Photoshop Plugins "Flatting and MultiFill" for digital and Comic Artists

+ Flatting and MultiFill are two free Photoshop Plugins developed by Software Developer Boudewijn Pelt. These Plugins are very handy for comic artists who ink & color their pages in Photoshop. In the production of comics a special trapping method, called "Flatting" is used. The colored area's are butted against each other under the line art. The MultiFill and Flatten Plug-In's assist in "Flatting" and can save a lot of time. A short nicely explained tutorial is also available on the site explaining the process of "Flatting". Both the Photoshop Plugins are available for free download and compatible with Photoshop 6.0 or later. Plugins are available for both Macintosh or Windows platforms.

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Animating Layers in Photoshop CS3 Extended

+ Extended version of Adobe Photoshop CS3 offers some cool features including 3d layers etc. Below is an tutorial about how to Animate layers in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended by Chad Perkins. Join Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins as he guides you through the new world of animation inside Photoshop CS3 Extended in this tutorial from the lynda.com Online Training Library.

PixelGenius Release Candidates for CS3 and CS3 Extended

+ PixelGenius has announced the release "RC" versions of their best-selling photoshop plugins; PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener and PhotoKit Color 2.0. for Photoshop CS3. These RC versions are considered "not yet complete" in that while we have tested them and find them to work in the final release version of Photoshop CS3, there are still certain issues that will need to be addressed for both Mac and Windows- see the download page for details.

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Digital-Tutors Released Photoshop® CS3 Training

New training addition provides a comprehensive guide to getting started and learning creative techniques with Photoshop CS3
+ Oklahoma City, OK (June 5, 2007) - Digital-Tutors, an Adobe® Certified Expert, today announced the availability of 'Introduction to Photoshop CS3' - the latest release in a growing library of interactive training for emerging digital artists using Adobe Photoshop CS3. 'Introduction to Photoshop CS3' provides 6 hours of project-based training and teaches artists a non-destructive workflow to image editing in Photoshop CS3 and time-saving techniques to help artists finish projects with less time and greater creativity - an ideal training solution for artists in Print, Web, Multimedia, and Design.
"Photoshop is considered an industry-standard tool, which can make learning the new features, tools, and workflows often intimidating for artists entering the industry," said Tony McMillan, Motion Graphics Designer at Digital-Tutors. "Digital-Tutors is happy to make learning robust software such as Photoshop CS3 less difficult with a series of intuitive projects developed to increase the viewer's understanding of the software and how to use the tools to achieve the results they seek with as little time as possible. This latest release is great for those new to Photoshop CS3 and also experienced artists upgrading to the latest version," added McMillan.
Highlights from 'Introduction to Photoshop CS3' include: comprehensive tool and palette overviews, workflows for Print, Web, and Design, utilizing a non-destructive workflow, managing multi-layer documents, creating effects, restoring photographs, enhancing photographs, color adjustments and correction, utilizing automation scripts, creating actions, building web galleries, using the new Photomerge, using Bridge, working with camera raw images, compressing images for web, working with Smart Objects and Smart Filters, importing Adobe Illustrator files, bonus lessons for Photoshop CS3 Extended, and additional lessons developed to increase one's understanding of Photoshop CS3.
For a full outline and pricing information of 'Introduction to Photoshop CS3' - Click Here!

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.

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.

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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!

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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.

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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.
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