30 Days of CS4
Bridge CS4: New Web Galleries
What is it?
An update to Photoshop’s Web Photo Gallery was long overdue; the design and format of the gallery templates hadn’t kept pace with the real world forcing web-savvy photographers to look elsewhere for Web galleries to match the sophistication of their Web site. Well search no more, Adobe updated and consolidated Web Photo [...]
Photoshop CS4: Device Central Online Libraries
What Is It?
As evidenced by the popularity of the iPhone, the world is rapidly reaching a tipping point for the adoption of the mobile internet. For many people, particularly in developing countries, their portal to the Internet is not via a computer, but a mobile phone. Photographers and designers wanting to stay ahead of the [...]
Photoshop CS4: Device Link Profiles
What is it?
Device link profiles are a powerful color management tool that, until now, have not seen widespread adoption due to limited support, most notably in Photoshop. Traditional ICC based color management uses a device-independent color space, like Lab, to serve as a bridge between two device-dependent ICC profiles, like Adobe RGB and US Web [...]
Photoshop CS4: Color Blindness Proofing
What is it?
The Soft Proofing feature is a useful tool for photographers to preview and predict the color and tonal changes that will occur when an image is printed, output to a specific device or converted to a different profile. A new feature in the Proof Setup menu allows you to preview the effects two [...]
Photoshop CS4: Bird’s Eye View
What is it?
Adobe Lightroom makes it easy to zoom in and out of an image quickly. Sadly, the same feature has been lacking in Photoshop. Jumping between 100 percent view, and the full image required the use of two separate keyboard shortcuts. The new Bird’s Eye View feature offers a possible solution to the problem. [...]
Photoshop CS4: Content-aware scaling
What is it?
Have you ever noticed how print sizes and layout windows almost never correctly match the dimensions of your photo. This is particularly aggravating when you’ve composed your photo carefully and tightly. In the end, you have to sacrifice the quality of the photo to fit the crop.
The new Content-aware scaling promises to [...]
Photoshop CS4: Toss Panning
What is it?
As more of the Photoshop’s display and manipulation commands are moved to the graphics processor, Adobe’s engineers are able to do some cool things to make navigation within the program more interesting. One example of this is the Toss panning introduced in Photoshop CS4. Toss panning allows you to throw your photo as [...]
Photoshop CS4: Drag-resizing Cursors
What is it?
I can almost always gauge someone’s Photoshop skill level by the way they change their Brush size. This created two neat categories.
Beginner Photoshop Users use the Brush Preset Picker to select a brush, hover their mouse over the image to gauge brush size then return to the Brush Preset Picker to adjust the [...]
Photoshop CS4: Rotate Tool
What is it?
I have a bad habit. I drop my horizons to the left. Sure, it isn’t as destructive as a heroin addiction, but it forces me go in and rotate my photos to correct for the sagging horizon. If I spend a day at the beach or lakefront shooting, that amounts to a lot [...]
Photoshop CS4: Refine Mask Command
What is it?
The Refine Edge command, introduced in Photoshop CS3 gave users a set of tools for improving the quality of selection edges and adding a visual preview to a set of useful, if obscure commands in the Select menu. In Photoshop CS4, Adobe took the commands from Refine Edge and added them to the [...]
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