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30 Days of CS5: Conclusion
This wraps up our 30 Days of CS5 series. Although we’ve covered lots of new ground, we’re still really only scratching the surface of how these features can be implemented into your workflow to help you work faster and expand your creative options. Those deeper posts will continue over weeks and months to come, particularly [...]
30 Days of CS5: Adobe Media Encoder
It’s great to have seemingly unfettered control of your digital video, but this freedom is all for naught if you’re not able to deliver your video to the people who want to view it. For many, video encoding is a black art, complete with esoteric terminology, a range of buttons, dials and pulldown menus that [...]
30 Days of CS5: After Effects Color Finesse Program
I’ve spent the past several days highlighting the new tools in After Effects CS5 that help make your digital video look its very best. Today, I get to introduce you to perhaps the most powerful of these new features, the Color Finesse plugin from Synthetic Aperture, now bundled with After Effects CS5. Photographers will find [...]
30 Days of CS5: Camera Raw Files in AECS5
When I originally set out to write the 30 Days of CS5 blog series, I didn’t intend to spend so much time on After Effects. But, the more time I’ve spent with After Effects, the more potential I see for photographers and others, who aren’t videographers or motion graphics experts, to begin incorporating After Effects [...]
30 Days of CS5: After Effects CS5: Vibrance
Color correcting, or color grading, video footage can be a difficult skill to master and a time consuming-process, even once one is familiar with the tools. As a result, color grading is frequently skipped in favor of strictly focusing on the content gathering and editing process. With the speed benefits from working in Premiere Pro [...]
30 Days of CS5: Content Aware Fill
Back in the days when I was a production assistant for an architectural photographer, I spent a lot of time removing bits of trash from unfinished building sites and fixing cosmetic blemishes in the grass, on the sidewalk or building. Then, I had to make these corrections with the clone stamp, carefully selecting adjacent pixels [...]
30 Day of CS5: Cool Improvements
Several minor improvements to Photoshop CS5 offer subtle, yet important, benefits to photographers. As part of their “Just Do It” initiative (JDI), Photoshop engineers took a break from building new features to address annoyances and make changes proposed by Photoshop users. Here are two of my favorite JDI changes and a third updated feature you’ll [...]
30 Days of CS5: HDR Pro and HDR Toning
Although HDR photography has become popular in recent years, it has never lived up to its original promise of allowing photographers to capture images as their eyes originally saw them. Instead, most HDR images are gritty, high-contrast versions of the original. Stylistically, it was put to good use by some photographers looking for a post-apocalyptic, [...]
30 Days of CS5: Burning and Dodging with the Mixer Brush Tool
Originally designed to enhance the painting experience by mixing pixels as though they were watercolor paint, one of the brush tools I have found a photographic use for is the Mixer Brush tool. Using the Wet, Load and Mix controls, along with the Load brush and Clean brush options, you can reload your brush with [...]
30 Days of CS5: New Brush Tips
Photoshop CS5 features a number of interesting improvements to painting and brushes. The new brush tips, found within the Brushes panel, are designed for more lifelike painting, allowing you to simulate the effects of painting with a variety of brush tips, from a round fan brush to a flat angle tip. The Bristle Quality options [...]
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