Clone Stamp – For Awesome Photoshopping

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May 312012
 
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Let’s take this innocent leopard photograph and really play with it. How about some extra eyes, or even ears? All the better for hearing and seeing you with…

For this tutorial we will be using the infamous Clone Stamp tool – It really is good fun and can be extremely useful. But let’s start with the fun side first.

But what does the Clone Stamp Tool even do, I hear you cry. The clone stamp tool allows you to paint over a part of the image using a different part of the source image. It is almost like a basic Patch Tool (if you don’t know what that does, don’t worry as I will be going over that very soon in another tutorial)  Read more...

Paste In Place – Illustrator to Photoshop with Smart Objects

 Illustrator, Photoshop  2 Responses »
May 312012
 

Ok, so you’ve just finished a vector masterpiece in illustrator, and now you want to paste it into photoshop to work some more magic onto it. However, you may notice when pasting with multiple smart objects that things are not aligned for you the way they were in illustrator. And you don’t want to re-align everything in photoshop do you. hm… problem? Not for us! Let’s get to work on transferring these objects into photoshop so each can be its own separate layer.

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 Posted by on May 31, 2012

New features of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite v20

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May 232012
 

In parallel to the recent launch of Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite tools also received a significant update this month. This article from Creative Pro gives a good overview but here are some of the important highlights.  Read more...

  • DPS now supports iPhone 3GS, 4 & 4s as well as 3rd and 4th generation iPods
  • Social sharing, via Twitter, Facebook and URL for DPS publications
  • Improved range of embeddable fonts

What is Creative Cloud?

 DreamWeaver, HTML5, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop  No Responses »
May 042012
 

Screen shot of Creative Cloud graphic

Creative Cloud is Adobe’s online service which will bring together many of the leading design and production applications together with a collaborative workspace and online storage facility.

Creative Cloud is a subscription service, membership of which allows access to all of the forthcoming Creative Suite 6 applications plus Adobe Muse (for building web sites without coding), Adobe’s Touch apps (such as Photoshop, Adobe Ideas etc for mobile devices) and 20gb of free storage.

Members will be able to manage and download their software applications from Creative Cloud. Note that this does not mean the apps are streamed over the cloud, InDesign, Photoshop etc are still downloaded and installed on your desktop.  Read more...

Adobe releases InDesign 7.5.3 update

 InDesign  No Responses »
May 042012
 

Today Adobe has released an update (7.5.3) for InDesign and InCopy, addressing numerous issues.

John Hawkinson has posted an extensive list here, but notable fixes include:

Stability enhancements due to fixes to apparently random crashes when copying & pasting, exporting to PDF with text variables, file recovery, packaging & preflighting and with certain fonts in balanced text frames.

Performance improvements when moving objects when display is set to High Quality and general redraw performance improvements.

Improved graphics handling including white stitching line in JPEG export with certain placed images scaling percentage and JPEG export resolution and reduced transparency support for TIFF files from Photoshop CS6.  Read more...