Posted by Tommy Maloney in Actions and Automation, Beginners, Photography, Tools, Tutorials on June 29th, 2008
More accurately this should be called “7 Things Photoshop Does Automatically That Aren’t in the Automate Menu”, but I found that title to be a bit lengthy. Of course, Photoshop does many things “automatically”, but these are a few things I find especially useful and easy-to-use, that you may not know about yet. Continue Reading »
Posted by Tommy Maloney in News on May 29th, 2008
The people at SitePoint have released their Photoshop book The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Tips, Tricks and Techniques book for FREE as a downloadable PDF. I’m a bit fond of the book, especially in the immediately-available PDF format. And for the next 14-days you can download your very own PDF copy for FREE. Did I say it was FREE? Cause it’s free.
From my previous review of the book:
The Photoshop Anthology is very well written with great, plain-English explanations, allowing you to dive right into Photoshop’s vast feature-set. I was especially impressed with the immediate attention to keyboard (and other) shortcuts which are re-iterated throughout the book, which, when mastered, can increase your Photoshop productivity immensely.
Posted by Tommy Maloney in News on May 27th, 2008
The latest in the series of Beta releases from Adobe comes in the form of Dreamweaver and Firewords (and Soundbooth). Since I’m a web developer by trade, some exciting news tidbits come from the Dreamweaver camp. Some noteable new features are integration with Photoshop Smart Objects and Subversion integration. I’ve always used Dreamweaver as my code editor because of the integration of the site manager, but I’ve always missed out on Subversion… well, not anymore. In Fireworks world, the new features include PDF export, Adobe type engine integration and Adobe AIR Authoring.
It seems that both versions are benefiting from an updated user interface that appears to be a preview to the new look of the upcoming CS4 release. (You can see “cs4″ in the download links).
Go snag the beta downloads here:
Dreamweaver CS4 Beta
Fireworks CS4 Beta
Posted by Tommy Maloney in News on May 13th, 2008
onOne Software, Inc., announces today that its new software plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements - FocalPoint 1.0 - is now available for immediate download. onOne Software’s FocalPoint is a selective focus and vignetting plug-in designed to help photographers easily blur and/or vignette areas of an image.
Popular among professional wedding, portrait and commercial photographers, the soft defocused look typically produced in camera by using special selective focus or tilt-shift lenses, filters or vignetting hoods can now be created quickly within Photoshop using onOne Software’s new FocalPoint. This new plug-in provides both professional and advanced amateur photographers with additional creative options when editing their images in Photoshop. Continue Reading »
Posted by Tommy Maloney in News on April 12th, 2008
onOne’s Plug-in Suite has been updated. This award-winning software suite features six essential tools at one low price, conveniently offering photographers the products they need to improve their busy workflow.
Available in early May, onOne Software’s Plug-In Suite 4 combines full versions of six essential software tools — Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro, PhotoTools 1.0 Professional Edition, PhotoFrame 3.1 Professional Edition, Mask Pro 4.1, PhotoTune 2.2 and FocalPoint 1.0 — an affordable combination that includes everything a photographer needs to make their images look their best.
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Posted by Tommy Maloney in News on April 11th, 2008
Adobe has released Lightroom 1.4.1 and Camera Raw 4.4.1. The updates include a handful of fixes for issues that were noted earlier. There aren’t any new feature updates from the previous Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 releases, just Adobe getting on top of taking care of their customers.
You can download the new releases here or just wait until tonight and use the Adobe Updater.
- Lightroom 1.4.1 (Mac | Win)
- Camera Raw 4.4.1 (Mac | Win)
You can read the full release details at the Lightroom Journal.
Posted by Tommy Maloney in News on April 9th, 2008
Adobe TV is a free online training resource for everything Adobe, mainly the Creative Suite product line. The new Adobe TV programming lineup includes content direct from Adobe, original Series and training from the top training resources (such as Layers Magazine and the NAPP). The lineup includes resources targeted at a variety of users, including designers, photographers, video producers, web producers and other Creative Suite users. Full press release below.
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Posted by Tommy Maloney in Blog on April 6th, 2008
We have been delaying the upgrade from WordPress 2.3.3 to 2.5 for a week or so to see how it’s played out in the blogosphere and to test it out on a few other websites. So far, the new admin area upgrades are very welcomed. I’ve been monitoring the 2.5 plugin compatibility list waiting for a few plugins we run to appear on the “compatible” side, but there’s still a few that haven’t. I think we’re going to go ahead with the upgrade and see how we fair.
So, plugins deactiving, files uploading, here we go…
UPDATE Upgrade went well. Looks like there’s a few plugin fixes needed…
UPDATE Seems like the two plugins I tried to use for getting recent comments aren’t working correctly. It’s not important enough of a feature for me to debug myself, so I’ll just disable and keep an eye out if they update.
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