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photoshop cs5 3d extrusion
Mike McHugh from Adobe Pacific shows off Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended has got some great additions to its 3D capabilities. Learn how to extrude some text and get it to integrate into a photograph by casting a shadow over the background. This is a pretty straight forward tutorial with a technique that can get 3D [...]
compositing v-ray render layers in photoshop
In this tutorial Ahmed Fathi takes a look at how to composite together V-ray render layers using blending-modes and masks in Photoshop. Once completed, this process allows you to change or tweak any aspect of your image in seconds without having to re-render a thing! Ahmed also covers a few extra post production techniques such [...]
diy photoshop panels using adobe configurator
Helen Bradley notes that few people know that you are able to create your own custom photoshop or indesign panels by using Adobe Configurator, now in version 2.0. “Adobe Configurator is a utility application that helps create custom panels for Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS5 and InDesign CS5. Configurator makes it easy to drag [...]
create a wood panel texture in photoshop
I always say the less your color textures look like a photograph, the better the will end up looking in 3D. In that spirit take a look at this photoshop quick tip tutorial by Bree L by using noise filters, and the liquify tool. Here is a link to the written version of this tutorial Quick [...]
dave cuerdon, skin smoothing in photoshop
David Cuerdon is an award-winning visual artist and a true digital pioneer, who was among the world’s first digital fashion photographers. He is widely recognized for his rare combination of creative vision and advanced technical skills. His personal work has been showcased in fine art galleries internationally. David’s clients have included Playboy, Glamour Magazine, Neiman [...]
photoshop cs5, content-aware workflows
designProVideo.com with a look at content aware workflow - Even though it was introduced in CS4, the Content-Aware Scale tool can be invaluable for architectural or landscape photographers, because of its ability to improve our composition and aspect ratio, without modifying the overall character of the image in many cases. When used in combination with the [...]
maya to photoshop 3D layer script
Dave Girard with a Maya MEL script that sends models from Maya to Photoshop CS4 and CS5 as a 3D layer. If you are using a mac, try the script below to try it out by adding it to the shelf in maya as a MEL command. If you are using CS4, just replace the [...]
photoline 64bit image processing updates
Photoline, an independent low cost image processing application reaches version 16 which sports a new user interface, adjustment layers panel, liquify tool, morph vector layers, ghostscript import, and has been 64bit for a few versions now. Check out a trial version for windows, or mac osx.
photoshop CS5 layer management features
Sick of all the CS5 posts around, I certainly am… ok well maybe one more then. TipSquirrel welcomes back Mike Hoffman as he explains the new, and the improved, features of Photoshop’s Layer Management. Also, they have a post on the content aware tools available in Photoshop CS5 [via aeportal]. It is great to see practical [...]
after effects color correcting by the numbers