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Monthly Archives: April 2012
FontShop enables live previews inside Photoshop
Well isn’t this clever:
The FontShop Plugin Beta allows designers and other type enthusiasts to try out FontShop fonts directly inside Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 and CS5.5. You can preview any of the over 150,000 FontShop fonts for free, in the context of your own artwork.
Fonts are previewed as bitmaps rather than live, editable text. Text layers are auto-hidden while the bitmap versions are shown.
It seems the plug-in doesn’t yet work properly inside the Photoshop CS6 beta, so you might need to choose the CS5 version of Extension Manager to install it inside CS5.
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Video: Creating stunning images in Lightroom 4
Julieanne Kost shows how to crop, remove lens distortion, correct perspective, make global and local color and tonal corrections in the Lightroom 4 Develop module. Note that Photoshop CS6 includes the same engine in Camera Raw 7, so these tips apply there as well.
Photoshop CS6 demo/Q&A recording now available
In this Ask A CS Pro session, Photoshop PM Zorana Gee shows every major feature in the new public beta release. She not only provides detailed tips, but also addresses common questions from the large live audience. Dozens more questions are covered in the interactive chat pod. [Via]
A trippy "Shining"
Topi Kauppinen creates a really uncanny effect, turning 2D stills from The Shining into 3D:
He explains the process on Vimeo:
“The overlapping parts must be photoshopped [*Cough* — Adobe brand cops] so that in the end everything comes together without any seams or texture repetition. The Content Aware Fill feature found in Photoshop CS5 is a godsend for this type of work.”
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New videos cover 3D in CS6
Photoshop team member Daniel Presedo has posted a series of short videos meant to make you productive quickly using Photoshop CS6’s totally revamped 3D tools. Photoshop PM Zorana Gee writes:
I’m really excited about the overhaul of the 3D features in Photoshop CS6 beta (Extended). The main focus we have is with performance (both interactivity as well as performance) and usability. You’ll notice that we added some great additions like live, re-editable 3D type; easy extrude operations; a single tool (the Move Tool) to adjust the position of all the elements in your scene; and many other great additions. Designers wanting to integrate 3D objects into their composites or create simple 3D geometries from type, paths, etc. will find that 3D in Photoshop is really powerful and fun to use.
Please let us know if you have specific tutorials you’d like to see and myself as well as some folks from the team will be happy to start sharing them.
Configurator 3 is coming for CS6
I’m pleased to say that Adobe Configurator, the easy, drag-and-drop tool for creating panels for Photoshop and InDesign, is being revved for CS6 & is due to arrive when CS6 ships for real (i.e. not as a beta). Among the new features in development:
- Supports Photoshop CS5/5.1 and CS6
- Supports InDesign CS5/5.5 and CS6
- Supports the new dynamic color theme switching (dark backgrounds) in Photoshop CS6
- Lets you migrate existing Configurator 2 panels to create both CS5- & CS6-compatible panels
- Launches much more quickly than Configurator 2
- Renews a focus on tutorials, offering easy leveraging of exiting HTML, video and audio content–great for developers, trainers and general users
The new version of Configurator is required for converting Configurator-made panels for CS4 and CS5 to run in CS6. If you need access to it now, please visit the Configurator forum & drop a note to Jonathan Ferman & team.
Advanced Book Features in Lightroom 4
Julieanne Kost drills into the details of this long-awaited & much-requested feature: