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December 22, 2007
I hope you all have the most amazing, wonderful, peaceful holidays anyone could possibly have!
John Nack
Lightroom Podcast #46: Catherine Hall
"So much of it is having faith in your work and your vision," says photographer Catherine Hall. "If you believe in yourself, and you believe in what you’re doing, and you illustrate your vision, then the money will come, and everything will fall into place."
Printing tips for Photoshop, Lightroom
Adobe's famous Russell Brown has created three new video tutorials meant to help get the best results when printing from Photoshop CS3 (with the 10.0.1 update) to various popular printers:
Printing to the Epson Stylus Pro 3800
Printing to the HP Photosmart Pro 9180
Printing to the Canon Pro9500
LL Cool P: Ladies Love Cool P'shop
There's an interesting article on TechCrunch, saying that according to software usage tracking company Wakoopa, "women spend about twice the time in Photoshop than men."
PSDTuts.com
How To Create That Last Minute Holiday e-Card in Photoshop
Christmas is just a few days away, so here is a tutorial showing how to create a Christmas design using Photoshop.
Creative Suite Video Podcast
Open JPEGs in Camera RAW using Photoshop CS3
In this episode we learn how to open JPEGs/TIFFs in Adobe Camera RAW from Photoshop CS3. Editing with Camera RAW is very easy. Now you'll be able to do so even if your digital camera doesn't shoot in RAW.
Using Export Presets in Photoshop Lightroom 1.3.1
In this episode we'll see how to take advantage of the newly redesigned Lightroom Export features. We'll see how to create our own presets so that we can export our images in various formats for various needs.
Brusheezy
Starfish, Shells by Artographica.com
Starfish and shell brushes.
More Cloud Brushes by Literary Spring
These are cloud brushes from pictures I took. They vary in size, but are all at least 800px wide.
Flowersn'swirls by stilok
Some flowers, a leaf, swirls and a couple of flowergarlands. I hope you’ll enjoy them. My brushes are free for non-commercial designs. If you want to use them in any commercial work please contact me first.
How Magazine
Sigg Design Contest
SIGG is looking to create a line of bottles inspired by and representative of the United States. Contestants are encouraged to work creatively, to show the U.S. as they see it and experience it. SIGG is looking for unique, out-of-the-box designs that go beyond stars and stripes. The top 10 designs will be sent on to Switzerland and 6 top designs will be chosen for the new collection.
PSDTuts.com
How To Create An Old-World Map In Photoshop
Ever wondered how it feels like to be a cartographer? Wonder no more! With this tutorial you’ll be able to make a new, unique, customizable, maps quickly. Starting from scratch to an old looking map fit for a treasure hunter! Now lets begin. Arghhhh!
Photoshop Quicktips
Episode 60: Retouching in Raw
After a long absence Photoshop Quicktips is on the air once again and this week we take a look at a very cool feature of Adobe's Camera Raw. In this episode we learn how to use the new retouch tool in ACR and how it can help fix problem areas in our images quickly, efficiently, and most important non-destructively.
Janita's Christmas Specials
Janita's Yearly Xmas Brush Giveaway
There are daily surprises, free brushsets and textures, even special cookiecards and other rare items can be picked. This year the brushy christmas calendar has 25 little "türchen" (the german word for little doors or advent calendar windows!) and each of these türchen will be open for 24 hours until the next one does. Today it´s a charity türchen that has a cookiecard inside about $1.00 to pick a free brushset at seishido when making a purchase about atleast $2.00. Then the cookiecard dollar will be donated and I will attach one dollar myself. With every order that redeems this charity code - hopefully this way we can send a little something to "four paws" like we do every year so they can use the donated money to help animals and pets in danger. Oh and the 25th türchen will not open on december 25th. it´s a great surprise and there will be something totally unexpectd behind - I won´t tell more ^___^...
graphics.com
Converting Color to Black & White in Photoshop
(Adapted from Adobe Photoshop CS3: Up to Speed — by Ben Willmore)
In previous versions of Photoshop, the most common method for converting a color image to black & white was to use the Channel Mixer. It was a clunky, counter-intuitive process that forced you to think like Photoshop instead of allowing your brain and eyes to naturally digest what was being done to your image. The new Black & White converter is a truly wonderful tool that makes the conversion process much more intuitive and user friendly. Because it’s so easy to use, it’s got an instant gratification aspect to it that makes it especially fun to play with.
HyperTyle Photoshop Texture Plugin Updated
HyperTyle, for Windows Photoshop and compatible applications, is used for generating surface, paint, erosion, transparency, edge, frame, shadow and similar effects, based on the use of seamless textures. In addition, zoom, rotation, metal, chrome, pop-art, warp, mirror, blur, noise, blending and other secondary effects can be simultaneously applied to the seamless texture being used for the main effect, with the result that up to 20 different effects can be applied at the same time without leaving the plugin dialog.
New Photoshop Book
The Creative Digital Darkroom
This book takes photographers beyond the quick tips and gimmicky effects of many digital photography books. Author Katrin Eismann — an internationally acclaimed artist, bestselling author, and gifted educator — offers high-profile work, including her own, as examples for teaching photographers how to use the digital medium to create, edit, and output images that reflect their true vision. Co-authored by photographer and teacher Sean Duggan, this is not a Photoshop book per se, but it does focus on the photographic aspects of Photoshop, something other books claim to do but rarely have the discipline to accomplish.
BittBox
Free High Res Grungy Paper Textures
After my first texture release, some of you mentioned you might find some ‘paper’ textures useful, so I guess you could say that this is a requested freebie. Not much else to say other than keep the requests coming. Download the High Res images from Flickr by clicking on the pics. The full size images are 2005 X 3000 px :)
Auto FX Plugins Special
Auto FX is pleased to announce a 30% off promotion for all customers
This offer is available from now until December 31, 2007. This discount applies to all single products, training videos and even bundle deals. As you know, we only present a discount offer once a year, so this is your chance to save. Simply enter in Coupon Code 55525 during check-out and the 30% discount will be applied.
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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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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