Panoramic Photomerge
25 May 2008



Create that stunning panoramic effect by merging your shoots in Photoshop CS3.

  •  Take overlapping pictures of a landscape you adore.
  • Saved them into a folder.
  • Open Photoshop CS3, and go to Files menu.
  • Select Automate, and then Photomerge.
  • Select the files that you have saved in the second step above.
  • Submit and watch the magic happen.

 

Free Photoshop Book
24 May 2008



For those of you who love Photoshop and web design, I have a great news. Corrie Haffly's "The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques"  is free to download for a limited time from SitePoint: http://photoshop.aws.sitepoint.com/

Corrie Haffly is a Photoshop artist who uses Photoshop in this book, for web design oriented work as opposed to printing and publishing work. She has been using Photoshop for many  years and her book is organised and simple to follow.

This free download is for a limited time only. So if you are interested, go for it now.

GO ZOHO
18 May 2008



When it comes to Web 2.0 , ZOHO rocks. ZOHO is everything WEB 2.0 is about.

ZOHO is  a well thought online suite of applications most of them free and all basic versions free.

ZOHO has a suite of office applications, ZOHO Writer, ZOHO Sheet, ZOHO DB and Reports, ZOHO Show, ZOHO Projects, ZOHO CRM, ZOHO Creator, ZOHO Wiki, ZOHO Planner, ZOHO Notebook, ZOHO Chat, ZOHO Mail, ZOHO Meeting.

ZOHO Notebook
 
 ZOHO Notebook is everything you want to keep online Notes. Similar to Microsot One Note, but it is free, easy to use and much more sophisticated.

 Have a look at what you can do with ZOHO Notebook here:

 http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/public/rainstar/book/123953000000002287

Cutout Roses
11 May 2008



Creating art from photos, as you gathered by now, is one of the activities I most enjoy when using Photoshop CS3. If you want to transform any picture to art and be guaranteed to have infinite choices, follow my simple steps:

  • Open your photo in Photoshop CS3.
  • Double click on the background layer.
  • Use the select tool to select part of your picture. Here I selected the three roses.
  • Use Filter, Artistic and select as you wish. I selected the Cutout Filter.
  • Inverse the selection to select the rest of your photo.
  • Use Filter, Brush Stroke,  to transform the rest. Here I selected the Sumi-e.
  • Add a Layer Style is optional to create the extra dimension.
  • Finally save as jpg and add it to your digital art collection.
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Show off Reds
4 May 2008



Sometimes you can look at a picture and not see it, because there are too many colours in there. There is an easy way in Photoshop CS3 to bring out that special colour in your picture. Here I love to show off the reds.

  • Open your picture in Photoshop CS3.
  • Duplicate the background layer.
  • Desaturate the duplicate layer using Image, Adjustment Layer.
  • Double Click on the layer in the layer's panel.
  • Drag the underlying layer left slider towards the right a quarter of the way.
  • Watch your picture in a new light and enjoy!