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What’s On TV
Well if you haven’t gotten caught up with what’s on the “itube” this week you must check out this week’s episode of Photoshop TV. This week the Photoshop Guys welcome special guest Bryan Hughes who is a Photoshop Product Manager for Adobe Systems. Bryan discusses the advantages of adopting the dng format for digital photos. Check it out.
You also want to check out this week’s episode of Layers TV. This week we welcome back Richard Harrington who discusses the use of alpha channels in Photoshop to create transparency in video. Here’s the link.
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Photoshop Tutorials
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mike said on — July 25, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
Lots of great info here. I have a review of some good Photoshop tutorial programs on my site at http://www.squidoo.com/PhotoshopReview if anyone is interested.