I know this isn’t a tech blog, but I thought this was interesting enough to share here: Photoshop is now available as an iPhone/iPod Touch app from Photoshop.com, plus you can access Photoshop Mobile on several other devices too. Sadly, the app is really just for barebones photo-editing, and not one you can use to draw with. It’s Adobe’s version of PicNik I guess.
Oh, and in other news: Photoshop Express dot-com, has turned into just plain old Photoshop.com. I’ve been living under a rock, so I had no idea either existed. I know Adobe had a few web-based tools—like Kuler and BrowserLab—but I can’t find a page on their site that lists all of them. Anyone?
Tiltshift photography is a technique that makes real photographs look like miniature scenes. Here’s a gallery of 50 awesome examples.
Here’s a photoshop tutorial on how to make your own tiltshifted images.
Above bus photo from Tiltshiftphotography.net.
You might see something like this.
Made as an advertisement by Art Snob solutions. Check out the rest of the set to see how they made it.
I can’t for the life of me remember where I first saw this post, but Chanpory Rith over at LifeClever.com shares handy links to 10 Free web-based alternatives to Photoshop*:
I’m fed up with Photoshop and its one billion rarely-used features. How about a simple photo-editor that’s quick, easy, and doesn’t cost a thousand dollars? Fortunately, there’re tons of web-based photos editors popping up.
By far the most outstanding one on his list is Picnik (pictured above) for its simplicity and five-second learning curve (it’s free, but ad-supported). You may be familiar with Picnik since it was recently integrated into Flickr. I admit I loved how, when saving a file as a low-quality JPG, it describes it as “Big, ugly blocks of pixels, teeny tiny file size.” And when saving as a medium-quality JPG: “Meh quality, small file size.” It’s the kind of photo-editor your Mom would understand.
I found Picnik particularly useful this week when a client needed to convert a bunch of BMP files to JPGs for their site. They are not tech-savvy, nor did they have the interest in purchasing and learning new software for such a simple task, but they figured out how to use Picnik in just a few minutes.
*Johnny posted similar free Photoshop-clones just over two years ago here as well.
Say THAT ten times fast. Rolls right off the tongue. Anyhoo…
You spoiled rich kids who’ve already upgraded to Leopard can give your Mac’s seemingly-useless Color Picker a little extra zazz with Mondrianum, a plugin that pumps Adobe’s Kuler into CP:
Lithoglyph’s Mondrianum is a powerful plug-in that enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork™ and iLife® suites, Google Sketchup™, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more, all work well with Mondrianum.
And, no, it doesn’t work in 10.4. I tried. Wahh!
You use Photoshop, right? Do you like creating custom brushes for your yourself? If you don’t, then please allow me to let you in on a secret. Portland Studios, a South Carolina Illustration and Design house, has just made 5 sets of custom-made Photoshop brushes available to purchase. The sets were all created personally by the remarkable Justin Gerard (see image above) for use in his own work.
You can Justin work with other brush sets here and here. In addition to releasing their Photoshop brush sets, Portland has also begun selling top-notch t-shirts and prints in their online store.
I’m still constantly amazed at artists who can paint in Photoshop; I’m pretty confident in my knowledge of the software, but I don’t think I’ll ever quite tame the beast in the same way shown in this speed painting by artist Nacho Yague. And here’s the final piece.
Hope Larson has a nice clear explanation of how to do the pre-press in Photoshop for working with spot colours – or Pantones.
For examples of her spots in action, check out one of her wonderful graphic novels, Gray Horses or Salamander Dream.
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Related stuff:
Interview with Hope Larson
Reddingk.com’s Reproguide (Link to PDF)
