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Creating 3D Text Effects in Photoshop
We know that with Photoshop, we can do everything that we want in terms of web and graphic design. This software has become a valuable tool in every designer’s works of art. Now, I have here the procedure from www.absolutecross.com in creating a pretty cool text effect to make it seem to melt into or "pop out of" your website's background.

First, you must open a new document and make it the right size for the text you will be working with. Select a color from the color picker that’s brigh ...
Author: M art Gil Abareta
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The Top 3 Photo Editing Software
More often than not, Adobe Photoshop CS comes in one’s mind when photo-editing software is mentioned. Next to that are Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator CS. Adobe Photoshop is an effective and useful program that is used by many, to mark a design that is considered as a cut above the rest. Adobe Photoshop CS is used to create a high impact design that depicts creativity and innovation. There are a lot of benefits that you can get from using Adobe Photoshop CS. Its improved features lure a nu ...
Author: Gem
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About: “Photoshop Secret of the Pros” Book
Photoshop Tennis?!?! It’s actually discussed in the book, Photoshop Secrets of the Pros. For those who have no idea about this thing, here’s a brief overview – in Photoshop Tennis, two designers take on one another over the Internet over a 10 round or 'volley' period. In each volley, the designer either creates a new theme in the initial volley, or they take what has been sent to him or her and start playing off of what was previously created. The results can be amazing as each volley can result ...
Author: Nashville
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Mixing Grayscale and Colored Images
Photoshop has really come a long way. It has been widely used because of its great and numerous capabilities. With it, we are able to come up with our unique works of art. Our imagination and creativity are really enhanced by this software application. We can make impossible things especially in photographs to be possible. It has become so important in graphic art, graphic design, web design, and photography.

The mixing of grayscale and colored images are excellently done in Photoshop. Yo ...
Author: Anna Lim
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Website Design vs. Function
Easily, one of the biggest mistakes webmasters make when first
starting out on the web is in the design of their site. This
is extremely understandable, considering that, in the brick and
mortar world, a business's success is often dependent on it's
appearance. The more money put into the look and design of a
business, the better it often does.

Unfortunately, this doesn't completely transfer over into the
world of the web. In the world of the web, there is a huge
diff ...
Author: John Buchanan
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How to Create Different Textures with Photoshop
Creating a multitude of textures is easy if you have the know-how and Adobe Photoshop. There are numerous plug-ins that you can make use depending on your need and your level of mastery.

One such plug-in is the Eye Candy: Textures. Eye Candy 5: Textures, a Photoshop Plug-in, is a collection of ten seamless texture generators. The first of three upgrades to Eye Candy 4000, Eye Candy 5: Textures produces a wide variety of texture effects, including snake and lizard skin, fur, brick, stone, ...
Author: Ariel Velasco
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Creating the Right Skin Texture
Making 3D imagery more lifelike/realistic in Photoshop need custom brushes that, as much as possible, conjure up skin texture like the look of body hair, the skin’s surface and it’s structure. Thanks to the continuous creations of custom brushes collection in Adobe Photoshop, this purpose will be achieved.
In the article by Dave Nagel at http://photoshop.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=27156-0, a new series of custom brushes that focus on the creation of textures to be used in ...
Author: Ma. Carla Balattan
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Getting Intimate with Corel Painter IX
If you are artistically inclined and would like to create breathtaking digital artworks, then the new Corel Painter IX is a must-have software for you. This new version of the Painter series offers increased speed, stability, and performance and several new creative tools all suited for the digital artist in you.

Speed has always been a factor in selecting a graphic program and with that fact in mind, Corel Painter IX has been endowed with brushes that can go up to ten times faster than v ...
Author: Ariel Velasco
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Review: Real world Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS
Photoshop CS is no doubt the most momentous Photoshop progress which complements digital photographers. Real world Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS discusses exciting new features for general users, web designers, video editors and digital photographers. This book is authored by Bruce Fraser.

Bruce Fraser is a noted author having co-authored the penultimate Photoshop resource book Real World Photoshop from Peachpit Press. He is also a contributing editor for Mac World plus a regular con ...
Author: Maricon Williams
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Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One: A Review
As the title implies, Deke McClelland gives the reader a one-on-one approach to the wonders of Adobe Photoshop CS. The book provides a comprehensive walkthrough of the features of Photoshop in a classroom setting where the reader is the lone student and McClelland the teacher.

Deke McClelland is an Adobe Certified Expert and a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team. He was inducted into the National Association of Photoshop Professionals' Photoshop Hall of Fame in 2002.

Author: Paul Hood
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Photoshop and Illustrator - How good does it get?
Which is the better program – Photoshop or Illustrator? Many of us are still entertaining hazy notions about the two programs. It is high time to distinguish the two - which is which really?

To boot, Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap image processing and manipulation program. It is well matched with creating, transforming and outputting digital images of a photographic nature which share common pixels in a bitmap. Its primary operations include access or acquisition of photographic digital gra ...
Author: Maricon Williams
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Using Photoshop and Illustrator
Unless you have tons of money to burn, every consumer wants to be as smart as possible when buying their goods. We want value for our money. If there’s a cheaper alternative that can deliver the same results, of course we would rather have that!

Same thing goes with graphic designers and professional photographers who use digital imaging applications. One particular issue that has been quite a favorite in various debates and discussions is the one that involves Adobe Photoshop and Adobe I ...
Author: Jelaine Macaraeg
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Express yourself using Graphic Design
Graphic design is the circumference intended for creative, imaginative and resourceful designers all over the globe. This can be one of the most rewarding and fulfilling task that you can do. Not only you can earn a great sum of money but you can actually express your idiosyncrasies into the whole wide web. By this you can influence and inspire millions of people.

Graphic design is a great form of self-expression. It only takes some time and dedication to hone your creative potential. To ...
Author: Maricon Williams
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The Top 3 Best Photo Editing Softwares
Being a photo editor is not rocket science. All it takes is a lot of creativity and a mastery of some of the best photo editing software available in the market.

Photoshop Elements 3

This is almost like a primer for Adobe Photoshop—so beginners, don’t feel intimidated. Elements does have some of the features that Photoshop is well known for, which comes quite handy when you’ve decided you’ve like to try your hand on something more upscale than cropping and resizing.

It’s s ...
Author: Maui Reyes
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Blending Colors
When you are familiar with software applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Flash and other drawing programs, I know you are also very much familiar with the swatches. Swatches contain selection of different colors that you can use during the creation of your web design, graphic design, and animation. Know what, we have a new innovation in these swatches. This is the so-called Color Blender.

According to the blog entitled “Color Blender” which was posted by Neil last October 27, 2004 at www ...
Author: Nashville
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A Review on “Power Shortcuts for Adobe Photoshop CS”
If you want to produce outstanding and award-winning movies instantly, you can count on Adobe Photoshop CS software and its integrated web production application software. Photographers, graphic artists, web designers, and video professionals can take advantage of its indispensable features such as new design possibilities, improved file management, a more intuitive way to create for the web, and support for 16-bit images, digital camera raw data and non-square pixels. With it, you can truly cre ...
Author: Nashville
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More Brushing Effects for Photoshop Enthusiasts
Brushes creating smoke, fog and cloud effects add up elegance to an image. This is why Photoshop has added series of brushes to choose from. Some brushes are designed to create a wide range of vaporous textures, from enormously soft cotton ball styles to elements with well defined features. Photoshop has a library of 25 dynamic brushes by David Nagel which are designed to help you customize your own vapor effects with just a few strokes. 17 of these brushes are cloud brushes, which use large nib ...
Author: Maricon Williams
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A Book Review: “The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements"
You can never find a graphic art professional who doesn’t know about Adobe Photoshop. This well-known professional digital imaging tool has been widely used in the world of web and graphic design. Adobe Photoshop Elements, on the other hand, is the student-friendly version of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop Elements allow even novice users who work with digital or traditional photographs to eliminate red-eye, change tone and color, crop and smooth pictures, repair over-exposed areas, and finally, pre ...
Author: Nashville
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Creating Your Own Metallic Type (Adobe Photoshop CS Tricks and Tips)
Metallic effects are widely used by artists as the drop shadow for texts. You usually see them in car ads, CD covers, and movie logos. Even magazines are abundant with this metallic type. I found these great tips in the Internet in creating metallic effect to your text. Let me share it with you.

1.To start with your artwork, create a new file large enough to contain the full logo you're about to make.

2. Use the Gradient Tool. Add a liner gradient from top to bottom using any colo ...
Author: Granny's Mettle
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On Stitcher Express 1.0
"REALVIZ Stitcher Express is a product, which has been on many peoples' wish list for some time now," explains Dominique Pouliquen, REALVIZ CEO. "With digital camera sales still on the increase, there are more and more people out there who fall into the 'amateur' category, yet who still demand a robust, high-quality product, able to deliver the kind of professional results, with multi-row capability up to full spherical panoramas, which the more main-stream photo-stitching products are unable to ...
Author: Paul Hood
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