The Photoshop Blog
The Photoshop Blog offers Photoshop news and Photoshop tips. |
| 1. Photoshop CC: Favorite Features for Photographers - Video Tutorial |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 2. Major Update to Adobe Creative Cloud Now Available |
| 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... READ MORE...
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| 3. Creating Highly Reflective Sunglasses - Video Tutorial |
| Discover how to enhance the reflectivity of an object to match the ambience of its environment in this week’s Deke’s Techniques. Deke shows how to enhance the sunglasses of a model posed in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, using Adobe Photoshop paths, masks, and layer effects. READ MORE...
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| 4. Black and White with Lightroom and Photoshop |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 5. Reduce Noise With Camera Raw - Video Tutorial |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 6. What’s New in Lightroom 5 - 6 Free Videos |
| Here are the 6 free Lightroom 5 videos. READ MORE...
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| 7. Making Movement: Creating and Editing Stunning Videos Easily in Photoshop (62 Minutes) |
| Discover how you can use Adobe Photoshop to easily create polished videos from your DSLR video footage and stills. Watch as Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost demonstrates easy workflows and techniques to create great videos using Photoshop. READ MORE...
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| 8. Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 9. 10 Essential Tips For Using Kuler |
| From Creativepro: Recently, Adobe gave Kuler a major overhaul, with a new responsive website and a free iOS app. Soon you'll also be able to sync color Kuler themes with Illustrator CC swatches. In the meantime, here are ten essential tips for using the new Kuler site. READ MORE...
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| 10. Create an animated movie in Photoshop - Video Tutorial |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 11. Topaz photoFXlab Special Discount - Get It Now For Just $67.99 |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 12. Photoshop Power Shortcuts - One Hour Video |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 13. Free Gray Haze Photoshop Background Image Texture Patterns |
| You can download a series of free grayscale haze images for texture work in Photoshop. They remind me of UFOs for some reason. READ MORE...
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| 14. Free Lightroom 5 Presets From OnOne |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 15. Photoshop Video Tutorial - How To Animate A Falcon's Wings Using The Puppet Tool |
| 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. READ MORE...
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| 16. Topaz Clarity Photoshop Plugin - Create Flawless Contrast and Clarity Definition With A Few Clicks - Special Deal |
| Topaz Labs is excited to announce Topaz Clarity, a plug-in that helps you create powerful and refined images by intelligently enhancing clarity and contrast with absolutely no artifacts or halos. Topaz Clarity retails for $49.99, but will be available at a special reduced price of $29.99 through May 31st. READ MORE...
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| 17. Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers - Free PDF |
| Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers — a professional image editor's guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC, by Martin Evening. (Download the free PDF here) Learn Photoshop from a renowned professional photographer and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer who actually works in the industry and doesn’t just write about it. This bestseller has been fully updated, is packed with professional examples, step-by-step tutorials, and 750+ color images. The accompanying website features sample images, tutorial videos, and more. READ MORE...
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| 18. How to Be a Better Designer - Explores Key Ideas To Sharpen Your Skills |
| How to Be a Better Designer explores five key ideas that will sharpen your skills and awareness of the elements of good design. From the intro: At PepCon this year I was honored to give two presentations, both on the topic of How To Be a Better Designer. This article summarizes the first of those presentations. READ MORE...
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| 19. Beginners Photoshop CS6 - Free Videos Plus 25% Discount On Course |
| Check out the free videos and if you like the training, get it at a 25% discount with the following exclusive discount code: ps-support. See all the free videos here. Learn how to plan, prepare and create web graphics with Adobe Photoshop CS6. It will focus on how web designers use Photoshop to create user interface designs and prepare graphics for use in their websites. Students will learn how to create a complete design from conception to final web output. READ MORE...
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| 20. Photoshop CC - Favorite Features for Photographers - Video |
| Julieanne Kost demonstrates her top 5 favorite features in Photoshop CC including the new Upright perspective correction, Radial Filter, and Spot Removal features in Adobe Camera Raw 8, Image Upsampling and Smart Sharpening, Live Shapes for Rounded Rectangles, and Camera Shake Reduction. READ MORE...
(posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) |
| 21. End Of Life For Creative Suite Specials - Upgrade To Creative Cloud And Save 40% - Single App Save 50% - Students Save 60% - Teams Save $30 A Month |
| Here are some new promotions from Adobe for Creative Cloud. For a limited time, upgrade to Creative Cloud and save 40%. Additionally, students can save 60% when they join Creative Cloud. READ MORE...
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| 22. Photoshop Only Updated Through Creative Cloud |
| Adobe today announced Adobe Photoshop CC as part of a major update to Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe Photoshop CC will be available, exclusively to Creative Cloud members, in June. See all current deals on Creative Cloud Subscriptions. READ MORE...
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| 23. Free Photoshop Brushes - 5 Fractal Shard Brushes |
| These are simple but nice, a set of five fractal shard brushes for Photoshop. READ MORE...
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| 24. Precisely Aligning Artwork To The Bleed - Illustrator Video Tutorial |
| A proper "bleed" ensures the ink extends to the very outside edges of a printed page, leaving no margin or whitespace around your artwork. And though there’s no way to set it up automatically, in this week’s Deke’s Techniques, Deke McClelland shows you how to precisely align your artwork to the bleed in Adobe Illustrator. READ MORE...
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| 25. Adobe Creative Suite 6 Printing Guide - Free PDF |
| How heartbreaking it is when you've designed a layout for print that you're so proud of, and then it comes back from the press looking, well...just wrong. Make sure your creative control doesn't end when your files leave your computer. Optimize your designs so they work with the abilities of the printing process, rather than against them. The Adobe Creative Suite 6 Printing Guide (PDF - 147 pages) will tell you everything you need to know to produce Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat files that printers will love and published documents that clients will adore. Use it as a handy technical reference or as a training tool for new staff. READ MORE...
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| 26. Better Tools for Tones: Why I Don’t Look at the Histogram |
| The histogram—the graph of tonal levels you see in photo-editing software—helps you evaluate the tone and color characteristics of an image. But when you think about the reasons why we’re taught to use the histogram, it turns out that newer tools are better at showing you the tonal problems you’ll most want to solve. You find these tools in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, and because of them I use the histogram much less than I used to. READ MORE...
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| 27. Displaying A Photograph Within A Shape In Photoshop - 6 Minute Video Tutorial |
| In this Quick Tip, Julieanne Kost shows 3 ways to display an image within a shape in Photoshop including vector masks, clipping masks and layer groups. READ MORE...
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| 28. Making A Danger Sign More Dangerous - Photoshop Video Tutorial |
| Take a warning sign to the next threat level with Adobe Photoshop. In this week’s Deke’s Techniques, Deke McClelland takes a photograph of a real-life sign from The Cliffs of Moher in Ireland—better known as The Cliffs of Insanity in the movie Princess Bride—and adds a menacing shark with the combined power of paths, channels, clipping masks, and some other tools in Photoshop. READ MORE...
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| 29. 5 Free Premium High Resolution Japanese Paper Backgrounds |
| From the Photoshop Roadmap blog: These textures are digital scans of beautifully hand crafted and printed japanese papers. You can use these free textures in both personal and commercial projects. READ MORE...
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| 30. PostworkShop 3 Photoshop Plugin - 20% Discount |
| PostworkShop 3 adds new dimensions to the creative workflows of artists and professional designers that want a distinctive look to their art. Go to Plugs 'N Pixels for more info, as well as a 20% discount (use code CPN02634166166). You'll also find a good tutorial that will get you acquainted with the plugin. READ MORE...
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| 31. Lightroom 5 Video: Advanced Healing Brush |
| Discover the new enhancements to Lightroom's advanced Healing Brush including the ability to heal and clone non-circular brush spots as well as remove easy to miss sensor dust with using the new Visualization slider. Download the free Lightroom 5 beta here. READ MORE...
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| 32. onOne Announces Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 for Lightroom, Photoshop, and Aperture |
| onOne today announced Perfect Photo Suite 7.5 for Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Apple Aperture, and as a standalone application. READ MORE...
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| 33. Defringing Purples And Greens In Camera Raw - Video Tutorial |
| Learn how to get rid of a special variety of color distortion called color fringing that’s at work inside your digital photographs. Color fringing falls into two color ranges—purple and green—which are color complements, falling on opposite sides of the color wheel. In this week’s Deke’s Techniques, Adobe guru Deke McClelland shows you how to identify and remove color fringing inside Camera Raw, and ensure that you get accurate color corrections. Note that these instructions work best with Camera Raw 7, which ships with Photoshop CS6. READ MORE...
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