Photoshop Lightroom 1.1

+ Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the release of Photoshop Lightroom Ver. 1.1 update with added functionality and support for Windows Vista platform. The update is free for all Lightroom users and includes flexible image management for multi-computer workflows, improved noise reduction and sharpening technology, Windows Vista™ compatibility, and more. For more information about Photoshop Lightroom, please - click here!

Interactive Panoramas with Photoshop CS3 and PTViewer

+ Another very handy tutorial about creating Interactive Panoramas using CS3 and PTViewer. Scott Onstott explains how easily you can make great panoramas using Photoshop automate command Photomerge and few more simple steps. This tutorial in one way or another proves the advantage of using Photoshop CS3 over CS2, because although the ability to stitch multiple photos together was present in Photoshop CS2, it wasn’t all that great. To make things interactive Scott uses PTViewer, an free and open-source software initially developed by Helmut Dersch.....Now visit the tutorial link to know how to make an interactive panoramas in few simple steps -> Tutorial Link

Photoshop Tutorial - Changing hair color

+ Just found this very useful and handy Photoshop tutorial, which helps you change the appearances of your loved one or may be help you decide your new look. Anyways, In this tutorial author explains how to change color of hair in any image. As you must have imagined the most pain taking or tricky part is to select the hair, so in this handy Photoshop tutorial, author will show you not only, how-to easily select the hair using quick mask, but also how to change its color.
Photoshop Tutorial - changing hair colour

Power Retouche Photoshop plugins

+ Their are hundreds of Photoshop Plugins pack available and many claims to be very professional, but very few are quite up to their claimed standards and one of them is "Power Retouche", a real comprehensive set of photoshop Plugins for graphic artists, photographers and image editing professionals. The Power Retouche Plugins bundle offers a set of 25 very easy to use and quite flexible filters for your usual bread butter photo-editing jobs on daily basis, to quite tedious image enhancement functions. Equalizer, Lens Corrector, Sharpness Editor, Black definition Contrast and saturation Editor are the most note-worthy among the long list of Photoshop filters, which really extends the functionality of Photoshop to another level. Power Retouche V.7.1 is fully compatible with Photoshop CS3 as well as prior Photoshop’s and full support for 16 BIT, 48 BIT, 64 BIT modes.
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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!