Happy to announce that I have today successfully completed my required CS5 Recertifications for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Spending the last 6 1/2-days locked in the house (with the airconditioning on, as we’ve been having a heat-wave in Perth) and studying hard…
The recording of the “Level playing field” Adobe eSeminar I presented two weeks ago on Photoshop CS5′s is now available online: http://bit.ly/9mvat Note that this is a seminar in the ‘Beginners’-corner, so a great one to watch if you are new to working with masks and want to learn about non-destructive editing in Photoshop. Believe me… no pixels were harmed in…read more →
Channels, Masks, Adjustment Layers… Photoshop CS5 rocks when it comes to using these features in conjunction with each other. Did you know you could use color channel information in Photoshop as the basis for a mask, that will control where a particular color adjustment might be applied? All without harming any pixels whatsoever in the original image?
We’ve all got them… those holiday shots where the ocean seems to be running of the edge of the image, where the horizon is no longer horizontal. With Photoshop CS5 we can straighten out those images faster then ever before. In the following video let’s take a look at how we can use the Crop tool, Ruler tool, Arbitrary rotation, Content Aware fill and the magical Straighten button to fix our crooked horizons.
To celebrate the arrival of Photoshop CS5, Better Photoshop Techniques magazine, created an exclusive augmented reality back cover for Issue 22. It’s cool really… Navigate to the Better Photoshop Techniques web-site, take your edition of the magazine, click the special viewer pop-up window, hold out your back-cover and smile for the camera!
If you are an old time Photoshop user, you may remember that in past versions of Photoshop we had access to preferences setting that enabled us to select one or more drives as Scratch disk for Photoshop. Photoshop uses this Scratch Disk space as Viritual Memory. Preferably the drive allocated wouldn’t be the same drive as the drive that contains…read more →
Spent the morning reading blogs and watching some youtube videos, and wanted to share a few great ones with you guys ‘n girls.
Digitip 091 – Photoshop CS4 – Refining your Mask… Modified: 13 September 2009 – Added “Note”. Super quick tip. A practical example. I’ve been writing Technical Documentation the past weeks, and am processing an awful lot of screenshots. Sometimes they are kind of big and I really only want to focus on one part, but would love to see a…read more →