Archive for October 14th, 2008
Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:42 No CommentsTweet Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual Photoshop Elements 7 includes lots of new tools for sprucing up your photos, like the Scene Cleaner that lets you get rid of unwanted elements and the Smart Brush that makes touch-ups a breeze. But the one thing you won’t find in Elements is reader-friendly guidance on how [...]
Make Your Portrait’s Eyes Come Alive
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:39 No CommentsTweet Make Your Portrait’s Eyes Come Alive If eyes really are the windows into one’s soul, then it probably helps to keep those windows bright and clean. It’s amazing how much of a difference bright, energetic-looking eyes can make to a photo. Indeed, a lot of pros in fashion photography use a subtle trick: They [...]
3D tools for illustrators
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:34 No CommentsTweet 3D tools for illustrators Compared to true 3D suites though, Photoshop Extended’s 3D tools aren’t especially advanced. You can’t create new textures in Photoshop, or change how they are mapped to areas of the model; meanwhile, to edit the model structure itself you need a 3D application. Lighting and rendering aren’t that sophisticated, either. [...]
Caligari trueSpace 7.6
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:30 No CommentsTweet Caligari trueSpace 7.6 Recently released for free following the takeover of developer Caligari by Microsoft, trueSpace is a fully-featured 3D application. Although it has an unorthodox look and feel, it offers hundreds of tools, animation facilities and physics simulations, and a collaborative working environment. Although there’s no integrated 3D file exchange with Photoshop Extended [...]
Daz 3D Bridge
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:27 No CommentsTweet Daz 3D Bridge 3D Bridge is an affordable plug-in for the free posing tool Daz Studio. Rather than rendering content as flat 2D images to Photoshop’s layer-based workflow, 3D Bridge lets you work with the image editor and posing tool simultaneously. At any time, you can do a fast OpenGL preview render of the [...]
