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Free Photoshop CS3 Video Tutorial - Using Smart Filters In Photoshop CS3
February 29, 2008
Mark Galer has posted a free Photoshop CS3 video that looks at how useful smart filters are to a post-production workflow. The tutorial also demonstrates how to use a Black & White adjustment layer to adjust the luminance values of selected colors.
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PhotoTools Presets And onOne Webinars
February 28, 2008
onOne Software sent out a newsletter today and here are two interesting tidbits:
PhotoTools Presets
If you are among the thousands of users already using PhotoTools Professional Edition, one feature you are probably aware of is the ability to save Presets - or combinations of your favorite effects - for future use.
If you haven't been saving your effects as presets, start doing so because in the coming months, onOne Software will be rolling out a new web site dedicated to bringing together PhotoTools users and giving all of you a place to exchange PhotoTools Presets.
You'll be able to submit your favorite presets and download presets developed by other PhotoTools users - all for free. We are really excited about this project and can't wait to get it launched.
onOne Webinars
Don't forget, if you are looking for a personalized demo of any of our Photoshop plug-ins, you can join onOne Software each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning for a free online webinar where you can see either Dan Harlacher, Brian Kraft or Mike Wong demo one of our Photoshop plug-ins for you.
If you are interested, be sure to check out the schedule. It's just like getting a demo at a trade show without all the travel and crowds from the comfort of your house!
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The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets From One Of The World's Top Shooters - Joe McNally
February 28, 2008
Peachpit has announced the publication of The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets From One of the World’s Top Shooters, by Joe McNally, created to be part coffee-table book, part educational guide.
The Moment It Clicks breaks new ground by blending the rich, stunning images and elegant layout of a coffee-table book with the invaluable training, no-nonsense insights, and photography secrets usually found only in those rare, best-of-breed “how-to” books.
The book offers a unique “triangle of learning,” featuring McNally’s distillation of important concepts, his images that illustrate techniques, and the inside story of how the shot was taken, including what equipment was used and how readers can set up similar shots.
McNally can be seen discussing images from the book and how he achieved the perfect shot in a video courtesy of Nikon. Readers can also join The Moment It Clicks flickr group to share their great shots and tell the story behind them.
The Moment It Clicks: Photography Secrets From One of the World’s Top Shooters, by Joe McNally can be ordered now at Amazon.com for $34.64 (37% discount).
About Joe McNally
Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed photographer, whose career has spanned 30 years and included assignments in over 50 countries. Although the majority of his career has been spent shooting for magazines such as Time, Sports Illustrated, and National Geographic, in the mid-1990s McNally served as Life magazine’s staff photographer, the first one in 23 years. He also has shot commercial assignments for Target, Nikon, and Sony, to name a few.
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Adobe Announces 2008 School Innovation Awards
February 28, 2008
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced a call for entries for the Adobe School Innovation Awards. The awards program honors the creative and innovative work of high school students.
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Canon EOS 40D - Canon Digital Camera Review By Ben Long
February 28, 2008
If you're new to the digital SLR market, the Canon EOS 40D is a strong contender. If you're upgrading from an SLR that's older or has different features, however, the call isn't so easy to make. Read the full Canon EOS 40D review from Ben Long at creativepro.com.
Visit the B&H Photo site to see their special deals — or go directly to their Canon Pro Store or Nikon Pro Store for the latest digital cameras, lenses and digital photo gear.
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Urban Vector Photoshop Brushes From Stephanie
February 27, 2008
Here's Stephanie with her latest free Photoshop brush set, Urban Vector Brushes:
This latest set of Photoshop brushes is made up of various “urban” vector designs. Some of the items are very recognizable as urban, or something that you’d find in a city. Others are designs, like various circles and such, that tend to go along with urban-based designs.
If you check out my preview image, you’ll see what I mean! I’m sure you’ve seen these designs before.
All of these are very high resolution, with the average brush size being about 1600 pixels (some smaller ones are 1200 or so, the larger ones are 2100 or so).
Includes: barbed wire, buildings, chain link fence, various circles, street lamps, miscellaneous vector designs, razor wire, smoke, a smokestack, vector splatters, telephone poles, and more!
Download the Urban Vector Brushes!
Random Brushes Tip
In the upper right hand corner of your Photoshop window is the “Brushes” tab (if you can’t find it, hit F5 to open it). You can drag that tab outside of that small docking area if you’re going to be doing a lot of work with your brush settings. Just click and drag it outside of the docking area, and where you drop it, a Brushes window will be created.
You can, in fact, drag all of your different tabs around like that. If you want your layers and channels tabs in separate windows, you can drag and drop one of them outside of the other to separate them.
Don’t worry, you can put them back where they were, too. If you drag and drop a tab next to another one, you will merge them into the same window… including that small docking area up at the top where the “Brushes” tab started out.
This can make it much easier if you’re planning on working in a particular tab a good deal. It’s also a great way to get rid of some stuff when you’re not using it much!
(If you want to change the order of the tabs, drag them outside of the window temporarily and then drag them back into the window in the REVERSE order from how you’d like them to appear from left to right. In other words, the most recent tab that you dragged into any particular area will always appear on the right side.)
Want More Free Photoshop Brushes?
We've collected the most recent of Stephanie's original brushes on a special Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes Page, with big preview images to give you an idea of each set. For her high resolution brushes, you can find a special collection on our high res brush page. Also see our Free Photoshop brushes Page for other places to find brushes.
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Photoshop CS3 Noise Removal Tutorial - Foresnic Photoshop Tutorial
February 26, 2008
Here's a new tutorial from Jim Hoerricks, the Senior Forensic Video Analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department's Scientific Investigation Division, a Photoshop instructor, an author, and a court qualified expert witness in Forensic Video Analysis. You can find more of his tutorials on our Forensic Photoshop Tutorial page.
(reprinted with permission from Forensic Photoshop Blog - see more forensic tutorials)
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Mac OS X Leopard Missing Manual Book - Plus 5 Free Tips
February 26, 2008
I've been running in Mac OS X Leopard and love the look and feel of this new version. There's a very nice clean vibe from this upgrade and I'm totally getting organized with the new features for file management. And one thing that really really helped me through all the new stuff in here was the Mac OS X Leopard Edition of the popular Missing Manual series - Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual.
Photoshop Smart Objects - Tips
February 25, 2008
How many times have you made an edit or applied a filter in Photoshop, only to realize later that your "improvement" destroyed pixels you needed? After you read this how-to by Andrew Shalat at creativepro.com, you'll never be in that pickle again.
February 22, 2008
Have a wonderful weekend! I'm learning Dreamweaver and this will be my first post not done in GoLive in close to 7 years. Yikes! I miss my old friend, but am getting to like this new one at the same time.
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Photoshop Seamless Texture Tutorial From Stephanie
February 20, 2008
Stephanie sends this in: "This Photoshop tutorial will walk you through how to create a seamless texture in Photoshop. I created the tutorial using Photoshop CS2, but it should work almost exactly the same for most versions of Photoshop from 7 and up. (It may work for 6 and under, too, but I’ve never used those so I have no idea.)
Free Photoshop Brushes From Stephanie
We've collected the most recent of Stephanie's original brushes on a special Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes Page, with big preview images to give you an idea of each set. For her high resolution brushes, you can find a special collection on our high res brush page. Also see our Free Photoshop brushes Page for other places to find brushes.
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Photoshop CS3 Tutorials By Jim Hoerricks - LAPD Forensic Expert
February 19, 2008
Jim Hoerricks is the Senior Forensic Video Analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department's Scientific Investigation Division, a Photoshop instructor, an author, and a court qualified expert witness in Forensic Video Analysis. His site, Forensic Photoshop, contains lots of interesting posts and tutorials that deal with using Photoshop for forensic work. Jim established the LAPD's Forensic Video Lab in 2001, has been the lead analyst on many of the LAPD's high-profile cases, and helped set the standard by which video evidence is handled by the department. Jim has also written a book, Forensic Photoshop. We are pleased to offer some of his Photoshop CS3 tutorials and articles.
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Essentials From Total Training - Free Sample Video Clips
February 17, 2008
Total training has released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Essentials with Ric Kasnoff. Ric is a professional photographer with over 35 years of industry experience. He has trained thousands of photographers in seminars and workshops and has been presented with over 100 awards for his work.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Essentials will quickly get you up to speed, introducing you to the Lightroom Interface and workspace, showing you how to set up your preferences and personalize Lightroom to suit your workflow. You will learn how to import, store and name files using keywords and discover the many features of the Lightroom Library and how to get the most from the Develop Module. Plus, explore all of the export options available using the Slideshow, Web and Print Modules to output your images professionally. Below are some sample clips, as well as an interview with Ric.
Free sample clips from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Essentials
Here are 5 clips from Lesson 2 - Setup and Preferences (20 min):
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2. Setting Preferences
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4. Personalizing Lightroom
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February 16, 2008
Lots of Lightroom tutorials at the Adobe site, get some brushes from the easy to use Brusheezy, and get ready to cackle some more while learning the ropes with another episode of You Suck At Photoshop. Plus all the regular freebies. The deep deep winter here keeps me wrapped in blankets and listening to the ethereal music and lyrics of Mary Gauthier. She makes the truth sound so beautiful.
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As always, a special Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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Adobe Magazine For Creative Professionals - Volume 2 Issue 1 - February 2008 - Now Available
February 14 2007
The February 2008 issue of Adobe Magazine is out. The 12 MB PDF can be downloaded from the Adobe Magazine signup page. Download the February 2008 issue of Adobe Magazine.
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onOne Video Tutorials For Genuine Fractals Photoshop Plugin
February 14, 2008
View these Genuine Fractals & Genuine Fractals Print Pro video tutorials to get a feel for the application, become aquainted with the user interface, and hear some tips on how to get the most out of working with Genuine Fractals.
Genuine Fractals 5 - Introduction
Genuine Fractals 5 - Advanced Techniques
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onOne Video Tutorials For PhotoTools and PhotoTune Photoshop Plugins
February 14, 2008
View these PhotoTools & PhotoTune video tutorials to get a feel for the application, become aquainted with the user interface, and hear some tips on how to get the most out of working with PhotoTools & PhotoTune.
PhotoTools and PhotoTools Professional Edition
Getting Started with PhotoTools
Advanced Techniques with PhotoTools
PhotoTune
Getting Started with PhotoTune
Advanced Techniques with PhotoTune
Getting Started with SkinTune
Advanced Techniques with SkinTune
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onOne Video Tutorials For PhotoFrame Photoshop Plugin
February 14, 2008
View these PhotoFrame video tutorials to get a feel for the application, become aquainted with the user interface, and hear some tips on how to get the most out of working with PhotoFrame.
Getting Started with PhotoFrame
Advanced Techniques with PhotoFrame
Using the Frame Palette and Frame Browser
Layer Mask Mode
Using the Frame Preview Grid
New Realistic Frames & Mattes
Frame Randomizer
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Free 6 Month Online Subscription Offer From Total Training
February 13, 2008
Total Training has been recognized as an industry leader for both their DVDs and Total Training Online tutorials (read our review). Now they are offering a special deal to view both of their training mediums to see just what the industry is raving about.
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How to Use Photoshop Smart Filters - Tips
February 13, 2008
With CS3's Smart Filters, you can edit any filter at any time, without destroying any pixels. Here's an article at creativepro.com by Andrew Shalat on how to use Photoshop's Smart Filters. You'll walk away from this article knowing how to create Smart Objects and layers; how to apply Smart Filters; and how to use a Smart Layer Mask to make fine adjustments to your images. And you'll do it all without losing any pixels.
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Apple Aperture 2 - Improved Interface, Faster Browsing & Enhanced Image Processing
February 13, 2008
Apple today introduced Aperture 2, the next major release of its groundbreaking photo editing and management software with over 100 new features that make it faster, easier to use and more powerful. With a streamlined user interface and entirely new image processing engine, Aperture 2 also introduces new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition, soft-edged retouching, vignetting and RAW fine-tuning, and lets users directly post their portfolios on the .Mac Web Gallery* for viewing on the web, iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV. At a new low price of $199 ($189.99 at Amazon.com), anyone can easily organize, edit and publish photos like a pro.
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Throw Photoshop's Crop Tool Into Reverse - Crop Tool Tip
February 12, 2008
Normally, the Crop tool makes the canvas smaller. But it can also make the canvas bigger. And it gives you a preview and the flexibility to adjust size on the fly. Take that, Canvas Size. Read the whole story By Anne-Marie Concepcion at creativepro.com.
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February 11, 2008
Get your free Vectorstock download (via BittBox) and you'll be ready for a great Valentine's Day. I promise! Good luck to everyone sending off cupid cards (draw back your bow and let your lover know).
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Valentine Hearts & Valentine Photoshop Brush Gifts From Stephanie
February 08, 2008
Here's Stephanie with her latest free Photoshop brush set, Valentine's Day Brushes: This brush set is a themed set for helping you wish that special someone a very happy Valentine's Day!
Want More Free Photoshop Brushes?
We've collected the most recent of Stephanie's original brushes on a special Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes Page, with big preview images to give you an idea of each set. For her high resolution brushes, you can find a special collection on our high res brush page. Also see our Free Photoshop brushes Page for other places to find brushes.
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Lightroom For Digital Photographers DVD Released
February 07, 2008
Lightroom For Digital Photographers teaches how to import, organize, develop and output all your captures with effortless ease. Enjoy in-depth coverage, pro techniques, secret tips and Colin’s way of breaking down even the most complex tasks into quick and easy to understand techniques. You’ll spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the camera.
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Perfect Exposure for Digital Photography DVD Now Shipping
February 07, 2008
PhotoshopCafe.com has released a new training title, Perfect Exposure for Digital Photography with Tim Cooper. This video will change the way you use your camera. Understanding the zone system is essential for capturing great photos. Ones’ that look the way you always wanted.
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Filter Forge Releases Second Free Photoshop Plugin - Announces 20% Discount
February 07, 2008
Continuing its series of free Photoshop plugins, Filter Forge, Inc. today released 'Filter Forge Freepack 2 - Photo Effects', and announced a 20% discount for its flagship product, Filter Forge.
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FREEZE! - Forensic Photoshop Is On The Case
February 06, 2008
Jim Hoerricks is the Senior Forensic Video Analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department's Scientific Investigation Division, a Photoshop instructor, an author, and a court qualified expert witness in Forensic Video Analysis. His site, Forensic Photoshop, contains lots of interesting posts and tutorials that deal with using Photoshop for forensic work.
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New Photoshop Brush Sets - Plant Parts & Urban Textures - From Kirsty
February 05, 2008
Kirsty sends this in: "Hey everyone! It's definitely been a while :) Two new brush sets are on the site, Plant Parts and Urban Textures. "You can reach them by going to the usual address: 500ml Brushes. I'm going to be working on more brush sets so hopefully from now on the updates will be more regular. Hope you enjoy!" You can find all of Kirsty's super beautiful brushes on our Photoshop brushes page.
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February 04, 2008
Another You Suck At Photoshop has surfaced, The ACE Exams for CS3 have appeared, and John Nack takes you on a few more of his magical mystery tours through the web,. Plus some new Photoshop tutorials... not a bad catch.
As always, a special Batgirl thank you to James Jean
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An Interview With Photoshop Author And Teacher Mark Galer
February 02, 2008
Here's an interview with Mark Galer, an Adobe Ambassador and author of Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills and Photoshop Elements 6 Maximum Performance. Lots of readers asks us for a good book for either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and we always suggest they have a look at Mark's books. At the end of the interview you'll find links to sample chapters that will give you a good feel for the kind of excellent Photoshop teaching Mark does.
What makes Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills stand out from the crowd?
In the 15 years of teaching Photoshop to aspiring professional photographers I have learnt the value of ‘learning by doing’ and the importance of a curriculum that builds skills in a progressive and logical order. Unlike the official Adobe texts, my Photoshop books are written specifically for photographers, all the projects are covered by movies and high-res images and presented as real workflows so the reader acquires a sound working knowledge of Photoshop.
This is far better than breaking the book down into component areas of the program itself which, all-too-often, does not show how these tools can be integrated into a photographer’s workflow. The primary focus of my books is to offer techniques that professional photographers would want covered rather than artists, illustrators, graphic designers and Web developers. The books cover only the best tools for the job-in-hand, rather than all tools (some of which are quite destructive in nature). This ensures the text is packed full of really useful (essential) tips and techniques rather than trying to cover every tool and technique, some of which have little practical use in a photographer’s workflow.”
Read the full interview.
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The Photoshop Blog - Earlier Posts
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.
See Earlier Posts From The Photoshop Blog - January 2008.
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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, SiteGrinder 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, SiteGrinder is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks. Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download.
Photoshop CS4 Essential Skills - By Mark Galer And Philip Andrews
Brimming with beautiful pictures, Photoshop CS4 Essential Skills guides you through a project-based, progressive curriculum so that you can build all the essential skills to enhance photographs creatively and professionally with Photoshop CS4. If you are an aspiring professional or a student learning photography, digital imaging, or design graphics, you'll be amazed at the stunning results you can achieve. A DVD is included free.
The Essential Skills Photography Series from Focal Press uniquely offers a structured learning experience for photographers of all ages, with both the underlying theory and loads of invaluable 'how to' and real-life practice projects - all from the most talented photography practitioners/educators in the world.
Read 2 free sample chapters:
Skin Retouching Tips In Photoshop CS4
Transforming Smart Objects In Photoshop CS4
Find more Photoshop CS4 tutorials on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page.
Read 2 free sample chapters from the Adobe Photoshop CS3 version:
Adjusting Exposure in Adobe Camera Raw CS3
Photoshop CS3 Tutorial High Dynamic Range
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