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Ten top Photoshop editing techniques you can do on an iPhone or iPad app.

Send Christmas cards that have a little personal touch by making your own in Photoshop.

Learn how to make an ordinary piece of fruit or veg look exciting and add a mono touch to your imagery.

We're creating panoramas in and out of the field today.

We're photographing birds in flight today and playing with split tones in Photoshop.

Today we're getting arty with our flower images.

We're looking to the sky for today's tips.

We're staying in the shallow end today with a depth of field technique. We've also got an infrared Photoshop tutorial for you to try.

We're photographing flowers in town today then replacing colour in Photoshop.

Read Damian McGillicuddy's reflector tips and advice then add a digital vignette to your portraits in CS4.

How to use Colour Range to change the colour of a background in Photoshop.

It's all about people today with advice to help you take better portraits and a tutorial on creating high key images.
Book Reviews





Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom: Create Stunning Images in Photoshop CS4, Photoshop L
The book aims to show you how to successfully convert images to black and white in Photoshop and lightroom. The authors give advice on how you can maximise your workflow and show you every step of the black and white conversion process. The book is very detailed and the lessons on offer are very easy to understand and work through. Some really great images illustrate the book and the screen shots of particular features of Photoshop and Lightroom make the lessons even easier to grasp.
When you first look at this book you may be a little confused over how the book actually works. But if you stick with it you'll find it's a really useful tool to have on your shelf. The book's written in alphabetical order so you can easily find a particular technique or lesson. Each topic has a summary which tells you where the feature can be found, what shortcuts work and which Photoshop has that feature. There's a colour tab system which will let you thumb-through the book quickly and...
Image specialist expert, Richard Lynch, shows us how to successfully use Layers in Photoshop. Simple, step-by-step instructions illustrate how to correct, enhance, fix and manipulate your images using layers. The language is easy to understand, the text is easy to follow and the images illustrate the book well. The accompanying CD also gives you the chance to work through the lessons taught in the book at ease and with practical images. If you're a beginner looking for advice or a...
This 14 chapter book starts with workflow and takes you through to out processing your photographs in CS4. The text offers good pieces of advice which are also easy to follow thanks to the simple layout of the chapters. Relevant images are also used where needed to help clarify points made in the text. They also break the chapters up which makes the book easier to read. If you want to learn how important proper workflow is then take a look at this book.
This book will tell you how to create or improve your photographs and also give you some creative ideas you wont have even thought about. The step-by-step guides are easy to follow and compact and are illustrated well with start-to-finish images of how the photographs looked before and after the work was completed. The language is easy to follow and if you want even more advice you can look at the tutorial DVD which comes with the book. If you want to try some new tricks or just brush-u...
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Action for Photoshop CS4
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Photoshop CS4
And the new clone tool is heaven
Forum: Digital imaging
Purchasing Photoshop cs4
the Nvidia 7600, 8699, 8800, 9600 and 9800 have all been reported as having problems. My Nvidia is none of those. Glad too hear that Meredith and CB have found how to get it to work properly I didn't do anything other than install it! ;)
Forum: Digital imaging
James, Thanks for your advice. This was the switch I was looking for. Solved my problem immediately,
Forum: Computers
Photoshop cs4 suite
You're mis-naming it "Photoshop CS4 Suite". Also plenty of people on here also talk about problems with CS4 when they actually mean Photoshop CS4 (Photoshop version 11). Photoshop CS4 can be bought on its own for much less than £1372.00 CS4 stands for Creative Suite 4. It's a suite of Adobe applications, available in various configurations. Photoshop is just one single application...
Forum: Digital imaging
Lightroom or Camera Raw with Photoshop CS4
You could consider converting to Adobe DNG in Lightroom so that you can again embed the develop settings in the Raw file.
Forum: Digital imaging
Some seriously bad things would have to happen to the Mac before Adobe stopped development for it. I don't know why Apple don't use the money they're making from iTunes and iPods to produce cut-price loss-leader Macs in order to take more of the personal computer market.
Forum: Computers
Resize vs Resample (Photoshop CS4)
You shouldn't really be doing the CMYK conversion. The printers should do that as to do it properly would mean knowing about the inks and paper being used in printing. The printers should know more about that than you. Thanks for your post, mlewis. I will speak to the printers about the CMYK conversion. The artwork is going to be printed at A4 and A3 so I guess I need to make sure both fi...
Forum: Digital imaging
Photoshop, CS4 student version
Excellent - thanks for the clarification Dave :)
Forum: Digital imaging
Photoshop CS4 - 64bit capable???
CS4 supports 64-bit, but if using it to process RAW images you will likely notice a drop in quality because Adobe's Camera Raw is generally considered to produce less good results than C1. I don't bother with ACR even though I have CS4. But it's up to you whether you consider the convenience more important than the quality, of course. :)
Forum: Digital imaging
Photoshop CS4 on Ebay
Agree with Cathy above that if you really want CS4, legitimately at lowest price, go for the student version. The only restriction is that it can't be used for any commercial purpose. Find a friendly neighbour or relative whose son or daughter is at uni or college or whatever, and get them to order it. This is not a breach of any terms, as these only stipulate that the software has to be ordere...
Forum: Digital imaging
Photoshop CS4
Try paying for your software... Then you can call Adobe support. "I would leech it i think as prices are stupid for some packages. like PScs4 or office 2k8 etc etc" wasnt an admission of piracy at all. just stateing i WOULD,if i couldnt afford, but i can. anyhows.... as it turns out (and ill accept that apology) IT IS canon, as i just received my memcard reader this morning. same files show...
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Collages in Photoshop CS4
Thanks again, Chris_L. I have printed out your post and have stuck it by my pc!! Thanks also to KevSB and digicammad. I have downloaded both packages and had a play this morning. Shape College is great fun although I see that you have to pay for the Pro version to get rid of the watermark. The collages on Picasa are also good.
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P B Software - Photoshop CS4
Demands for proof of being a student is variable. Adobe requires a verification process, whilst Microsoft is less intrusive. Up to recently one could purchase a student's version of MS Office 2007 at PC world with no questions asked.
Forum: Computers
Photoshop Cs3
Hear hear!
Forum: Digital imaging
CS4 & CS4 Extended.
I was teasing you, pick your own decision OK :-) Come on seriously I do not think you have corrupted you grand daughter, it all sounds a bit Victorian drama any way. I could have picked up the simple baton you left..............
Forum: Computers
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News

Landmark release packs powerful editing punch and harnesses the creative potential of 3D.

Adobe have released an update to Photoshop CS4.

New release of Adobe Photoshop is fully supported by all Digital Anarchy products.

Digital photography software developer outlines product specific support for Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended.

PhotoshopCAFE launches free Adobe Photoshop CS4 resource learning site.

New Lightroom beta delivers faster performance and refined image processing.

Radical workflow breakthroughs, new levels of flash expressiveness and integration anchor Adobe’s biggest software release.

Elements users have the chance to upgrade to Photoshop CS4 for half the price*.

Adobe have released updates for Photoshop Lightroom and Camera Raw.

The Plugin Site releases version 2 of the FocalBlade Photoshop Plugin.

Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5.4 Release Candidate now available.

Adobe release final updates for Lightroom and Camera Raw.
Pro Tips

Peter Bargh shares a quick tip showing how you can make a selection from an area that's in the shade.
Reviews

After being blown away by the mind-boggling feature-set of Adobe Photoshop CS4, Matt Grayson takes a look himself.

An in-depth look at the new features of Photoshop CS5 - the image editing program part of the new Adobe CS5 Creative Suite.

Sometimes a fast film speed is necessary and the resultant noise can reduce your picture to a speckly wreck. Here we test various noise reduction programs to see which are the best.

Matt Grayson takes a look at optikVerve's virtualPhotographer, a fast, free effects-adding plug-in.

Epson continue their High Definition range of printers adding the PX700W that doesn't need leads. Matt Grayson hopes that soon he won't even have to get off the sofa to print stuff.

Nearly every photographer has a prosumer model to back them up. Either as a camera to take on a day out or for if a full system is just too much to cope with. Now Matt Grayson takes four of the best and pits them against each other.

Matt Grayson saw the new Pentax K-7 DSLR. But is it any better than the K20D?

Matt Grayson takes a close look at the recently announced Canon EOS 50D.

Thanks to the brand new Ricoh R10 looking old is in, explains a grateful Matt Grayson.

The Nikon D3S is arguably one of the most exciting DSLRs launched in 2009 with an incredible ISO range, fast shooting speed and everything else you would expect from a pro-spec Nikon DSLR.

Gary Wolstenholme wonders what Benoît Mandelbrot would make of OnOne software's latest offering.

Gary Wolstenholme was always told that if it ain't Bokeh, then don't fix it, but he thought he would take a look at the new plug-in from AlienSkin anyway.
Techniques

Martin Evening was recently given the honour of appearing in the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Here he shows us how to use the Content-Aware Scaling tool in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

If your sky's not quite right then change it for a better one with the help of Photoshop.

Want to know how to make a person pop out of a photo frame? Then read this tutorial.

See how easy it can be to create a photo collage in Photoshop.

How to stitch images together to create panoramas in CS4.

To add focus to an image you can keep the subject you wont people to focus on in colour and turn everything else to black and white.

Sometimes landscapes can be a little on the cool side but a quick photo filter can sort them out.

Adding a frame to an image in Photoshop is easy and this tutorial will show you how to do it.

Here's one way you can change hair colour in Photoshop.

Add some hints of colour to your black & white images with the help of Photoshop.

Want to turn a coloured image to black & white? Well there's a few ways you can achieve this in Photoshop.

You can create interesting images by simply moving several images into one document.
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