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Wednesday, Jan 27
Anime Studio Debut 6
The two features that I’d say make this upgrade worthwhile are the amplitude-based lip-syncing and motion tracking. These two items can take a beginner’s animations to the next level. The drawing tools include a great set of basic, vector drawing tools that provide freehand drawing, sha...
Monday, Jan 25
Design Makeover: Dental Clinic for Pets
APPLICATIONS USED: Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe InDesign CS4, and Adobe Photoshop CS4 AFTER APPLICATIONS USED: Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe InDesign CS4, and Adobe Photoshop CS4 AFTER APPLICATIONS USED: Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Adobe InDesign CS4
Friday, Jan 22
New Episode of Layers TV | Get your Masters at SVA Online!
Photoshop Hall of Fame member, and Photoshop World Dream Team Instructor Katrin Eisman chairs this department, and was kind enough to send me some additional information on this program. Make sure you check out the videos below for more information:
How To: Diamond Plating Effect using Illustrator and Photoshop
Create this effect starting with a pattern and Illustrator and adding layer effects in Photoshop. This video requires Adobe Flash Player. Create this effect starting with a pattern and Illustrator and adding layer effects in Photoshop.
Tuesday, Jan 19
Automate Green-Screen Layouts in Photoshop CS4
Press-and-hold Command (PC: Ctrl) and click on the “a copy” channel to load it as a selection. Now, click on the Layers panel tab, hold down Option (PC: Alt), and double-click on the Background layer to unlock it. Click on the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel to add a layer ma...
Friday, Jan 15
Designing a Layers T-Shirt in Photoshop
Use Photoshop to put artwork onto a tee shirt. This video requires Adobe Flash Player. Use Photoshop to put artwork onto a tee shirt.
The Story Beyond The Still: Canon & Vimeo Contest With Vincent Laforet
Simple concept – Vincent was given an image, and using a Canon 7D he was tasked to make a 3min prologue video for a short movie called “The Cabbie”. The end of his video ends with a picture. That’s where you come in. You take the picture and include it for a few seconds, then you do an interpretation...
Tuesday, Jan 12
Build a Simple Countdown Timer in Flash
After importing the PSD file, you should see the same layer structure in the Timeline panel as you saw in the Layers panel in Photoshop. Rename Layer 1 by double-clicking on it and entering “actions,” then lock it so no visuals can be placed on it. You’ll write all of your ActionScript code on t...
Tuesday, Nov 24
Create Perspective Using Simple 2D Art with Illustrator CS4
I finally did it, and now that I did, I don’t know why I waited so long. I’ve joined the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, a conglomerate that is changing the face of professional photography. From Photoshop User magazine to a live Help Desk to camera reviews to countless tip...
Sunday, Oct 18
Think You Can Teach Photoshop? Show Us!
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...
Wednesday, Oct 14
Images and Catalog Information in Lightroom and Photoshop
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...
Thursday, Sep 24
Artistic Expressions: Creating a 3D Coin
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...
Tuesday, Sep 1
Photoshop CS4: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
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...
Photoshop Saves The Day | Strobelite Deals | “Your Choice” Contest!
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!.
Wednesday, Aug 12
Opinion: Removing Elements from a Photo
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...
Monday, Aug 3
Website Design Tips Using Photoshop CS4
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...
New Contest: How CS4 Saved The Day!!
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.
Friday, Jul 31
Digital Juice Fonts
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...
Tuesday, Jul 28
Opinion: Quick and Easy Web Galleries with Photoshop Lightroom
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.
Opinion: Using Adobe Bridge with InDesign
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...
Tuesday, Jul 21
Artistic Expressions: Creating a 3D Sign
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>...
Wednesday, Jun 17
Displacement Maps for Graphics in Photoshop CS4
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...
Friday, Jun 12
Photoshop: Retouching with the worlds 21st Century Corset
Links to Check Out Time - The Business of Imagemaking Who Is Pascal Dangin Smile and Say ‘No Photoshop’ - New York Times Andy Roddick and the Photoshop Arms Stars Without Fards - The French Elle Magazine (Commentary) People - Stars Without Makeup
Thursday, Jun 11
Extended Depth of Field With Auto-Blend Layers in Photoshop CS4
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...
Sunday, May 24
Topaz DeNoise v2.2
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...
Wednesday, May 20
Smart Objects: From Illustrator to Photoshop to Dreamweaver
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...
Wednesday, May 13
Down & Dirty Tricks: First Impressions
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...
Coloriage V.6.0
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
Monday, May 11
First Look: Within the Frame | Illustrator 2 Photoshop | Contest Time
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:
Thursday, Apr 23
Artistic Photo Canvas of NYC | Metallic Effects
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
Monday, Apr 13
The Intuos4 Mouse ROCKS | Openzoom | Twitter Backgrounds | Contest Time
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)
Thursday, Apr 2
Ziser Conference | Tutorials | Long Live Mimobot!
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 [...]
Tuesday, Mar 31
Creating a Water Effect on Text and Graphics in Adobe Photoshop
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...
Monday, Mar 30
Tutorials, Voices That Matter, MOO, & Contest
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
Better Masking Techniques in Adobe Photoshop CS4
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.
Friday, Mar 27
Get It Together With Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4
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...
Wednesday, Mar 25
Opinion: Keynote Day! | Wacom Introduces the Intuos 4
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...
Sunday, Mar 22
Artistic Expressions: A Brush with Inspiration
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...
Monday, Mar 9
Instant Inspiration: John Masse
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.
Sunday, Mar 8
From Input to Output with Photoshop Lightroom
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...
Friday, Feb 22
Grunge Borders in Adobe Illustrator CS3
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.
Friday, Nov 16
Adobe Updates for Photoshop, Camera Raw, Bridge, and Lightroom
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 ...
