Zevrix Solutions announced the release of ArtOptimizer 2.0, its comprehensive solution for reducing the size of images linked to Adobe Illustrator document automatically. Similar to LinkOptimizer, the Zevrix flagship product for InDesign, ArtOptimizer saves hours of production time, gigabytes of disk space and reduces production costs by eliminating excessive image data.

How does ArtOptimizer work?

ArtOptimizer will automatically reduce the image resolution and resize the images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in the Illustrator document and the target resolution specified, and reimport them to Illustrator at 100%.

ArtOptimizer lets ...

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Here's a new tutorial from Jim Hoerricks, the Senior Forensic Video Analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department's Scientific Investigation Division, a Photoshop instructor, an author, and a court qualified expert witness in Forensic Video Analysis. You can find more of his tutorials on our Forensic Photoshop Tutorial page. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) Read entire article

In Episode 122 of Photoshop User TV, Matt Kloskowski uses the Auto-Align Layers tool of Photoshop CS3 to combine happy faces from two photos to complete a picture where everybody is smiling.

Dave Cross shows us how to make a convincing enlargement of a portion of a photo to allow a subsequent desired cropping.

Matt goes a second time (Scott Kelby is absent) to demonstrate the use of the High Pass filter to make the eyes sparkle in a photograph.

One for the road: name that Style so you can ...

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As a beginning photographer who has just acquired his first digital SLR camera, you might have shot in RAW and maybe even memorized its definition: it’s a digital negative, it’s an unprocessed image file, it has a lot of metadata, etc. But because you have been shooting JPEG all your life and also because RAW, you discovered, quickly filled up your memory card with its VERY big files, you got back to shooting JPEG. It suits me just fine, you say. After all, you could also correct and enhance ...

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For those of you who've managed your font library with some earlier version of the program already, FAP4 doesn't necessarily reinvent the wheel - it does, however, tack on some spiffy new features and makes auto-activation that much more reliable. Let's run down the new stuff as Inside Software lists it on their web site, shall we? (my comments & screenshots following):

* More Font Data than Ever : I immediately noticed that FAP – after importing a batch of new fonts – ran a process in the background called 'profiling'. What this means ...

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PageControl 2.0 has been released for Adobe InDesign CS, CS 2 and CS3. The plug-in lets you create different page sizes and both vertical and horizontal spreads inside one InDesign document. One page could be Letter and another page could be Tabloid, and next one could be the size of a business card. Inserts, foldout and even spines can now be part of the same document file.

I love this plugin!

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Jim Hoerricks is the Senior Forensic Video Analyst for the Los Angeles Police Department's Scientific Investigation Division, a Photoshop instructor, an author, and a court qualified expert witness in Forensic Video Analysis. His site, Forensic Photoshop, contains lots of interesting posts and tutorials that deal with using Photoshop for forensic work. Jim established the LAPD's Forensic Video Lab in 2001, has been the lead analyst on many of the LAPD's high-profile cases, and helped set the standard by which video evidence is handled by the department. Jim has also written a book, Forensic Photoshop. We are pleased to offer ... Read entire article

Now here’s a photo editor that’s meant for the new photographer who has spent all his money on the brand new DSLR with not much left to buy the expensive Photoshop CS3.

Photoscape 3 is free yet also very capable. It distinguishes itself from the rest of the freeware pack by offering loads of impressive features that can work for budding photographers on a tight budget.

It supports RAW (and JPEG, PNG, GIF) and comes with pre-built templates for photo collages. It has a standard set of image enhancement features like red-eye ...

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Now here’s a photo editor that’s meant for the new photographer who has spent all his money on the brand new DSLR with not much left to buy the expensive Photoshop CS3.

Photoscape 3 is free yet also very capable. It distinguishes itself from the rest of the freeware pack by offering loads of impressive features that can work for budding photographers on a tight budget.

It supports RAW (and JPEG, PNG, GIF) and comes with pre-built templates for photo collages. It has a standard set of image enhancement features like red-eye ...

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The Device Central CS3 Device Profile Update #5 is available for download. Make sure you already installed the Flash Lite 3 update for CS3.

Alessandro

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