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By RC I keep very few third party plugins on my computer – onOne Software is one of those that AUTOMATICALLY gets installed in my machine as soon as I install Photoshop. To that, i’m really happy to announce that they have taken it to the next level announcing the Plug-In Suite 5! For me, its the abil...

By RC One of my favorite web ladies, Janine Warner, wrote a cool piece about something in the latest Layers magazine. What did she write about? The Prize: A copy of Photoshop CS4 Beauty & Portrait Retouching Kit with David Cuerdon The stuff you will learn there will amaze you.

By Chris Main Layers: What kind of projects have you used FLARToolKit for? Layers: Does North Kingdom have any future plans for AR? Layers: Why did you decide to use only After Effects to animate Black Day to Freedom? Layers: Could you briefly run us through how the film was created?

By Stephen M. Burns Stephen Burns moves 3D models between Lightwave and Photoshop and edits UV maps in this tutorial. Click here to watch Part 1 of this series. Look for Parts 3, and 4 coming soon! Stephen Burns moves 3D models between Lightwave and Photoshop and edits UV maps in this tutorial.

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 RC This tutorial gets you started with importing 3D objects from third-party programs into Photoshop CS4’s 3D layers. Look for Parts 2, 3, and 4 coming soon! This tutorial gets you started with importing 3D objects from third-party programs into Photoshop CS4’s 3D layers. Look for Parts 2, 3...

By Jay Nelson It’s almost universal: Flow works with every common creative app, including the Adobe Creative Suite, video- and sound-editing applications from Adobe and Apple, Microsoft Office, 3D apps, AutoCAD, CorelDRAW, Painter, text files, and any other file you choose to associate with a pr...

By Taz Tally Activate the Preferences in Acrobat (Command-K [PC: Ctrl-K]), and click on Color Management in the Categories list on the left side of the dialog. In the Working Spaces section, select the RGB and CMYK color profiles you want to use for viewing and printing your images. We’ve selected Adob...

By webeditor Let me start by making a few assumptions about you, the reader. First, I’ll guess that you’ve had a mobile phone for a few years now—probably some sort of smartphone with a few advanced features, but really a phone with a few extra features bolted on. I’ll guess that you played around with some...

By RC The National Association of Photoshop Professionals is running a contest called ‘So You Think You Can Teach Photoshop” from now until October 31, 2009. The premise is pretty simple: You sign in and submit a video tutorial to NAPP showing you teaching something in Photoshop. (You can submi...

By RC “I recently returned from a trip to Hawaii with lots of new photos. In this article, I’ll cover how to integrate the images and Lightroom catalog information from a trip or a location shoot into your main Lightroom catalog back home. We’ll also take a look at synchronizing Develop settings,...

By Sean Duggan Although you can use Lightroom to apply a lot of adjustments to your images, for some tasks you still have to use Photoshop. To make this transition easier, Lightroom provides several menu commands that lead to specific Photoshop features. In the rest of this tutorial, I’ll cover a scenari...

By Terry White Now it’s time to place an image to dress things up a bit. In InDesign CS4, there’s a wonderful new feature I call “Proportional Place.” This means you can use the File>Place command, choose your image, and click-and-drag the image onto the page in the exact size you want. InDesign will cons...

By RC I’m back from teaching my Creative Suite Unleashed tour with Dave Cross, having an absolute blast in Austin Texas. Make sure you check out the dates near you. Dave has a previous commitment that will keep him away from the next two days, so I will be flying solo on October 28, 2009 in St. Louis, MO...

By Bert Monroy Perhaps I was a little off in saying all you need is Photoshop, there’s one other thing you need to create this animation and that’s an image with some coins. The new enhanced 3D capabilities built into Photoshop CS4 bring new features for you to explore that you might not have considered bef...

By Dave Cross Create a new layer and drag it above the black-and-gray portrait layer. Press Command-Delete (PC: Ctrl-Backspace) to fill it with white. This will provide a white background behind our image. Hide all the layers except the black-and-gray portrait layer, and then click on that layer to mak...

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By RC Photoshop Saves The Day! This weeks winner of the How Photoshop CS4 Saved The Day contest is by Martha DiMeo – Digital Imaging Specialist & Color Director at Melody The Artist Home. Check out her story below: Or A Ticket to Photoshop World!.

By RC The Clone Stamp and the Healing Brush are both great for retouching and, in some cases, removing smaller objects from an image. But for larger items, especially in areas of more complex detail, you often have to use another approach that involves copying sections of the background onto se...

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By Sean Duggan As a final step you can use the Clone Stamp tool to remove the short white pipe near the upper center of the image. Keep the cover-up layer active so the retouching can be added to this layer and separate from the Background layer. Because the Sample drop-down menu is still set to Current & B...

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By Jacob Cass How to make your next website design pop! Web design is one of those areas that, when done right, you just know it. The finished site looks refined and well done—it pops! There are a number of ways that you can achieve this by polishing off your design in Photoshop. Here we look at some of the ways...

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By RC Weekly Winners There will be six weekly winners who will receive a copy of Lightroom 2, Adobe 18-1 Card Reader, 8GB USB Drive, and a three-year subscription to Layers magazine. You will also be featured in a Layers magazine article and on the website, as well as the Adobe website.

By Rod Harlan is a new multivolume collection of layered graphic fonts that can be endlessly customized and used in all of your print, video, and Web projects. Currently, there are three collections containing more than 4,000 individual graphic presets and community fonts (see below): Collection 1...

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...

By RC As you can see, the sign is made up of colorful letters that are embedded in metal shapes that extrude from the edge of the building. Begin by drawing the paths that make up the basic letterforms of the store logo in Adobe Illustrator, and then export the basic shapes to Photoshop via Edit>...

By Dave Cross One of the benefits of bringing in Illustrator graphics as a smart object is the option to edit the contents, even after the Displace filter has been applied. Double-click on the Vector Smart Object thumbnail in the Layers panel to jump back to Illustrator. A copy of your logo will open in Ill...

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By Sean Duggan Now it’s time to bring the images into Photoshop as layers in a single file. Select all six of the thumbnails by clicking on the first one and then Shift-clicking on the last one. Choose Tools>Photoshop>Load Files into Photoshop Layers. When this operation is finished, we’ll have a si...

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By Dave Huss Topaz DeNoise is a noise-reduction plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Unless you’ve been living in a cave the past few years, you’re probably aware that there are many products that promise to remove noise from your digital images. Topaz DeNoise differs from the other noise-removal products i...

By RC Smart Objects are one of those features that I totally love in the Creative Suite. They allow you great ways to be able to share data among applications, and create some very interesting effects. I find myself using Smart Objects quite a bit when playing around in Photoshop, and more recentl...

By Corey Barker Some Photoshop users are intimidated by the idea of trying to mask or select liquids. Here is a tutorial with some helpful tips on how to get this done. Some Photoshop users are intimidated by the idea of trying to mask or select liquids. Here is a tutorial with some helpful tips on how to get this...

By RC Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks - First Look Earlier today I got on my desk a copy of Scott Kelby’s Photoshop CS4 Down and Dirty Tricks book, and that usually means that my productivity level just headed straight south as I spent some time poring over the book contents. Hey, the way I see...

By Daniel M. East Coloriage is a very good colorization tool that has a lot of features for its price. (It’s a bit steep for what can be done manually in Photoshop but it can save you time.) If you need to bring color to your memories, or you want to recolor current ones, AKVIS has a fine solution.—Daniel M. East

By RC Matt Kloskowski - Design in Photoshop Using Patterns from Illustrator Matt comes to us this week bringing us a cool tutorial on taking some patterns from Illustrator and moving them over into Photoshop. Click on the link below to get to the video:

By RC Cool Tutorials and Reviews So we have a couple of cool tutorials to share with you as well.. and a great bag review from our friends at M-Rock. Check it out: Editing Images in Photoshop then Dreamweaver by Geoff Blake How to create a polished metal text effect using After Effects by Jay Schuh

By RC The Contest Question: Who is the author of the Digital Video Reviews column on Layers Magazine, and on what page can I find that? (Clue.. you dont need the magazine to do this.. it’s on the site!) The Prize:A copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 In Depth (3 disc set)

By RC Mimobots Rule! OK.. so this was one of those sleeper hits of the Photoshop World Conference. Our Social Media Ninja Nancy Masse and I had been talking about the fact that she and I are both fans of this character called Domokun (I know.. its a bit nerdy). Lo and behold, a company called [...]

By Dave Cross Use the Type tool (T) to add some text using a handwriting- or grungy-style of typeface (we used A Bite, available from www.dafont.com). Hold down Option (PC: Alt) and click-and-hold on the word “Effects” under the droplet layer in the Layers panel and drag it onto the type layer (to copy the B...

By RC Headline Style Using Effects in InDesign by Jeff Witchel Creating Eye Catching Text in Illustrator - By Corey Barker Exporting XFL Format from After Effects to Flash Powering Search with Audio Metadata using Premiere Pro by Richard Harrington

By Sean Duggan 7 ADD CURVES As a final touch, I added a Curves adjustment layer that applied a slight contrast boost to the building layer. With the Curves layer active, I clicked the third icon from the left at the bottom of the Adjustments panel to clip the adjustment so that it only affected the building.

By Chris Orwig With the image open as a smart object in Photoshop, you can continue your normal Photoshop workflow; for example, you could add a Curves adjustment layer, apply a filter, etc. The advantage of using smart objects is that they preserve the source image, allowing you to make nondestructive...

By RC Happy Keynote Day everyone! Today is a very fast paced day, so I would recommend one thing. Make sure that you check out our Social Media Ninja Nancy Masse’s postings over at the Photoshop World Blog! Nancy is going to give us up to the minute coverage of all of the events during Photoshop Worl...

By Corey Barker This extremely versatile feature (brush engine) has become the indispensable tool for photographers and artists alike. Of all the creative features in Photoshop, there are few that offer the possibilities that the brush engine does. Introduced back in Photoshop 7, this extremely vers...

By Web Editor I have tried to remain a “purist,” artistically speaking, so I rely heavily on customizing my brush palettes and avoiding plug-ins as much as possible. Needless to say, if I am not using a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet, I feel I am missing out on about 40% of Photoshop’s firepower.

By Chris Orwig At its essence, Lightroom is a photographer’s dream workflow tool. It allows you to streamline how you import, organize, process, and output your images. Let’s look at a typical workflow overview so you can become more familiar with how Lightroom 2 works. (This tutorial is written for thos...

By Web Editor There has been a surge of "grunge" effects lately that have been created using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. So here's one more effect for your arsenal of grunge effects.

By RC A couple of updates are going through the airwaves concerning four key applications - Photoshop, ACR, Bridge and Lightroom. You can get to all of the updates, and read up on some key specifics with the updates by heading over to John ...