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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.
January 28, 2008
Make sure to view those You Suck At Photoshop vids, because even if you don't suck at Photoshop, you'll get a good laugh out of the comic way the tutorials are delivered.
BoingBoing
Funny tutorial: "You Sucjk at Photoshop"
If only all software instructional videos were as funny and useful as this one, called "You Sucjk at Photoshop." I hope the creator, Donnie Hoyle, makes more of them.
You Suck at Photoshop #2
Here's another episode of the combination Photoshop tutorial / comedy routine, "You Suck at Photoshop." This time, Donnie Hoyle shows you how to remove an object from a photo (a cat) and replace it with another object (a stain).
You Suck at Photoshop, Episode 3
Here's episode three of the delightfully demented video tutorial, You Suck at Photoshop.
PhotoshopNews
New Russell Brown Tutorials
The Mad Doctor is at it yet again-producing Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended video tutorials (along with additional important foolishness)
CS3 Extended: Working with Video - (Part #1) Combining video files
Learn how to combine two different video documents with the help of a layer mask. Also, learn about the best high quality settings for exporting to other video applications.
CS3 Extended: Working with Video - (Part #2) Converting to Black and White
Apply a black and white adjustment layer to a video document, and learn how to use key frames to blend the conversion over time.
CS3 Extended: Working with Video - (Part #3) Color tinting over time
Discover some creative ways to do spot colorization of video documents with painting, and layer effects. Also learn how to paint with live action video over time.
CS3 Extended: Exporting Animated GIF - (Technique #1)
Learn how to export video projects to small and compact GIF animations for the web. This first technique is designed for video documents that can have single, or multiple layers.
CS3 Extended: Exporting Animated GIF - (Technique #2)
Learn how to import and process Quicktime movies into animated GIF files. This second technique uses a special import feature to create animation frame based projects.
Community-powered Lightroom help goes live
Adobe has launched the new Lightroom community help system, which provides core Adobe documentation for Lightroom as well as links to additional learning content from around the web. The new site takes the current online help—LiveDocs—and makes it more useful and interactive. You can still navigate to topics using links the left side of the browser.
But now, when you click a topic to read about it, you’ll find a Basics panel with Adobe documentation as well as a Learn More panel that offers links to tutorials, white papers, technical articles, and other instructional content.
Digital Arts
FILTER-FREE ART IN PHOTOSHOP
In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll create a photomontage in Adobe Photoshop CS3 using only the layer palette. Our goal is to achieve stunning results without using any of Photoshop’s filter options.
3D TYPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS IN PHOTOSHOP
Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool – and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
The Texture Barn
Free Textures
Royalty-free textures for computer graphics, illustration, game design and everything else.
BittBox
How To: Get Mondrianum Working in Photoshop
If you haven’t heard of Mondrianum yet, it’s a neat little (shareware) plugin for Photoshop (Mac only) that adds Adobe’s Kuler color combinations to the Apple color picker. It doesn’t just work in Photoshop. After installing Mondrainum, it works system-wide with any Mac app that uses the Apple color picker, like iLife, iWork, etc. Granted, most Photoshoppers probably don’t prefer the Apple color picker over Adobe’s, but if you are ever in need of a little color inspiration with the help from Kuler, it can come in handy. I’ll show you how to get it working in Photoshop.
PSDTuts
Creating A Cool Vintage Collage Design In Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a retro style design or vintage collage style. We will use images from old ads, handwritten texts, patterns, and other things to give to our design a vintage look.
Creating A Fantastic Fantasy Night Sky In Photoshop
Last month while I was selecting some images for a post to my blog I found an amazing design created by Nik Ainley, one of my favorite Photoshop masters. He had created some incredible clouds using Photoshop. I thought to myself, "damn that's really cool, I have to know how to do something like that!" So, in this tutorial I will show you how to create cartoon style clouds using Photoshop and a bit of Illustrator.
Veerle's Blog
Creating a Photoshop Action
Are you in the mood for some Action? I’m talking Photoshop Actions :) They are the perfect solution to handle tasks with one click. An Action is a recording of several Photoshop operations and commands. Once the Action is created, one click is all it takes and the task will be excecuted. It’s very powerful, can save you heaps of time and it’s actually not that hard to create. Oh and before someone asks, this tutorial is written for version CS3. Certain things might be different in previous Photoshop versions.
Graphics.com
Softening Nighttime Shots With Gaussian Blur
Sometimes the harshness of night illumination shows too many facial blemishes. Since you have the power, why not remove them? Cloning them out can work for individual marks, but for overall appearance, creating a soft mask for the face provides the subject with a pleasant appearance. This technique requires a duplication layer of the image, a Gaussian blur, and some careful cutouts. The intensity of the effect can be controlled via the layer Opacity setting.
Photoshop World Conference & Expo Set for April in Orlando
The annual east coast Photoshop World Conference & Expo will be held at the Orange County Convention Center South, in Orlando, Florida. More than 100 classes will be available during the three days, taught by such names as Bert Monroy, Taz Tally, Eddie Tapp, Vincent Versace, Terry White, Ben Willmore and Moose Peterson. The conference will also feature a three-day Tech Expo, portfolio reviews by Photoshop World instructors, a live filming of PhotoshopUser TV, 12 pre-conference sessions, and bonus workshops by Kelby Training, Adobe and Microsoft.
Photoshop QuickTips
Episode 66: Crossing the Process
Cross Processing has been a popular photographic technique for many years and with the innovation of digital tools the look of cross processed photos has become even more popular. There are many plug-ins and tools out there that will help you achieve an effect such as this, but all of those tools require more time and money than I am willing to spend.
Luckily when I was poking around in the curves dialogue box I actually found a preset that does a very nice job of "cross processing" a photograph. Add this as an adjustment layer and you've got yourself a kick-butt technique, and most importantly a non-destructive effect!
As always, a special Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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