New Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ Learning Center

On the heels of the final product release of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) announced today their new Online Lightroom Learning Center at www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom.

January 29th, 2007 | Web Team | Blog | Comments (0)

Distorted 3D Grid

Quick technique for creating a distorted 3D grid that can be used as a background design element. Continue Reading »

January 5th, 2007 | Web Team | Videos | Comments (3)

Displacement Maps

Here we will examine one of the many uses of the Displacement Map Continue Reading »

December 22nd, 2006 | Web Team | Videos | Comments (3)

Want Better Gradients On Press? Here’s The Tip

If you’re designing a job that will ultimately go to a printing press in CMYK mode and it’s going to contain one or more gradients, you’ll get better printed results (less color shifts) if you create those gradients after you convert to CMYK mode.

December 14th, 2006 | Web Team | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Going to press? Make sure your monitor is in the “Right Space”

By default, the RGB space for your monitor is set to sRGB, which is an okay mode for designing Web graphics. However, if you’re producing graphics for print, the sRGB mode is just about the worst RGB space your monitor could possibly be set at. It clips off lots of colors that are actually printable in CMYK mode, and therefore is pretty unsuitable for prepress work. We recommend changing your RGB workspace to an RGB space that’s more appropriate for doing print work. We like Adobe RGB (1998), which is a very popular RGB space for prepress work. You choose this RGB space under the Photoshop menu, under Color Settings (in Windows, Color Settings can be found under the Edit menu). When the Color Settings dialog appears, under the Working Spaces area, choose Adobe RGB (1998) from the RGB pop-up menu.

December 13th, 2006 | Web Team | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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December 13th, 2006 | Web Team | News | Comments (0)

More Custom Shapes

In this video tutorial, Dave Cross goes into more ways to customize your shapes. Continue Reading »

November 7th, 2006 | Web Team | Videos | Comments (1)

Honey, I Need Some Space: Visually Adjust Kerning

You can visually control the spacing between your type (which is much better than numerically trying to figure it out) by using the same keyboard shortcuts for adjusting type that Adobe Illustrator uses. Here’s how: To set the tracking tighter (tightening the space between each letter or word in a group), highlight the type with the Type tool (T), then press Option-Left Arrow (PC: Alt-Left Arrow) to tighten. Press Option-Right Arrow (PC: Alt-Right Arrow) to add more space between a selected group of letters or words. To adjust the space between two individual letters (called kerning), click your cursor between the two letters and use the same keyboard shortcuts mentioned above.

November 3rd, 2006 | Web Team | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Editing Text Without Highlighting It

Here’s a cool little tip for changing your font size without having the Type tool active. Just click on your Type layer (in the Layers palette), then go under the Window menu and choose Character. When the Character palette appears, you can make changes to your type size, color, font, tracking, etc. It freaks you out, doesn’t it?

November 1st, 2006 | Web Team | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Adobe adds Raw support for 13 more cameras

Adobe has released its Camera Raw v3.6 plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS2. The new version of the plug-in supports 13 additional cameras including models from Canon, Fuji, Nikon and Panasonic. Continue Reading »

November 1st, 2006 | Web Team | News | Comments (0)

Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4.1 released

Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4.1, an update to its software created for professional photographers as an efficient way to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images. Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4.1 includes new general, Filmstrip, Import, Export, Library, Develop, Slideshow, and Web features. The latest revision also includes 10 bug fixes addressing issues with the original Beta 4 build. Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4.1 is available for download from Adobe.com, and will expire on February 28th, 2007. The software requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.

October 23rd, 2006 | Web Team | News | Comments (0)

New Signature ‘Ultra Hi-Definition’ Line of Photo Printers

Epson is now shipping its new signature Ultra Hi-Definition line of photo printers in the U.S., designed to bring professional-level print technology to home photo enthusiasts, with the fastest six-color 4″x6″ photo printing in the industry. Featuring a professional print head and superior new ink formulation called Claria™, the Epson Stylus® Photo R260 and R380 photo printers, along with the Epson Stylus Photo RX580 photo all-in-one, deliver faster photo print speeds than any previous Epson model, and offer nearly three times the photo print speeds of comparable HP models.(1) The new Epson Ultra Hi-Definition product line is engineered to set a new standard in the ink jet photo printer category, providing print quality and longevity that is superior to lab photos. Continue Reading »

October 23rd, 2006 | Web Team | News | Comments (0)

Un-filling For Fun And Profit

Back in Photoshop 7.0, Adobe brought a once-buried command front and center when they added the Fill option to the Layers palette. This isn’t your average everyday fill. No sir, this is a special freaky fill that only works when you’ve applied a layer style to a layer. To see it in action (and immediately understand its power), create some text, and then apply a drop shadow. Lower the regular Opacity of this layer, and you’ll notice that both your type and the shadow fade at the same time. Now raise it back up to 100%. Then lower the Fill amount (in the Layers palette) and you’ll notice that the type fades away, but the drop shadow stays at 100%. Ahhhhh. Makes you stop and think, doesn’t it?

October 13th, 2006 | Web Team | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Selecting Just One Object On A Layer

If you have multiple objects on the same layer (like a few rows of type that have already been rasterized) and you want to select just one item on that layer (for example, you want to put a selection around one letter so you can move it independently of the rest of the letters), here’s how: Use any selection tool to create a loose selection around the object. Hold the Command key (PC: Control key), and then press the Up Arrow key once and the Down Arrow key once. The entire object will become perfectly selected without distrubing anything else on the layer. Now you can move it, edit it, or tweak it separately because it is a “floating selection.”

October 12th, 2006 | Web Team | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Logitech Extends NuLOOQ Support

Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) today announced that its award-winning NuLOOQ navigator™, originally released with support for the Mac® OS and Adobe® Creative Suite® 2 as part of the NuLOOQ™ Professional Series bundle is now available unbundled and with added support for Windows® XP, and a host of additional applications. The NuLOOQ navigator is an innovative device used in conjunction with a mouse and a keyboard that allows people to better navigate and manipulate graphics and multimedia files. It significantly reduces repetitive use of shortcut keys or palette access typically needed to navigate images and documents, or to adjust values such as brush size, font size and even volume.

October 12th, 2006 | Web Team | News | Comments (0)