Rejoice, more Adobe bashing!

December 20th, 2006

You can also read the post that reveals them by John Nack, Senior Product Manager for Photoshop. When making icons, you usually try to design something simple and recognizable to identify things. Hicks pointed me towards the new crop of Adobe icons, themed similar to a Periodic Table for your confusion, ... Read entire article

Handy new script for Photoshop CS3

December 20th, 2006

By now you've probably seen how the Photoshop CS3 beta's Auto-Align Layers command can snap images together.  If not, check out my 90-second overview, or this somewhat more in-depth version from Russell Brown. 

The command relies on selecting multiple layers to align, so it's handy to suck multiple images into Photoshop & stack them up as layers in a PSD file.  To accomplish that easily, we created a Load Files Into Stack script, but time didn't permit it to get into the beta.  So, if you're interested in pulling in multiple files as layers, you can ... Read entire article

CS2 vs CS3?

December 20th, 2006
For those of you who already have PS CS3, which do you prefer more? PS CS2 or PS CS3? I'm not quite sure which I like more, CS3 has some great stuff, but it seems to take up far more memory than CS2. Or is that just my computer?... Read entire article

Is Photoshop CS3 a 64-bit app?

December 20th, 2006

First, ask yourself:

  • What is a "64-bit application"?
  • What advantages does such an application offer?
  • What are the disadvantages?

In talking to lots of customers, I find that most are unable to answer these questions.  (There's nothing inherently wrong with that.  As I've said, I myself am just a simple unfrozen caveman Web designer, and like most non-engineers I don't presume to grok the intricacies of complex software design.)  Yet despite the lack of widespread understanding, "64 bit" is one of those buzzwords (a la "Cocoa" and many others) that sounds cool, eliciting a lot of "arewethereyet, ... Read entire article

Russell Brown's Photoshop CS3 Tutorials Available

December 20th, 2006
I've just stumbled across five terrific video tutorials on new Photoshop CS3 features created by Russell Brown, Photoshop Master. The tutorials cover Smart Filters, Photomerge, converting color to B&W, Auto-Blend Layers, ... Read entire article

Photoshop & Bridge CS3 Public Beta

December 20th, 2006
I’ve been messing around with the recent Photoshop CS3 beta and can say I’m pretty impressed. I haven’t really dug into all the new features... CS3. One of my complaints with Bridge CS2, was that it took so long to pre-load all the large thumbnails in light table mode. I don’t have a screamer ...

First look: Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta: TG Daily

December 20th, 2006
"Adobe has released a beta version of the next version of its image editing software Photoshop. We've had some time to play with the software and are quite certain that it is one of the most significant updates in Photoshop history." Read more here Read entire article