The National Association of Photoshop Professionals Announces Winners of First Annual Worldwide Adobe Photoshop Competition
The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) today announced the winners of the Digital Canvas Awards — its first international competition for users of Adobe Photoshop software.
After receiving nearly 600 entries from around the world, [...]

XChange International announce the release of the Fluid Mask plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop ® v7.0 and higher. Fluid Mask is a highly advanced software tool designed to make life easier for everyone who creates cut outs. Built as a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop , Fluid Mask is the new next-generation cut-out tool and [...]

Alien Skin Software today released Exposure, an all-new plug-in for Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) and other compatible host programs. Exposure brings the look and feel of film to digital photography. Digital photographers can now simulate current and discontinued film stocks, as well as recreate their signature look as a one-click effect. Exposure also simulates darkroom and studio [...]

Adobe released the new version of Camera Raw 3.3 plug-in for Photoshop CS2 , and the official release has been posted on Adobe’s download servers. Support for the processing of RAW files from 17 new cameras has been added since v3.2, including the Canon EOS 5D, EOS-1D Mark II N and EOS 20Da, as [...]

The Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA) announced that it has launched an online resource center devoted to the newly introduced Adobe Production Studio, an extension of the Adobe Creative Suite family of products. The new DVPA Adobe Production Studio Resource Center is provided free-of-charge at the association Web site located at www.dvpa.org.
The Adobe Production Studio [...]

Adobe Spot :: Your Spot for Adobe Tutorials
This is a technique that you have probably seen before. A face, or picture, is made up of a huge body of text, but the text is different colors or shades to make it look like the picture? Yea, it’s a really cool technique, and now you can [...]

Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye - Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.
Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. A study by researchers in Canada [...]

This is absolutely the ultimate guide to hacking Adobe’s wildly popular graphics software, written by an Adobe Certified professional photographer and designer. This is serious, down and dirty, tweaking - blowing away the default settings, customizing appearance, optimizing performance, customizing tools and offering readers total control over Photoshop like never before. With these 300+ [...]

ClustrMaps - Hit counter map shows locations of all visitors to your site - free
See at a glance where your site’s visitors are located: instantaneously, even when the numbers are enormous! Visitors don’t need to click on anything: just viewing your page is sufficient.
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From the news release:
Software Cinema, a leading software training company supporting the imaging industry of photographers, videographers and graphic artists, today announced the latest interactive training series on DVD-ROM featuring Adobe’s “Photoshop Diva” Katrin Eismann. Developed for the intermediate to professional photographer, this 8 hour tutorial is a comprehensive guide for digitally restoring faded [...]

Whenever you perform a repetitive task in Photoshop, you can save yourself time and effort by using actions. Helen Bradley’s quick-start guide explains what a Photoshop action is, how to find and play an action, and how to record your own.
Photoshop actions automate repetitive tasks—they’re easy to create, easy to use, and, best of all, [...]

Adobe Photoshop is industry standard digital image software and users are hungry for solutions to their myriad concerns–from how best to manage the program’s sometimes unwieldy interface to how to use the new Vanishing Point tool. Photoshop guru David Blatner has scoured the online forums, interviewed Adobe engineers, and gathered together answers to over [...]