Photoshop Wishlist
Posted by Jennifer Farley | May 29, 2008
Scott Kelby has a blog post today with a nice idea about how people power could shape the features in the next version of Photoshop. The main gist would be that Adobe would ask it’s users what changes or new features would they like in the next version and the top 10 most requested features would appear WITHOUT FAIL. Scott lists 10 of his own ideas and there are tons of comments with great suggestions for improvements - lots of stuff I wouldn’t have thought of myself, but ideas that make you think, oh yeah, essential.
One thing that I would love to change in Photoshop is the number of Undos that you can make with the Ctrl + Z keywords. In Illustrator you can undo LOADS of times but in Photoshop you have to go into the History palette to go back more than one command.
What would you add to your wishlist?
Photoshop Resource : MyPhotoshopBrushes.com
Posted by Jennifer Farley | May 19, 2008
For anyone interested in brushes, patterns and styles for photoshop, a useful resource in MyPhotoshopBrushes.com The site also includes shapes - which are particularly useful because you can size them up as large as you need without loss of quality - and gradients too.
Ooh look! - a set of my celtic brushes are there too!
Free Photoshop Book From Sitepoint
Posted by Jennifer Farley | May 18, 2008
Sitepoint are currently offering their book “The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques” for free download as a PDF. I bought the book myself about a year ago and it’s a good read and full of good tutorials on using Photoshop for web design. The book includes instruction and tips on how to;
- Design attractive web graphics
- Touch up photographs for web use
- Create web site mockups using Photoshop
- Improve your digital workflow
- Master menus, buttons and background tiles
- Use nondestructive editing techniques
The Photoshop book is available for free until the 13th of June, and you can download it here.
100 Photoshop Tutorials From 3D Total
Posted by Jennifer Farley | May 12, 2008
3D Total have posted 100 great photoshop tutorials on their site. The tutorials are based around the idea of creating beautiful art and some of the work is truly lovely.
There are tutorials on everything from making clouds to scary faces to cute monsters. Each tutorial seems to be fairly indepth with lots of nice screengrabs. I had seen some of these before, I think they may have been in 2D artist magazine but there’s something of interest for everyone here and well worth a look.
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Resources : Photoshop Disasters Website
Posted by Jennifer Farley | March 14, 2008
I just stumbled upon this site and really enjoyed it. It’s called Photoshop Disasters and it’s basically a catalog of poor Photoshopping on magazines, DVDs and posters. At first glance you might not even notice what the problem is, but the commentary written by the author is absolutely hilarious. I had a great laugh this morning - this is a great site illustrating what NOT to do. Here’s an example…
Photoshop Code of Ethics
Posted by Jennifer Farley | November 29, 2007
Scott Kelby has an interesting post about his own personal code of ethics when using photoshop. I would certainly agree with most of them and have similar thoughts myself.
One “rule” he mentions is ;
(1) This may sound silly, but I absolutely hate cropping in Photoshop, and go out of my way to avoid it. I want to do my composing in the camera, so if I wind up having to crop later in Photoshop, I feel like I didn’t “Get it right in the camera,” and it drives me nuts.
I also aim to get the best possible shot to begin with too, but sometimes I find I can improve the picture enormously by doing a tight crop - particularly with pictures of people or a picture taken very quickly, without time to compose the way I’d like to. I also find that now I’m using an 8 MP camera, that the images are so large that if I’m not happy with a landscape oriented picture, I’ll actually crop it into portrait shape just to make sure I see only what I want. In fact, I love cropping. There, I’ve said it!
Any of you guys have some Photoshop ethics you’d like to share?
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