Davide Barranca

5 Mar, 2013
Extensions and Scripts Parametric Curves Photoshop
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Gradients and Parametric Curves in Photoshop

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.

2 Mar, 2013
Coding
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Presets management with DropDownList and XML in ExtendScript

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.

22 Feb, 2013
Photoshop
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How to open and retouch Hasselblad 3F scanner files in Photoshop

Introducing Filter Forge

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.

28 Jan, 2013
Double USM Extensions and Scripts Photoshop
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Double USM #3: Examples

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.

28 Jan, 2013
Double USM Extensions and Scripts Photoshop
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Double USM #2: Features

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.

27 Jan, 2013
Double USM Extensions and Scripts Photoshop
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Double USM Photoshop Sharpening Script #1: Introduction

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.

14 Jan, 2013
Adobe DPS Digital Publishing iBooksAuthor
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Selling digital books with Apple: iBooksAuthor, InDesign, Digital Publishing Suite

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?

CS Extensions: Photoshop CS6 Extensions and Scripts website

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).

Capture One 7 DB – Lens Correction bug

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!

Action recordable scripts in Photoshop

In order to build a script that requires user input (from a GUI) and can be recorded into an Action, you must code a particular set of features - I'll be providing a commented example, to be used as a template.

ScriptUI – BridgeTalk persistent Window examples

ScriptUI Windows can be tricky in Photoshop, especially if you want to create a non-modal, persistent and idle palette. While a couple of workarounds are possible, as I've shown in a previous post, there's a better alternative involving BridgeTalk.