Category: Photoshop
8 Reasons I LOVE Alien Skin Eye Candy 7
Alien Skin has been the premiere plug-in maker for Adobe Photoshop for as long as I can remember. All of their software is high-quality, and the support is excellent.
I’m a huge fan of several Alien Skin Photoshop plug-ins, including BlowUp, which I find myself using quite often.
Eye Candy 7, the new version of its graphic design effects plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Eye Candy 7 renders realistic effects that are difficult or impossible to achieve in Photoshop alone, such as Fire, Chrome, Perspective Shadows, and more.
Rather than write a standard review, I decided to make it simple and just show you eight reasons I love the latest version of Eye Candy. (more…)
Tutorial: Creating a halftone dot photo effect in Adobe Photoshop
Creative Nerds shares a great tutorial for this simple technique.
Photoshop Actions: A video tutorial
Free Twitter PSD template
Free 3D gold text template for Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop‘s layer effects offer you great customization when you mix and match the different effects together. But unless you’re really talented, getting the effect you want can be difficult. Take the image above for example. It offers a fairly realistic 3D effect, but it’s really just two text layers on top of each other with different layer effects applied.
You can download the above free template for creating 3D gold-styled text, which comes in three different sizes.
Quickly select skin tones in Adobe Photoshop CS6
I completely missed this new Adobe Photoshop CS6 feature until Grant Friedman pointed it out in the above video over at PSDTuts.
Suitcase Fusion 4 update brings Adobe Photoshop CS6 compatibility
This update adds a font auto-activation plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS6 to the list of applications supported by Suitcase Fusion 4, in addition to some optimizations for Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion (10.8).
Instructions for the update here.
OS X Mountain Lion & Adobe Creative Suite 6 working perfectly together
Getting the most out of your Photoshop History panel
Adobe Photoshop‘s History panel is probably one of the most useful tools in Photoshop, allowing you to undo and redo things you’ve already done to your image with the click of a button. Many users, however, don’t take advantage of the flexibility that the History panel offers.
You may have noticed that the History panel doesn’t save a history state when you hide or show a layer. If you’re not paying attention, this can throw you off a bit when you’re working on a complex layered document. You can adjust Photoshop to save that layer visibility state by visiting the History options via the fly-out menu in the History panel and turning on Make Layer Visibility Changes Undoable. Below are a few more useful features of the History Panel worth looking at. (more…)