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May 16, 2007
John Nack presents Photoshop to Robert Scoble for close to an hour, Bert Monroy offers secret shadow effect techniques, and Deke McClelland shares some of his Photoshop wisdom. In the brush department Stephanie posts some nice "tech" brushes, Enrique gives us progressive rock logos and album cover brushes, and Jennifer offers a set of hi-res brushes made up of skulls.
John Nack
Scoble, the Phillustrator, & me
A couple of weeks ago, Robert Scoble (former Microsoft blogfatha) visited the Adobe San Jose office. We spent just under an hour talking about Photoshop, and you can catch the broadcast here (also available fullscreen). Our chat touches on engineer/pilot Thomas Knoll's frugal Midwestern ways; HDR imaging; Eyes Wide Shut incantations; raw Smart Objects; the redemption of Brightness/Contrast; and more...
Helping the Help: Photoshop now on LiveDocs
The Help files that ship with Adobe products seem to catch a lot of slings and arrows from users. There are some fair points to be made, and one small team of writers can never be as specific, detailed, or personable as the many third-party books out there. Recognizing this, the documentation team is now publishing the help content via LiveDocs -- the user-editable Web publishing system rolled out by Macromedia...
Bought Photoshop, but really want Extended?
In the last few days, a couple of people have remarked that they've purchased Photoshop CS3, only to realize later that they really want Photoshop Extended. There's no upgrade path that lets you go CS3->CS3 Extended for less than the price of the CS2->Extended upgrade, but you do have another option: Adobe Customer Service can work with you to return your standard license, then purchase an upgrade to Extended instead. Lavi Shepard-Moran from customer service points out that only customers within the 30-day money back guarantee window can return/swap product.
The Photoshop Roadmap
Progressive Rock Logos and Albums Photoshop Brushes
This is something I always wanted to do. I’m turning 44 this year and I must admit that I still listen to progressive rock with passion. And this is precisely what I love about Photoshop. You can turn anything you like into brushes and start writing about something that you normally wouldn’t, in your blog. Sadly, it was only when I started this brush set that I noticed that except for a couple of bands, no one had a steady logo over time.
A Complete Guide to Digital Makeover in Photoshop
Fake images are all around us. Almost every fashion model or artist photo is digitally beautified prior to its public release. Sometimes this goes too far and the photos are so fixed that leaves almost no traces of the original natural beauty of the subject being retouched. This digital enhancement of human faces and bodies is called Digital Makeover. It usually involves techniques such as skin smoothing, red eye removal, hair color replacement an so on.
Graphics.com
Making Photoshop Selections With the Keyboard
William McBee shows how to speed your Photoshop production via the keyboard.
Photoshop Layer Tips
Mike Crawford provides some quick tips on working with layers in Photoshop.
creativepro.com
Photoshop How-To: Better Black and White
Imagine a future where you capture only color images and transform them into tonally rich black-and-white works of art. Then go one step further and imagine morphing that grayscale masterpiece into a stunning infrared image. Good news: The future has arrived.
Jennifer Farley's Digital Design Cottage
Free Photoshop Brushes : High Resolution Skulls
Arghhh me hearties... Today I have a new Photoshop brush set for you to enjoy... Skulls. This brush set has 6 high resolution brushes featuring skulls in different styles. They are about 2000 pixels wide and you can use them for whatever purpose you want. I’d love to hear back from you if you do find them useful.
Photoshop : Tutorial - Using A Layer Mask
Here’s a method to use a gradient with a layer mask in Photoshop to produce a very cool effect. Layer masks are great because they allow you to make dramatic changes to an image without damaging any pixels in your original picture.
dekeBytes
Fusing Two Images, Automatically!
This new feature in Photoshop CS3 allows you to automatically align multiple images captured from a single vantage point, even if you shot them without a tripod. For instance, let's say we have these pictures of me and my wife...
Your Basic Smart Filter Mask
Last week, I showed you how to use Smart Filters, a new feature in Photoshop CS3, to apply non-destructive filter effects to an image. Well, just as you can use layer masks with adjustment layers, you can apply masks...
Welcome to Smart Filters
In this installment of dekeBytes, I'll give you a sense for how this new feature in Photoshop CS3 works by applying some detail sharpening...
LightroomNews
Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom Support Center
Adobe has posted a Lightroom Support Center including TechNotes about Lightroom.
PixelPerfect With Bert Monroy
PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy - Shadows
What lurks in the shadows? Is it something scary and frightening? Nothing so nefarious in this insightful episode of PixelPerfect in which Bert casts light upon the mysteries behind creating advanced shadow effects within Photoshop.
Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes
Tech Photoshop Brushes
These 23 brushes are all made up of various “tech” (technology, Sci-Fi, whatever you want to call them!) designs and shapes. Includes various circle designs, hexagons, lines, blueprints, diagrams, binary (including a Matrix-style binary design), circuits, and various other tech shapes and diagrams.
Adobe Creative Suite Video Podcast
Using the New Clone Source Panel in PS CS3
Very special guest Russell Preston Brown aka Dr. Brown comes to us in this episode and shows off the new Clone Source panel in Photoshop CS3. See how this creative genius takes the Clone Source feature to a whole new level.
CS3 Production Premium - Let's go to the movies!
In this episode we'll take the wraps off the brand New Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium. Production Premium includes brand new versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects Professional, Encore, Flash, Photoshop CS3 Extended, Illustrator and a brand new app called Soundbooth CS3. Sit back and buckle up, it's going to be one heck of a ride!
Photoshop QuickTips
Episode 47: Clip it Good
In this weekâs episode we take a break from the CS3 'exclusive' content and get back into a creative mindset using clipping masks.
This is a very popular technique that is used in all sorts of magazine ads, posters, invitations, and book covers.
You'll learn how to quickly 'clip' your photographs into your text layer to create a very eye-catching effect, without harming any pixels in the image and keeping your text live and editable.
As always, a special Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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