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 has also written a book, Forensic Photoshop. We are pleased to offer some of his Photoshop CS3 tutorials and articles. Here's a brand new tutorial — Using Layers To Speed Things Up: (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) Read entire article

When I transitioned from GoLive to Dreamweaver CS3 I found a great book that totally guided me along. The book, Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual, is available from Amazon.com at a 34% discount. I also have a free sample chapter you can download in PDF format. Here's a little bit more about the book, and then a brief description of the PDF sample chapter. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) Read entire article

In this week’s Photoshop User TV, Scott Kelby has a tutorial on using the Lens Blur in Photoshop CS3 to selectively apply focus on a specific part of an image. It’s a little lame, but, hey, it can come in handy sometime in the future – very very far off in the future.

Dave Cross demonstrates a complicated looking trick in Photoshop for creating a web banner template that can accommodate variable text and photo contents, in this example the photos of people change with their corresponding names and titles. ...

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Today is scheduled an eSeminar for the Adobe Developer week: Getting Started with Flash Lite 3 and CS3. You can register for the other two that scheduled for this week.
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The latest version of Vincent Bockaert’s book, The 123 of digital imaging Interactive Learning Suite (now on Version 5.0) is out for distribution. At $50, it’s the best photography guide available.

It’s for all levels of photographers; no matter what your experience, there’s always something you can learn from this interactive electronic book. It covers 153 topics in 4,200 pages – generously illustrated with superb photographs and screenshots.

Depending on your experience, you can choose from 3 selectable user levels: Starter, Essential and Advanced. ...

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Via Mark, next week there will be several eSeminars dedicated to Mobile and Devices. Here is the list:

• Getting Started with Flash Lite 3 and CS3
• Flash Lite and Flex for Tourism
• Blood from a Stone: Flash Game Optimization on Low-end mobile devices

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Colin Smith of PhotoshopCafe has released a new DVD - HDR and Photoshop CS3 Training, which features 2 1/2 hours of quality HDR and Photoshop CS3 Training and is priced at $49.99. Here's the promo material: (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) Read entire article

If you want to change the font, color, kerning, or any other character or paragraph attributes, simply Command + Click or Shift + Click the type layers you want to edit, then adjust the settings to your liking in the Control Bar, Character or Paragraph panels.

This tips works in Adobe Photoshop CS1, CS2 and CS3.

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Photoshop has a lot of cool features, and CS3 added lots more that required me to take another look at all the menus. Recently, I found something I had never seen before. It's called Zoomify.

The image you see above, which you can zoom in and out of and scroll around in, started as a 920x400 pixel image. I then went to File>Export>Zoomify in Photoshop CS3 and entered in a few settings as seen below.

When finished, an html file is created in ...

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Colin Smith has written up a great tutorial on HDR photography. From the intro: In this tutorial we will take a look at HDR photography. HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) was originally used in 3D and is now in full force in photography. Basically it's the process of taking multiple exposures and merging them together into a single 32 bit image. (posted by Jennifer Apple for www.PhotoshopSupport.com) Read entire article