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.

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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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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 :)
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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.

Artizen Photoshop Plugins Demo

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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.

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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!