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A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action

I am off to Las Vegas for Photoshop World today. So if you plan on being there, make sure you come up to me and say Hi!!! I can’t wait. I Love Vegas and I love Photoshop World. It’s going to be a blast. Lots of learning from the very best in the business. I will blog updates as the events unfold. Chris Main says Hi!!

September 4th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Lightroom Named Imaging Software of the Year

Popular Photography magazine has named Adobe Photoshop Lightroom as the Imaging Software of the Year. I must admit, I am not surprised. Lightroom is certainly one of the most robust new products I have ever encountered. If you’re a digital photographer, at any level, there’s no question that Lightroom should be part of your workflow. Congrats to Adobe for once again raising the bar in digital imaging.

August 30th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Photoshop Hall of Fame Inductees Announced

One of the many highlights of the keynote at Photoshop World is the induction ceremony of the Photoshop Hall of Fame. At Photoshop World Boston last April, there were several nominees announced and two more will be honored in Vegas: Color Management guru, author, and instructor Andrew Rodney as well as Adobe’s Senior Director for Product Management, Professional Digital Imaging Group; Kevin Conner. Let me be among the first to congratulate these two for making remarkable advances in digital imaging and design. Click here to find out more about the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

August 28th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

New Strata 3D Plug-Ins for Photoshop

On this week’s episode of Photoshop User TV Dave Cross demonstrated one of the new 3D plug-ins for Photoshop CS3 Extended, available from Strata. He uses the new Strata Design 3D[in] to import a generic 3D model and give it some lighting effects using the Strata’s familiar interface. With Dave being a relative newcomer to 3D apps, you can see how easy it is to get through the basics and achieve some really interesting effects. Also available is the Strata Foto[in] which can take a series of photos and turn them into a 3D model and Strata Live[in] which lets you generate Live 3D web and PDF pages from Photoshop layouts. Get more info about these plug-ins here.

August 23rd, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

My New DVD!!

Hey everyone, Happy Monday!! (If that’s possible.) Anyway, if any of you Photoshop Planeteers use Illustrator, I want to tell you that my new DVD: Illustrator CS3 Down & Dirty Tricks is now available. This DVD goes past the technical mumbo jumbo and gets right to the good stuff. I cover the easy ways to achieve some of the most popular effects around, such as retro effects and dimensional backgrounds. It’s all good stuff and most important, it’s a lot of fun. Find out more about this DVD here. Also, Dave Cross has just released Photoshop CS3 & Illustrator CS3: Creative Integration.

August 20th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

This is just too COOL!!!

From Scott Kelby’s Blog:
At the upcoming Photoshop World Conference & Expo, Adobe (and Adobe’s own Russell Preston Brown) will have a special booth setup to capture 3D head, and face scans of conference attendees which they can manipulate inside of Photoshop CS3 Extended.

But wait! – There’s more! Then, you take your 3D head/face scans to the Adobe printing station (also in the booth), and you can make your own personalized 3D pillow. That’s right, a pillow with your face printed on the surface!

Here’s how it all works: each day, when the Expo opens, just come to the Adobe scanning booth (Booth #620), to pick up a special pass that will indicate your time slot for when to come back and get scanned (the number of passes are limited, but when Adobe runs out of passes, you can also wait in line at the booth for any available openings.). If you don’t want to wait in line, simply purchase a copy of Photoshop CS3 Extended at the Tech Expo, bring it to the booth, and you’ll be escorted to the front of the line.

August 16th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Photoshop Gurus Assemble!!!!

Well if you are registered to attend Photoshop World in Las Vegas you have just two days, that’s right, two days to enter your best work in the Guru Awards before the deadline on Wednesday, August 15th. You never know, you might find yourself standing in front of three thousand people receiving the coveted trophy. I entered once and actually won. It’s a great way to get some exposure and to make yourself visible to the world out there. Don’t wait, enter right now. No, I mean it, stop reading this blog and enter.

August 14th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Photoshop Book of the Week

This week’s pick is the new Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby. This series by Scott is one the best selling Photoshop books anywhere. This book covers all the newest features in the Photoshop CS3 including nondestructive Smart Filters, Vanishing Point with Adjustable Perspective Planes, Automatic Layer Alignment and Blending, and a streamlined interface, and much more. Written in the same straightforward style that Scott is known for, this book is as entertaining as it is educational. Get more info on this book here.

August 11th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

Photoshop User TV is here!!

Well after a bit of a hiatus from an actual studio and shooting in odd locations around town including my car. Photoshop User TV (formally NAPP TV) debuted its first show in its all new studio this week. With a new name, new graphics, and new studio, but still the same great content featuring the Photoshop Guys and occasionally, yours truly. With awesome Photoshop tips and great contests and prizes, it is not to be missed.

August 9th, 2007 | Corey Barker | Blog | Comments (0)

New DVD Coming Soon!

Our very own RC has just completed a new training course: PS CS3 & Dreamweaver CS3: Creative Integration. This DVD will be covering everything you need to get your designs from Photoshop into Dreamweaver to create a fully functional web site. All the while taking advantage of newly enhanced integration of these two powerful applications. To find out more or to pre-order go here.

August 7th, 2007 | 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.