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Adobe moves to subscription-only future for Photoshop and other creative tools

07 May

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Adobe has said it will no longer be developing its Creative Suite range of software, leaving its subscription and cloud-based Creative Cloud as the only way of accessing the latest version of Photoshop. Adobe has been trying to encourage users away from the traditional one-off payment licenses and on to a monthly payment model, with features such as online storage and syncing between devices. This latest move ups the ante by making it the only option for future versions of the software.

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Adobe announces Creative Cloud update with new Photoshop tools

06 May

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Adobe has updated its suite of Creative Cloud software, with the latest versions rebranded with the appendage ‘CC’. Adobe Photoshop CC highlights include the Camera Shake Reduction tool that Adobe demoed earlier this year, and the ability to apply Camera Raw as a filter to any raster, vector or video layer. Creative Cloud members can now sync their Photoshop preferences across multiple devices. Click to read about these and other Photoshop CC features.

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Photoshop in Real Life: Portrait Series Takes Tools Literally

05 Apr

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Anyone who has used Adobe products, Photoshop or otherwise, knows that they have necessarily become quite creative in naming some of their more abstract, surreal and unusual functions.

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Flora Borsi of Budapest, Hungary, is a photographer and photo editor who has explored these meanings in return, taking them back out of the digital realm and applying them to ‘real life’ situations.

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Through turns of phrase (‘Convert to Smart Object’) and other twisted interpretations, this series of portraits is an exploration of self, exhibition of abilities and simply fun series of mildly manipulated photos.

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Her other series show off her capacity to understand and reproduce historical styles, but also to take and subvert visual expectations, in turn silly, serious and in some cases quite macabre.

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Retouching with Cloning Tools: Part 3

11 Mar

In Part 1 and Part 2 of the Retouching with Cloning Tools series, you learned what cloning tools are used for and the differences between each tool. In this part of the series, you will follow a step-by-step tutorial to learn how to remove power lines (or other unwanted objects) from an otherwise beautiful photograph. This particular image contains distracting Continue Reading

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Retouching with Cloning Tools: Part 2

16 Feb

  Welcome back to the Retouching with Cloning Tools series! In Part 1, you learned about how cloning tools are used to retouch and remove imperfections from images. In this part of the series, you will learn more about the specific differences between each cloning tool, what kind of jobs they work best for, and how to use them. By the end Continue Reading

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Retouching with Cloning Tools: Part 1

31 Jan

If you look closely at commercial photographs, you will probably notice that they rarely contain random power lines or vehicles in the way of the shot. You’ll probably also notice that the models always have flawless skin, and iconic tourist locations are tourist-free. Photographers don’t spend all of their time searching for perfect-looking models or visiting deserted cities. Instead, they typically Continue Reading

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Do we value cameras as tools or objects? New exhibition asks the question

19 Jan

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Do we value cameras for their form, or their function? An exhibition in Philadelphia which features hundreds of camera sculptures made from a range of different materials aims to examine this question. ‘Reach Ruin’, which is showing at The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia includes several sculptures of cameras created from carved stone, glass, chalk and sand. According to the artist, Daniel Arsham, as well as being a photographic tool, ‘many of us that use photography have a relationship with the object. If you want, call it a fetish’. Click through for more information and images from the exhibition.

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Free Online Tools For Websites

15 Jan

Online Generators for Web Designers can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Online generator are those tools that help us to create those popular “XHTML valid” CSS banners, micro buttons or css website templates in seconds. In such cases online generators can be of great help which do the necessary job and some tools don’t have to be downloaded also. We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design. Web Designers sometimes spend a lot of time in making pattern or stripe backgrounds and there are also tool to help you out here. In this article, I have listed some of the online generators that can save you some time and still give you great results.

XML Charts
XML /SWF charts are used to create attractive graphs and charts from XML data, Create a source either manually or generate dynamically then pass it to the XML chart’s flash file.

Web Form Generator
The web form generator from Web Form Factory automatically generates he necessary backend code to tie your form to a database.

Typetester
Typetester is used to compare three different type of fonts on screen making your designing job easier , Just specify the specifications and compare them

256 Pixels
256 Pixels creates favicon designs where you can upload a picture or color the pixels by choosing any color and save it or create a favicon for any new challenges posed by the website.

80 x 15 brilliant Button Maker
Create 80 x 15 dimension buttons with 80 x 15 brilliant button maker where you can customise by setting the borders, left and right boxes and uploading the images separately for left and right boxes.

AJAX Info
Create your own AJAX loader icon by selecting the type of indicator, background and foreground color and clicking in ‘Generate It’.

AJAX loading GIF generator
AJAX Loading GIF generator create your AJAX loading GIF image by defining the indicator type, background color, foreground color and controlling the speed of the loading indicator.

Background Maker
A unique background maker where you choose the colors from the pixelised tile which depicts the tiled background and fill each tile or pixel with a different color to watch it live in the background as a pattern.

Background Patterns
Tiled background designer is quite an interesting tool to create tied backgrounds which allows you to change the background color, size of the canvas, image to be displayed and also rotated your tiled design as per your design.

Color Scheme Designer 3
Color Scheme Designer 3 has a really fantastic user interface that’s both attractive and easy to use. Just select a color, the type of color scheme you want to create (mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, or accented analogic) and then make adjustments. It also lets you preview the color scheme right in light and dark website layouts

Kuler
Adobe’s Kuler is one of the best color scheme tools available, with multiple options for both creating and finding color schemes. To find a color scheme created by someone else, you can search or browse by newest, mot popular, highest rated, or random. They also include tools for creating a color scheme based on an images.

Adhesiontext
Adhesiontext creates dummy text for various languages, including specific characters. In addition to Latin characters, you can also create dummy text in Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic.

pForm
pForm is a free HTML form builder. Just choose from their pre-designed templates and then customize your form. It’s fast and they have a good selection of form designs to choose from.

Badges
Badges can be used to display a big ‘Beta’ message on your website or emphasize a price or a promotion. No web 2.0 site is complete without one.

Barcode Generator
Barcode label printer is an online barcode generator where a CGI form is used to enter a text and generate a printable and scannable barcode in Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 39, Code 128 A, B, or C symbologies.

Buttonator
Buttonator is a free web button maker to create your own personalized web buttons. You can customise the button’s font, color, style and apply different effects for your button.

Font-Face Kit Generator
This @font-face kit generator from Font Squirrel lets you create full kits for any font you can legally use with @font-face.

Showdown
Showdown is a port of Markdown in JavaScript. Just type in some markdown text and it will output HTML for you.

Faary
Faary lets you create forms quickly and easily, by just entering the form elements in a list format.

Pure CSS Menu
This site lets you create a menu with dropdowns that only uses CSS, no images. It’s simple, but it’s also quick to set up.

CSS Sprite Generator
To create CSS sprites with this generator, just zip all your images and upload them. Specify the space you want between images, as well as the aspect ratio, build direction, and if there should be a background or transparency color, as well as your image specs and any CSS specs you want. It will output the sprite file, as well as the CSS for each image.

CSS Menu Generator
This generator is great for when you just need a quick, simple drop-down menu.

Tabs Generator
You can choose height and width, border size, corner radius, background color and style, fill style and colors, and orientation.

Favicon Generator
This Favicon Generator lets you create a favicon from scratch or based on an image you upload.

Color Mixer
Create a new color by mixing colors, Color /mixers is a fun tool to fine tune and fiddle with a color with editable RGB colors and adjustable lightness and darkness.

Tartan Maker
Plaid backgrounds aren’t often seen in web design, and part of that is likely due to the complexity of creating a tiling plaid pattern. Tartan Maker makes it as easy as choosing a few colors and using sliders to determine the size and boldness of your plaid.

Stripe Generator 2.0
Stripe Generator 2.0 lets you create repeating-stripe backgrounds. Just choose size and spacing, colors, stripe orientation, shadow, and background style.

Stripemania
Stripemania is a striped background image generator. Pick the strip width and spacing, the orientation, and the colors, and it generates a repeating stripe pattern.

CSS Border Radius
All you have to do is enter the border radius for each corner. It automatically fills in all four when you enter the first one, but you can then change each one individually.

CSS3 Sandbox
This CSS3 Sandbox has five different generators: linear gradients, radial gradients, text properties, box properties, and transforms.

CSS3.0 Maker
Here’s another CSS3 generator that lets you create a variety of different effects using CSS3. There are generators for border radius, gradients, animation, text and box shadows, and more

CSS Type Set
CSS Type Set lets you create typography designs and generates the CSS for you. Just paste in text you want to modify, and then use the options at the bottom to customize it and it will generate the CSS in real-time.

ColoRotate
ColoRotate lets you view and create color schemes in 3D. Being able to manipulate the color palette tool in 3 dimensions can lead to better understanding of how the colors in a palette relate to one another.

Templatr
Templatr is another simple generator for creating quick WordPress layouts. It lets you edit virtually every element in the design, all using a visual editor.

WordPress Theme Generator
This generator lets you create a WP theme, and while it’s not extremely powerful, it is a quick way to create minimalist themes (both in terms of style and functionality).

Contact Form Generator
Contact Form Generator is used to create form to email scripts for your ASP, PHP or Perl website with no programming. Just enter the email header fields like email from, email to and subject to create the form.

Blueprint Grid CSS Generator
If you like using Blueprint for your CSS layouts but want something more flexible, this generator is for you. Just enter the number of columns, column width, and margin width and it generates your CSS for you. One caveat, though: it’s no longer in active development and is not supported.

YAML Builder
Here’s a visual tool for creating a YAML (Yet Another Multicolumn Layout) design.

Create Graph
Create a graph as bar graph, line graph, pie chart etc.. by selecting the default graph type and defingin the design such as style, shading, data set ie number of fields, data labels and your graph is created.

CSS Optimiser
Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets. In order to save more space optimized files would be messy even so you may output it as a file. Non-valid or hacked (for certain browsers) CSS files may result in error.

If you know of any webtools or other goodies that are worth mentioning please comment on this post to let us know. We will then include your submission into our list.

Any suggestions, ideas? Feel free to comment on this article!

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Tether Tools: Product Reviews: Adorama Photography TV

12 Dec

AdoramaTV presents Tether Tools. This week Mark will show some products from Tether Tools. This product line is designed to help photographers meet their tethered photography needs . He will show you a couple lightweight and versatile tables that attaches to any studio light stand or tripod providing a stable working surface for photographers shooting in studio or on-location. For more information about Tether Tools and related videos, go here: www.adorama.com Send your questions to: AskMark@Adorama.com

 
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Tether Tools Wallee Connect Mounts iPad on Photography Tripod

22 Nov

The Tether Tools Connect and the Wallee Modular Accessory Case seamlessly integrate the iPad and iPad 2 into the photography and film workflow (and just about everywhere else). The Wallee iPad System, with its variety of interchangeable versatile accessory options is ideal for every iPad owner and the ultimate solution for photographers
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