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April 18, 2007
A major CS3 Design Premium tour podcast from Terry White, and I mean major as in over an hour, so bring snacks and a beverage. John Nack is popping up everywhere, Bert Monroy shows us the charm of chrome, and Stephanie delivers another batch of free Photoshop brushes...
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Vanishing Point Improvements in Photoshop CS3
Photoshop CS3 offers a new, improved Vanishing Point filter that addresses two key limitations of the tool's previous version. In Photoshop CS2, you'd run into problems if you tried to create perspective on surfaces that weren't exactly 90-degree angles. Vanishing Point just couldn't deal with it. And, while you could wrap graphics around your perspective planes using the old Vanishing Point filter, you couldn't wrap them around multiple planes at once. That's all been fixed inside of Photoshop CS3. In the video tutorial below, I walk you through the improvements in Photoshop CS3's Vanishing Point filter.
John Nack
Great 3D add-ons for Photoshop
No sooner did Adobe announce Photoshop CS3 Extended than we started seeing developers pop up with interesting new solutions. Among those just announced...
Swords, plowshares, photos & art
Armed America photographs some of those who own the nation's ~200 million firearms, sharing bits of their perspectives.
PixelPerfect With Bert Monroy
PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy - Chrome
Pimp my text!! We've all seen those car and videogame ads with the pimped out chromed text effect. Guess what? You don't need to go out and pay professional designers thousands of dollars for it. All you need to invest is about 10 minutes and watch this episode of Pixel Perfect and see how easy it is to get that nice shiney sparkly chrome effect.
PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy - Photoshop CS3
Photoshop CS3 is out and there are so many new features and changes! Bert scratches the surface by showing off the new tools interface, non-destructive filters, and Martin Sargent. Martin Sargent?? Well, you'll have to watch for yourself.
Lightroom News
Adding a navigation menu to Lightroom Flash Gallery
Currently in Lightroom it is possible to add a single Web or Mail link in the Flash Gallery. This gives a very basic link to get back to the home page. Personally I’d prefer a way to allow visitors to get to other areas on my site from here. As it wasn’t immediately obvious how to do this, I had to dig around a little. Presented here for you is the fruit of my efforts:
Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Overview
In this special extended episode I will walk you through all of the apps included in the New and recently shipping Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium edition. We'll take a look at Bridge, Version Cue, Photoshop CD3 Extended, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Device Central and Acrobat 8 Professional.
Place Photoshop documents into Dreamweaver
The merger of Adobe and Macromedia took place a little over a year ago, however it wasn't until CS3 that the products started to become integrated. In this episode, we'll take a look at the new integration between Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
PhotoshopNews
Wacom Updates Mac OS X Tablet Drivers
Today Wacom Technology Corp. posted a new driver for use with all Macs running Mac OS X vs.10.3.9 and 10.4. It works in both the native and classic environment of OS X.
Podcast with John Nack
Inside Digital Photo is a new program from Popular Photography & Inside Mac creator Scott Sheppard. Scott interviewed John Nack at Photoshop World.
CreativeGuy
Get better .eps preview images from Photoshop
You may have noticed that if you save .eps images from Photoshop, when you place them in InDesign, Quark or other layout application, the image is jaggy to outright ugly. This is because the .eps image is using the default preview mode of 1 bit/pixel (or 256 colors).
Photoshop QuickTips
Episode 43: Vintage Advertising
In this episode of Quicktips I show you how to create one of the most popular effects in advertising! This effect can be seen on everything from product ads to posters and you'll be amazed at just how easy it is!
Episode 44: The John Nack Interview
In this very special episode of Quicktips I am joined by Adobe's Senior Product Manager for Photoshop, John Nack. I know many of you out there have been wanting to see more of Photoshop CS3 in action and in this episode John takes us through both the Photoshop CS3 Standard features and also some of the amazing things Adobe has put into Photoshop CS3 Extended.
Layers Magazine
Four Methods to Remove Colorcast
Sometimes getting the color balance right on digital shots is difficult. Here are some techniques for using Photoshop to improve the color of your photographs.
PhotoshopTV
Photoshop TV Episode 77 (April 16, 2007)
Matt breaks down the process for creating a fun and easy product display that he saw on a roadside billboard, Corey answers a viewer request to explain a technique that uses the Gradient tool and filters to create a retro, '70s effect on a portrait photo.
Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes
Vector Designs Brushes
These are made up of circles, squares, swirls, triangles... you name it. There are all kinds of variations to each of them, some with one shape inside another, others made up of dots, some with dots INSIDE them, etc. Really, all kinds of stuff. There are 32 brushes. These would be great for making patterns, or could also be used to accentuate another design. Great for scrapbookers! Enjoy!
Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips
Video - Applying Edits to Multiple Photos
Here’s a topic that comes up a lot in Lightroom. You process a photo using the Develop module. Then you realize you have about 100 other photos that were shot in similar lighting conditions and could benefit from the same edits you just did on that one photo. The natural question is how to synchronize the settings from that one photo to all of the others quickly. We’ll take a look at just that in the latest video.
As always, a special Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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Photoshop CS3 Tutorial High Dynamic Range
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