Color Tools For Photoshop, Illustrator and Processing

Looking for beautiful colors? Dr. Woohoo introduces three new color tools to create instant palettes: Search Flickr. Capture images with your WebCam. Or drag-n-drop images from your computer. Just click a magic button, and the colors are saved to Illustrator, Photoshop or as an XML file for Processing.

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Source: DrWoohoo

Inspiration: The Beauty Of 3d Typography From Marcofolio

Everybody loves typography in design. Playing around with characters in an awesome way really gets the attention of the viewer, especially when the typography is in motion.

This article from Marcofolio.net is showcasing the most beautiful 3d typography for your design inspiration, including 5 tutorials on how to create your very own.

3d programs like Xara 3d or 3d Studio Max will make the 3d rendering easier, but Illustrator can do the trick too.

Be amazed and get inspired by the world of beautiful 3d typography.

Beautiful 3d typography

Tutorials

Illustrate 3D-Typography Using Only Photoshop

Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect

Soft Stylized 3D Type

Glowing and sparkling intense light 3d logo

Valentines Day - Photoshop Style

The first picture is created by leonardclagett.

How about that for an great inspirational kick? Now swing on your Photoshop, Illustrator or any other 3d program and get your design juices flowing. If you feel something is missing from the list, I'm all ears.

Release candidate of Camera Raw 4.5 on Adobe Labs

Adobe has posted a release candidate of Camera Raw 4.5 on Adobe Labs. The ‘release candidate’ label indicates that the plug-in is well tested but would benefit from additional community testing before it is distributed automatically to customers. If you do experience an issue with this release candidate please report them to the Camera Raw User to User forum.

Newly supported cameras include the Olympus E 420 and E 520. Additional compatibilities have been added for the DNG 1.2.0.0 specification. Photoshop Elements users will now be able to control the camera profile used.

For more information on the Camera Raw plug-in please visit the Camera Raw pages on Adobe.com.

System Requirements

See the system requirements for Adobe Creative Suite 3 or Photoshop CS3.

Installation

Windows®

1. Exit Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Bridge.
2. Open My Computer.
3. Double-click Local Disk (C:).
4. Navigate to Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS3\File Formats.
5. Move the existing Camera Raw.8bi plug-in to another location (for example, a new folder on your desktop). Ensure you keep this version in case you need to revert back.
6. Copy the Camera Raw plug-in, Camera Raw.8bi, from the download into the same folder as Step 4.
7. Launch Photoshop CS3 or Adobe Bridge.

Macintosh

1. Exit Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Bridge.
2. Open the Finder.
3. Navigate to the root of the local disk (not the user’s home folder).
4. Navigate to Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS3/File Formats.
5. Move the existing plug-in to another location (for example, a new folder on your desktop). Ensure you keep this version in case you need to revert back.
6. Copy the Camera Raw plug-in, Camera Raw, from the download into the same folder as in Step 4.
7. Launch Photoshop CS3 or Adobe Bridge.

Direct Download Links

DNG Converter and Camera Raw plug-in for Macintosh and Windows.

Source:PHOTOSHOPNEWS

Photoshop Tutorials. Text Effects

Photoshop Tutorials

31-3D typographic effects in Photoshop Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.

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32-Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to use a photograph of fire to set text to the match. You’ll render the look on a nice dark background with a gorgeous text effect to complete the image.

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33-Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop This tutorial will show you how to create a rather cool looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the pen tool and a bit of patience.

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34-Smooth Glass Type Create some nice looking translucent glass type that’ll work great on any background, made completely with layer styles.

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35-3D Bulge Text Effect tutorial Create an awesome 3D text effect with various photoshop filters (Plastic wrap, Blur, Sharpen) and other tricks that will make you a text effect master!

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36-Decorating Text Creating text and then decorating it is often a daunting task, not knowing what colors to use and how to achieve effective results with the resources you have is often hard to overcome.

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37-Graffiti with Photoshop

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38-Web 2.0 Sticker Text Effect

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39-A Slick Supernatural Text Effect This tutorial we’ll be creating a smoky night effect on text to give it an eerie supernatural sort of feel. It’s a good exercise in using the Wave distortion filter.

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40-Simple Burnt-in Text Effect How to make some simple, yet very nice looking burnt text

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Lightroom 2 beta: Invite some friends

De pe blogul lui John Nack:

"If you own Lightroom 1.x, you can use the Lightroom 2.0 beta for the entire duration of the testing period. If you're not an LR 1.x owner, the LR 2 beta expires 30 days after first use. There's an interesting caveat, however: LR 1 owners each have the ability to invite five folks to participate in the LR 2 beta, extending their use beyond 30 days. We think it's a good way to strike a balance between rewarding current customers & getting feedback from new customers. If you're interested, check out the details & share some love."