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Over on YouTube, the Photoshop team has another sneak peek showing some of the great stuff you’ll see in CS6.  First off they show a great feature I can’t wait for: Background Saving.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been frustrated dealing with large poster-print images (1G+) that take 30-45s to save.  In addition, they show a new GPU-accelerated “Liquify” operation that eliminates lots of the lag and problems experienced in the current version.

Sneak Peek #2 – YouTube.

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Adobe has posted a great new sneak-peek video of what you’ll be able to do with the new Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw.  Showing off some amazing processing capable on crappy cell-phone photos along with some new UI features like interface color changes.

In this video taken straight from the laptop of our Senior Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, get an early look at some of the things the Photoshop team is working on for Camera Raw.

via Sneak Peek #1 – YouTube.

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In an amazing detailed post over at Impulse Adventure, they break down all the different settings of JPEG images and found one interesting little quirk in how Photoshop handles JPEG Images.  The moral of the story: Never use JPEG Quality 7.

What many people don’t know is that there is a quirk in the way that Photoshop defines its quality range. As mentioned earlier, Quality level 6 is the last point in which chroma subsampling is used. At Quality level 7 and higher, no chroma subsampling is used at all. With the amount of color information encoded now doubled, the file size would have naturally increased significantly at this level versus the previous level.

However, it is likely that Adobe decided to allocate the various quality levels with some relationship to the final compressed file size. Therefore, Adobe chose a poorer luminance and chrominance compression quality (i.e. higher level of compression) in Quality level 7 than Quality level 6!

What this means is that the image quality of Quality level 7 is actually lower than Quality level 6 (at least from luminance detail perspective).

This fact has apparently been confirmed with subjective MOS scores against various images at both quality levels.

Get all the details at their site.

via ImpulseAdventure – JPEG Quality and Quantization Tables for Digital Cameras, Photoshop. via Gizmodo

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I think everyone knows by now that the amazing images NASA shows from the Hubble Telescope are actually composites made from dozens, sometimes hundreds of images.  In a rare behind-the-scenes, NASA has released a timelapse of someone doing the work in the greatest of all image editors, Photoshop.

Hubble images are made, not born. Images must be woven together from the incoming data from the cameras, cleaned up and given colors that bring out features that eyes would otherwise miss. In this video from HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope, a Hubble-imaged galaxy comes together on the screen at super-fast speed.

via YouTube – Creating a Hubble Galaxy in Two Minutes.

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Daniel Lieske has a great “making of” over at cgheute that demonstrates his prowess in ZBrush and Photoshop.

‘Saving the Alien Girl’ is in two respects, for my circumstances, unusual artwork. First, it is the genre produces one of my very few motifs, in the field of science fiction are found, and secondly, I have used in this artwork, one for me completely new technology – the Digital Sculpting. To the latter will meet again this Making Of Turn, in fact I would like to try, to give an insight into this exciting technology, which at first glance looks like 3D graphics, But clearly in many crucial respects different from the classical work in 3D programs. By Daniel Lieske.

Making of Saving the Alien Girl | cgheute.

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Photoshop Actions are an incredibly powerful but frequently underutilized aspect of everyone’s favorite photo editing tool.  In a new tutorial on TutsPlus, marvel at the massive action they create to take a single flattened image and turn it into a beautiful 3D box, properly lit and shadowed.

Actions can be used to quickly automate repetitive tasks. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create an action that will automatically create a 3D software box from a flat template.

It’s a big tutorial (72 steps), and the resulting action can take minutes on a slower computer, but it’s a great example of the sheer power of Photoshop Actions.

via Create a 3D Software Box in Photoshop Using Actions | Psdtuts+.

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Power up your PhotoShop install with the massive collection of “stuff” from noupe.  From websites to sample PSD’s, brushes to books, they’ve found everything they could and offer it up as their Ultimate Toolbox.

Below is a collection of invaluable Photoshop resources from the online community that runs the proverbial gamut of available PS content. From toolkits full of templates, shapes, gradients, brushes, and so much more, to individual resource downloads of informative PDFs, usable PSDs, and other content galore, this post has everything you will need to amp up your Photoshop toolbox. So if you are a Photoshop devotee, or even just a newb getting started with the program, take a moment to browse down through these useful downloads that we have amassed.

via The Ultimate Photoshop Toolbox – Noupe Design Blog.

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As if the Oil Spill wasn’t bad enough, now BP has gone and shown us another level of ineptitude: Their complete lack of Photoshop skills.  A series of images has been released by various BP organizations purportedly showing just how hard they’re working on solving the Gulf Oil Crisis.  Sadly, the images are fabrications, and not very good ones.

The first one found was this image of the BP Command Center.

Several people have dissected this image (Gizmodo, Ameriblog) and have very detailed zooms showing how BP, for some unknown reason, decided to replace blank monitors with video footage.  In particular, the guy on the right seems to be staring at some kind of Sun chart?  In reality, he was staring at a screen with nothing but a white line on it, some of which you can still see on either side of his head.

Now, they’ve gone and done it again with this image of their aerial monitoring from helicopters over the gulf.

Click for the fullsize.  Once again, even moreso actually, you can easily see the blurred edges of the water and the oddly placed air traffic control tower in the upper left.  If you look very closely, you can even read the dash instruments which say they are hovering a mere 1 foot off the ground.  Gizmodo breaks it down quite well:

And last, while the helicopter clearly appears to be situated at some height above the boats ahead, the readouts on the dash appear to indicate that the helicopter’s height is 1 foot, and that door and ramp are open and the parking brake engaged, not to mention that the pilot appears to be holding a pre-flight checklist:

Obviously there are bigger fish to fry when it comes to BP. But every time they fabricate an image like this, it undermines whatever little credibility they have left, along with all of the actual documentation of the massive undertaking this has been and will continue to be. It speaks to a company still more concerned with image than reality, in charge of repairing something so terribly broken that we can’t afford to treat it with anything but total candor.

If you find any more, let us know in the comments!

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Over at the SmashingHub, they’ve compiled a good list of 27 photoshop tutorials focusing on the new 3D features, and using some of the older features to get similar 3D-ish effects.

Designers love tutorial that can help them to learn every day. Photoshop might not be known as best software for designing 3D elements but all kinds of 3D effect can be achievable using Photoshop. 3D effect can really spice up your design and create a magical effect to your design.

Today’s portfolio consists of various categories like text effects, photo effects, manipulation, Realistic, multimedia, surreal etc. Here are have 27 stunning 3D fresh Photoshop Tutorial, these are gorgeous 3D effect in Photoshop that help you step by step.

via 27 New and Fabulous 3D Tutorials in Photoshop.

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Adobe has released the first patch for Photoshop CS5 with several little bugfixes that you may be interested in.  The biggest fixes:

• A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
• Top crashers found in the field have been addressed.
• 3D refractions, Ray Tracing and IBL workflows improved.
• Out of memory error opening some TIFFs has been addressed.
• A crash in Content Aware Fill has been addressed.
• Font related crashes have been addressed.
• Scroll wheel issue addressed.
• A number of user interface and workspace issues addressed.
• A number of painting issues addressed, including video layer issue.
• Droplet issues addressed.

Go download it now for Mac or PC.

Adobe – Photoshop : For Macintosh : Adobe Photoshop 12.0.1 update for Adobe Photoshop CS5.

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