Photoshop Plug-In for Google 3D Warehouse Now Available for Download

Software Add-On Delivers Direct Access to Google’s Free 3D Content
+ Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — May 31, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) today announced the Photoshop® CS3 Extended plugin for the Google 3D Warehouse, enabling Adobe® Photoshop CS3 Extended users to take further advantage of the software’s powerful compositing, painting and image-editing toolset for editing 3D content. With the plug-in, users will be able to query and download free 3D content from the Google 3D Warehouse, Google’s free online repository for 3D models and content, directly within Photoshop CS3 Extended. 3D Content then can be placed, manipulated and used in composites with the new 3D tools in Photoshop CS3 Extended.
The Google 3D Warehouse is a free Google service which allows anyone to search for and download 3D models and content via a standard Web browser and now, with this plug-in, Photoshop CS3 Extended. Users can also submit their own models to share within the community by uploading them from Google SketchUp into the 3D Warehouse. Models include everything needed for a 3D world, including: buildings, houses, bridges, statues, sculptures, couches, cars, people, pets and more. If the model has a location on earth, such as a building in New York city, you can also download and view it in Google Earth.
The plug-in is available for free download from the Adobe Labs Web site at http://labs.adobe.com.

Photoshop Tutorial - TOON Rendering

+ Well, this is quite old but very handy Photoshop tutorial by CgArtist Adam Baroody. In this tutorial Adam explains how to toon render your 3d model. Basically we learn how to process Falloff Shader Pass image in Photoshop, for creating the inked line art layer that will be composited over the Toon Paint Pass. The tutorial is quite useful of 3d artists but every one can learn a tip or two from this tutorial...so guys have a look.

TOON Rendering in Photoshop

Photomatix Tone Mapping Plugin For Photoshop CS3

+ Photomatrix is a stand-alone application to create HDR image by Increasing the dynamic range of your photographs. Photomatrix offers two methods for fixing blown out exposure and flat shadows; Exposure Blending and Tone Mapping. Now you can use Tone Mapping function of Photomatrix pro with-in Photoshop only. HDRsoft Tone Mapping plugin for adobe Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop CS3 is available for Window / Mac both and works on 16-32bit images. This plugin is quite useful for photographers and images editing professionals for not only creating HDR images but to improve underexposed and dull images. The trial version of plugin is fully functional and never expires, but applies a watermark to the final image.

Download Plugin now

Fluid Mask 3 Public Beta Download

Vertus Quotes: "Quick to pick up and intuitive to use, Fluid Mask 3 gets professional results fast".

+ Vertus Fluid Mask 3 Public beta has been released and available for download. Fluid Mask by Vertus has been the first choice of most image editing professionals round the globe, and now with launch of version 3.0 Vertus extend and add more functionality to Fluid Mask, while taking image masking to the another level. Fluid Mask now comes as stand-alone as well as a plugin, for popular image editing and graphic software Adobe Photoshop (CS2/CS3).
The Key new features in Fluid Mask 3.0 includes:
- Faster initial image processing: 10% (single core) - up to 40% (dual core)
- Localized edge detection and blending: for faster workflow
- Better blending: especially for hair and problem edges
- Great new tools for fine mask selections
- workflow enhancement
.............and many more performance enhancing features. Currently Fluid Mask 3.0 is released for windows XP / Vista and their website suggest they will be launching a Mac version soon!

Download Fluid Mask 3.0

Free Vectors Download

+ Download a basket full of Vector arts, free of cost from Vecteezy.com. This site indexes free vectors in many formats such as adobe illustrator's .ai, CorelDraw’s .cdr, Etc. and made by designer from all over the world :)
Download link

Artizen HDR Plugins for Photoshop

+ Supporting Computers Inc. has released Artizen HDR Plugins for Photoshop and a demo version is now available for download. This package now has all 10 tone mapping operators included in Artizen HDR as well as the Orton Filter. text from Artizen website; "Supporting Computers Inc. has now taken all of it's Tone Mapping Operators from Artizen HDR stand-alone and put them together into a Photoshop HDR Plugin Package. Now the world's most popular image editor is merged with the world most powerful HDR plugin package. In addition to this the Orton method has found a lot of popularity when in conjunction with HDR, so Supporting Computers Inc. has also included Artizen's Orton method. This ensures that whether you want a realistic or stylistic result this package will meet all of your requirements." The Artizen Photoshop HDR Plugins is compatible with Photoshop 7/CS/CS2 / CS3 and supports 8,16, and 32bit Mode.

Artizen Photoshop Plugins Demo

about Artizen HDR stand-alone

10 Tips for Photoshop Lightroom 1.0

+ Layers Magazine has published ten great Tips to get you started in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. Incase you are still unaware about Photoshop Lightroom?...Photoshop Lightroom is adobe's new image editing software developed particularly for professional photographers. text from Layers Mag: "T Is for Toolbar. Pressing the letter T on your keyboard hides the toolbar that appears at the bottom of the Preview area, and pressing T again makes it visible. However, if you’d like to hide it temporarily (which is handy for taking a quick, uncluttered look at your photo), then press-and-hold T and the toolbar only hides as long as you have the letter T held down. Rate Photos Quickly When applying star ratings to photos in the Library module, if you hold down the Shift key while applying your rating, it will automatically move you to the next photo. So, if you press Shift-4, rather than just 4, it assigns a 4-star rating to the current photo and then immediately brings up the next photo".
Check these handy tips by Layers Magazine which helps you get started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom in no time...........10 Tips for Lightroom!

Snap Art for Photoshop

+ One of finest plugins set by Alien Skin software’s among their list of products, which also includes Eye Candy - a well known Photoshop plugins set. Snap Art which released in December of 2006, is a handy set of Photoshop plugins for creating natural media artwork in a single step. Graphic Artists, photographers, and designers can now give a hand-crafted look to any digital image. Snap Art render any image in an unlimited variety of real-world art styles including oil paint, pencil sketch, pen & ink, comics, and more. Great for stylizing images or graphics, Snap Art works without laborious step-by-step editing and is more versatile than Actions or brushes.
Snap Art uses edge detection method to discern the objects, edges, lines, and shapes of an original image. Then, using this outline, an advanced paint engine strokes and fills this outline using the brushes and colors you specify in the options. Snap Art comes Loaded with hundreds of settings for producing stunning effects in a single step. Simply use the default setting that works for your image or use detailed controls to fine-tune a composition for the desired effect.
For checking the Examples and demo download, please visit this link - Snap Art download!

CommArts Design Competition

+ Well slipped off my radar earlier, but still five days left to submit your entry in Communication Arts Magazine's Competition for Design category ; Deadline: June 1, 2007. While the deadline in the illustration Category is March 11, 2008. Its your time to Gain worldwide recognition for your finest work by entering the most prestigious juried competitions for graphic design and advertising. If selected, your award-winning pieces will be reproduced in Communication Arts 2007 Design Annual or Advertising Annual. Over 70,000 copies of each Annual will be in circulation worldwide, guaranteeing you outstanding exposure to potential clients and colleagues.
Submit your Entry!

25% Discount on Vector Packs!

+ On coming monday and tuesday, you can get 25% discount on entire order of recently featured Arsenal Vector Packs by Gomedia. So on those two days only, if customers enter the code: memday07 , they will get 25% off their entire order.
Get 25% Discount on Vector packs!

Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers

+ Focal Press has released Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers, the book by Martin Evening. This is the forth book in 'Adobe Photoshop for Photographers' titles series by Evening and have become a Photoshop reference bible for photographers. Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers book contains a wealth of practical advice, hints and tips-n-tricks to help you achieve very professional looking results. A DVD also comes along with the book, which contains a help guide and 110 minutes of movie tutorials on Photoshop CS3. The DVD also contains a 33 page PDF documenting all the Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Bridge shortcuts, a 26 page PDF on digital capture and over 100 sample images to experiment with.
The book's Official website

Free Photoshop Brushes by damnedinblack

+ Who ant’s like free stuff? So, this time PSnode bring you some more useful set of Photoshop brushes by damnedinblack . These set of brushes are pretty much unconventional in design but i am sure you will find them quite handy while make your illustration. You will get brushes like barcode, butterfly, spikes, trees, handwriting, fairies, insects and many more. In different sets, their are more than 80 brushes available to download.

Download PS Brushes

Free Photoshop Brushes | Hot-N-Handy

+ We bring you some hot and handy Photoshop brushes for free download by courtesy of Stephanie Shimerdla, who has made these awesome brushes. Their are more than 50 brush sets with about 30 brushes per set, available for free download. You may also like to download some shapes and learn from the handy "how to" tutorials written by Stephanie. We will be bringing more n more free brushes for you, we just have started....so do check PSnode time-to-time!

Anyways herez da - Download Link!

Arsenal Vector Packs - yor professional design weaponry!

+ Jazz Up your illustration using these stunning ready to use Vector Art packs, designed by GoMedia, a progressive art and design studio based in Cleveland, Ohio that delivers outstanding creative solutions to their clients across the globe. These ready to use vector art comes handy time to time; when you want to add an extra punch in your digital art. These Vector packs can be used with adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Corel Draw, while in Photoshop you need to rasterize them. You may also create some handy custom brushes using these awesome vector shapes for adobe Photoshop. Their are many arsenal vector packs available, grouped together in different categories like Flames, Edges, Skulls, Halftone Circles , URBAN , Bugs, architecture pack and many more. A single pack starts from as low as 14.99USD/- and heavy discount available when you buy in bundles. Many stunning packs to choose from and a must have design arsenal for any professional illustrator or graphic designer....hmm, now what are you waiting for???
You can grab your Professional design weaponry here - Arsenal Vector Packs !!

SiteGrinder - Plugin For Photoshop

+ SiteGrinder is a great Photoshop Plugin that converts Photoshop designs to web sites. It is smart. It has many features. It is easy to use. It simply rocks! Start making websites without having to learn HTML, CSS, or a whole new development application. SiteGrinder has full featured gallery support.
Stop wasting time doing the tedious monkey work of slicing and reconstructing what has already been done in Photoshop. A pre-made web template seems like a great way to save time until you need to customize it. But with SiteGrinder a click turns the template into a full site. SiteGrinder is a Photoshop plug-in that you use from with-in Photoshop. It understands your design, it knows how web pages should be built, it builds them for you. Just name your Photoshop layers with some “hints” and SiteGrinder will figure out what to do and do it. SiteGrinder doesn’t just build pages, it can build entire sites. It supports styled text conversion, scrolling text, hyperlinks, drop down menus, full support for galleries, forms, contact forms, Flash slideshow creation, and much more.
Buy or Download demo of - SiteGrinder 2.0

AKVIS Sketch v.4.0 and Enhancer V.6.0

+ AKVIS LLC, a graphics and Image processing software devloper has released Sketch v.4.0 and AKVIS Enhancer V.6.0. Demo Versions for Sketch 4.0 and Enhancer 6.0 is available for download.

Sketch v.4.0: Higher Speed. Universal Binary Application!

The software converts photos to pencil and watercolor drawings.We are glad to inform you that AKVIS Sketch was awarded "Best Image Editing Software 2006" by "DT&G Magazine".

Whats New in version 4.0:

- Image processing speed increased on 40%.

- Compatibility with Photoshop CS3 on Intel Mac.

AKVIS Sketch is now a Universal Binary Application. It runs on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers. The users who tried the previous version of the plug-in and have their version expired, now have an opportunity to test the software again.

Download AKVIS Sketch

AKVIS Enhancer V.6.0: Improving Detail on Photos with Uneven Exposure!

The software allows improving detail in underexposed, overexposed, and mid tone areas of a photo. By popular request, the possibility to save user presets has been added.

Whats New in version V.6.0:

- Added option to save/edit user settings (presets)

- Compatibility with Photoshop CS3 on Intel Mac

- Fixed memory bug that caused program crash on some images on Macintosh

- Compatibility with Windows Vista

- Added new interface language (Italian)

- Updated program documentation (Help).

AKVIS Enhancer is now a Universal Binary Application. It runs on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers. The program does not have an installer for Macintosh. You should just move the "AKVIS Enhancer" folder into the Plug-ins folder of your photo editor.

Download Enhancer V.6.0

Adobe Magazine

+ Adobe Magazine reinvented and is back in its latest avtar after after shedding off its old skin as the magazine formaly knowen as Proxy Magazine. The New and totally revamped Adobe Magazine, which comes in .PDF format now promises to be more inspriational and informative for Creative Professionals. Subscribe to this free, online quarterly, and discover fresh insight and tutorials from the wide world of visual communications. You'll see work that's breaking new ground, get an insider's perspective on how it was created, and find new ideas and tools to enhance your own projects.

Adobe Magazine

DOF PRO v3.0

+ Depth of Field Generator PRO is the result of ongoing research, development and programming collaboration between Richard Rosenman and Martin Vicanek in an effort to produce a Photoshop® compliant plugin capable of delivering high quality, sophisticated Depth of Field and Bokeh effects quickly and efficiently as a post process. Depth Of field (DOF) is the amount of distance between the nearest and farthest objects that appear in acceptably sharp focus in a photograph. It is heavily used in photography, film and computer graphics as a creative style element, typical examples ranging from portraiture to macro photography.In photography, DOF is governed by three factors: aperture, lens focal length and shooting distance. Many consumer class cameras, however, do not provide sufficient and independent control of these parameters.
The Recently released DOF PRO v3.0 feature Includes:
- Realistic simulation of complex depth of field camera effects
- Full Batch / Animation / Keyframing support
- Various Depth Map modes
- Powerful focal point adjustment and visualization tools
- Numerous Depth Map editing tools
- Depth Map Edge Management for artefact reduction/elimination
- Full Aperture / Bokeh control
- Highlight Enhancement Tools
- Sophisticated Grain Rendering Engine
- Highly Detailed Rendering Console
- Easy interface navigation and usability
...... Depth Of Field Generator PRO is a commercial tool. You may freely download the plugin and try it as much as you want. For full feature list and demo download of Dof Pro, please visit - www.dofpro.com !!

Pog's Free Photoshop Plugins

+ some free photoshop plugins up for grab by courtesy of Bryan Veloso, who has created these useful plugins. Mono Renditionizer - a channel mixer with a few twists. Variable Blurrinator - Its compare the lightness of the original image with the lightness of a blur. Depending on the difference, apply more or less of this blur to the output image. Lab Overlayer - a simple plugin which overlays transparency over the original image. These plugins works with any Windows application capable of hosting Photoshop-compatible plugins and for now plugin only support 8-bit RGBA images.

Pog's PS Plugins

Featured Digital Artist - Nicholas Ainley

+ Today we would like to put some spotlight or i may say; add some more on already shining digital artist Nicholas Ainley, who has been featured on many popular online and offline graphics magazines such as Digit,CgIndia, computerArts and many more. Nik Ainley after teaching himself Photoshop in his spare time while gaining a degree in physics at Imperial College London, has moved into full time web graphic design and illustration. Most of his digital art work is produced primarily in Adobe Photoshop, but in some cases he have also utilised other applications including Illustrator, 3D Studio max, Cinema 4D, Bryce, Poser and Xara 3D. Nik skillfully combine his 3d skills with 2d to create awesome as well as quite stunning illustrations and somewhat sweet like chocolates.....So have look at these Tasty illustrations :)

Nicholas Ainley Website

About PSnode.com

+ Welcome to PSnode.com, your connection to every thing related to Adobe Photoshop and occasionally adobe's new photo-editing software Photoshop Lightroom and photoshop alternative softwares.

As an online Resource Magazine about Adobe Photoshop, our Main objectives are:
- Bring useful resource for Photoshop users
- Industry News about Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and photoshop alternative softwares
- Bringing talented digital graphic Artists in notice of CG community
- Providing helpful onsite and offsite tutorials to speed up the learning process
- Keep an eye on Latest trends and buzz in the Industry
………..and much more. As, we just have started and the website is still in its infancy, so do help us built a great resource for Photoshop users by sending in your tips, news, feedback, tutorials and article contribution. You may also take advantage of this website for self-promotion by sending in links to your respective portfolios and latest works. We will be continuously working to improve the resourcefulness and functionality of our website. Do Come back often to check new updates.

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