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» You suck at Photoshop - Revealed

 Yes you are hearing correctly! The guys behind the now popular and famour "You Suck at Photoshop" series which is mixing humor and learning, is now revealed! In an article by the Time you get to read the story behind as well as who is doing the series. If you’ve like everyone else been wondering, you’ll probably enjoy the read!

If you haven’t heard about the You Suck at Photoshop series you can go and view the episodes here on MyDamnChannel.

» Photoshop Express Learning Center goes live!

 

Our own Adobe Photoshop Express Learning Center goes live now on the website! I’m working on a lot more video tutorials but the first parts are up and more are coming as  they get processed and uploaded on the video site! The learning center will also be published over at the Photography Corner because of a partnership we’ve done with them when it comes to tutorials. So go and check out the first parts of the Photoshop Express Learning Center now!

» Photoshop Express Beta goes online!

It’s the day many have been waiting a long time for. Back a year ago at Photoshop World, we got to see the first sneak peak of the Photoshop Express, online image editing program from Adobe. Today, the beta version of Photoshop Express has rolled out, for free, on the web. Let me tell you, it is great, however be reminded:

It is by far everything you can do in Photoshop. Forget the layers, the panels, the toolbars and most of the tools as well. What you really have is a simple interface that allows you to sort, edit and share your photos in a really powerful way still with Photoshop technology!

You can adjust exposure, white balance, hue, do touch ups, distort your images, do black and whites and a lot more in Photoshop Express and you can do it in a really cool way. What you get is basically a slider and thumbnails with an instant preview of the effect at various different degrees. It really works, and is really simple and intuitive.

It is all about sharing though, really. When you sign up, y ou get your own URL (yourusername.photoshop.com) with your own gallery complete with albums and personal styling, all in flash. The slideshows when sharing are really classy and really well done.

If you have a lot of photos on the popular sites, Facebook, Photobucket or Picasa, you can load them right into Photoshop Express and start editing them, sorting them and showing them off, quickly! Adobe is giving you 2 gb of space with your account when you sign up!

So no, it is not a replacement for Photoshop but what you have is an incredibly cool way of editing photos, online as well as sharing them. Without a doubt the best way of doing it so far, for all free!

Oh and by the way, I’m working on a full training center for Photoshop Express to go online either this evening or early tomorrow (depending on how fast the video upload site is). Stay tuned!

» Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac is shipping!

 Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac is now from today and on shipping! Adobe has skipped the whole version 5 and now made the newest version 6 available on Mac as well as on Windows, leveling out the version differences. Elements 6 is really a brand new software from the previous versions and it is a really welcome release.

The pricing sets at $90 for the full new version of Photoshop Elements 6 and if you are upgrading from a previous version of the program, you can get the upgrade for $70. You can purchase the program over at the Adobe website.

» Lightroom 1.4 and Camera Raw 4.4 released

 Adobe has today released updates to both Lightroom and Camera Raw, bringing them booth up to .4 releases and the change in booth is that they now include support for the newest cameras like the Canon 450D and the Nikon D60.

• Lightroom 1.4: Win | Mac
• Camera Raw: Win | Mac

» Late Friday Post

I know I’m very late with this Friday post but I do have a valid reason. I and my class at school will be going away at a ski trip from Sunday morning until Tuesday night. I’ll talk more about that in a later post however, but I’ve been busy (still am) making sure I’m packing all stuff I need etc.

Nik Software announces their Viveza plugin for Photoshop!

Nik Software has released what could possibly be the best Photoshop plugin so far! Even better, if you are a NAPP member like me, you’ll get a great $50 discount on the plugin! Their press release says as following:

Introducing Nik Software Viveza, powered by U Point® technology for direct on-image editing, the most powerful and precise tool available to control light and color in photographic images. For the first time, corrections and enhancements can easily be made without the need to create complicated selections and layer masks.

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Free Lightroom Gallery Templates

• If you are looking for new new free Lightroom gallery templates, then Sean McCormack has released a bunch of free templates, just for Lightroom.
• Also, The Turning Gate has released a gallery that lets your visitors rate and comment photos!

Getting a CSS Signature in OS X Mail

If you, like me, are using Mac OS X built in Mail application, then this is a good read for you. It’ll tell you how you can make CSS signatures in the mail application. It’s pretty cool and I think you’re all going to like it! Read here »

» Friday Goodies

It is finally friday and it is so very nice! I’m being busy with a lot of web design works and I’ve been working on location at a company locally for the past two days getting their website up to date and making it nicer, still not entirely finished but almost! On with todays news however!

What the Duck

I’ve linked to What the Duck previously on the blog but I figure it is time to do again (one cannot do that too many times!). What the Duck is a photography online comic strip that has grown very popular. It is daily and pictured above is today hillarious strip which you just have to read! Check out the What the Duck site for more!

New Adobe Magazine Edition

The newest edition (and first for 2008) of the free Adobe Magazine has been released. The new issue features Photoshop being used for concept art, architectural illustration, and scientific imaging so check it out here!

Layers - The new photoshop book, on layers!

Finally for today comes a book tip on what looks to be so far the best photoshop book of 2008! It is the new Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s most powerful feature by Matt Kloskowski. It looks to be indeed a killer book explaining everything you need to know about layers in Photoshop! Go and read more about the book over at the Kelby Training website where you can for a limited time pre-order and get a signed copy of the book!

» Sunday Quick Stuff

 Alright, so after the jam packed updates this weekend we are soon onto a new week with a lot of things happening (at least for me) before a full week vaccation that I have from school in the week after. Onto the news:

• As you can probably see, the site has been updated with some new buttons here and there, a new header look (quite similar to the old, yet a litle updated) as well as a new footer, which I think works great.
   
•  If you remember, I wrote about the Photography Corner, Photograph of the Year contest a while back. The contest is now finished and voting is over. The winning entries have also been announced and I’m astounded on the good quality of the winning entires, and I would like to congratulate them all (especially my buddy Younes Bounhar for winning it all!).
   
• Speaking of contests, the Photoshop User Awards are over as well and you can find the winners right here. Some of the winners are just amazing!
   
• If you are into the blog reading, Joe McNally has launched a brand new blog that you can check out right here.
   
• I’ve had some more time to watch the classes over at Kelby Training and some of them just blows me away and makes the whole month membership I’m signed up for worth it, in just one class. I can really recommend the Photoshop Extended in Motion class by Corey Barker as one of the best I’ve taken in a long time. You can read my review on the service right here.

That’s about it for my Sunday Quick Stuff. I’ll be posting here again tomorrow for some more cool stuff that always happens on mondays!

» Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 announced for the Mac!

Adobe has announced that Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac has been finished in development and will be shipping in the beginning of the second quarter this year! My opinion of this is; finally, there is a good need for it coming! Read more on version six, here.

» Monday News Tidbits

Today seems to be gadget day with most news being about some of the coolest gadgets available right now!

D3 and D300 Stuff, site + review

• Starting off in the camera news, brought to you by the amazing wildlife photographer, Moose Peterson is an entire little (or not so little after all) site about the D that has just been released with more stuff being added along the way according to Moose. So go and have a look at the D3 Site!
• Following the news of the cameras in Nikon’s latest release we have a great review by Terry White on the Nikon D300 camera posted today over at his blog! It’s based on his first impressions with using the camera for about a week now and he really seems to be liking it a lot. So if you are in the market for a D300 or just want to read up on it, go and read Terry’s review right here!

New Web Design tutorials coming!

So I’ve begun to write a couple of highly requested web design tutorials for the site here and the first one to be released is a tutorial on how to make a stylish portfolio header right in Photoshop that we’ll use to build an entire portfolio site, right in Photoshop! So go to the tutorial section and check it out!

Learn to polish up your vector art in Photoshop!

The amazing illustration guru, Nick La has posted up a very cool tutorial or article on how he uses Adobe Photoshop to polish up his vector art made in Illustrator. I found it very interesting and cool to read so if you are interested you should definitely take a look at it here!