Photoshop

Peter Eastway is the editor of Better Photography magazine and the architect of countless breathtaking images. While exploring his blog, I stumbled across an image titled “Shark Bay from the Air.” The brilliant colors and graphic elements captivated me, but what shocked me was viewing the original capture. The colors and contrast were drab and uninteresting. His image went from boring to blissful entirely during the post-capture creative process. This reminded me to never underestimate the power of skilled and thoughtful editing. In today’s Photoshop Workbench, we’ll use a Patagonia iceberg image submitted by Luke Seaward to examine a few powerful “Peter-esque” strategies for selectively painting on contrast and color. Note: In this Workbench, I show how to use Color blend mode to brush on color. Although I don’t mention it, there are a few other blend modes that may also be useful for adding color. The modes are Multiply, Overlay, Soft Light, and Hard Light. The post Photoshop Workbench 387: Selectively Brushing On Contrast and Color appeared first on Mark S. Johnson Photography.

DevRocket is a Photoshop panel meant to facilitate designing for iOS: A simplified solution to working between display resolutions, breaking down full ui designs into separate elements ready for Xcode and saving for the Retina display are just a few of the awesome features DevRocket brings to iOS designers currently using Photoshop. [Vimeo]

You still have plenty of time to submit your movie poster for this month’s Psdtuts+ Design Challenge. Join the community on Google+ and upload your art for the chance to get featured in our monthly reviews.This Month’s Challenge and ReviewThis month we asked for your help in choosing the theme and you picked, Recreate A Famous Movie Poster. You can submit your artwork for this challenge using Photoshop accompanied with any additional program or technique of your choice. Remember, the deadline for this challenge is Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 12:00 PM EST.Artist James White will also be joining the Google Hangout Review for this month’s challenge. Welcome him with us and stay tuned after the challenge for the official Google Hangout link to enjoy the design review live!Join The Psdtuts+ CommunityJoin The Psdtuts+ Google Community and upload your challenge submissions to the wall. Include the #psdtutsdc tag in your posts and feel free to explore past challenges, collaborate, and share feedback with fellow artists.Examples From This Month’s ChallengeWe’ve already got some incredible entries pouring in for this month. Join the Psdtuts+ Community on Google Plus to submit yours and to see more amazing work! Reservoir Dogs by Faseeh Rehman James Dean by Thomas Bailey The Birds by Rob Dorn Submit Your Artwork

Maybe short shorts aren’t the best choice for you. I’ve been warned away from pointing out problems between a woman’s knees, but I have to say something here. Growth, mosquito bite, or slipped knee cap? Thanks Maura! The post Gap: Something in the Gap appeared first on PSD : Photoshop Disasters .

In this tutorial, it is going to try to make a step-by-step guide covering how to create a conceptual art for an alien. It is a very large process, so this tutorial cannot go into as much detail as you want. But you will have some ideas of the artwork making. (View This Tutorial)

Noon Pacific: Join Julieanne Kost as she demonstrates new features in Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5, as well as sharing and collaboration features of Adobe Creative Cloud. In this Ask A Pro session, you will: Learn how Creative Cloud brings additional capabilities to your workflow with Sync Settings, Sync Fonts, and sharing with Creative Cloud See new features in Photoshop CC to enable more advanced sharpening than ever before with all-new Smart Sharpen, intelligent upsampling, and Camera Shake Reduction Learn how to perfect your images using the new Upright and Advanced Healing Brush in Adobe Camera Raw 8 and Lightroom 5 See how to customize your photo books in the updated Book module in Lightroom 5 Share your images with the leading online platform to showcase and discover creative work using Share to Behance from within Photoshop CC (time zone convertor)

More than any other feature in the new release, I’ve seen this one turn heads: Discover how to automatically fix common problems such as tilted horizons as well as converging verticals in buildings using Lightroom’s Upright controls for perspective correction. [Adobe TV]

Mario Sanchez Nevado is a Spain based freelance illustrator and art director also known as Aegis Strife. In this gallery you will see some of his most dramatic artworks. Visit Mario Sánchez Nevado web site…

A beam of light will be most intense in the center of the beam, so by making three different curves layers that get smaller and smaller it gives the light a sense of depth. It's also important to apply a gaussian blur to the layer masks so the light doesn't look unreasonably hard edged.

Cool: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite has reached a major new milestone: over 100 million cumulative folios downloaded since we first launched DPS in March 2011. The hockey stick growth curve in digital downloads confirms that mobile readership on tablets and smartphones is on the rise… The number of companies using DPS to accelerate their mobile marketing has increased 30% in the last six months alone. Creative Cloud subscribers get unlimited InDesign-to-iPad publishing via DPS Single Edition.