Tag: PHOTOSHOP

HDR, or 'high dynamic range imaging', is a popular term in photographic circles at the moment. Love it or hate it, HDR, thanks to the digital camera, is here to stay. To that end, Adobe has finally given us a half-decent interface for conjuring up blindingly over-shiny and under-achieving HDR photographs. Dubbed 'HDR Pro', it replaces the God-awful interface present in CS4. Whether it will make ...

One of Photoshop CS5's most talked-about and exciting features is its new 'content-aware' algorithm. Either for spot healing or filling arbitrary areas, the content-aware tools provide a new and surprisingly-veracious replacement for the clone brush and other antiquated methods. The screencast is only a few minutes long, and even if you you haven't used Photoshop before, you will find the ...

As you have probably heard by now, Adobe CS5 is on its way and will be released within 30 days. At the moment all the news sources are reporting from Adobe's press release, so I'm not going to try and repeat what has already been said -- instead, I'm going to show you some really cool videos that Adobe also made public today. First up, because I'm a photographer, and because Adobe is at pains ...

Hopefully by now you've read my review of Timeline and decided whether you want a copy or not. In a nutshell though, Timeline is a front-end for Subversion (SVN) version control within Photoshop. It automates the process of checking files in and out -- that's it. I want to say that casual users probably won't find Timeline very exciting -- but is there such a thing as casual Photoshop users when ...

My name's Sebastian, I'm a photographer, and I have a problem: I take lots of photos at an excruciatingly high resolution. If 20 megabyte RAW files weren't bad enough, by the time each photo goes through my Photoshop workflow they're 50-100MB each. But that's OK -- I just keep buying terabyte drives. I'm a junky like that! The real problems occur when it comes to editing: sometimes I make ...

It's hard to picture life before Photoshop, but yes, some 20 years ago, Photoshop did not exist and photo manipulation was a matter of darkroom editing techniques and using complex sequences such as burn, dodge, fade, mask, which when used in Photoshop is a snap. Tomorrow is the 20th Anniversary of Photoshop, but the celebration is taking place around the world today. Now that Photoshop is ...

Imagine you're working on a PSD file, you duplicate it and work further on it when creating a new version. And one day, you need a layer or effect that only exists in only one of these files -- among the heap of 2MB files that were hastily named 'Untitled1.psd, 'Untitled2.psd', 'Untitled2_a.psd'. And now you have to open every single file, wait for it to load, scroll through it, and then find the ...

Aviary, the cool web-based suite of image editing tools -- and more -- now costs nothing to use. Thanks to a new round of funding, full access to the web apps with the funky bird names no longer costs $24.99. All subscribers who signed up in the past month will get refunds, and previous subscribers will no longer be billed, according to TechCrunch. Aviary's competition is the extremely pricey ...

Yesterday we reviewed BaseKit, a web app that lets you build websites from scratch, or from imported Photoshop PSD files. Really, all you have to do is import a PSD and drag a bunch of widgets around, and you have a beautiful W3C-compliant CSS/HTML website. And now we have some beta keys to give away! In a change from the norm, we're giving away the keys on our Facebook page -- to enter just ...

Adobe's working on some new selection and masking tools for the next version of Photoshop. Ever since the Extract filter was removed in Photoshop CS4, Adobe has had plans to bring its various parts back as built-in tools. The first part of that is a new selection tool that's already being demoed over at John Nack's Adobe blog. The future of selection in Photoshop looks pretty bright, because this ...

The folks at BaseKit think that the process of website creation is due for an overhaul -- and boy do I agree! The time for writing code in an editor, creating artwork in another app and uploading it all bit-by-bit is OVER. The folks at BaseKit pose a good question: why don't we make websites online, in the browser? There are some nascent attempts, like the cheap-and-cheerful approach of Google ...

The aptly-named Paint.Net PSD Plugin is one of those pieces of software which pretty much spells it all out right in the name. It's a plugin...for Paint.Net...(wait for it)...which lets you open files saved in Photoshop's PSD format. Download the zip archive, dump the included PhotoShop.dll file into your Paint.Net FileTypes folder (usually c:\program files\Paint.Net\FileTypes), and you're ...

Over the last year, Paint.Net became my default app for quick photo edits. It's an excellent Photoshop alternative for beginners and non-professional users. Now, thanks to Jonathan Pobst, Linux users have a similar app they can enjoy. Pobst began working on the project in response to a call last year from Thomas Holwerda from OS News, who lamented the lack of a decent Paint.Net-like app for ...

Considering we're now at version 6 of Eye Candy, you'd be right in assuming that this is a very feature rich piece of software. Eye Candy is a set of Photoshop filters that are useful for graphic designers: logos, text, wallpapers -- that kind of thing. There are 30 filters in total, most of them very different to the default Photoshop filters, and they're all easily configurable. There are ...

Talk about your Photoshop disasters! Gaspar Llamazares, a member of Spanish parliament, discovered that his hair and some his facial features had been used by the FBI in a new Most Wanted poster of the world's most notorious terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. The FBI claims to have used "cutting-edge" technology to create the image, depicting what Bin Laden probably looks like today. In that case, Adobe ...