Adobe Photoshop

By RC So, why share these HDR images with you here? Well to whet your appetite for more HDR stuff at Photoshop World. That’s right, registration is open for Photoshop World in Orlando, FL March 24-26 2009. Now, on Tuesday March 23 Matt Kloskowski and I are bringing back our pre-con Real World HDR. So...

By Marc Edwards Illustrator Is The Same As Photoshop If you would like images saved in Illustrator or imported from Illustrator to Photoshop to match as well, then follow the steps below. These instructions are for Illustrator CS4 on Mac and Windows. Setting up Illustrator CS3 is very similar.

By Scott I’ve been developing a brand new one-day workshop called “Photoshop for Digital Photographers” and I’m launching this new tour in just a few weeks; on Monday, October 26th in Boston at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. Here’s what I’m teaching in this new tour: Scott’s Seve...

By Jay Hathaway Honestly, I think Adobe got this one right. It would be cool to do some serious photo editing on the iPhone, but even the 3GS doesn't have the specs for the more resource-heavy features we've come to expect from Adobe's Creative Suite apps. iPhone users mostly just want to make their photos lo...

By John Herrman Photoshop: This app bears almost no resemblance to the Photoshop we all know and steal love. That's fine though, because it's a serviceable photo-editing (on the iPhone, this means filters, cropping, and a few other tricks) app that is free, unlike virtually all of its competition.

The folks from Adobe Press have introduced Adobe Photoshop CS4: Learn By Video. The application introduces the most essential topics in Photoshop CS4. Users can: In a similar vein, Richard Harrington's Understanding Photoshop: Quick Fixes (iTunes link) offers the following:

By Joan Sherwood PhotoTools 2 also lets you apply the effects to multiple photos in a batch from Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom and Apple Aperture. Lightroom and Aperture The PhotoTools palette in Lightroom allows you to apply a PhotoTools preset to one or multiple photos without opening Photoshop.

By jtsep Adobe and one of it’s most important family member: Photoshop Thomas Knoll and John Knoll (Right) Adobe Photoshop, from  1.0 to 7.0 Continue on History of Photoshop (2) 22 years ago, a PhD student at the University of Michigan noticed that his Macintosh Plus was unable

By ascultradio Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3Scott broke down all his prior books into what he calls his ‘7 Point System.’ He first opens up in ‘Adobe Camera Raw.’ Whoops, the majority of Digital Camera Users probably have no idea what this means, or don’t have it on their little 5 or 8 MP came...

By Scott They pick weekly winners (for the next five weeks) which get a copy of Lightroom 2, plus an Adobe 18-1 Card Reader, an 8GB USB Drive, and a three-year subscription to Layers. Plus you’ll be featured in a Layers magazine article and on the website, as well the Adobe website.

By Chris Orwig 1. Engine panel: Choose one of five different gallery styles. 2. Color Palette panel: Choose color variations. 3. Appearance panel: Define the layout attributes such as the number of rows and columns in your layout, as well as image attributes including borders, drop shadows, etc.

By RC Luckily, the Adobe engineers felt the same way and introduced Adobe Bridge with Creative Suite 2 as well as with the individual point products such as InDesign CS2. Bridge is a standalone application that doesn’t require another CS2 application to run. You can use Bridge to browse all kind...

Photoshop CS4 Problem When you move layers from one document to another in Photoshop, the angle of styles are changed to the default value of 120°. Problem When you duplicate layers in Photoshop the name of the layer will be changed with the word 'copy' at the end.

By Brad Me, Me, Me. Why? - You may ask… To free myself from tutorials, to free myself from someone’s way of thinking, from someone’s way of doing things… to THINK PHOTOSHOP. What I mean is that by reading and following someone else’s tutorials I was able to REPEAT his/her actions… but from one tutoria...

By Scott Above: Photoshop World instructor Frank Cricchio during a one-on-one portfolio review—free for registered full conference attendees. Above: One of the most popular and talented instructors at Photoshop World, Terry White (from Adobe Systems) during one of his Adobe InDesign sessi...

By Richard Lynch(noreply@blogger.com) The Adobe Photoshop Layers Book for CS4 was just released in mid-March ('09)! Get it on Amazon: http://aps8.com/taplbcs4.html. The book has 60 new pages of material, including a section on making manual HDR conversion the layers way. All of the exercises and materials have been reviewed an...

By Scott Now, onto the news: Hi gang. Before we get going, how ’bout a round of applause for Jay Maisel’s inspiring Special Guest Post yesterday! I was just so tickled to have Jay as a guest blogger here, and I know that a lot of you that are going to Photoshop World are now going to make it a point [...]

By Scott Anyway, the shoot part was kind of a bust, and I’m even embarrassed to show you the unretouched shot (shown above), but I felt I needed to, especially for Part Two tomorrow, which is a step-by-step on the post processing, and includes my mini-review of the Photoshop plug-in Lucis Art Pro 6.0....

By Scott If you’re a landscape photographer, then the two most important times of the day for you are Sunrise and Sunset, and I just picked up an app for my iPhone that you’ll want to check out called Focalware. Among other things, it shows you the exact time for that day’s sunrise and sunset based on yo...

By Scott Howdy folks—It’s Tuesday—let’s do some news: Good news: we tracked down the culprit that was holding back many of your comments (it was a preference setting—basically a checkbox—that was turned on by default when we switched to the newest version of Word Press), and things should be bac...

By Wojciech Pijecki In the end, I decided to colorize this whole image. If you want to get the same final color effect, go to Layers Palette and add an Adjustment Layer on the top of all layers. Pick Hue/Saturation. Make sure you have the Colorize option checked. Then set Hue to 201, and Saturation to 17.

By Jesus Diaz I can't try the rest of the applications in the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection with the depth I can use both Photoshop and Illustrator, but if these two—and Bridge CS4—are any sign of what to expect from the other ten apps in the package—and from what I've been able to read in review...

By Doug Berger Section: Computers, Software / Applications, Imaging, Reviews, Features I just unboxed and installed Adobe Photoshop CS4, so I’m ready to offer some first impressions on the PC version. Speed That’s all I’ve got for now.  We’ll get more details out in an upcoming Creative Suite 4 review s...

By Jodie Andrefski Quick Review: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 What is it? Click for a larger image. You can see where you go in the toolbar to select the adjustment brush to begin the development process Click for a larger image. Click for a larger image. 4/5 Download Free Trial: Adobe Lightroom 2 Free Trial

By Richard Lynch(noreply@blogger.com) The list of features is tremendously long spanning all versions of Photoshop and Elements. Instead of listing all the features, let me simplify the list by making a few generalizations: Visit the Hidden Power website for Elements users: http://hiddenelements.com

Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites using Adobe Photoshop cs3 Extended [b]Ideal for: ┬╖ Film, video, and multimedia professionals ┬╖ Graphic and web designers using 3D and motion ┬╖ Manufacturing professionals ┬╖ Medical professionals ┬╖ Architects and engine...

Here are some key features of "Adobe Photoshop cs3 Extended": Edit 3D and motion-based images Unique to Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended: Perform 3D-model visualization and texture editing, and paint and clone over multiple video frames. ╖ 3D image editing 3D compositing and texture edit...

Our job is about functionality, not ideology.  Whatever works best, wins.  Obviously the Apple development teams feel free to depart from strict adherence to the baseline OS when they feel that doing so would benefit their customers.  I'd argue that Adobe teams should have similar latitu...

Adobe Photoshop CS3 A-Z-Tools and features illustrated ready reference eBook If you find the help feature in Adobe Photoshop a bit sparse, then this book could be an easy to use supplement\" Photoshop User CS- Bryan O\'Neil Hughes, Adobe Photoshop Product Manager Photoshop User

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PS--I sometimes have to chuckle when people talk about the complexity of Photoshop, or any professional software for that matter.  Sometime I should post screenshots of what features look like while in development.  A dialog like Shadow/Highlight might have literally 50 or 100 control...

Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for new users to master all the new features in Adobe's consumer-targeted image editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on the read...

By Jeff Schewe Real World Camera Raw for Adobe Photoshop CS3 written by Bruce Fraser and myself just hit #1 on Amazon’s category of Adobe Photoshop books! Yeah! Must have been that glowing (but biased review) Michael Reichmann of the Luminous Landscape posted today. Read the review here.

By T. Michael Testi Dfine 2.0 is the long awaited update to Dfine 1.0; the Noise Reduction product from Nik Software that is redefining noise reduction for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. That leads to the question "What is Noise?" Noise is the unwanted imperfections created by digital cameras as the...

By T. Michael Testi Now in its fourth edition, How To Cheat In Photoshop has become a standard of Photoshop techniques. All in all, there are about 170 tutorials on all aspects of Photoshop. Even if you do not want to create montages, you will find that the time tested methods will expand your skills and knowledg...

By T. Michael Testi Fluid Mask is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop version CS2 and CS3. There are versions for Microsoft Windows Vista and XP as well as Apple Mac Intel and Power PC 10.2.8 and up. Fluid Mask also works with Photoshop Elements as well as working in standalone mode for image formats that accept transiti...

By T. Michael Testi DxO FilmPack can be used as a standalone product or from the filter menu within Adobe Photoshop. The user interface is pretty self explanatory. You have drop down lists and sliders. You choose an emulsion and the filter applies the color and the grain of the film to your image. You are presented...

By T. Michael Testi Chapter one, "Simplifying the Interface," explores the Photoshop UI and the tools that you will be using in your exploration of graphic artistry. You will be creating animated paintbrushes and a custom brush palette. You will learn a bit about the workflow within Adobe Bridge and Adobe Ca...

By T. Michael Testi Lastly, Render to Layers is where each image component is rendered out as a separate layer into a native Photoshop .PSD file so that you can now take each layer and work them separately from within Photoshop. You can even use the mask and Selection Layers to create new effects. What's even bett...

By T. Michael Testi Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One may be one of the most interesting training systems I have ever seen. It is a straightforward, step-by-step guide to the features and functions of Photoshop. It has many real-world projects, insider tips as well as coverage of new features in CS3 such as Adob...

By T. Michael Testi Chapter one, "Workflow Foundations," helps you prepare for a workflow that revolves around Lightroom. In this chapter, the author goes over the fundamentals of workflow and how it relates to Lightroom. He goes over what Lightroom is, what it is to be used for and what you can accomplish by u...

By T. Michael Testi It can certainly be argued that the filter option is one of the most versatile features of Photoshop. If you work with filters or want to learn to work with filters, Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia is highly recommended as a compact guide and reference as well as a tool to enhance your...

By T. Michael Testi Chapter four, "Image Processing", is the meaty part of this book. Consuming over 33% of this book, Evening lays out in detail the other must reason to own Lightroom. While you can still edit and manipulate photos in Photoshop, by doing this in Lightroom, you never have to edit a pixel of the or...

By T. Michael Testi In Photoshop Photo Retouching Cookbook, Barry Huggins will, in step-by-step instructions show you how to perform all these techniques and many more. In fact, there are 113 recipes for adjusting, correcting, retouching, and manipulating your photographs.

By T. Michael Testi From here, we move on to "Tonal and Color effects." You will learn how to create high and low-key effects, selective coloring and tone separations. Next is "Graphic Art Effects" where you can transform your pictures into oil paintings, wood-cut drawings, pencil sketches and art nouveau m...

By T. Michael Testi Have no fear. Corrie Haffly is to the rescue with her book The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks and Techniques. This isn't your typical Photoshop book. This book is really focused toward web developers: those who are comfortable with the programming aspect of web design but...

By T. Michael Testi Would I recommend this book? Even if this were version eight of Adobe Lightroom, I think that this would be one of my recommendations, but since this is version one and the product is so new, I would have to say that The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book is a must have.

By T. Michael Testi What are blending modes? The basic answer is that they are effects that allow one layer to interact with another layer -- that is, blend. In CS2 there are over twenty blending modes. They range from those which darken and lighten an image to ones that increase contrast and others that manipul...

By byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) We started up Task Manager and went to the Performance tab. Yup, available RAM was sitting at 3MB. On Windows XP, if your machine every has less than about 15MB of free RAM, you know you’re going to be in for trouble performance-wise. Ugh. So we quit Photoshop - which took a bit, since there was so m...

By byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) My favorite tool around the house is my DeWalt 18v cordless drill. It’s just a brute. I like the three speed clutch - can really help with the Forstner bits - and the chuck is really nice. It’s great when a tool is robust enough to put up with the kinds of abuse and just not give up. I don’t like having a...