Happy Birthday Photoshop!
20 years? Yes! It was released in February 19, 1990.
Here’s a link to all of the release dates through CS2 in 2005.
And a fun article written by Jeff Schewe in 2000 about the history of Photoshop.
Photoshop changed photography.
Photoshop changed my life.
How has your life changed because of Photoshop?
NAPP (The National Association of Photoshop Professionals) will be hosting a celebration of Photoshop’s 20th Anniversary at the Palace of the Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco. The event will feature Adobe’s senior vice president of Creative Solutions, John Loiacono, as well as vice president of Photoshop Product Management, Kevin Connor, Photoshop co-creator Thomas Knoll, Adobe creative director Russell Brown. NAPP’s entire team Scott Kelby, Dave Cross, RC Concepcion, Matt Koslowski, Corey Barker, and many others will be there. Over a thousand people are expected to attend.
The event starts at 7:30 pm tonight.
You can see the live webcast here.
See Scott Kelby’s report here.
Interesting free Photoshop brushes.
“This free pack is filled with awesome paint splatters, drips, sprays, and more! You have two high resolution options to download them as: 2500px Photoshop Brushes or 3000px PNG images with transparent backgrounds. As with all of our resources, personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!”
Get them here.
Learn more painting techniques in my free Lessons.
Don’t just make the most of the weather, make the weather too!
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Learn more in my DVD Atmospheric FX.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing workshops.
Learn what’s unique about black & white and how to best adjust and print it.
Read more in my Black & White lessons.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.
Learn new ways of seeing and enhancing color.
Use 3 elements of color (Luminosity, Hue, Saturation) to adjust three types of color (Ideal, Ambient, Synthetic) and craft a unique palette that’s right for your authentic vision.
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Learn more in my DVD Photoshop Color Strategies.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing workshops.
Learn which color tools are essential, exotic, or redundant.
Then master the first two.
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Learn more in my DVD Photoshop Color Tools.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.
“Can’t remember your shortcuts? No worries. Introducing the Adobe Shortcut App, an amazing new tool from Adobe that lets you find and gather the shortcuts you need on your desktop. So they’re right where you need them, when you need them, allowing you to create your masterpieces with ease.”
You get a full list. You can make your own lists. I don’t find a list of shortcuts I already know useful. But I do find a list of shortcuts I’m currently trying to commit to memory very useful.
Get this application here. It’s free!
Learn more with my Lessons, DVDs, and Workshops.
Buy a Wacom Intous 4 tablet and get a free NAPP training DVD.
Choose from …
– Matt’s Mastering Photoshop Layers
– Photoshop Design Effects (with Corey Barker)
– David Cuerdon’s Portrait Retouching Toolkit
Offer good through December 31, 2009
3 New DVDs!
Fine Art Digital Printing
Fine Art Workflow
Extending Dynamic Range – HDR Imaging
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Read more on Printing in my free Lessons.
Learn more in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.