Anyone going to The Photoshop World Conference and Expo in Las Vegas? Sounds like fun to me. If you’re going, we’d love to hear about your experience at the show.
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Free Photoshop Action Pack 3.7
The Photoshop Action Pack 3.7 is compatible with Photoshop CS3, and is a collection of 90 Automator Actions that allow you to script nearly all of Photoshop’s functionality from within Apple’s Automator. Free from Creative Pro.
Layers TV: Episode 42
Tips about using Illustrator to create a brochure with text wraps inside. Plus, Instructions on how to customize your workspace in Photoshop and create an action that loads that workspace as soon as Photoshop opens.
Download Layers TV: Episode 42. Sounds like fun.
Luxology Modcast interview with John Knoll
Brad Peebler, president of Luxology, interviews John Knoll, Father of the Lens Flare and a creator of Photoshop. Listen now!
Adobe Launches Photoshop Express Public Beta
They’ve been talking about it for a while and today, Photoshop Express has hit the tubes. How is this free online Photoshop going to affect business? This version is stripped down compared to the full version. I think this is a great sales move. New users will try this out and realize they need something more powerful and get the full version. Sounds like a plan to me.
Press Release: Adobe Launches Photoshop Express Public Beta
Free Online Software Brings Photoshop Technology to Anyone Taking Digital Photos
SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 27, 2008 – Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience. Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook.
"Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known," said Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. "Photoshop Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos whether you’re at home, school or on the road."
Simple, Fun and Accessible
With Photoshop Express, digital photos can be uploaded and sorted anytime, edited non-destructively to always preserve the original image, and shared from anywhere, on any Web browser. In a few easy clicks, Photoshop Express empowers anyone to make standard edits, such as removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping and resizing, and much more.
No experience is required to add special effects that will impress friends and family. In keeping with its one-click approach, Photoshop Express offers tricks like Pop Color which selects an object in an image, mutes the background color of the photo and allows the user to swap the object’s color so it jumps off the page. Sketch effects help photos look like drawings and the Distort feature allows you to distort facial features or objects within the images for a comical or artistic effect. Even users with limited photo editing knowledge can simply select what looks best from a line-up of sample photos with visual hints showing different variations of the added effect.
Photoshop Express offers a variety of creative sharing options, including uploading and showing off photos and
slideshows in your own online "Gallery" hosted by Adobe, or conveniently embedding or linking photos to social
networking sites and personal blogs without having to leave the application. Slideshows never looked better with
animation that makes photos float and fly across the screen, allowing for viewer interactivity and unique presentation styles.
Adobe Photoshop Family
Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended are at the heart of the Photoshop family, joined by solutions for users at every level who want to bring out the best in their digital images. Photoshop Lightroom addresses the workflow needs of professional and serious amateur photographers. Photoshop Elements provides exciting tools and sharing options for photo hobbyists.
Photoshop Express is the latest step Adobe is taking to leverage the advanced technology that underpins its awardwinning creative products and deliver it to new online communities. In early 2007, Adobe also announced the availability of Adobe® Premiere® Express, an online video editing and mash-up tool on partner sites such as MTV and Photobucket. Adobe Premiere Express leverages the functionality found in Premiere Elements, a fully-featured desktop video editing program.
Free and Available Now
Adobe Photoshop Express beta is available now for free via any Web browser at http://www.photoshop.com/express. Photoshop Express was created with Flex, Adobe’s free, open source framework for building RIAs. Flex applications provide a consistent, rich user experience across operating systems and all major browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and others. An Internet connection and an up-to-date Flash® Player 9 are all that are required to experience Adobe Photoshop Express. In its early phases, Photoshop Express is available to US residents-only in English.
Users may experience slow performance if accessed outside of the US. Future plans include availability in other languages and countries.
New $20,000 ‘See What’s Possible’ Adobe design challenge
Compose an engaging 15-second or less animation or motion graphic video of the Photoshop brand logo that illustrates the theme of “See What’s Possible.†The winning work must incorporate and close with the Adobe Photoshop logo and will be used by Adobe as part of an upcoming Photoshop marketing campaigns.
Accepting submissions February 15 – March 15, 2008
You Suck at Photoshop – Funny Friday
It’s been a rough week. I’ve been fighting this awful flu and been busy with MyToolfarm‘s huge launch, so I figure it’s time to lighten the mood.
Have you caught any of Donnie’s You Suck at Photoshop video tutorials? They are so funny! The sixth in the series went online this week. I’d recommend watching them all. You might learn a little bit about Photoshop. (Note: The humor is a little vulgar at times, so if you’re not into that, you may want to pass.)
Also, speaking of MyToolfarm…. please stop by and check it out. Upload some stuff, enter the Red Giant NAB contest, get your work reviewed by your peers, get inspired….
Free Adobe eSeminars
I was just perusing some of the upcoming online events from Adobe after receiving a notice about one I’m signed up for.
Tomorrow is the Discover the hidden power of Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 eSeminar at 11am PST.
On November 15, there’s a seminar called Working with Photoshop Extended to use with Premiere Pro and After Effects.
November 29 is Create DVD motion menus that wow your audience using Adobe After Effects CS3 and December 13 is A New World of Interactive Video Content.
Sign up today. It’s free and you’re certain to learn a lot.
Paper Rip Effect in After Effects
Michael Szabo of Big Mike Design has created this great video tutorial showing you how to make ripped paper in AE. His technique uses Photoshop, AE and the CC Page Turn plug-in. He explains track mattes and alpha channels. He touches on precomposing
Paper Rip Effect in After Effects tutorial
Details of online Photoshop Express emerge
Last night at MAX, Adobe’s Geoff Baum got on stage during the sneak peek session to show off a bit more of Photoshop Express. Boy, things have come a long way in the few weeks since the sneak at Photoshop World, and last night’s demo showed Healing Brush- & Liquify-like tools running via the app’s Flash interface. CNET’s Martin LaMonica has details and screenshots.The company is still being somewhat coy (as is par for the course when previewing technology), but as info firms up, I’ll pass it along.
