June, 2008

Going To Press? Make Sure Your Monitor Is In The “Right Space”

Monday, June 30th, 2008
By default, the RGB space for your monitor is set to sRGB, which is an okay mode for designing Web graphics. However, if you’re producing graphics for print, the sRGB mode is just about the worst RGB space your monitor could possibly be set at. It clips off lots of colors that are actually printable [...]

Exporting Video

Monday, June 30th, 2008
Video

Background Animation

Friday, June 27th, 2008
In this tutorial, Corey creates an animated background using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. createObject('swf','videos/swfplayer.swf?video=background-animation.flv&pre=pread.flv&post=postad.flv', 'width','500','height','417','scale','exactfit', 'quality','high','allowScriptAccess','sameDomain','bgcolor','#ffffff'); Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

TGIF…WTD!!!

Friday, June 27th, 2008
Duck

Let Photoshop Do Your Resolution Math

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
You don’t need a calculator to determine how much resolution you need for printing to a particular line screen—Photoshop will do all the math for you, right inside the Image Size dialog. Here’s how: Open the image you want to print. Go under the Image menu and choose Image Size. When the dialog appears, click [...]

Camera Raw 4.5 Release Candidate Available

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Lab

Wednesday…Yes It’s Wednesday

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Ski

Never Swap Colors Again When Cleaning Line Art

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
When cleaning up line art images with the Pencil tool, you can spend a lot of time going back and forth to the Toolbox to switch your Foreground color to black (to fill in missing pixels) and then to white (to erase pixels that shouldn’t be there in the first place). It does help if [...]

Never Swap Colors Again When Cleaning Line Art

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
When cleaning up line art images with the Pencil tool, you can spend a lot of time going back and forth to the Toolbox to switch your Foreground color to black (to fill in missing pixels) and then to white (to erase pixels that shouldn’t be there in the first place). It does help if [...]

Are Your Colors Press Ready?

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
If you’re working on an image that will be printed on a printing press and you select a color that’s outside the range of what a CMYK press can reproduce, you’ll get what’s called a Gamut Warning right within Photoshop’s Color Picker. This is just to let you know that the color you’ve chosen is [...]