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One of the top requests for Camera Raw and Lightroom has been to include perspective corrections, so that users can apply perspective corrections to raw images. It so happens there is already a method in Camera Raw and Photoshop that will allow you to correct the perspective of a raw photograph while keeping the image in its original raw file state. This isn’t exactly a hidden feature in Camera Raw, but this movie does demonstrate a workaround for correcting perspective of raw files while keeping them fully editable in Camera Raw. Here’s how it can be done.

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You know how the camera always seems to add 10 lbs.? You can shave those extra pounds away using Photoshop. This demo shows two methods of making people look thinner. And, if you do it with subtlety, you’ll never know that is was Photoshop that took those extra pounds off–and your clients will think you are a genius!

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Of all the new features in Photoshop CS3, those that stand out for me most are the ones that have been built around the new Align Content feature, engineered by Jeff Chien.

Martin Evening’s Favorite Photoshop CS3 Feature?
The new Clone Source palette…

Pubished here is a tutorial extract is taken from Martin Evening’s forthcoming book: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers, published by Focal Press. In this tutorial, Martin demonstrates some of the key new benefits that can be gained from working with the new Clone Source palette in the newly released public beta version of Adobe Photoshop CS3. To find out more about how to use this new feature, read on…

The Mad Doctor is at it again-producing Adobe Photoshop CS2 video tutorials.

To coincide with the announcement and availability of Photoshop CS3 as a public beta, Martin Evening has released a sample chapter from his forthcoming book: Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers, published by Focal Press.

The new edition of this best selling book should be hitting the streets in Spring of 2007, shortly after the official release of Photoshop CS3.

As a special perk for PhotoshopNews readers, Martin has made his Chapter 1: What’s New in Photoshop CS3 available for free download.

The 21 page PDF, outlines all the new features of Photoshop CS3 and Bridge 2, written from a user’s perspective. It offers an honest appraisal of what will be on offer in this new version of the program, if you really want to know what’s NEW!

CS3 Learning Center Offers Tutorials, New Feature Overviews, Exclusive Interviews and More for the Newly-Released Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) CS3 Public Beta Preview

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is excited to announce the launch of their most comprehensive online learning center ever in conjunction with the release of the Adobe® Photoshop® Creative Suite 3 public beta preview. The CS3 Learning Center is now live and available at www.photoshopuser.com/cs3.

Source: ars technica
Written By Dave Girard

Introduction

Welcome back to the Digital Imaging Without the Mystery workshop and thank you for not commenting on my lack of a shirt. We can’t stop the dissemination of knowledge just because it’s laundry day so let’s just STOP STARING AT MY TATTOO OF A BUTTERFLY and move right along. If you’re here for the first time, you might want to read the first workshop since this builds on some fundamentals established there.

Squeezing a bit more image area after using Photoshop CS2’s Lens Correction tool to restore verticals in some architectural images. (This only works with shots with simple foregrounds.)

Russell Preston Brown updates Dr. Brown’s Services.

NEW 1.2 UPDATE!
- Caption Maker now supports easy PDF export.
- Place-A-Matic now supports 8 and 16 Bits/Channel documents.

Ok, so what does Independence Pass (elevation 12,095 feet) have to do with Photoshop? Well, nothing, except that it is the image I chose to use to show you this nifty tip.

Have you ever wished that the canvas color (the area behind your document window) could be a different color? There’s a way and it’s been in Photoshop since version 4.0. If you’ve never heard this before, read on. . .

If you want to add a rough edged border to an image there are various ways you can do this. You can scan a border from one photographic image and merge it with another photograph as a layer. Or you can buy plug-ins for Photoshop that incorporate custom border designs.

But in the following technique I am going to show you a fairly simple way to generate a random rough edged border within Photoshop.

Source: Photoshop Support Knowledgebase

Photoshop CS2 uses complex memory management procedures. On computers with 1 GB of RAM, or more, you can optimize Photoshop to take advantage of the quantity of RAM in your system to manage memory more efficiently.

Here’s a tip for using the new Smart Object feature of Photoshop CS2 and mutiple raw exposures with Camera Raw to produce a simple high dynamic range image blend.

This is the result of replacing an image in the book using the new Smart Objects and Warp features in Photoshop CS2.

So, Photoshop CS2 has been announced and with it we get a host of new features such as: Vanishing Point, Smart Object, Smart Sharpen, Image Warping, 32-bit support Merge to HDR, Lens Correction, Noise Reduction plus a lot of others under the bonnet. Along with these new features we also find a significantly enhanced version of Camera Raw and a completely new companion application called Adobe Bridge.

As many of you will be aware by now, the Photoshop File Browser has metamorphosed into a new standalone program called Bridge, which is supplied with all the programs in the Adobe CS2 Creative Suite. And in this new release, the Adobe engineers have been able to add a lot more new features, to make Bridge a powerful application with which to carry out all your picture selection editing. Bridge is primarily designed to enhance the workflow between all the programs in the Adobe CS2 Creative Suite. But one of the cool new features in Bridge is the Slideshow viewing mode.

In case you missed them, last fall Adobe commissioned a variety of top authors to write editorial content about a variety of subjects relating to; Digital Photography, Raw Captures, DNG, Digital Workflow, Digital Image Integrity, Calibrating the Digital Darkroom, B&W Conversion, Metadata, Color managed Raw Workflow, Making the Transition from Film to Digital, Highlight Recovery in Adobe Camera Raw and State of the Art: Digital Printing.

At the risk of revisiting the Kate Doesn’t Like Photoshop story and the ethics of digital manipulation, assuming you DO want to give somebody a quick 5-10 pound weight loss, there is a method so easy that when you learn it, you’ll wonder why you never figurered it out before. As with any technique, the secret here is to use it in moderation.

In the “good old days” of Photoshop lore, back before Photoshop 3 and layers made everything so darn easy, there was a fellow by the name of Kai Krause who was a magician with Photoshop. For some reason, call it brilliance or an intuitive mind, Kai was able to “Think Photoshop” in his mind to come up with some amazing methods of creating interesting (sometimes not so interesting) effects. In late 1992 and 1993, he posted these “Tips” on the AOL Photoshop forum. At the time, they were amazing–and to a certain extent, they still are. To learn and understand Kai’s tips is to glean a better fundamental understanding of Photoshop itself.

Like any new Photoshop release, Photoshop CS2 has plenty of new features and enhancements to old ones, but if I have to pick one single feature that has changed the way I use the program, it has to be the addition of a Curve tab in the Camera Raw plug-in. It may seem a small thing, but this feature has completely flipped the balance between the amount of time I spend in Camera Raw and the amount of time I spend in Photoshop. My friend and colleague Jeff Schewe has jokingly referred to Photoshop as a plug-in for Camera Raw. I can only say that never has a truer word been spoken in jest!

Adobe Evangelists Daniel Brown, Juleanne Kost and Tim Cole have a web site: AdobeEvangelists.com

With tutorials about Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, GoLive, ImageReady, InDesign and Illustrator, AdobeEvangelists.com offers a wide range of useful information–for free.