Adobe Photoshop

Explore a collection of tutorials, books, articles, reviews, posts and plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop

By: Geetesh Bajaj

Date Created: June 29, 2006
Last Updated: April 29, 2016

Photoshop and PowerPoint
Techniques And Tutorials
Plug-ins/Filters
Actions
Other Stuff
Companion Programs
Newsgroups
Other Links
Exclusive Book Excerpts

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.

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Latest Photoshop Plug-in Review: AKVIS ArtWork 9

AKVIS ArtWork 9 is an Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-in and also a standalone application that provides seven painting styles (Oil Painting, Watercolor, Gouache, Comics, Pen & Ink, Linocut, Pastel) for your photos. With these painting styles, you can convert your photograph into a piece of art. It also offers a wide choice of canvases and text options. AKVIS ArtWork 9 is an upgraded version of AKVIS ArtWork 7 which brings new decoration effects and frames, improved innovative interface, adds support for ultra HD resolution screens, and other significant changes.

Read the Indezine review here.

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Plug-in Reviews

AKVIS ArtWork 9
AKVIS Neon
AKVIS NatureArt 5.5
AKVIS OilPaint 1.0
AKVIS AirBrush 1.0
Digital Anarchy Beauty Box Photo 3
AKVIS Sketch 14
AKVIS MakeUp 3
AKVIS Coloriage
Noise Buster
AKVIS Retoucher
Backdrop Designer

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Color Theory
Vertus Fluid Mask
Mac’s Page Curl
Noise Ninja
Universe Image Creator

Photoshop and PowerPoint

Indezine has several Photoshop/PowerPoint tutorials:

Photoshop TIF and Alpha Channel Export for PowerPoint

PowerPoint Backgrounds With Photoshop: Gaussian Blur

PowerPoint Backgrounds With Photoshop: Reticulation Effects

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Techniques And Tutorials

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Adobe's Photoshop page is a gateway to tips, techniques and tutorials.

Planet Photoshop is a resource of anything to do with Photoshop.

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.

Hongkiat provides several tutorials on text effects in Photoshop.

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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.

Photoshop Plug-ins / Filters

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.

Alien Skin is the creator of the popular EyeCandy and Xenofex plug-ins.

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.

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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.

Actions

Adobe Add-ons has a veritable treasure trove of Photoshop actions, plug-ins and more

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Zero G Digital Designs has actions in many categories at their actions.8m.com site.

Other Stuff

Chez Plumeau has a search engine for Photoshop brushes.

Ritual Myth has a Photoshop brushes library.

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About. com has a selection of Photoshop brushes.

Companion Programs

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 and Adobe Illustrator allow far more vector editing control than within Photoshop.

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Corel's Painter and PhotoPaint are notable alternatives to Photoshop.

Scan Calculator is a free program that helps you decide your scan resolutions.

Newsgroups

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.

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