This is a very nice Photoshop Tutorial, intermediate level You’ll need lots of patience here but every image you need is in the tutorial. Have fun!

Maybe I’m just resistant to change. But I don’t care for the new drag-&-zoom feature in Photoshop CS5. I believe Nature intended for you to drag a zoom marquee to enlarge an area of the photo, and it’s an old habit. In CS5, the same drag zooms the image enormously, as if it’s pulling it [...]

At Photoshop World this week, performance testing lead Adam Jerugim presented a performance guide with hardware recommendations and information about the CS5 performance preferences.  I’ve put his notes in this post’s extended entry. Operating Systems: Mac OS 10.6.4 and Windows 7 64-bit CPU: Intel Core i7/Xeon or AMD Phenom II/Opteron with 4 cores. More than [...]

Some things can be so complex. Isn't it great that Photoshop makes them easy? All you need to know is how things work and you can do whatever your imagination conjures up.

With the official release of Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 looking to be just around the corner, it’s time to launch our September contest… This month we’re giving away three free boxes of PSE 9 (estimated value $100 each), and all you have to do for a chance to win is enter your email address [...]

Have a burning question about Photoshop.com? Want to know what is planned next for the Photoshop Express app for iPhone or Android? The Photoshop.com and Photoshop Express teams are in Las Vegas, October 1st-3rd, attending the Photoshop World conference. Find us at the Adobe booth or cruising the conference expo and ask us anything you’d [...]

Adobe Lightroom 3.2 and Adobe Camera Raw 6.2 are now available as final releases, and are free for all current Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 owners… These updates include bug fixes, performance and stability improvements, new camera and lens profile support, and new features for Lightroom:  » Download the Final Adobe Lightroom 3.2 for Mac (a [...]

If you’ll be at Photoshop World, please come join brainstorm with Adobe and Wacom about how tablets (both desktop & iPad-style) can evolve to help capture your artistic vision.  We’ll be meeting Wednesday at 5pm in Wacom’s booth (#403).

In case you missed the Photoshop CS5 Ask a Pro demo/Q&A with Bryan O’Neil Hughes, you can check out the recording. In addition, video evangelist Jason Levine has posted part 1 of his SF presentation on DSLR Video Editing for Photographers.

At Rule Financial we're still using the traditional tools and workflow to create static and dynamic wireframe mockups for customer projects (i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash Pro). Since Catalyst CS5 would appear to offer significant productivity improvements over the traditional workflow, I've been spending some time checking out whether it's ready for prime time. These are some of the

DO NOT MISS TO DOWNLOAD Free Grunge Fonts for Mac and PC DO NOT MISS TO DOWNLOAD Free Grunge Fonts for Mac and PC Learning Photoshop is not limited to take a Photoshop course or read a Photoshop book. It is an extended application with flexible to create amazing effects on photos. So, you need to update your knowledge frequently with the new tips and tricks. Although, Photoshop [...]

People sometimes ask for a faster, easier-to-control version of Photoshop’s venerable Lens Blur filter.  Alien Skin’s just-released Bokeh 2.0 is a great answer, providing fast on-image control, compatibility with both Photoshop and Lightroom, and interesting creative effects like spiral blurs.  I’ve just taken it for a spin and am impressed.   Bokeh costs $199. See [...]

Following a major site upgrade in June, this week Photoshop.com expands further by rolling out new versions of their free web-based tools for photo manipulation and management. The renamed and redesigned Photoshop Express toolset is a collection of integrated online apps for editing, organizing, syncing, and sharing photos. These new and improved tools [...]

If you’ll be in Vegas next week and want to give me a piece of your mind, bounce ideas back and forth, etc., please let me know.  I arrive Wednesday afternoon and fly out on Friday.

We realize that time is of the essence and if you take a photo via your mobile device or digital camera – you want to make it look its best and quickly share it with others. Millions of people have signed on for a Photoshop.com account and reaped the benefits of powerful Photoshop technology for [...]

Sync your images with the cloud; organize your Flickr, Facebook, and other images in one spot; and edit them more easily through the new Photoshop.com. According to a post from project PM Jordan Davis, highlights of the new release include: Photoshop Express Editor: Redesigned to be faster and easier to use. As an added bonus, [...]

CSS3 is one of the coolest new web technologies available to web developers right now. Using some of its many features, it is possible to reproduce the effects that you might have previously done in Photoshop, with CSS code that is more maintainable, faster to load, and hip with the latest trends. Read on to learn about the power tools available to you and how to combine them to produce the ultimate graphical effects.

We’ve been busy! In June, we introduced the new Photoshop.com destination site, and promised that it was the first of many updates to come. Today, we are rolling out new versions of our Photoshop Express online tools, as well as a brand-new way to share your images and videos on your Photoshop.com Gallery. We are [...]

I plan on running a preconference session this year at MAX to showcase some really cool stuff for enterprise application developers. If you have not signed up for this session, you should have a look at this. It might change you mind With the release of CS5 which includes Photoshop, Flash Builder 4 and Catalyst; [...]

The Retouch Artists Photoshop Speed Test is being updated to a new version (2.0) in the near future.  Test creator James Alexander is looking for beta testers both to test the action and to provide times for the site’s baselines. Testers need to have standard stock configuration of current Apple machines that are currently being sold on [...]