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Preview RAW Masks

When using the new Adjustment Brush in Adobe Camera Raw 5, you can mouse over the adjustment pins to temporarily view the mask that’s limiting where that adjustment is affecting your image. This makes it very easy to determine which marker is affecting a particular area.

May 11th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Gestures Bring You Closer to Your Work

Photoshop CS4 can detect when you use more than one finger on the trackpad of the newest Apple MacBook laptops. Pinching your fingers together will cause you to zoom out on the active image. Starting with your fingers together and then spreading them apart will zoom in on the image. Dragging with two fingers held close together will scroll around your document as if you had the Hand tool active. Placing two outstretched fingers on the trackpad and twisting them (as if you’re spinning a top) will cause Photoshop to rotate your view of the document. You can also drag left or right with three fingers to move forward or back in a slide show in Bridge.

May 8th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

Bring Back Missing Features

Many features that were found in Photoshop CS3 are missing in CS4 (Extract, Web Photo Gallery, Contact Sheet II, etc.). Just find those files in the Photoshop CS3 folder, then you can copy them to the equivalent folder in CS4 to regain their functionality.

May 7th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (3)

Auto Process HDR Brackets

If you regularly shoot multiple exposures for merging into a single high-dynamicrange (HDR) file, try this when viewing a folder full of bracketed exposures: In Bridge, choose Tools>Photoshop>Process Collections in Photoshop. This will cause Bridge to analyze the metadata for all the images and if it finds that the images were shot as a rapid sequence with only the exposure changed between shots, it will send each set of images through the Merge to HDR feature and save the resulting 32-bit HDR image in Radiance format. That way you can have Bridge merge your images while you sleep and you can tone-map the images using Photoshop or Photomatix at a later date.

May 6th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Getting to Adjustment Options

The Curves and Levels dialogs in Photoshop CS3 featured an Options button that seems to be missing from Photoshop CS4. Press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click the Auto button in the new Adjustments panel to access the Options dialog (or choose Auto Options from the flyout menu located at the top right of the panel).

May 5th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Getting Rid of Tabs

Photoshop CS4 defaults to opening multiple documents as tabs in a single window. To open your images in separate windows as in prior versions, press Command-K (PC: Ctrl-K) to open your Preferences, click Interface from the list on the left, turn off both the Open Documents as Tabs and Enable Floating Document Window Docking checkboxes, and click OK. You’ll still be able to combine two documents into a tabbed window by pressing the Control key (PC: Right-click) after you start dragging the title of one document and dropping it onto another.

May 4th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Dragging Between Tabs in CS4

You can drag a layer between documents even when the images are displayed as multiple tabs in a single document window. With the Move tool (V) active, click within the layer you’d like to move, drag it onto one of the other tabs, pause until that tab comes to the front, and then release the mouse button to move the active layer.

May 1st, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Fisheye Panoramas

To stitch a panorama captured with a fisheye lens, select the images in Bridge, choose Tools>Photoshop>Photomerge, use the Auto setting, and turn on the Geometric Distortion Correction checkbox. This will cause Photomerge to read the metadata from your images and recognize the distortion caused by most fisheye lenses.

April 30th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Underpainting Inmodernity

Underpainting is an initial layer of paint on the canvas that will serve as a base for the entire painting. There’s a popular misconception that underpainting has to be monochromatic, but underpainting in color allows the artist to easily control the overall tone and mood of the painting. Choose the underpainting color and load it as your Foreground color. Now go to the Edit menu and choose Fill, in the dialog choose Foreground from the Use menu and click OK. Add a new layer above this one to begin your painting. Now choose your Brush and be sure to turn down the brush’s Opacity in the Options Bar to let the mood of your painting shine through.

April 29th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Angle Jitter

Ever wonder what Angle Jitter in the Space Dynamics section of the Brushes panel refers to? When using the Brush tool with a stylus, the initial direction takes the original movement of the stylus and applies it to the angle. This angle will be constant until you lift the stylus and start a new stroke. Direction constantly changes the angle of the brush based on the movement of your pen.

April 28th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | 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.