PictoColor

New version offers serious photographers a simplified, high speed approach to color adjustment Burnsville, MN – March 27, 2007 – PictoColor today announced the release of iCorrect® EditLab™ ProApp 6.0 color correction software. iCorrect EditLab ProApp offers serious photographers a simplified approach to color correction and color editing for large volume workflows.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom book free supplement

Martin Evening, author of The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book, has just published a free Lightroom 1.1 PDF supplement update for readers of his book and anyone who is interested in learning about what’s new in Lightroom 1.1. The 20-MB PDF is 177 pages long and available now for download via the Peachpit Web site (registration required).

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Fluid Mask 3 released by Vertus

Version 3 is to provide speed increases, new functionality and the ability to run as a standalone application.

The task of selecting hair even from a neutral background is challenging task for quite a number of selection tools producers. With KnockOut, MaskPro and EZMask taking the challenge Fluid Mask, from Vertus, takes it’s own approach to masking by using something it calls an Image Information Layer, a meta-data layer of image data consisting of edge, texture and color information pulled from image selections. This provides several advantages, such as smooth separation of edges and color transitions; synchronous blending and masking; preservation of maximum detail at the blended transitions; and increased speed, due to a smaller amount of image data being manipulated.

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Making a Statue in Photoshop

In this tutorial we are producing a statue, using a picture of a woman, a marble texture, and Photoshop with its layers options.

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Retoucher update to v.2.9: Retouch Damaged Photos

AKVIS Retoucher has been updated to version 2.9. The plug-in allows restoring damages photos by removing dust, scratches, stains and by reconstructing the lacking parts of a photo.
The macintosh version is now Universal Binary, it works equally well on both PPC- and Intel-Mac. Added compatibility with Photoshop CS3 on Intel Mac.
Portuguese language has been added to the program Help files.
Registered users can upgrade to version 2.9 for free at akvis.com  product page. Just download the software and install it.
The users who tried the previous version of the plug-in and have their version expired, now have an opportunity to download the software and test it for 10 days free of charge.

Carving on Wood in Photoshop

 In this tutorial you will see howyou can curve some words on a wooden surface by the means of Adobe Photoshop.

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CorelDRAW Unleashe Magazine free subscribtion is opened

Foster D. Coburn III, the author of Corel Draw Unleashed site, is launching a new and free e-magazine.

CorelDRAW Unleashed is an electronic magazine delivered in PDF format. But it won’t be an electronic version of a print magazine. Instead it is designed to fully take advantage of the PDF format and computer screen. Bookmarks will be integrated to take readers directly to tutorials along with any of the advertisers. Tutorials will include links to related information on the Web as well as sample files that allow to work along with the tutorial.

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Adobe is Shipping Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and Master Collection

These are the last two packages of Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 family. The first of them were shipped in April 2007.

Adobe Production Premium is positioned as a complete post-production solution for video professionals, and includes Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Professional, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Sound Booth and Encore. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 has been enhanced through the addition of such functionality as support for new formats and a Time Remapping tool for improving slow motion and variable speed effects.

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Harry’s Filters and Photo Freebies updates available

Harry’s Filters, the collection of Photoshop filters withing one interface from Harald Heim, is updated to version 3.01. “Harry’s Filters 3 lets you choose the appropriate effect without hassling through different menus and dialogs” - the plug-in site states.
The current edition is a collection of 69 effects filters combined into a single free Windows plugin, with the new version supporting Vista and simplifying the installation process. An earlier version remains available for Mac OS 9.

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Raw Shooter Premium

Raw Shooter Premium is a Pixmantec raw converter with some additional functionality. It can compare 2-4 raw images on screen at various magnifications to allow quick selection from similar shots, has an integrated downloader which gets images from card reader or camera into a selected folder on your PC. Image manipulation tools include horizon straightening and rotation, cropping, curves and levels adjustments, vibrance and colour balance. Noise suppression includes hot pixel and pattern noise. Raw Shooter Premium is aimed at improving workflow, enabling photographers to rapidly deal with the large numbers of images digital working can provide and produce the highest quality results. [Read more]