The Artisan’s Toolbox: Color Calibration
When you create prints from your work, you want an accurate representation of your original art. Color calibration can ensure you get the best print every time.
Photoshop Deblur Tool is in Development
At the recent Adobe MAX 2011 conference, Jue Wang gave a sneak peek at a new tool they are currently developing. As one of the magicians behind the scenes at Photoshop, Jue introduced this new tool that may eliminate blurry pictures forever. As you will see in this video, the crowd was pretty amazed by [...]
Adobe CS5 Printing Guide for Display Graphics
Learn best practices for printing display graphics in our professional printing reference guide, plus file spec tips from John Nack.
Photoshop classes for photographers
Scott Condray of Visualville teaches Photoshop classes specifically designed for photographers. Since Photoshop is such a complex software, many new users become overwhelmed and do not know where to begin. Scott focuses on the tools that are specific to image editing. He keeps his class sizes small to ensure that every student fully grasps each [...]
Photoshop Express launched
The new online version of Photoshop launched today. Although you can not do everything you would be able to do in the full version (no layers here), with Photoshop Express you can do minor spot correction, adjust exposure, set white balance, sharpening and much more. They also offer photo sharing, file storage, and a pretty [...]
Lightroom tutorials
Staying in this weekend? Maybe you can spend your time trying out new techniques in Adobe Lightroom. Jack Nack on his blog has posted links to "a wealth of" Lightroom tutorials from the Adobe Design Center. Check them out. It should keep you busy this weekend. Speaking of Lightroom, Stephen Shankland of CNET reports that [...]
‘Cleanliness is next to fastiness’
Scott Byer and Adam Jerugim of Adobe gave a lecture at Photoshop World this past September about optimizing your computer's performance when working with big files. Scott has posted the lecture notes on his blog Living Photoshop. There are guides for Mac and PC settings you can change and ways to test your system's speed. [...]
Image resizing of the future
I can't wait until this technology reaches Photoshop. It was unveiled at the 2007 SIGGRAPH seminar by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan. You must watch the video, it will blow you away. Shai Avidan recently joined the Adobe office in Newton, MA., so big changes could be right around the corner. [Via]
Color deconstructed
If you are interested in learning more in depth about RGB and color workflow, I have two good resources for you. The first is posted on photoshopessentials.com titled RGB Color and Color Channels Explained. The article breaks down how Photoshop 'sees' color and translates each color in to a number equivalent that represents what our [...]
With a little help from Adobe
Who needs scholarship money if you can score some from Adobe? If you know any stellar photography or design students give them the heads up. The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition — which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading [...]