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.

Photoshop® Top Secret - Training DVD

+ New Photoshop Tutorial DVD by photoshop vetran Mark Monciardini has been released. This student-friendly home study course includes four DVD-ROMs with over 16 gigabytes of photoshop video tutorials and project files. Author claims; The course will teach you how to become the ultimate Photoshop® "black belt" for fun and/or profit. You'll learn how to create top-level special effects for eye-catching movie posters, album covers, book jackets, brochures, mailing pieces, magazine covers, article illustrations, and a tremendously wide range of print ads and Web site graphics.

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Matte Painting Photoshop Tutorial For Beginners

+ CGIndia, has published a new matte painting tutorial for photoshop users. This photoshop tutorial is created by CG Artist shailesh pahuja who shows you; How to easily create Digital Matte Painting using Adobe Photoshop. This is quite easy tutorial to learn, but a basic know-how of Photoshop (or equivalent software) is required.
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Using "Levels" in Photoshop

+ Just stumbled upon this great photoshop tutorial, which gives you a detailed insight on using Levels tool in Photoshop for enhancing lighting in any digital images. This is a very handy tutorial for photographers / image editing professional and can be used with other image editing programs. Basically the levels tool can move and stretch brightness levels in a histogram using three main components: a black point, white point and mid-tone slider. The position of the black and white point sliders redefine the histogram's "Input Levels", so they are mapped to the "Output Levels" (default is black (0) or white (255), respectively), whereas the mid-tone slider redefines the location of middle gray (128).
Using "Levels" in Photoshop - Tutorial Link

Animated gif from a quicktime movie

+ In this useful photoshop tutorial, Alan Hettinger shows you; how to easily create Animated gif from any quicktime movie. The process you learn in this tutorial can be used for creating various forum avatars and web graphics.

Snippet:"This tut will teach you how to make an animated gif from a quicktime movie. This is great for forum avatars or buddy icons. First choose a movie trailer with a scene you would like as your animated gif. I have selected the flying bats from Batman Begins. With your Quicktime movie open, and Photoshop open, go through the following steps."

Animated gif from a quicktime movie - Tutorial link

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

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.
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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