Adobe Photoshop

God bless scripters and the spirt of "Just Do It." Responding to reader feedback here about the desire to remove "copy" from duplicated layers, scripter Mike Hale used Configurator to create a simple panel (screenshot) that does just that--nuking "copy {#}" from all layers or just the se...

If nothing else, I thought this list of shortcuts might be handy.It's this kind of fastidious attention to detail that made me delight in Photoshop & After Effects. I remember sitting in an AE class & figuring out the meaning of a couple of modifier keys, then combining them and seei...

Adobe video specialist Dennis Radeke shares quite a few details about how Adobe is leveraging graphics processors (GPUs) to greatly accelerate common operations in Adobe video apps. Taking this together with After Effects & Premiere Pro going 64-bit, I think a lot of Adobe video cu...

You might find these recent video tutorials interesting: The Russell Brown Show - Painting Patterns In this Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended tutorial, Russell Brown shows you how to create a tiled pattern and apply it to an image so that you can paint with patterns.

We've heard a number of requests (e.g. here, here) for the ability to make Photoshop stop adding the word "copy" to layer names when duplicating layers. Out of curiosity, does anyone actually like this behavior? If not, it should be easy enough simply to stop adding "copy." If some people real...

Believe me, we're sensitive to the subject of "bloat," and I'm actively pitching ideas (here's one) for how the apps can better integrate without just duplicating one another. Having said that, we can't err too far in the other direction, saying that if one app does something, no others ca...

The talk will focus on Photoshop performance best practices to help enable users to get the most out of Photoshop with their current hardware setup. In addition, there will be guidance provided for users that plan on buying new hardware or upgrading their existing Photoshop & Lightr...

51764: Only one image opens when many are dragged onto Photoshop's icon51278: Cursors don't display correctly in Photoshop CS451339: Editing in Photoshop CS4 fails from 64-bit Lightroom in Mac OS X 10.6Cannot drag from Safari onto Photoshop icon (and other application icons) in Dock t...

You might find these recent video tutorials interesting: The Russell Brown Show - Halloween Monster Make-Up Kit In this special "Halloween" edition of the Russell Brown Show, you'll learn how to turn people into monsters. Russell even gives you the files you'll need to do it!

The San José Photoshop User Group is meeting next Tuesday, Nov. 10, at the Adobe SJ office (map). Pizza and drinks kick off at 6:30pm, with talks beginning at 7. The meeting will feature two speakers. As group organizer Dan Clark writes,

By Timothy Plumer Jr(timothyp@adobe.com) Photoshop Lightroom,BETA,Adobe Labs We here at the Adobe Education Technologies blog like to think of ourselves as amateur photographers (except for Rick—who is a real photographer, but the rest of us try to keep up). We are all VERY excited...

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By Stephen Muratore(muratore@adobe.com) During a workflow study a few weeks ago, I asked a user to import a Photoshop document into Premiere Pro and to animate the layers of the Photoshop document independently of one another, moving a foreground figure over a background...

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By Julieanne Kost(jkost@adobe.com) Double clicking the Hand tool in the Tool Panel is the same as selecting View > Fit on Screen (Photoshop will display the entire image as large as possible on screen. Note: Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + 0 (zero)...

Support for unlimited HDR colors (including negative colors!) across the entire rendering pipeline.Bomber component for spraying image particles in a controlled manner.Gamma correction options -- our first step towards a gamma-aware workflow.Instant filter search for people with...

By John Nack(jnack@adobe.com) Ever wanted to quickly show an art director or client a work in progress in Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.? Here's how to do it (1-minute demo): Be honest: you had no idea you could do this, right?...

As with all such sneak peeks, I have to be really clear in saying that this is just a demo, and as such it's not a promise that a technology will ship inside a particular version of Photoshop. (As the late Mac columnist Don Crabb told me years ago, "There's many a slip 'twixt cup & lip.") Still...

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 Mark Wheeler(mwheeler@adobe.com) The Autumn harvest includes a new version of Photoshop Elements. To learn more, click the links for your platform below: Windows Help for the Editor Help for the Organizer Mac OS Help for the Editor Help for Adobe Bridge...

I've done some more research into the history of Adobe's work with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I can't speak for product teams besides Photoshop, and in the interests of time, I'm sharing what I've found out so far. It turns out that the Photoshop team has tested Photoshop CS3 on Snow Leopard,...

It bums me out that I'll be seen as "The 64-Bit Wet Blanket Guy," especially when Adobe has been way out ahead of the pack on the Mac*, shipping the 64-bit-native Lightroom 2 for more than year. I think 64-bit is great, and it can yield huge performance gains in Photoshop--sometimes 10x or mor...

Photoshop Elements 5.0 (and this year the province has upgraded to Photoshop Elements 7.0 and included Premier Elements 7.0 to go along with the existing CS3 Web Standard licensing) is a powerful tool ready to do a lot of what a high school student needs. While it will never equal the full blown...

In your opinion, would a Mac Pro significantly accelerate the processing [while printing]? Is the printing engine in Photoshop multiprocessor aware? I put the question to Photoshop printing engineer Dave Polaschek, and here's his reply:

By Jeffrey Tranberry How did you get into Photoshop? What's been the best thing about being involved with Photoshop? What's the least understood feature in Photoshop? What's the most under-utilized feature in Photoshop? There is a long list of under-utilized features:

We'd like to discard an obscure feature in Photoshop & replace it with something better. First, though, I'd like to sanity-check that no one needs the existing feature. (Fair warning: This is some nerdy, slightly esoteric stuff.)

Anyone can publish information about solutions related to Photoshop, including details about events, hardware, software, training (for example, books or DVDs), communities, etc. For more info, click on the “Become a Publisher” box on the main page. (The site admin suggests reading th...

Dylan Roscover has used typefaces from Apple ads to render a beautiful portrait of Steve Jobs. (Make sure to click the image to see a larger version.) [Via] Fair warning: seeing this portrait gave me weird dreams.To borrow from AJ Soprano, "What, no {freakin'} Papyrus??" Still, this take on...

For "effortless conversion of your Photoshop designs into standards-compliant, CSS-rich webpages," check out MediaLab's SiteGrinder 2. The plug-in runs entirely within Photoshop and promises to require no hand coding. Check out the product's feature tour for more info.

Support for type styles (i.e. the ability to define a set of text characteristics as a style, then to modify the style & have text layers updated) was the top requested feature among those I proposed to improve management of complex PSDs. Photoshop doesn't yet support type styles, but in...

Elsewhere, photographer & author Derrick Story sat down with the man who oversees Photoshop & Lightroom engineering: Adobe. Develop module in Lightroom and the sliders in ACR, improvements in Photoshop, and some great lesser-known features such as Camera

We worked with Adobe to understand what features we could add that most complemented the direction you were going with CS4 and get validation on some of the ideas that we had such as the ExpressKey Displays. One direction that was totally changed based upon Adobe feedback was using the Touc...

By Mark Wheeler(mwheeler@adobe.com) Adobe and its partners provide Photoshop video tutorials in several languages. To learn more, check out the following resources in Community Help: English 日本語 Français Español Deutsch Italiano...

By Rufus Deuchler(deuchler@adobe.com) Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS4 [via John Nack]. Some of the issues that have been addressed include: A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed. Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works...

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Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in. The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved. A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed.

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It's all these little custom behaviors that help make moving Photoshop from Carbon to Cocoa a rather involved affair.  The app has developed a lot of little tweaks (e.g. holding down Opt/Alt in dialog boxes to turn Cancel into Reset) that don't just come along for free.  It's also an illustrat...

One of the sleeper features in Photoshop CS4 is new support for simulating color blindness.  My fellow PM Bryan O'Neil Hughes managed the development of the feature, so I invited him to share more info in a guest blog post (below).  --J.

We never stop looking for ways to make Photoshop better, but every so often it’s nice to take a deep breath and reflect on how far the app has come. Here are some nice props I've seen in the last few days about CS4: On CreativePro.com Ben Long says, “This is what a must-have upgrade looks like: New...

Make Photoshop "everything you need, nothing you don't" Navigate Photoshop as task-based pieces (think workspaces on steroids), each showing only what you need for the task at handLet anyone remix the Photoshop UI to fit their needsMake it drop-dead easy to share these remixes

Among the comments on my list of details polished in Photoshop CS4, a number of people wished for a similar list for Illustrator & suggested that the Illustrator team start a blog.  As it happens, my friend & former Illustrator PM Mordy Golding runs the great Real World Illustrato...

By byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) So, there's an interesting engineer-ism that I've seen be true more often than not: software will run best on whatever is on the engineer's desk.  Well, here at work, for my Windows box, I've now been running Vista since it came out, and the 64-bit version of Vista for over a year.  (I spend equ...

I worry a bit about Photoshop users seeing the app branch into 3D and thinking we've taken our eye off the ball. Earlier this week reader Jon Padilla commented, "Some of my disgruntled co-workers grumbled 'oh great! a bunch of cool features we'll never learn to use...'"  No matter what Photos...

Lightroom PM Tom Hogarty has posted some info about how Lightroom & Aperture compare in terms of enabling image editing via add-on code.  Being addicted to bulleted lists, here's my summary of where things stand: If what you're after is local image editing (e.g. dodging and burning), L...

Videos: The NAPP has launched their Lightroom 2 Learning Center. Colin Smith of the Photoshop Cafe posts videos and screenshots. Reviews and overviews: As noted above, Ian Lyons gives an in-depth tour and talks about how to pair Lightroom & Photoshop to support CMYK files.Scott Kelby...

By Jeffrey Tranberry(jtranber@adobe.com) Please take this Scripting Survey to help us understand how you use ExtendScript, JavaScript, ActionScript, AppleScript, VBScript and other scripting languages with Photoshop and the Adobe Creative Suite....

Dr. Woohoo has been creating some very cool images by driving Illustrator and Photoshop from Adobe AIR.  Check out Generative Painting in AI with 3D Symbols, as well as some good bits on Flickr.  "For this animation," says the Adobe Design Center, "Dr. Woohoo developed an AIR app that drives t...

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...

I had a rather eye-opening experience the other day.  I over heard an Adobe employee using Photoshop exclaim, "No way... they overloaded Cmd-H!"  In other words, he was surprised that pressing Cmd-H didn't hide the application.  He was obviously A) a Mac user, B) relatively unfamiliar with P...

In short, I just meant to say that we weren't promising any particular features at any particular time--nothing more, nothing less.  Hopefully needless to say, we'll work as hard as we can to bring you the good stuff sooner rather than later.

Gizmodo is repeating info found on a site called TG Daily, stating that "Photoshop CS4" (a term that I've never heard anyone from Adobe use publicly) "is expected to be released on October 1."  Uhh... expected by whom?  And based on what? J.

Let's say you copy some vectors from Illustrator and paste them into Photoshop.  Flow, running invisibly in the background, notices the event and sees that there's a relationship between the AI and PSD files.  When you pop open the Flow browser, you can see a connection between the files--...

Adobe: The company was so busy (Creative Suite 3, Lightroom, new CEO...), it's hard to believe that it was just in '07 that so much went down.  Fortunately Scott Kelby provides a thorough overview. Zeroing in just on Photoshop Lightroom, Scott's colleague Matt Kloskowski offers A look back at...

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...

By jnack(jnack@adobe.com) So, what does this mean in terms of running Adobe software?  The good news is that most Adobe apps don't require updates in order to run well.  That is, the CS3 versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and other apps are good to go for Leopard right now. ...

Adobe recently released Photoshop Elements 6 and Premiere Elements 4. Both products offer hot new features that are sure to excite both students and teachers. What I like most about the Elements packages are how easy it is to create exciting projects.

By byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) Well, another Photoshop World come and gone.  This year Adam Jerugim and I did a presentation on setting up a machine for doing very large file work.  Thank you again to those who attended - we were up against some interesting stuff.  I know I promised to have this entry up on Monday, but I've bee...

By byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) It's real.  A big, public beta of Photoshop CS3.  Now, if you own CS2, you can see what's been keeping us so busy lately. So, if you've got the time and inclination (and Photoshop CS2) go ahead and grab the beta from Adobe Labs tomorrow and see what we've been up to.

Quit Photoshop Drag the ScriptingListener plug-in into the folder 'Automate' in Photoshop's Plug-Ins folder: Adobe Photoshop CS2>Plug-Ins>Adobe Photoshop Only>Automate Launch Photoshop Using the ScriptingListener plug-in:

I used Photoshop before it was a product. I got a hold of a beta version and played around with it. I didn't really do all that much serious stuff until 2.5 came out. I was using it to modify photos that were used in advertisements... removing backgrounds from images, adding artificial shadows, perf...

By byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) Note that there are side issues, such as the current pause on Macs with more than 4GB of RAM in them (a stale leftover of the Unix days is kicking in and spoiling the fun - the disk cache that Photoshop writes the scratch file through in large memory situations is getting flushed occasionally...

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...