Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers: on sale soon!

New Photoshop CS3 tutorials on Photoshopforphotographers.com

 

First copies of Martin Evening’s new book: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers have just come off the press and are about to go on sale soon.

In preparation for the launch of this latest edition to the Adobe Photoshop for Photographers series, Martin has updated the book website to provide some sample pages and chapter extracts that you can download for free.

 

Plugin Commander

Using plugins, tubes or other add-ons in a graphics, video or animation application can be a frustrating experience. As your effect collection grows your application needs longer to start up and your menus and lists become cluttered making it very difficult to find the particular effect you are looking for.  You can find it at The Plugin Site.

      

Plugin Commander is a tool for dealing with various image formats, plugins and effect types from various graphics applications. It allows you to manage and preview your plugin, tube and add-on collection quickly and easily. There is commercial Pro Edition as well as a feature-limited Light Edition of Plugin Commander, which is freeware.

 

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The Plugin Site - ColorWasher - Color Correction at its Best

If you are looking for a plugin that will correct colors, contrast and exposure then this may be what you are looking for. It can be used from a wide variety of graphics applications and is available for Windows and Mac OS. Read about it at The Plugin Site

     ColorWasher - Color Correction at its Best

ColorWasher features a wide range of automatic, semi-automatic and manual tools for correcting, enhancing and restoring photos. It is very easy to use as it offers interactive explanations and hints for each feature, incorporates an Easy Mode and detailed step-by-step instructions in the manual. ColorWasher lets you do professional photo corrections within seconds and also offers a Cloak mode for processing dozens of images very quickly.

Paint/Clone on Movies in Photoshop Tip

Quoted from Steve Whatley's After Effects Cookbook:

 

Well, can I say that after years of prodding the Photoshop team for more video features, they really pulled it off this time. They always surprise us every release with new features, but there are some extra special ones in PS Extended in CS3, and one of them is opening a movie or sequence in Photoshop. The feedback on this at NAB in the booth was overwhelming...."Holy S--T, are you kidding me?" was the normal response when I demo'd it. I had a chance to speak with John Nack (has a great blog) and the 2 engineers who pioneered this new feature at NAB this April and after sharing your collective responses to them they, to say the least, grinned like proud parents.....

 

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Photoshop How-to: Take a Filter Beyond the Basics

From author Sara Frances, a new step by step tutorial at CreativePro.com that shows an easy technique to take a photo from rough in organic texture to romantic in feeling.

" this very easy Photoshop technique converts images into iconic, contemporary interpretations of Sumi-e ink paintings. (For more on Sumi-e, see the sidebar at the end of this article.) While it won't fit every situation, the inventive, artistic approach worked well on photos I took at a wedding in an architecturally important church and a reception in Denver's historic Brown Palace Hotel."

Bought Photoshop but I wanted Extended

From Jack Nack...

 

In the last few days, a couple of people have remarked that they've purchased Photoshop CS3, only to realize later that they really want Photoshop Extended.  There's no upgrade path that lets you go CS3->CS3 Extended for less than the price of the CS2->Extended upgrade, but you do have another option: Adobe Customer Service can work with you to return your standard license, then purchase an upgrade to Extended instead.  They point out that only customers within the 30-day money back guarantee window can return/swap product; more details on that.

Speed matters. Why don't other sites get this?

I spend a lot of time optimizing our site for speed - and the customer payoff is huge. I spend almost as much time wishing other sites would do the same thing. Alexa says our pages take .9 seconds, median, to load. Let's see how the other big photo sharing sites stack up, shall we?



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