Archive for February, 2007

Pixelation

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Share this on your facebook pageThe Pixelate filters in Photoshop makes for a good art style. You can create a masterpiece a la Georges-Pierre Seurat, the French painter who founded ‘Neoimpressionism.’ Seurat was also responsible for introducing a painting technique called ‘pointillism’ or divisionism. The brush strokes make use of small dots of pure color [...]

On Photoshop Filters and Plugins

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Share this on your facebook pagePhotoshop filters as well as plugins were developed and launched in the early 90’s. Among the earliest Photoshop filter products were Aldus Gallery Effects, Andromeda, KPT Power Tools Volume 1, Black Box plugins, Ring of Fire, and many more. Since their initial release, Photoshop filters have increased. [...]

Preset Manager Arranges Your Brushes

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

Share this on your facebook pageI think that the Internet browsers are made for busy people. Just look at the shortcuts implemented in web browsers. The Bookmarks function in a web browser can save you a lot of time. Typing a website address into the address field can sometimes tire you, but I don’t think [...]

Face Tagging in Elements 4

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Share this on your facebook pageIf you have delighted in the previous Photoshop Elements’ features that I’ve posted earlier, then I’m sure you’ll love this new cool trick. It’s called Face Tagging. This new feature is supposed to rev up identification of faces to make tagging more manageable. Although, it will take a little [...]

2006 Scrappy Awards

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

Share this on your facebook pageYoohoo! Calling all scrapbook enthusiasts and digital aficionados out there! Now is your chance to show off and brag your creative talents to the world through the first annual Scrappy Awards. This event is brought to you by none other than Photoshop Elements.
I have to commend Photoshop for this effort. [...]

Adobe Bridge

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Share this on your facebook pageWhen Adobe Photoshop released the newest version of Photoshop Elements, Adobe has gotten away with the idea of high-end photo-editing tool which almost often is too expensive for beginners to consider. But on the end of the same spectrum, Elements has gotten away with the wrong notion that it’s a [...]

Photoshop Online Course Launched

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Share this on your facebook page“Photoshop for Digital Photographers with Scott Kelby” was just released by NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals), a trade group which serves as a resource for Adobe Photoshop education, training and news. This event covers an online tutorial course on Photoshop which is going to last for 21 days with [...]

Camera Raw Update

Saturday, February 17th, 2007

Share this on your facebook pageThe most significant departure between your digital camera and a DSLR or Digital Single Lens Reflex is in the method of viewing the image. Digicams make use of a video screen while DLSRs use optical viewfinders. But before you go too far, wondering why we are talking about cameras while [...]

Lightning Effect

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Share this on your facebook pageThe beauty of nature is very much characterized in dramatic pictures that we see in books, magazines and the Internet. One of the hardest to capture is lightning but when you see the outcome, you’ll be amazed just how beautiful this natural display can be. But, put aside the beauty [...]

Opacity

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Share this on your facebook pageThe amount of transparency found in a particular layer is referred to as opacity. This Photoshop function is a very powerful tool in that it can hide or blanket objects and images on top of each other. At the same time when these layers are in top of each other [...]