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Use Your Last Settings And Save Time

This is a tip that will save you time when you’re making tonal adjustments using Levels, Curves, Color Balance, etc. (most anything that appears under the Adjustments submenu under the Image menu). When you bring up one of the tonal adjustment dialogs, it always displays its default settings, but if you hold the Option key (PC: Alt key) when choosing it from the Adjustments menu, instead of coming up with the default settings, it will display the last settings you used in that particular dialog. You can also add the Option (PC: Alt) key to the keyboard shortcuts. For example, the shortcut to bring up the Levels dialog is Command-L (PC: Control-L), but if you add Option (PC: Alt) to those keys, the Levels dialog will open with your last-used settings.

September 21st, 2007 | Web Editor | News | Comments (0)

Speed Tip To Rotate Through Open Images

Have a bunch of images open on your screen and can’t see the one you want? Just press Control-Tab to move from one open image to the next, cycling through all of your open documents.

September 10th, 2007 | Web Editor | News | Comments (0)

Steal Color From Anywhere

In previous versions of Photoshop, you could click the Eyedropper tool (I) on any color within your image, and it would steal that color and make it your new Foreground color. The only drawback was you could only steal colors from within an open document window. Back in Photoshop 7.0, Adobe cut the Eyedropper tool loose from the chains that bound it, and now, as long as you click within an open image first, you can drag right out of your image window and sample a color from, well, anywhere. That includes sampling colors from other applications, Photoshop’s own Toolbox and menu bars, and even your computer’s desktop pattern. Just remember to click in your image first, and then drag that Eyedropper to a new world of color delights that dare not speak its name.

July 30th, 2007 | Web Editor | News | Comments (0)

Supersize It

This is a super speed trick for getting your image view up (or down) to size. To instantly view your image at 100% size, double-click on the Zoom tool in the Toolbox. To have your image fit as large as possible on your screen (using the Fit On Screen command), double-click the Hand tool.

July 27th, 2007 | Web Editor | News | Comments (0)

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December 13th, 2006 | Web Team | News | 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)

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)

HP Transforms Color Experience for Graphics Professionals

HP announced it is changing the way graphics professionals create large-format images with the unveiling of the HP Designjet Z Photo Printer Series.

Continuing to expand its professional printing portfolio, HP is leveraging its pigment ink technologies developed for the HP Photosmart Pro B9180 to create the first large-format printers employing HP’s Scalable Printing Technology. Continue Reading »

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

Quark Releases QuarkXPress 7 Update

Quark Inc. announced today the release of QuarkXPress 7.02, the latest update to QuarkXPress 7, which includes the highest level of flexibility and reliability for QuarkXPress software users. The release will provide new, up-to-date functionality, including license-transfer features and typographic support for new languages as well as resolution of the most important issues reported by customers since the product shipped. Continue Reading »

October 11th, 2006 | Web Team | News | Comments (0)

Photoshop Tutorials

Lighting Effects

Corey jazzed up this photo by making a custom brush and applying an outer glow layer style to create the repeating patterns
Pin-up Effect

Using a mixture of filters and blending modes, Corey takes a stock photo and transforms it into an old, classic 1950’s pin-up poster.
Embossed Glass Logo

Instead of using a displacement map, here’s another method for taking a custom file and distorting it to match a background image.
Sci-Fi Text Effect

Corey stumbled upon this effect while experimenting with the smudge tool and its finger painting feature. Start off by

Text Shape Layers
Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.
Borders Under a Minute
Create really cool borders in under a minute to use on virtually any one of your photos or even video for that matter.
Design Effects
Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos.
Stylized Comic Book Effect
Using this effect, you can transform anyone into a comic book character with a halftone, saturated look.

Blend Tool Revisited
Corey's tutorial is about using Illustrator's blend tool to create some really interesting design effects.
HD Video in Flash Professional CS3
Flash CS3 Professional offers users a quick way to get HD content onto their web pages.
Managing Bookmarks in Acrobat
Rearrange and organize your bookmarks, as well as force the bookmarks panel open when someone opens the PDF.
Smokey Type Effect in After Effects
Type animation is one of the most wonderful functions to play with in After Effects, especially since version 6 introduced actual text character animation control.

Will More RAM Make Photoshop Run Faster?

Problem: You added more RAM to your system and assigned more RAM to Photoshop, but it doesn’t seem to run any faster. Reason: Adding RAM doesn’t always make Photoshop run faster. It only works if you didn’t have enough RAM to begin with. Adding RAM will only help to make your computer run as fast as it can, but it won’t make your 800-MHz computer run at 801 MHz. For example, if you work on Web images and the average image you work on is 3 MB, you only need about 15 or 20 MB assigned to Photoshop to have it run at full speed. If you’ve got that, and add another 256 MB of RAM, Photoshop won’t run any faster, because Photoshop only needs that 15 or 20 MB that you already had. Freaky. To check your RAM usage, go under the Photoshop menu, under Preferences, and choose Memory & Image Cache (on a Windows PC, Preferences are under the Edit menu).