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Category Archives: photoshop
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
victoria’s secret ps disaster extended to csi proportions
Dr. Neal Krawetz looked at an image at the photoshop disasters from victoria’s secret and asked himself… What else was modified? I found it very interesting to see the process into determining what has been changed in a digital image – what is real and what as chopped… so what was changed? …Lets find out!
3d mandelbulb raytracer pixelbender plugin
Subblue (Tom Beddard), released a mandelbulb fractal raytracer as a pixelbender plugin as well as a quartz composer patch, both for download. I was playing around with this in AE the other day, it makes fantastical looking fractals with high antialiasing its slow but super sweet, and there are also lots and lots of attributes that [...]
topaz remask, quick accurate masking for photoshop
Topaz remask is a masking tool for photoshop, which appears similar (but way more effective) to photoshop’s obsolete “extract” command and environment. YAFMT? (yet another fast masking tool) perhaps, for around $70.00 its probably worth looking at the 3o day demo.
free photoshop brush bundle
A fantastic and free photoshop brush set with 66 high resolution brushes from DesignFruit. Hurry though, the bundle goes back to a $40 price tag ten days from now.
can’t find a Photoshop brush to save your life? -brush pilot
I really love tiny useful things, and holy moly this little brush pilot application for osx is useful. You can preview your entire archive of photoshop brushes without having to actually load them all in photoshop. Brush Pilot itself is small, about 1.6mb, it is also cheap, about 15 dollars, and previews are fast, and [...]
sneak peek at future photoshop masking technology