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If you aren’t in love with Adobe’s ExtendScript Toolkit, welcome to the club. I’ve come up with a Sublime Text 2 build system package that lets you run JSX scripts directly from Sublime Text targeting Photoshop, Command+B or CTRL+B and voilà!
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As a freelance developer I’ve been using my DropBox account as the projects cloud backup – yet if you’re willing to setup it as a private GitHub repository for version control, possibly in conjunction with a SublimeText Git plugin… chances are that you’ll spend some time looking for issue workarounds. Why bother, I’ve gathered them here for you!
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Theme Switcher is a free Photoshop panel that gives you a handy way to switch Theme (i.e. the user interface color: Original, Light Gray, Medium Gray and Dark Gray) in a click – no need to bother with Preferences anymore!
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Color Correction Maestro Dan Margulis has just published a new book about his latest research, appropriately called “Modern Photoshop Color Workflow – The Quartertone Quandary, the PPW, and Other Ideas for Speedy Image Enhancement”. I’ve asked to three beta-readers, who happens to be among my best friends and experienced colleagues, few questions about the book’s topics. Read along, I’ve a special guest too!
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Parametric Curves is a free Photoshop script that lets you plot mathematically defined (Javascript) Curves Adjustment layers. Here I’ll show you the script interface and I’ll walk you through the creation of some interesting Curves, that will be the building blocks of advanced creative manipulations.
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It’s fascinating the complexity of designs you can get just mixing Gradients with parametric Curves built via scripting in Photoshop – that can be used for textures, bump maps or displacement maps, abstract designs or animations.
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When scripting for the Creative Suite it may be handy to setup a Preset system, in order to allow users save and retrieve their own preferred configurations easily. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to implement Presets with a DropDownList menu based upon XML data.
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If you try to open in Photoshop CS6 a 3F (a file with extension .fff, the raw format for Hasselblad and Imacon scanners) coming from the FlexColor software, you’re going to run into troubles: here it is the workaround! And I’ll show you my 3F retouching workflow.
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Filter Forge is a PS plugin; actually it’s more than a PS plugin, Filter Forge is a PS plugins’ container (some 9000 of them, freely available); no really, that’s not as exciting as the fact that Filter Forge lets you build your own PS filters. Visually. Oh listen: follow me, I’m gonna show it to you – it’s easier than you think and a lot fun.
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Double USM is the brand new Sharpening script for Photoshop coded by Davide Barranca; in this third post of the series I’ll show you examples for traditional sharpening, HiRaLoAm (High Radius Low Amount) and mixed sharpening.
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Double USM is the brand new Sharpening script for Photoshop that I’ve coded; in this second post of the series I’ll cover the user interface, functionality and how to record it into an Action for batch processing.
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Double USM is the brand new Sharpening Photoshop’s script I’ve coded! Let me introduce it to you in a three posts series: in this first one I’ll be discussing why it’s useful and how it works. Post #2 will be about the interface and how it works. In Post #3 I’ll show you examples and we’ll try to find a place for it in your own image processing workflow.
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If you’re willing to produce digital books to be sold by Apple, be aware that each one of the available tools will shape your content and how it is going to be delivered in a very peculiar way. This post will cover InDesign, iBooksAuthor and the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite targeting Apple iBookStore and AppStore with ePub, iBooks and Apps. Which one does fit your needs the best?
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Are you looking for Photoshop Extensions? I’m pleased to announce that CS Extensions, a brand new website entirely dedicated to Creative Suite products targeted to Photographers and Retouchers, is finally online (a project that kept me quite busy in the last two months).
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Capture One 7 looks like a good improvement over the previous version, but shows a nasty bug when you use a particular combination of lens corrections (with raw files coming from P1 digital back at least). Be aware!
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