Last week Deke showed you how to transform his father-son drawing into a monster of serious proportions with some volumetric layer effects. Now learn how to add shading around his mouth to give him more expression. This technique use a combination of shape layers and layer masks in Adobe Photoshop.
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With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
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This week’s Deke’s Techniques is a very special episode, inspired by a drawing Deke completed with his son, Sam. Watch as Deke shows how he recreated the drawing in Adobe Photoshop as a series of vector-based shape layers (drawn with the Pen tool) and makes it even more ghoulish using layer effects. The end result? Some really cool volumetric artwork that pops off-screen. lynda.com members have access to the exercise file, which includes a number of predrawn layer comps, or you can follow along and apply the lessons to your own artwork.
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With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
a 30-day free trial of the Creative Cloud, including the full Master Collection.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
a 30-day free trial of the Creative Cloud, including the full Master Collection.
They are greatly discounting the Bundle from $299.99 to $199.99 during this time. This is a great opportunity to buy the Bundle if you may have been held back by the price in the past. The promo code for this discount is july4.
Topaz Labs Photoshop plug-ins are specifically designed to expand a photographer's creative toolbox by harnessing powerful image technology developments. Photographers everywhere are now taking advantage of the creative exposure effects, artistic simplification, unique edge manipulation, and top-of-the-line noise reduction offered in Topaz products. The Topaz Photoshop Plugins Bundle is a super powerful Photoshop plugins package that includes the following Topaz products: Topaz Adjust
Deliver stunning and dynamic images with this uniquely powerful plug-in that features HDR-like abilities and enhances exposure, color and detail. Topaz InFocus Topaz InFocus uses the latest advancements in image deconvolution technology to restore, refine and sharpen image detail. Topaz Detail
A three-level detail adjustment plug-in that specializes in micro-contrast enhancements and sharpening with no artifacts. Topaz ReMask
The fastest and most effective masking and extraction program with one-click mask refining. Topaz DeNoise
Highest-quality noise reduction plug-in that removes the most noise and color noise while preserving the most image detail. Topaz Simplify
Provides creative simplification, art effects, and line accentuation for easy one-of-a-kind art. Topaz Clean
Take control of the detail depth of your images with extensive smoothing, texture control and edge enhancement tools. Topaz DeJPEG
Drastically improves the quality of web images and other compressed photos.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
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In this episode, Julieanne Kost, Adobe worldwide evangelist, will demonstrate her top 5 favorite features in Photoshop CC, including the new Upright, Radial Filter, and Spot Healing Brush features in Adobe Camera Raw 8; image upsampling and sharpening; rounded rectangles; and Camera Shake Reduction.
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The family of Creative Cloud desktop apps, and many of the powerful publishing and collaborative features that were announced at Adobe MAX in May, are now available. These include:
Hundreds of new features in new versions of the apps, including Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, Adobe Muse CC, Dreamweaver CC, Edge Animate CC, Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, and more. Your Creative Cloud membership includes more than 30 tools and services that enable professional-grade content creation and delivery across print, web, mobile apps, video and photography.
The new Creative Cloud app for your desktop, which keeps your entire creative world in sync and organized. Download and manage the latest product updates, keep tabs on your work and your followers on Behance, and more – all right from your desktop.
The ability to sync your application settings to Creative Cloud. Whether you use a Mac or PC —or both! — you can synchronize your workspace settings — including things like preferences, presets, brushes, and libraries. No more tedious fussing with your apps on a new computer. Just log in, sync, and get back to work.
Integration with Behance, the world’s leading creative community. Members are able to publish their portfolios, follow others, publish work-in-progress from within a growing number of CC apps, and solicit feedback from a worldwide community of over 1.4 million creatives. And now, stay connected with the world’s best creative work with the Behance mobile app for iOS.
A Behance Prosite for Creative Cloud member. Create a personalized, professional looking, dynamic web site in minutes to show off your work and build your brand.
The new Adobe Kuler iPhone app, so you can share your color themes and explore thousands of others available on the Kuler website. Sync your favorite themes, and they’ll be accessible immediately in Illustrator CC. We’ll be rolling out support for synced color themes in other CC apps later this year.
The updated Digital Publishing Suite, Single Edition that extends InDesign CC and allows you to create iPad apps without writing code.
Over 200 new tutorials added to Creative Cloud Learn to help customers get up and running quickly. And the all new Creative Voices videos that give you a glimpse into the lives of some of the most creative minds in the world.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
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This new 42-minute course is free until June 21. Shoot in color, but think in black and white. In this course, Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes shares his favorite techniques for transforming color photographs into black and white, a technique that provides more creative options than using your camera’s black-and-white mode. Learn how to prepare and fine-tune your photographs in Lightroom, and then move them into Photoshop to take advantage of its nondestructive adjustment layers. The course also introduces techniques for using Photoshop to adjust the color of video clips.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
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Shooting with a limited amount of natural light at a high ISO can result in a lot of noise in your photos—like the image below that Deke shot in Carlsbad Caverns, 800 feet below ground. But if you have a high enough number of pixels, you can rescue the photo and smooth it into a print-worthy image with the assistance of Adobe Camera Raw. Watch the video here.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
a 30-day free trial of the Creative Cloud, including the full Master Collection.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
a 30-day free trial of the Creative Cloud, including the full Master Collection.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
a 30-day free trial of the Creative Cloud, including the full Master Collection.
onOne Software, Inc., the leading developer and provider of photo effects for everyone, today announced the availability of Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Apple Aperture, and as a standalone application. The update includes a new Quick View Browser, refinements to the Perfect Brush, tested compatibility with the upcoming Lightroom 5, performance improvements, and general bug fixes. Also included since the initial launch of Perfect Photo Suite 7 are tools that tackle problems commonly encountered in photo editing—Red Eye reduction tools and a Clone Brush that removes distractions. The updates in Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 include:
Quick View Browser: The Quick View Browser gives users the ability to see all of their images, effects or presets in a full-screen gallery. In Perfect Layers, it makes it easy to browse image folders and quickly navigate through images. In Perfect Effects and Perfect B&W, the Quick View Browser showcases effects or preset categories on an image at one time, making it easy to compare and select amongst them.
Perfect Brush Improvements: Refinements have been made to the Perfect Brush to give users even more control. Previously, the Perfect Brush only allowed for continuous sampling of colors under the center of the brush while performing edge-detecting masking. Now, it can lock on a sampled color while masking, which is helpful when brushing through complex areas such as branches and window panes.
Red Eye Reduction Tools: Two solutions for red eye reduction are available in Perfect Photo Suite 7.5. In Perfect Portrait, red eye reduction is built into the automatic face detection feature. In Perfect Layers, the Red Eye tool is available as a brush, which can be dabbed to remove red eyes caused by flash photography.
Clone Brush: The Clone Brush quickly and effectively removes distractions in photos, such as power lines or people. The brush feather and opacity may be adjusted, and any shape or object may simply be painted over. Find more on the updates in Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 at www.ononesoftware.com/blog
Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 is now available from onOne Software. Existing owners of Perfect Photo Suite 7.x are eligible for the update at no additional cost. For a limited time, new users may purchase the Premium Edition for $199.95 (Reg. price $249.95) or the version for Lightroom & Aperture for $99.95 (Reg. price $149.95). The Standard Edition, which only works as a standalone, is available for $79.95. Owners of previous versions of Perfect Photo Suite can upgrade to the Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 Premium Edition for $99.95 (Reg. price $149.95) or the Lightroom & Aperture Edition for $69.95 (Reg. price $79.95). For more information on the Perfect Photo Suite 7.5, please visit www.ononesoftware.com.
The free update for existing Perfect Photo Suite 7.x owners may be downloaded from www.ononesoftware.com/support/suite7. Owners must make sure they are downloading the correct update for the edition they own. There are separate update installers for Perfect Photo Suite 7 Premium Edition, Perfect Photo Suite 7 for Lightroom & Aperture, and Perfect Photo Suite Standard Edition.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
a 30-day free trial of the Creative Cloud, including the full Master Collection.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
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Watch this free movie from Adobe guru Deke McClelland to learn how to transform the falcon image and text into a frame-by-frame animation, using the Timeline panel in Photoshop.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
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Lots of designers have had it with the Adobe Creative Suite rental scheme (Creative Cloud) and are looking for alternatives. Topaz Labs is offering a 15% discount on their photoFXlab. Enter our discount code PHOTOSHOPSUPPORT during the checkout process at Topaz Labs for an instant 15% discount on any Topaz product, including bundles and upgrades.
Ready to experience Topaz in a new way? A standalone application that can also be accessed as a plug-in, photoFXlab™ is the ultimate hub for all things Topaz. With instant access to all of the Topaz plug-ins, photoFXlab™ easily connects you to all of your Topaz effects in a searchable library. Featuring a layered workflow with masking capabilities, selective enhancement brushes with edge-aware technology and a fun new way to InstaTone™ your images, photoFXlab™ is the new way to experience Topaz.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
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Watching Photoshop Power Shortcuts will leave you smacking your forehead and saying "I wish I'd known that years ago!" This session will reveal as many tips and techniques to boost your productivity as can be packed into 60 minutes.
Michael Ninness, Senior VP of Product and Content, lynda.com, will covers: The top 20 power shortcuts every Photoshop user MUST know, Easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail, Automating certain tasks — without recording Actions, Optimization tips for smaller and more efficient web graphics. Watch Photoshop Power Shortcuts
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
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This new free Lightroom 5 preset pack from Matt Kloskowski takes advantage of the brand new Radial Filter effect in Lightroom 5. You'll find different versions of each preset that let you control the area in the photo you want to highlight, by putting a small spotlight effect on that area. You'll also see 3 different strength settings so you can really fine tune the effect for your specific images.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
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This week Deke McClelland takes a still photograph of a majestic falcon and creates the appearance of motion by superimposing multiple copies of the wings and adjusting their positions with the Puppet Warp tool in Adobe Photoshop. Get started by watching the free video below and using the companion text to help you along.
With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all.
Creative Cloud members also automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Download
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SEE OUR MAY 2013 BLOG INDEX for all the MARCH posts on one page, or pick the individual news stories from the links below. 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.
Enter our exclusive discount coupon code PHOTOSHOPSUPPORT during the checkout process at Topaz Labs for an instant 15% discount on any Topaz product, including bundle deals and upgrades.
Topaz Labs Photoshop plug-ins are specifically designed to expand a photographer's creative toolbox by harnessing powerful image technology developments.
Photographers everywhere are now taking advantage of the creative exposure effects, artistic simplification, unique edge manipulation, and top-of-the-line noise reduction offered in Topaz products. The Topaz Photoshop Bundle includes the following Topaz plugins:
Topaz Adjust optimizes image exposure, color, and detail strength for stunning image results.
Topaz DeNoise offers a complete noise reduction solution that removes far more noise and preserves far more detail than other solutions.
Topaz Detail gives full control over all aspects of detail manipulation and micro-contrast adjustment without creating any edge artifacts or halos.
Topaz Simplify provides creative simplification, art effects, and line accentuation for easy one-of-a-kind art.
Topaz Clean integrates unique smoothing capabilities with stylized detail manipulation to add refreshing flair to photos.
Topaz ReMask quickly creates detailed masks and extractions from even the most difficult images.
Topaz DeJPEG drastically improves the quality of web images and other compressed photos.
READ ABOUT THE TOPAZ BUNDLE OFFER. Photoshop Masking Plugin Fluid Mask 3 - Price Drop And Exclusive $20 Instant Discount - Now Only $129
The 4 1/2 out of 5 star review of Fluid Mask 3 at MacWorld begins by saying that this "Photoshop plug-in takes the pain out of extracting backgrounds," and goes on to recommend the latest version, stating that "Fluid Mask 3.0.2 is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve."
Fluid Mask 3 is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously. In a streamlined interface and workflow, Fluid Mask 3 instantly shows key edges in the image and provides comprehensive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lattices. Fluid Mask will also preserve all-important edge information for a professional quality cut out. Simply follow this discount link and pay only $129 for Fluid Mask 3.
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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.
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Offer available to all registered users of individual products and suites, CS3 or later.
This week’s Deke’s Techniques is a very special episode, inspired by a drawing Deke completed with his son, Sam. Watch as Deke shows how he recreated the drawing in Adobe Photoshop as a series of vector-based shape layers (drawn with the Pen tool) and makes it even more ghoulish using layer effects. The end result? Some really cool volumetric artwork that pops off-screen. lynda.com members have access to the exercise file, which includes a number of predrawn layer comps, or you can follow along and apply the lessons to your own artwork.
I wanted to give you the heads up that Topaz is going to be running a big promotion on their Bundle starting June 24th going through July 7th. 
Topaz InFocus uses the latest advancements in image deconvolution technology to restore, refine and sharpen image detail.
Here are the 6 free Lightroom 5 videos: 
onOne Software, Inc., the leading developer and provider of photo effects for everyone, today announced the availability of Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Apple Aperture, and as a standalone application. The update includes a new Quick View Browser, refinements to the Perfect Brush, tested compatibility with the upcoming Lightroom 5, performance improvements, and general bug fixes. Also included since the initial launch of Perfect Photo Suite 7 are tools that tackle problems commonly encountered in photo editing—Red Eye reduction tools and a Clone Brush that removes distractions. The updates in Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 include:
Enter our exclusive discount coupon code PHOTOSHOPSUPPORT during the checkout process at Topaz Labs for an instant 15% discount on any Topaz product, including bundle deals and upgrades.
The 4 1/2 out of 5 star review of Fluid Mask 3 at MacWorld begins by saying that this "Photoshop plug-in takes the pain out of extracting backgrounds," and goes on to recommend the latest version, stating that "Fluid Mask 3.0.2 is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve."
