Nov
9th
Photoshop CS4: an overview
By ezra vancil
Are you a Photoshop CS4 user thinking about upgrading to
Dreamweaver CS4 for web design? If so, you will find that the new
Photoshop CS4 features for the web will make your web developing
task faster and easier. The most important thing to consider is
time when you are developing, editing or updating a website. Time
is of the essence. Inserting or changing CSS code can take a lot of
time; if you have done any web design you know this is especially
true if the style sheet is very large.
Photoshop Dreamweaver CS4 has a new and improved interface. Most of the previous features are still there, but they have added a wide selection of predefined workspace options. The new interface gives you more flexibility and control. You can personalize your workspace.
The new Related Files and Code Navigation feature allows easy access to both the CCS source code and the parent page. This is done by using the Related Files bar. When you click a file in the Related Files bar you will see the CSS code in the Code View and the parent page in the Design View. This feature makes editing or adding code extremely easy. In the Design View you highlight the desired item that you want to edit or change, and Dreamweaver CS4 will search and locate the associated CSS source code and highlight it. You will see the results in the Code View. This is a powerful feature because you can make changes and examine them in the Design View. Manually searching for CSS source code can be timely, but this new feature eliminates that process.
The Code Hinting feature for Javascript frameworks and AJAX will give code hints to help web developers. This makes the process much quicker, and errors are dramatically decreased.
The new Live View feature is a web developers dream come true. Previously, after editing code developers needed to click a shortcut key to view their changes in a web browser. The design view in Dreamweaver looked different than it would when displayed in a web browser. Developers needed to toggle back and forth while editing code. Now, with Live View web developers can see the changes within the Dreamweaver CS4 application as they will appear in a web browser while they are working. The changes made to any code is simultaneously updated in the design and displayed.
The In Context Editing feature is useful for web developers who would like to allow end users edit ability on particular parts of a web page. It is a web based service that enables the end user to access the service and update or change web page content.
Three of the best new features in Photoshop CS4
Content-Aware Scaling allows you to resize or change the image format from horizontal to vertical without bending pixels and distorting your image. It only scales low detail information, and this is done by removing pixel “seams” of unimportant areas.
New 3D feature adds three-dimensional capabilities. Users can create 3D objects from scratch, change a 2D image to 3D object, and paint on 3D objects using an advanced 3D work area that has a full set of 3D tools.
Vibrance Feature is used for adding saturation to weak colors, but it does not over saturate colors that are strong. The new “protect skin tones” feature is fantastic, although the Vibrance is changed there is very little, if any, changes made to skin tones.
The Photoshop CS4 new features and the new Dreamweaver CS4 features gives users a powerful suite of tools that will increase productivity, and save time.
Photoshop Dreamweaver CS4 has a new and improved interface. Most of the previous features are still there, but they have added a wide selection of predefined workspace options. The new interface gives you more flexibility and control. You can personalize your workspace.
The new Related Files and Code Navigation feature allows easy access to both the CCS source code and the parent page. This is done by using the Related Files bar. When you click a file in the Related Files bar you will see the CSS code in the Code View and the parent page in the Design View. This feature makes editing or adding code extremely easy. In the Design View you highlight the desired item that you want to edit or change, and Dreamweaver CS4 will search and locate the associated CSS source code and highlight it. You will see the results in the Code View. This is a powerful feature because you can make changes and examine them in the Design View. Manually searching for CSS source code can be timely, but this new feature eliminates that process.
The Code Hinting feature for Javascript frameworks and AJAX will give code hints to help web developers. This makes the process much quicker, and errors are dramatically decreased.
The new Live View feature is a web developers dream come true. Previously, after editing code developers needed to click a shortcut key to view their changes in a web browser. The design view in Dreamweaver looked different than it would when displayed in a web browser. Developers needed to toggle back and forth while editing code. Now, with Live View web developers can see the changes within the Dreamweaver CS4 application as they will appear in a web browser while they are working. The changes made to any code is simultaneously updated in the design and displayed.
The In Context Editing feature is useful for web developers who would like to allow end users edit ability on particular parts of a web page. It is a web based service that enables the end user to access the service and update or change web page content.
Three of the best new features in Photoshop CS4
Content-Aware Scaling allows you to resize or change the image format from horizontal to vertical without bending pixels and distorting your image. It only scales low detail information, and this is done by removing pixel “seams” of unimportant areas.
New 3D feature adds three-dimensional capabilities. Users can create 3D objects from scratch, change a 2D image to 3D object, and paint on 3D objects using an advanced 3D work area that has a full set of 3D tools.
Vibrance Feature is used for adding saturation to weak colors, but it does not over saturate colors that are strong. The new “protect skin tones” feature is fantastic, although the Vibrance is changed there is very little, if any, changes made to skin tones.
The Photoshop CS4 new features and the new Dreamweaver CS4 features gives users a powerful suite of tools that will increase productivity, and save time.
Feb
10th
Photoshop Fast & Furious: Smokey Action
By ezra vancil
Just playing around last night and made a few new actions for you
to enjoy. These actions work best if the object effected is white,
but, feel free to experiment.
Instalation: Goto your actions pallet and open the drop-down on the right corner, there you will see a option to "load Actions" navigate to the PSGsmokey action and load-er up. You can edit the action by double clicking on any of the options in the action, you might want to first copy it by dragging it to the new action button in the lower right of the pallet.
There are three actions to choose frome > Smokey glass > Smokey dark & Smokey fade. Good luck and let me know what you think.
Download Photoshop Action Smokey
Instalation: Goto your actions pallet and open the drop-down on the right corner, there you will see a option to "load Actions" navigate to the PSGsmokey action and load-er up. You can edit the action by double clicking on any of the options in the action, you might want to first copy it by dragging it to the new action button in the lower right of the pallet.
There are three actions to choose frome > Smokey glass > Smokey dark & Smokey fade. Good luck and let me know what you think.
Download Photoshop Action Smokey
Feb
8th
Photoshop Fast & Furious: Quick Groups
By ezra vancil
I love it when you find a little short-cut
by accident that makes your life so much easier.
I dragged a layer to the wrong button in the layer pallet
in Photoshop CS3 and walla.. Now I've calculated that the
time I will save making groups over my life time, will allow me to
crochet
Here is what you do. Shift or command select the layers you want in a group, then drag them to the "new Group" folder at the bottom of your layer pallet and you have grouped those layers. If you are in a earlier CS, I believe you can only command select, but the same should apply.
7 mittens, bake 13 soufflé or learn to spell "scit-so-phrin-eia".
Here is what you do. Shift or command select the layers you want in a group, then drag them to the "new Group" folder at the bottom of your layer pallet and you have grouped those layers. If you are in a earlier CS, I believe you can only command select, but the same should apply.
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