed)...
BittBox
Font Update: Bleeding Cowboys
I normally don’t write posts for a single font, but when I laid eyes on this treasure of a typeface I just couldn’t help myself. I wanted to share it with everyone right away. Have a look for yourself. Everyone has their opinions, but for those of you that can find a use for this terrifically themed and textured typeface, I think you will like what you see.
Photoshop Quicktips
Episode 51: The Reference Generator
In this week's episode we take a look at how to solve that pesky little problem of never knowing the right keyboard shortcut when it matters most! Hidden inside the Photoshop UI is a great feature that allows you to create your own stylized keyboard shortcut reference chart to display as you see fit!
Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes
Paste Photoshop Brushes
A Photoshop brush set made up of 28 various paste marks. Most are smudges made with my finger, others are just globs of paste. Many of the brushes in this set would work great as finger painting smudges, too, btw! These are all pretty large, averaging around 800 x 800 pixels. These were fun to make!
Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast - Terry White
Put a large panoramic image on the web with Photoshop CS3
Photoshop CS3 now includes the Zoomify plug-in. With this plug-in you can take your large images and put them up on the web without your clients having to wait for the large files to download. This technology generates a Flash based animation that allows your visitors to zoom in and pan around your images. In this episode we'll start from scratch creating a panoramic image and then use the Export for Zoomify command to put it on the web.
As always, a special Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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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.
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