Adobe Photoshop
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Date Created: June 29th 2006
Last Updated: Arpil 29th 2013
Photoshop and PowerPoint
Techniques And Tutorials
Plug-ins/Filters
Actions
Other Stuff
Companion Programs
Newsgroups
Adobe Photoshop is more than an image editor - few applications have a following as large as Photoshop and a dedication beyond platforms. Photoshop has spawned a whole new industry of plug-ins - its popularity can be gauged from the fact that its plug-in architecture is an industry standard that is also used by competing applications.
AirBrush is an Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in that creates an airbrush-style drawing from any photograph. AKVIS AirBrush works as an artistic filter creating stylish colorful airbrush designs from images using its preset or tweaked algorithms to cause a photo to painting conversion.
AKVIS AirBrush 1.0
Digital Anarchy Beauty Box Photo 3
AKVIS Sketch 14
AKVIS MakeUp 3
AKVIS Coloriage
Noise Buster
AKVIS Retoucher
Backdrop Designer
Indezine has several Photoshop/PowerPoint tutorials:
Create PowerPoint backgrounds with Photoshop's Reticulation filter.
See Also: Plug-in Listings
Adobe's Photoshop page is a gateway to tips, techniques and tutorials.
Planet Photoshop is a resource of anything to do with Photoshop.
Absolute Cross has several well written Photoshop tutorials.
Hands On has among the best Photoshop tutorials online.
dpmac.com is producing a free daily on-line seminar/tutorial series on Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop CS2 for the months of May, June and July 2006. After that date the contents of this on-line series will be compiled and rewritten into a DVD based eBook.
Cooltype - a significant Photoshop resource is now available at the WebDeveloper.com site.
Good-tutorials has links to over 10000 Photoshop tutorials.
Laurie McCanna's site has several Photoshop tutorials.
Photoshop Stuff has tutorials for professionals and beginners. Also,download free Photoshop stuff.
Andrei Doubrovski, a professional photographic restoration artist and technician, has released As Simple As Photoshop, a study at home course for Adobe Photoshop users.
Photoshop Elements User is a dedicated site for sharing tips and learning about Photoshop Elements, download video tutorials, images and samples.
Tutorial Collection has a directory of over 2,500 Photoshop, Flash, and 3DS Max tutorials.
The Photoshop Web Tips Database is an old resource to search for specific Photoshop tutorials - it's not probably updated though.
Artlandia SymmetryShop automates the creation of textile, wallpaper, and other surface designs in Photoshop.
Digital Anarchy makes several best-selling plug-ins for Photoshop.
Corel makes the highly popular KPT range - their Designer.com site has more information in the form of tips and tutorials.
Extensis has a range of productive plug-ins including Photo Tools, MaskPro, Intellihance, PhotoFrame, etc.
Alien Skin is the creator of the popular EyeCandy and Xenofex plug-ins.
Ulead has a range of Photoshop plug-ins including ArtTexture, Particle and FantasyWarp.
Xaos Tools creates a range of plug-ins including Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo, TypeCaster and Segmation.
Flaming Pear has a comprehensive range of plug-ins including Super BladePro, Flood and Lunar Cell.
Andromeda offers various plug-ins including Cutline, Velocipraptor, LensDoc and their Photography, Screens and 3D filters.
AutoFX creates Typographic Edges, Photographic Edges, AutoEye, Patterns, Frames, Webvise Totality and more.
Right Hemisphere creates Deep Paint - natural media artistic effects within Photoshop.
From the Human Software stable come Squizz, OttoPaths, Testissimo, AutoMask, etc.
Plugin Galaxy is a set of 21 special effect plug-ins.
Power Retouche supplies quality Photoshop plugins for photo editing and restoration.
Adobe Studio has a veritable treasure trove of Photoshop actions.
ScreamDesign has free Photoshop actions available for download.
Zero G Digital Designs has actions in many categories at their actions.8m.com site.
Chez Plumeau has a search engine for Photoshop brushes.
Brushes.net.tc has links to tons of free Photoshop brushes.
Laurie McCannas shows you how to create your own Photoshop brushes.
Ritual Myth has a Photoshop brushes library.
About.com has a selection of Photoshop brushes.
Fringewood has a selection of Photoshop brushes, gradients, level and curve presets, colour CLUTs, convolution kernels, etc.
Plugin Manager from I.C.Net allows you to selectively activate your plug-ins and filters.
Plugin Commander facilitates the management of your plug-in collection quickly and easily.
Adobe Acrobat lets you print your Photoshop files into Adobe's PDF format.
CorelDRAW, Macromedia Freehand and Adobe Illustrator allow far more vector editing control than within Photoshop.
Corel's Painter and PhotoPaint are notable alternatives to Photoshop.
Scan Calculator is a free program that helps you decide your scan resolutions.
The Google Groups archive is a treasure trove of searchable information posted across a huge number of newsgroups.
Adobe maintains its own newsgroups for most of its applications including Photoshop - although posting access is available only to registered members.
On the Usenet, you can check out the alt.graphics.photoshop newsgroup.
There are also a few Photoshop dedicated mailing lists - you can find details though a search at Topica.com
