Photoshop Tips

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What’s the best time to sharpen your photos? And what’s the best tool — Camera Raw, Photoshop’s Smart Sharpen, or something else? We answer these questions and more.

CreativePro.com recently posted a very detailed tutorial about sharpening images.

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Introducing the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers. Built from the ground up for professionals, Aperture offers an advanced RAW workflow, powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing and versatile printing and publishing.

Apple has released a new program called Aperture created for professional photographers. Aperture includes advanced RAW workflow, a unique user interface and an interesting feature called Stacks which groups images together based on the time differential between shots.

Features:

1. Advanced RAW workflow
2. Professional project management
3. Powerful compare and select tools
4. Nondestructive image processing
5. Versatile printing and publishing

CGSociety.org has posted another extremely detailed tutorial by Linda Bergkvist (http://www.furiae.com/) on how to paint realistic hair digitally!

Check it out by clicking here

Graphics.com has posted a new tutorial about creating the sense of nostaligia in photos by using the clouds filter effectively.

The tutorial can be seen by clicking here.

(Press release) The Chameleon plug-in allows inserting a copied object into a picture in such a way that it adapts to the new color range and blends with the background. Designers would especially appreciate this tool as it allows them to combine images with entirely different color ranges, to create the effect of drawing on a texture surface (crumpled paper, wood, etc), and all that with only a mouse-click.

The new version of AKVIS Chameleon supports 16 bits per channel and allows processing images in color modes RGB, CMYK, Lab and Grayscale. This gives you the opportunity to process images without quality loss. With 16 bit there is more in-between colors and tones and the result is smoother, which is especially important if you prepare photos for printing.

AKVIS offers a 10 day fully functional free trial. Users who tried the previous version of Chameleon and have their version expired, can now test the software again. Registered users of previous versions of AKVIS Chameleon can upgrade to V.3.0 for free. More information about Chameleon is available at the Akvis website.

Retails for $ 69

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