I like a lot of the new features for photographers in Photoshop CS5, but now that I have been using it for a while, I notice there are two that just continue to warm my heart. The first one may seem minor, but if you have used old versions where this feature wasn’t present, then you [...]
For 10 days starting today, talented Photoshop instructor Mark Johnson presents videos on new features in Photoshop CS5. See today's excellent video on content aware fill and content aware spot healing. If you can't tune in each day to watch the video for freee, you can buy the whole set of 10 videos for $9.95 -- [...]
Adobe gave us a glimpse of CS5 this morning. The full price is $699. Users with CS2, CS3 and CS4 will be eligible for $199 upgrade pricing. The product is expected to ship mid-May. Click HERE for a summary of what is new. And click HERE for some videos. I haven't digested everything, but so far [...]
Adobe announced today that on April 12 it will reveal in a live online event what is new in Photoshop CS5. You can register for the event HERE. They have not announced an actual release date for the software yet. Since I am more focused on Lightroom these days, my initial reaction is "already"? CS4 is [...]
Curves is certainly not one of those intuitive features of Photoshop (or Lightroom), or at least that was my perspective when I tried to figure it out on my own before I got formal training. Curves is used to brighten or darken tones in your image, and at a more advanced level, to do color correction [...]
I post this link particularly for RMSP students who took my compositing classes this summer. Enjoy!
Want to remove telephone lines, whole buildings, or other objects from your photos? Adobe posted a video on Facebook today from Adobe Labs, demonstrating technology that they are working on for a future release of Photoshop. CS5 perhaps? Click here to go to video. Be sure to watch all the examples -- it just keeps getting [...]
These days I encourage students to leave Bridge and Camera Raw behind and use Lightroom for all of their basic image editing needs (resorting to Photoshop when heavy guns are required). But if you do find a reason to use Bridge and Camera Raw, you'll discover that Lightroom does not automatically see and show any Bridge [...]
I have been meaning to write a post on this topic. However, I noticed today that my colleague Gene McCullagh has just written about this over on his blog, Lightroom Secrets. I agree with Gene that Lightroom will serve most photographers needs most of the time (and some photographers, all the time). My advice to serious [...]
If you don’t get prompted to perform an automatic update, in Lightroom and in Bridge, go to Help>Check for Updates to update to the new releases. Lightroom uses Camera Raw when you use the Edit in Photoshop command on a raw image, so be sure to update both. Adobe only provides these updates to Lightroom 2 [...]
Have you ever worked on an image, been satisfied with your work, but then wanted to try some other things with the option to get back to what you had? Perhaps you want to compare different versions of your work to decide which you like best — for example, a color version, a black and white [...]
For me there were not alot of exciting additions to Photoshop CS4, but I have to say that the new Content Aware Scaling is quite impressive. Here's an image that I like, but I feel that there is too much empty space between the photographer and the subjects: Here's how to easily eliminate some [...]
