John Dickinson posted a new tutorial/walk-through on creating a dolly into a spooky 3Dish hallway using Photoshop‘s vanishing point filter. Besides being a great review of what’s possible with .vpe files in After Effects, John also makes extensive use of stock footage to add layer after layer of eerie atmosphere. One particularly interesting effect is the way he uses 2 different pieces of stock footage for a single logo reveal. So dim the lights, sit back and click here.

Over 5000 Free Photoshop Brushes. Now that’s a lot of brushes!

You don’t need to be an owner of ToonIt, anyone can download it free and use it. It works on Windows and Mac and any recent version of Photoshop.

Also, check out the interview with Jim Tierney, head anarchist at Digital Anarchy, over at Colorburned.com.

If you missed the post, Adobe Labs posted a new item today, Configurator, which is a utility that enables the easy creation of panels (palettes) for use in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Creating Volumetric Light – We all know the look of a beam of light bursting through the clouds or coming from the top of a dusty (and otherwise dark) cave. Usie Knoll Light Factory in conjunction with some of Photoshop’s built-in filters to create this look very easily.

Blurring Elements – On high resolution images, Knoll’s light flares sometimes show thin lines that don’t look realistic. This tutorial talks about ways to deal with this problem and produce natural looking lens flares. This movie may take a few minutes to load.