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By Reji Samuel

Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta is now available!

In this video,Julieanne Kost,Sr. Digital Imaging Evangelist at Adobe talks about her 6 favorite features in Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta.Check out.

Download Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta. Direct Links for Mac Version (Size: 984MB) and Windows Version (Size: 1.7GB)

Adobe Creative Suit 5.5 Subscription Editions

Hi folks, Subscription editions of Creative Suit 5.5 are now available.
Now with the convenient new subscription option,
you can have the latest features and functionality of
Creative Suite for a low monthly cost. Learn more here 

Adobe Cs5

In this first post of New Year, I would like to present you, two interesting videos prepared by Russel Brown, (Creative Director at Adobe Systems) and Terry White (Adobe Evangelist). In the first tutorial Russell Brown is kicking off his “Extreme Painting” video series that uses lasers to paint (or carve) an image onto a wooden canvas. And in the second, Terry White leads you to a complete walkthrough of Adobe Cs5.

Adobe Photoshop 12.0.2 update for Adobe Photoshop CS5

Hey folks, the Adobe Photoshop 12.0.2 update is now available! Download it here for Windows and here for Macintosh. The Adobe Photoshop 12.0.2 update fixes a number of high priority bugs including painting performance and type-related issues.

The most significant fixes in the Photoshop 12.0.2 update include the following:

» A number of potential security vulnerabilities have been addressed
» Top type and font crashers found in the field have been addressed
» A number of performance issues have been addressed
» Crash opening 3D layers has been addressed
» Color Engine crash has been resolved
» Intermittent file format issues addressed
» Shift scrolling bug fixed
» Sharpen crasher fixed
» Marching ants not seen at certain zoom levels fixed
» Metadata focus distance issue addressed
» File info bug addressed for Orphea Studio jpg files
» TWAIN crashers fixed
» Brush cursor bug fixed
» Histogram progress bar issue fixed
» Droplet issues addressed

Updates also available for Lightroom 3.3 ( Windows | Macintosh) and
Camera Raw 6.3 (Windows | Macintosh)

In this exiciting episode of Adove TV, Julieanne Kost, Adobe digital imaging evangelist takes you through Lightroom to see how it can help you manage volumes of images and enhance and stylize them to communicate your message. Also learn how to move seamlessly between Photoshop and Lightroom. Both designers and photographers, from novices to experts in digital imaging, have something to gain from this session.

10 Must See Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorials

Learning Adobe Photoshop CS5 is great fun! Especially
if you can find cool and free tutorials. In this post I have displayed
ten must see Photoshop CS5 tutorials in video’s prepared by
Adobe certified experts explaining the great new features of Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Check them out and tell me which you have liked the most.

01. Painting in Adobe Photoshop CS5

02. Advanced Masking with Adobe Photoshop CS5

03. Content Aware Fill in Adobe Photoshop CS5

04. Camera raw workflow: Photoshop CS5 for Photographers

05. Merge to HDR Pro feature in Adobe Photoshop CS5

06. Pixel Bender tool in Photoshop CS5

07. HDR Toning in Adobe Photoshop CS5

08. Repousse' tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5

09. Puppet Warp tool in Photoshop CS5

10. Compositing and Selecting Hair in Photoshop CS5

Adobe Unveiling CS5

On April 12th, Adobe will be unveiling the newest release of Creative Suite, Creative Suite 5. Here is a sneak peak. Be sure to register for the web broadcast and see what Adobe has put in to CS5.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Resources - 12

Here is your free Photoshop resources.
I have added two more sections on the
right pane of this blog labeled
'actions' and 'scripts'. Hope it might be
useful for all Photoshop geeks. Stay tuned
for more updates in future.

:: TUTORIAL ::

1. NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to create
one of his favorite effects-the ray of light.

2. Corey Barker shows how to use the luminosity of an image
to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos.

3. Create really cool borders in under a minute to use on virtually
any one of your photos or even video for that matter.

4. Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you
like while retaining straight, clean edges.

5. Create stunning lightstreaks in Photoshop.

6. Create a glassy logobox in easy steps.

7. Learn how to create a simple-gunmetal-interface.

8. Learn how to create actions in Photoshop CS3. Video tut.

9. Create pop art photos using Adobe Photoshop CS3. Video tut.

10. Learn how to create composit layers in Photoshop CS2. Video tut.

11. How to work with Photoshop scripts? Cool tutorial by Jennifer Apple.

12. MLK unleashing the power of Photoshop scripting here.

:: FREE DOWNLOAD ::

1. Real wooden texture

2. Free photoshop brush

3. 63 must have Grunge fonts

4. Photo effects (Action)

Action Set (10 nos)

Found these resources useful? Please comment.

Adobe Photoshop Express Launched

Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express,a Web-based version of Photoshop
for editing pictures. It is in public beta and anyone can sign up.

According to John Nack of Photoshop,
* Over 1 million visited the PX homepage on the first day.
* More than 3 million images uploaded to PX on the first day
(3.5 terabytes of data!)it self.

Don't know where to start? Kelby Training has created
an online learning center for Express.
What else? Start playing with Photoshop Express now.