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Photoshop CS3 Compared To Photoshop CS4 - Video Review
August 27, 2009
See how Photoshop CS3 compares to Photoshop CS4 in this episode of Benchmark. Check out new features that can make you more productive, giving you more time to be creative.
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Free Photoshop CS3 Video Tutorial - Working With Retouching, Edges And Textures
August 27, 2009
Discover how to completely change the look and feel of a photograph with
some simple retouching creative adjustments and the addition of edges and
texture.
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Free Photoshop CS3 Video Tutorial - Automation Tips
August 27, 2009
Take automation to a new level in Photoshop CS3 by mastering complex actions
in order to turn several steps into one click. Discover droplets,
integration with LR, and scripts.
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New lynda.com Releases For Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash
August 27, 2009
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Photoshop CS4: Layer Masks in Depth
with: Jan Kabili
In Photoshop CS4: Layer Masks in Depth, senior trainer and photographer Jan Kabili takes an in-depth look at using layer masks to create professional-looking image composites and make targeted photo corrections. Jan examines some common situations in which layer masks are the key to creating convincing image composites. She demonstrates practical ways to enhance photos with layer masking, including masking adjustment layers and Smart Filters to affect part of a photo. She explains how to use layer masks to combine different exposures of the same scene, and teaches how to work with vector masks to achieve a clean, graphic look.
Flash CS4 Professional Audio Techniques with: Todd Perkins
Flash CS4 Professional Audio Techniques shows how integrating audio into Flash projects can create a more engaging and interesting viewer experience. Instructor Todd Perkins dives deep into the details of manipulating audio in Flash using ActionScript 3.0. He demonstrates how to monitor a song’s playback progress, display this information for viewers, and create a viewable playlist for multiple songs using XML data. Through the course of the tutorials, Todd creates an audio player for the web, complete with sharing capabilities.
Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS Essential Training with: James Williamson
In Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS Essential Training, web developer and Adobe Master Instructor James Williamson teaches the fundamentals of CSS while focusing on how to use Dreamweaver to efficiently create and manage styles. He shows how to use Dreamweaver to resolve style conflicts; how to use new CSS-related features such as Live View; and the best way to create lightweight, site-wide style sheets.
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Adobe And Mac Snow Leopard FAQ - Photoshop And Snow Leopard
August 25, 2009
The Adobe Creative Suite team has put together info about Adobe compatibility with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (MAC OS X 10.6). Kepp refreshing until you see it as it is being posted momentarily.
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Free Branches Theme Photoshop Brushes
August 25, 2009
From Susan at BrushPortfolio: I just finished up a set of Photoshop brushes called Branches Vol 2. I created the brushes from photographs of flowers and leaves taken in my garden. It was the perfect excuse to practice making selections using the pen tool. I got way more practice than I wanted ;-)
The brushes were vectorized in Illustrator and exported to Photoshop at 300 dpi. They're perfect for digital scrap booking projects. Happy Creating!
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Photoshop Roadmap & Auto FX Offer Free Photoshop Plugin Giveaway
August 21, 2009
The Photoshop Roadmap has a sweet Photoshop plugin giveaway featuring software from Auto FX. Here's the lowdown: "Auto FX Software has partnered with Photoshop Roadmap
to give-away over $10,000
in FREE Photoshop Plug-in software between August 15, 2009 and September 30, 2009.
Prizes are drawn daily. You need only enter once to qualify."
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First 200 Adobe Customers Get 10% Off Any Adobe Product - Use Code ADOBE200 - But Hurry!
August 21, 2009
The first 200 Adobe customers to use the special coupon code ADOBE200 will receive a 10% savings onany and all products. This offer is good on all Adobe products at the Adobe.com North America commercial store only. Offer expires on 8/27/09 or after the 200th Adobe customer purchase; whichever is first.
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UK Adobe Store Special - Save 25% On Full Version Of Element Products
August 21, 2009
You can get 25% off the full version of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements products instantly at the Adobe UK Online Store. Ends September 11, 2009.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 & Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software combines two powerful yet easy-to-use products at a great value, so you can tell amazing stories with photos and videos. Access photos and video clips from either product to create cinematic slide shows, dramatic freeze-frame effects, and more. And show off finished projects on YouTube™, personalized DVDs and Blu-ray discs, and the web.
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Art History Brush - Photoshop Tutorial
August 20, 2009
Here's a free tutorial about the art history brush by Rosie Tanner from Photoshop Daily.
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Lightning Photos - Reference Photos Of Lightning Bolts
August 20, 2009
Sometimes when we have to digitally create something in Photoshop, like lightning, the best thing to do is study the real thing first. I found some really amazing photos of lightning at the Bostom.com site The Big Picture. Have a look and bookmark as a reference, so when you do need to create electric bolts from a dark sky, you can see how close you came to the real thing.
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Free Stock Photo Site - Free Image Bank
August 18, 2009
Designer Oliver Taylor sent this in: "I would like to
present you our Free image bank — www.GetFreeImage.com, where you can get
a lot of quality pictures, templates, clip-arts etc. for free.
You can download extra quality images from our site. Our purpose is to make a free quality
resource for designers and for people who are
searching for nice images."
I spent a few minutes on the site and was intrigued by this DNA image. So have a look.
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Create Comic Book Style Art In Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial
August 18, 2009
Here's another free tutorial from Photoshop Daily.
Thanks to Photoshop’s powerful toolset you can create comic book style artwork from scratch without the need to pop into Illustrator. In this walkthrough we’ll demonstrate how to use the Filters menu to create the distinctive coloured dots that traditional comic book printing processes utilise in large areas of colour. We’ll also use some layer blending techniques to add washes of colour to the final image.
Be bold
Choose a dramatic dynamic source image. Duplicate the background layer. Select the copy and go to Image>Adjustments
>Threshold. Setting our Threshold value to 65 gave us the type of bold and striking line art you’d get using Illustrator CS2’s Live Trace menu.
Completely dotty
Select the Threshold layer and go to Filter>Sketch>Halftone Pattern. Set the Pattern Type to Dot, Contrast to 13 and Size to 5. Click OK. Set the Halftone Pattern’s layer blending mode to Overlay.
Create a colour wash
Duplicate the coloured background layer. Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Apply a blur of 8 pixels to simplify the details on the coloured layer. This adds a simplified wash of colours to the image. Experiment with these techniques to add more layers, texture and colour.
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New lynda.com Releases
August 18, 2009
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Photoshop CS4: Color Correction
with: Taz Tally
Grasping the fundamentals of how to adjust and correct digital color images to give them a rich and real look can be daunting. In Photoshop CS4: Color Correction, digital imaging expert Taz Tally explains how to quickly evaluate whether an image needs a color correction or adjustment. He shows how to set up a monitor to work correctly with Photoshop, and demonstrates how to set color workflow preferences. Designers, production staff, and photographers will discover quick and accurate evaluation and correction techniques to speed up their workflow in the fast-paced production environment.
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CSS Positioning Best Practices
with: Bill Weinman
Web designers and coders will be introduced to techniques to improve their results in CSS Positioning Best Practices. Beginning with a brief review of CSS, instructor Bill Weinman demonstrates how to position elements on a page using CSS instead of tables. He then goes step by step through the process of using CSS positioning to lay out pages that have traditionally been laid out using HTML tables.
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Photoshop CS3 Video Tutorial - Using Actions And Batch Processing
August 18, 2009
Julieanne Kost teachers you how to accomplish more in less time using
actions and batch processing in Photoshop CS3 to streamline your workflow
and minimize repetitive tasks.
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Buy Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Full (Student Version) For Only $99
August 14, 2009
Adobe has a new offer that is now live for the Adobe.com North America EducationStore. You can purchase Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Full for only $99. That’s $60 off the already discounted price of $159.00. The regular price is $449.00. This offer is good for the North America Education store only and expires on 8/31/09.
Educators, researchers, and students can communicate and collaborate more effectively and securely with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro software. Assemble material for curriculum, coursework, or research from different applications into a single, organized PDF Portfolio. Protect sensitive information and intellectual property with robust security features. Create and distribute dynamic forms to collect data electronically for greater accuracy. Enable anyone across the campus, school, or district with Adobe Reader software to save and sign forms and participate in reviews. Windows version includes Adobe LiveCycle Designer for advanced form creation.
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Exclusive Discount Special Photoshop Pllugin Suite - Save $150 On onOne Plugin Suite 4.5
August 13, 2009
Simply follow this special discount link for the special discount offer. The regular price for Plug-In Suite 4.5 is $499.95, but if you follow our special discount link you can purchase the Plugins Suite 4 package for only $349.95. This offer ends on August 31, 2009.
Plug-in Suite 4.5 is the latest version of onOne Software's Photoshop plug-in collection that combines Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition, PhotoTools 2 Professional Edition and PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition in addition to Mask Pro 4, PhotoTune 2.2, and FocalPoint 1.0.
"Our mission at onOne Software is to make photographers' lives easier by allowing them to work within the applications they are comfortable with," said Craig Keudell, president of onOne Software. "In addition to brand new versions of PhotoFrame 4, PhotoTools 2 and Genuine Fractals 6, the new Plug-In Suite 4.5 adds support for Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Aperture 2.1 so users can seamlessly integrate these valuable products into their existing workflow." Plug-In Suite 4.5 includes full versions of the following onOne Software products:
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Mystical Tint Tone And Color 2.0 - 60 New Photoshop Filters for Professional Photographers
August 13, 2009
Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 includes 60 cutting-edge filters for rapidly improving and enhancing photos in a production environment. Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 is a true work-horse for professionals who need to save time and money while delivering the best creative possible.
There are 60 filters in Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 - each can be combined together to create a virtually infinite set of looks and moods that give you a true creative edge. There are over 300 instant preset looks included with the software. You can also capture looks as presets and replay them on other photos.
Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 is tightly integrated with Photoshop and compliments it beautifully. To use it go under the Filters menu in Photoshop and your photo appears in our software. The best part is that MTTC 2.0 requires no special techniques, masking or repetitive processes like Photoshop. You simply pick a solution then preview and refine the results. It's fast and gives outstanding, consistent results.
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Exclusive 20% Discount On Lynda.com Annual Subscription - Save $50 With Special Coupon Code BTSANNPSS
August 11, 2009
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Free Barbed Wire Photoshop Brushes
August 10, 2009
From Susan at BrushPortfolio: I just finished a new set of free Barbed Wire Photoshop brushes. The brushes were created using photographs downloaded from Morguefile. I needed some barbed wire brushes for an upcoming project. I figured I would share the finished set on my website. Each image was vectorized in Illustrator and exported to Photoshop at 300 dpi. These are some pretty huge barbed wire brushes ranging from 2000 to 2500 pixels. Happy Creating!.
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Poser 8 — Top 3D Character Solution For Hobbyists, Artists And Graphic Professionals
August 10, 2009
Smith Micro today announced the availability of Poser 8, the next generation of the popular 3D figure design and animation solution. Poser 8 enables hobbyists, artists, and graphic professionals to create and digitally shape humans, animals and entire scenes in 3D.
Poser 8 allows artists to work with avatars and all types of 3D characters, such as giant ogres and talking chipmunks that proliferate in advertising, video games, television and full-length feature films. Poser 8 acts as a virtual stage, offering eight new, ready-to-pose, fully-textured humans of different ethnicities and body types to give artists a starting point in designing their characters. The new Poser content library provides more than 2.5 gigabytes of human and animal figures accompanied by a wide range of accessories including hair, clothing, sets and real-world props and elements such as lights and cameras to produce complete scenes.
The MSRP for Poser 8 is $249.99 with upgrades from previous versions priced at $129.99. Poser 8 is available direct from the Smith Micro online store.
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The Complete Picture - Episode 1 - Free Lightroom Video Tutorial
August 07, 2009
Learn the most efficient way to use the crop and straighten tools in the
develop and library modules in Lightroom to quickly modify a single image or
an entire edit.
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The Complete Picture - Episode 2 - Free Photoshop CS3 Video Tutorial
August 07, 2009
Explore several of the new tools in Photoshop CS3 while Julieanne Kost walks
you through the creation of a digital composite she created based on a
personal assignment for the concept of drifting.
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Free Photoshop CS3 Video Tutorial - Working With Smart Objects
August 07, 2009
Uncover the tremendous power behind Photoshop CS3's smart objects. Add
flexibility to your workflow using non-destructive transformations and
one-click template content replacement.
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Save Up To 80% On Adobe Student Editions, Plus Free Shipping
August 04, 2009
Adobe’s Back To School Promotion is live.Save up to 80% on Adobe Student Editions, plus free shipping. This is a storewide offer and is valid on all Education software products until September 30, 2009.
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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown With Deke McClelland - Free Photoshop Tips
August 04, 2009
From lynda.com: America likes its lists, and here’s another one we’ll be publishing every Tuesday on the lynda.com blog. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 features in Photoshop — beginning with #40 and working his way up to #1 — one weekly video at a time. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptual. All are invaluable. Learn these 40 features and you’ll know Photoshop.
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Creating Web Galleries and PDF Files - Free Lightroom Video Tutorial
July 30, 2009
In this Adobe Bridge tutorial, Julieanne Kost shows how to use the powerful
new features in Bridge CS4 to output your photos as interactive web galleries and PDF files.
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Free Lightroom Video Tutorial - Organizing Your Photos
July 30, 2009
Learn how the folder panel can make your life easier in this Adobe Lightroom
2 tutorial. Julieanne Kost shows you the best ways to sort and organize your
photographs.
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Email Photos Directly from Lightroom - Free Lightroom Video Tutorial
July 30, 2009
In this new Lightroom 2 tutorial, Julieanne Kost shows you how to set up
Lightroom to email your photos with the simple click of one button.
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Custom Sort Orders - Free Lightroom Video Tutorial
July 30, 2009
Julieanne Kost shows the best ways to take advantage of Adobe Lightroom's
Custom Sort Order feature in this Lightroom 2 tutorial.
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Photoshop Actions Sets And Movies Sale - 50%-70% Off For 10 Days
July 29, 2009
I'm talking with Gavin Phillips, owner of Photographers Photoshop, who has just announced a special 50-70% sale on sets of Photoshop actions that will last only 10 days...
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Rolled Paint - Free Photoshop Brushes
July 27, 2009
From Obsidian Dawn :
This set of free Photoshop and GIMP brushes is composed of various shapes of rolled paint – the kind that you roll on with a paint roller, that is. It includes several single rolled strokes, many put together, and also includes some that you can paint your own paint strokes with. This just includes the kind of textures made from a regular roller – no special effect kinds of paint here. They are all high resolution, with an average size of about 2300 pixels.
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5 Free Dreamweaver Templates And Free Dreamweaver Templates Video Guide From Adobe
July 24, 2009
If you are looking for some free Dreamweaver templates, we've found some good ones that you can download from the Adobe site. Here's a little bit more info on their selection of free Dreamweaver templates from their article Dreamweaver templates: Customizable starter designs for beginners:
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PHOTOSHOP NEWS — July 2009
28- Creating Web Galleries and PDF Files - Free Lightroom Video Tutorial
29- Free Lightroom Video Tutorial - Organizing Your Photos
30- Email Photos Directly from Lightroom - Free Lightroom Video Tutorial
31- Custom Sort Orders - Free Lightroom Video Tutorial
27- Photoshop Actions Sets And Movies Sale - 50%-70% Off For 10 Days
26- Rolled Paint - Free Photoshop Brushes
25- 5 Free Dreamweaver Templates And Free Dreamweaver Templates Video Guide
24- Free Hawaiian Leaf Photoshop Brushes
23- Top 10 Marketing Tools For Online Photographers
22- Free Dreamweaver Tutorials - Creating Youir First Website With Dreamweaver CS4
21- Upgrade Design Premium Or Web Premium For Free Flex Builder Standard
20- AlphaPlugins - 10% Discount - Photoshop Plugins From AlphaPlugins
19- Scratchout - Free Photoshop Brushes
18- Four Exclusive Extracts From Digital Retouching For Fashion
17- Nik Software Adds Comprehensive Online Webinar Offerings
16- How To Graft Hair In Photoshop CS4 - Exclusive Extract From Digital Retouching
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Skin Retouching Tips In Photoshop CS4
Transforming Smart Objects In Photoshop CS4
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Adjusting Exposure in Adobe Camera Raw CS3
Photoshop CS3 Tutorial High Dynamic Range
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Skin Retouching Tips In Photoshop CS4
