Category Archives: photoshop

new paint features shown in photoshop cs5

Zorana Gee, Photoshop product manager, with an exclusive look at a few new painting features in photoshop CS5. Some great stuff here adding to nice enhancements, but ultimately interface wise I think photoshop (well… every application really) can benefit from a spacebar/hotbox, why can’t that happen?!
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photoshop 20th anniversary – start up memories

The founders of Adobe Photoshop – John Knoll, Thomas Knoll, Russell Brown, and Steve Guttman – tell the story of how an amazing coincidence of circumstances, that came together at just the right time 20 years ago, spawned a cultural paradigm shift unparalleled in our lifetime.
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matte painting time lapse

A really cool time lapse of creating a matte painting using photoshop and maya camera projection. sweet moves. Timelapse of a Matte Painting from Chris Smallfield on Vimeo. This is a Matte Painting I created in Photoshop and projected in Maya .
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painting 3d patterns in photoshop

AdobeTV with the Russell Brown Show showing how to use the 3D features of adobe photoshop CS4 to create 3D patterns and using the patterns as paint.
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adobe community leaders summit wrap up on pvc

ProVideo Coalition has a great post on what was gleamed from the Adobe Community Leaders Summit that took place last week. Some great insight into 64-bit applications, 64-bit plugins, Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, Adobe Repoussé, and the new Flash Catalyst.
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sneak peek at future photoshop masking technology

Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan ONeil Hughes with a quick look of new selection technology promised in CS5. One that uses better edge detection for masking results in less time.
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converting from 2d to 3d, photoshop cs4

Chad Perkins converts 2D images into 3D objects or scenes by using DICOM, pixel layers, gradient map, or Vanishing Point. The DICOM stuff looks pretty sweet.
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color extrator script for photoshop

A handy little color extractor script for for photoshop available for download that allows you to separate the color from any image onto it’s own ‘color’ layer. For example, you can take any photograph, and now see the color as a separate layer to the actual shading of the image.
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new pixel bender technology center at adobe

Adobe creates a new portal for all things pixel bender. Pixel Bender is an adobe language and sdk for making plug-ins that will work in multiple adobe applications, like photoshop, flash, and after effects. The plugins are also much faster than conventional plugins, many of them working in real or near realtime, as they are [...]
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colorotate plugin for cs4

Geez adobe, would it kill you to have a 3d color picker somewhere already?! Its 2010 I mean come on…oh never mind someone has done it -forget it! ColoRotate a 3D color picker and editor that better aligns color with the way our minds actually process color, is now out of beta and is available [...]
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