Photoshop Notes
Info-things on Photoshop usage including reviews, news, tips, techniques and tutorials.
Auto FX Photo/Graphic Edges 7.0 Platinum Edition is an Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in which includes amazing filters for adding edges, frames and borders to your photos. The plug-in includes an extensive collection of film frames, darkroom effects, grunge edges, natural media borders, and plenty of styles. There are 32 edge effects in all, and each of these edge effects can be customized and even combined with other edge effects.
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Indezine is glad to announce a holiday promotion for Artlandia products including the best-selling Artlandia SymmetryWorks 5 plug-in. This special coupon offers 15% off towards all purchases. Labels: artlandia, illustrator, offer, photoshop
Here are the essentials:
The coupon code is: INDEZINE2009
It will expire on midnight December 31
The coupon is valid for all regular Artlandia products with prices at or above $50.00 (that is, for the vast majority of Artlandia products). Get started here...
Mystical Tint Tone and Color 2.0 is a Photoshop compatible plug-in which includes filters for improving and enhancing photos color and tonal qualities. There are 60 effects in all, and each of these effects can be customized and even combined with other effects. The plug-in contains over 300 instant preset looks, effect combinations and settings. You can also capture looks as presets, and re-use them on other photos The new portrait filters allows you to enhance skin, hair, eyes, lips and facial and features.
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AKVIS MultiBrush is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows to enhance photos and retouch portraits. . The plug-in is a new enhanced version of AKVIS Stamp. AKVIS MultiBrush performs picture enhancements, removes unwanted objects from digital pictures such as spots, stains, or even unwanted elements in a photograph. A useful tool for portraits which allows the user to remove wrinkles, scars, scratches, and enhances imperfect skin, this plug-in also available as a standalone application that runs independent of Adobe Photoshop.
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3D Invigorator is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows you to create 3D objects within Photoshop using Adobe Illustrator files and fonts. With 3D Invigorator, you can easily model a 3D objects, create 3D logos based on the vector files, and add depth, bevel, and other 3D features, and apply multiple lights and materials such as reflective, transparent, or bump textures to the object for more realistic output. You can do this all without using any other application, such as 3D Studio Max or similar. Labels: digital_anarchy, photoshop, plug-in
3D Invigorator is from Digital Anarchy, a company based in San Francisco, USA that specializes in special effect filters for image editing and video programs. Digital Anarchy also creates other Photoshop compatible plug-ins like Primatte Chromakey 3, ToonIt!, Backdrop Designer, etc. Digital Anarchy markets 3D Invigorator for Zaxwerks.
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Retoucher is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that removes dust, scratches, stains, etc from old damaged photos. It also lets you remove date stamps that some cameras add to photographs. In addition, it also reconstructs missing parts of a photo using the information of the surrounding areas. Retoucher works automatically, you only need to indicate areas to be restored, and the rest of the process is taken care by the plug-in. The resultant image surfaces becomes smooth with less scratches.
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ToonIt, a photo cartooning Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in uses advanced algorithms to process your image and create cartoon-style shading and lines. You could do all this manually using time consuming techniques like rotoscoping and hand painting -- but it's so much easier and interactive doing it with ToonIt.
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AKVIS ArtWork, a Photoshop compatible plug-in transforms your pictures by imparting professional painting styles to them. The plug-in provides a realistic painted effect by using various algorithms that add tweaks like twisted geometric lines.
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AKVIS, creator of various Adobe Photoshop plug-ins has announced a holiday season contest -- in this conversation Katerina Kharina of AKVIS tells us more.
Geetesh: Tell us more about the various contests you have launched.
Katerina: This time, we have launched three contests:
Geetesh: How well do AKVIS products work in the contest workflows?
Katerina: A participant should use at least one of our software, or more, even all our programs. He or she can also use tools from other developers, for example, Photoshop.
More details can be found on the contest site -- entries must be submitted by December 29th, 2008.
If you tried resizing an image larger than its actual size, you might have come across the problem where the quality of the image gets degraded and pixelated.
AKVIS Magnifier, a Photoshop compatible plug-in upscales the images with advanced enlargement algorithms, preserving the edge to edge image sharpness while improving image appearance by removing unwanted noise and compression artifacts.
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AKVIS LightShop 2.5 is a Photoshop compatible plug-in -- it's an updated version of a product we have reviewed in the past. This updated version introduces new ready-to-use light effects, improves compatibility with Microsoft Windows Vista SP 1, and adds a new interface language (Portuguese).
AKVIS LightShop 2.5 can be downloaded as a standalone application, a plug-in version for Adobe Photoshop CS3 or Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.
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Do you need to make clipping paths on your pictures often? Photoshop has evolved through the versions to make this much easier than before -- yet there's nothing better than getting someone else to do this. It's even better if you don't have to pay sky high rates for something like this, and if you can get these back the same day. MisterClipping.com promises all this, and while I still haven't tested it out, it looks quite good on the surface. Labels: clipping, misterclips, photoshop, sites
One of these days, I might use their promotional code and open a free account to try -- but meanwhile, you want to take a look at their site, as shown in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1: The MisterClipping.com site
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So much about presenting with an iPad depends upon how you can send the visual signals from your iPad to the projector or television outputs. We have already established that the wireless way of connecting the iPad to an output is far superior since it lets you hold the iPad in your hand and control your slides wirelessly – that way you are free to move around in your presentation venue – more often than not this approach requires an in-between device such as an Apple TV 2. What we have not discussed so far is how you can use a wired option that lets you cable your iPad directly to an output such as a VGA capable projector or television.