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Photoshop User Awards Announced

The Photoshop User Awards are finally announced and a congrats to all the winners and congratulations to Gregory Carter of Santa Ana, CA for winning best of show with his piece: Taking The Field. Gregory has won the grand prize of a trip to Hawaii. Click here to see the other winners. Some really impressive stuff. My favorite is the Artistic category.

February 1st, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Adobe just recently announced a call for entries in the 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. This contest is geared toward higher education students who want to get their work out there and get recognized. As a designer, I can certainly attest to the fact that it doesn’t hurt at all to have some awards to go with your work. Enter as many places as you can. This contest has 12 different categories in 3 different media areas with a prize package amounting to over $60k in prizes, including a trip to the awards ceremony in New York City. Find out more about how to enter here.

January 30th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Pointless But Hilarious!!

So some of you may have been hearing around the Photoshop water cooler about these videos on YouTube called “You Suck At Photoshop”. They are a series of tutorials or comedy sketches in which a man demonstrates certain pointless Photoshop techniques such as removing the wedding band from a picture of his wife’s finger and such like that. There are four of these movies and I must say they are quite hilarious. Be warned, they do contain some explicit language. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Click here to see the first three and here to see the fourth.

January 29th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Some Photography Stuff!!!

Ok, couple things to get your Monday started. First, if you have never checked out Matt Kloskowski’s Lightroom Killer Tips site then you are missing out. Even if you don’t necessarily use Lightroom it is still worth a look because besides Lightroom tips, he occasionally spotlights a particular photographer or some other inspirational site that just might give you that creative spark. Check it out here. Also, I saw this on John Nack’s blog – this guy came up with a really clever tripod using an i-bolt, some string, and a washer. Here is a video demonstration. It really is quite ingenious. Anywho, have a great Monday.

January 28th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

New Online Course!!

A new online course by famed photographer and Photoshop World instructor Joe McNally has just been released on the Kelby Online Training site. It’s called Light Shaping Tools and it covers all aspects of “speaking with light” covering how to use light shaping tools to create really dramatic effects for portraits. Joe is a truly amazing visionary and this is truly a unique opportunity to learn from one of the very best photographers working today. Learn more about this course here. Also Joe’s new book “The Moment It Clicks” will be shipping in the next week or two. This is truly an inspirational book that no photographer should be without.

January 25th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Book of the Week

This week I recommend Scott Kelby’s Digital Photography Book Volume 2. For those of you who know how much of an invaluable resource Volume 1 was, this one is every bit as good and more. It covers the newest techniques with the newest camera equipment and software and it is written in Scott’s famous straight-forward style that made the first volume a huge success. Whether you are a professional or a beginner, this is a resource you cannot be without. Find out more here.

January 23rd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Lightroom News & Cool Technology

A couple days ago Scott Kelby posted a lengthy article on his blog on what he would like to see in Lightroom 2.0 and he invited his readers to post their suggestions as well. The response was overwhelming and there was a tremendous amount of suggestions. Well, according to Scott’s blog, they are reading those suggestions and taking them very seriously. Don’t underestimate the power of the people. In other news, John Nack posted a rather interesting item on his blog the other day. It’s a multi-eye, interactive video camera that you control. It is mounted at the top of a vehicle and it records where it goes and lets you move your point of view in 360 degrees. Is this the next step for MapQuest?

January 22nd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

My Newest Illustration!!

It’s funny where inspiration hits. The other day I was having lunch and I noticed on the menu there was a remarkable image of a margarita. I started thinking, “that is an interesting water effect.” Of course being the Photoshop geek I am, I started thinking about how I would create that effect in Photoshop. Well, I got home that evening and started messing around with it and the result came out pretty good. This piece was created entirely from scratch using Photoshop and Illustrator. No photographs whatsoever. Click here to see. As a result I have begun to break it down and I am exploring the possibilities of recreating the image as an online training course for Kelby Training.

January 18th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (1)

More TV Please!!!

What a week of shows. No, I am not talking about American Idol. I am talking about podcasts. First, you want to check out this week’s episode of Photoshop User TV. It was taped live at the Imaging USA Expo here in Tampa. We had a large Kelby Training booth with a live theater and the Photoshop Guys were in their usual form, and Dave Cross brings a special ’shine’ to the show. Even RC got around and interviewed some the more than 600 vendors in the expo. Check it out here. Also, famed wedding photographer David Ziser stopped by as a guest on Layers TV this week and shares some tips on portrait lighting. Check that out here.

January 17th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Pretty Cool Stuff!!!

John Nack of Adobe posted something on his blog yesterday that was quite interesting. It seems that a company has developed software which allows you to create a 3D model from a video clip. It is still in the developmental stage, but looks really cool. Here is the link for a video demonstration of the software. Now the video may seem a little ho-hum at first, but keep watching because when it gets to the real heart of the demo it is really neat stuff.

January 15th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

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Photoshop Tutorials

- Reverse Restoration
  Corey shows you how to make a new photo look damaged by blending in some unusual textures.
- Rain Drops
  In this tutorial, Corey not only creates the raindrops, but also the splashes that are formed with the raindrops hit the hands.
- G.I. Joe
  Corey's tutorial this week was inspired by a real American hero!

More Fun with 3D

Continue exploring the possibilities with Photoshop’s new 3D tools.
Reverse Restoration

Corey shows you how to make a new photo look damaged by blending in some unusual textures.
3D Background Effects

Use Photoshop’s new 3D tools to create some dazzling background effects.
Striking Match, Part 2

In the second part of this tutorial, Corey finishes creating this illustration of a striking match.

Layers TV: Episode 110
New episodes are coming soon. In this old episode, RC goes start to finish through a Flash CS4 project using the new 3D tools and importing an audio file. Corey talks about the distortion features inside of Adobe Illustrator. You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes. var so = new SWFObject('http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/players/player.swf','mpl','500','300','7'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); // so.addVariable('type','rtmp'); so.addVariable('file','http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/switch/video/layers-tv-episode-110.mp4'); so.addVariable('plugins','hd-1'); so.addVariable('hd.file','http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/switch/video/layers-tv-episode-110-hd.mp4'); so.addVariable('hd.state','false'); so.addVariable('image','http://www.layersmagazine.com/images/layerstv-logo.jpg'); so.addVariable('height','300'); so.addVariable('width','500'); so.addVariable('autostart','false'); so.addVariable("backcolor","0x000000"); so.addVariable("frontcolor","0xF1F1F1"); so.addVariable("lightcolor","0xF88E21"); so.addVariable("quality","100"); so.write('player'); [...]
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Terry White’s New App | Printing from Lightroom 2
Happy Thursday everyone! Just wanted to pop on in and share what’s new in the intranets: Terry White’s New Iphone App Terry white over at his techblog is usually covering all sorts of technology and letting us know what his favorite apps are for the iphone. He’s taken that love and mixed it with [...]

Adding Keywords to Multiple files

In Bridge, you can add keywords to images to make searching for pictures a little less cumbersome. You don’t, however, want the process to become tedious as well. By either Command-clicking (PC: Ctrl-clicking) or Shift-clicking on images, you can select multiple files inside Bridge. Once you have the files selected, you can go to the Keywords panel and turn on any keyword you like. This will apply the keyword to all of the files that you have selected. It takes away a little bit of the pain of categorization, but just a little.