Photoshop
Better Photoshop Techniques adds Augmented Reality…
Monday, May 31st, 2010
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!
Augmented Reality (AR) combines the [...]
Where’s my scratch disk?
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
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 [...]
Catching up on some blog-post reading
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Spent the morning reading blogs and watching some youtube videos, and wanted to share a few great ones with you guys ‘n girls.
The Quick Refine Soft-Edge Mask Tip
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
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 [...]
The deke Pod
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
O’Reilly digital media, today announced the release of a new video series with Deke McCleland the “deke Pod“. In this 101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes, Deke generates the online video equivalent of a book full of short & rich tips. An absolute must for the keen Photoshop user. Deke’s a smart man!
Web-reference: deke Pod [...]
Masked Text
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 065 – Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3
This tip is Part 3 of a three-part tip and generates the masked text. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork is created and Part 2 outlines how to apply Live Trace and maintain colour editing ability.
Tracing the Trace Graphic
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 064 – Adobe Illustrator CS3
This tip is Part 2 of a three-part tip. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork that is placed into the Illustrator file was created and Part 3 will create the Text Effect that will give our finished result.
Preparing the Trace Graphic
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Digitip 063 – Adobe Photoshop CS3
A month or so ago I demoed a masking technique that works well with text in Illustrator during an Adobe eSeminar I delivered. At the time I promised to write this technique up as a digitip, however, an extremely busy workschedule meant I’d not yet gotten around to posting the [...]
Faded dotted pattern
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Digitip 054 – Adobe Illustrator CS2
This tip succeeds the previous tip, and show cases how the dotted patterns created earlier can be faded, whilst retaining their vector and spot colours.
Photoshop CS3 beta
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
I guess by now you’ve heard… yep, Adobe, for the first time in history has released a Photoshop beta release publicly. How can you get this public beta release? Well hop on to Adobe Labs and enter your current Photoshop CS2, or Creative Suite CS2 serial number…