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A Leap Motion- & Arduino-controlled marble labyrinth

News Bot — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:15:35 GMT

“Strange,” mused the Director, as they turned away, “strange to think that even in Our Ford’s day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase [...]

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Demo: Hidden gems in Photoshop CS6

News Bot — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:15:35 GMT

Photoshop PM Bryan O’Neil Hughes writes, “This presentation of Hidden Gems was popular enough to get a second session added and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. I don’t touch CC (as that’s all still a “hidden gem”), and instead focus mainly on CS6 (though I also show some cool stuff in CS5 and CS4… and [...]

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Opening Files From Lightroom 5 Beta into Photoshop CS6

News Bot — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:57:17 GMT

If you make changes in the Develop module in the Lightroom 5 Beta and then choose to edit that image in Photoshop you will want Lightroom to render the PSD/TIFF file, not Photoshop (otherwise the Develop module changes will not be applied because Photoshop CS6�s version of Camera Raw is older than Lightroom�s). In order [...]

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Using Photoshop to help find missing kids

News Bot — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:40:05 GMT

A few years ago, John Penn was invited to attend the Internet Crimes Against Children Conference and share his knowledge as a Photoshop engineer. The experience changed his life. Now he�s a Senior Solutions Architect helping law enforcement agencies around the world use Photoshop to combat the exploitation of children.

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Soft Proofing Preview in Lightroom 5 Beta

News Bot — Mon, 20 May 2013 13:10:56 GMT

In the Develop module with Soft Proofing enabled, the before/after view now displays the Current photo (on the left) and the proofed photo (on the right). Note: you can still display the Before state on the left (as opposed to the Current photo) by selecting it from the Before drop down menu in the tool [...]

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Clever 360� Building Capture

News Bot — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:32:18 GMT

The resourceful kids at Candy Glass Productions show how to use Google Street View + Photoshop to create an animation that spins around a reference building (in this case the CN Tower): [Via Ben Hansen]

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Camera Raw 8.1 brings Retina support to Photoshop CS6

News Bot — Sat, 18 May 2013 15:21:59 GMT

In addition to HiDPI support, the new release (available via Adobe Labs) supports a number of new lens profiles plus the following cameras: Hasselblad H5D-60 Olympus PEN E-P5 Olympus PEN E-PL6 Phase One IQ260* Pentax Ricoh GR Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G6 Panasonic LUMIX DMC-LF1 Once Photoshop CC is available, this release will run there as [...]

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Apples, Oranges, & Creative Cloud: My Thoughts on CC

News Bot — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:26:13 GMT

I joined Adobe to make the tools that my friends & I wanted to use. I was a Web designer & animator who loved what I could do with Photoshop & Flash, but who hated all the barriers that got in the way. My whole mission was—and has remained—to hijack the brains of smarter people [...]

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Applying Virtual Copy Settings to the Master File

News Bot — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:11:16 GMT

There have been times when I have decided that the settings that I had applied to the Virtual Copy are better than what are on my Master. In this case, I can quickly apply the settings from a virtual copy to the master, by selecting Photo > Set Copy as Master (in the Library module). [...]

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The Coen Brothers switch to Premiere Pro

News Bot — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:23:57 GMT

How cool: The next version of Adobe video tools has been developed with features created in direct response to the needs of filmmakers, broadcasters and video professionals. In fact, the multiple Academy Award winning Coen brothers have been working directly with the Adobe Premiere Pro product team and are switching to Adobe Premiere Pro for [...]

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The World�s Smallest Movie

News Bot — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:19:25 GMT

WTF, IBM, GTFO… I remember in the early 80′s “drawing” on an IBM PCjr, fastidiously pecking out pixel after pixel. Now the company behind that artistic juggernaut has taken that approach to an insane extreme: You’re about to see the movie that holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film. The [...]

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Creating A Smart Collection Based on Virtual Copies in Lightroom 5 Beta

News Bot — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:52:42 GMT

Although it�s easy to find your Virtual Copies by using the Filter options in Lightroom, (use the Attribute filter and click the Virtual Copy icon on the far right), it isn�t as readily apparent how one can create a Smart Collection that automatically finds your Virtual Copies – but it can be done! In the [...]

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Can you open a Photoshop CC file in CS6?

News Bot — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:06:20 GMT

Over the last few days I’ve seen numerous questionsabout what data, exactly, is backward-compatible when opening a Photoshop PSD file in an older version of the app. The Photoshop team has worked to keep things as compatible as possible even with 20+ years of evolution. Just for reference, here are some points that might be [...]

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Friday demo/Q&A: New Ways to Work with Creative Cloud

News Bot — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:45:29 GMT

10am Pacific time with evangelist Paul Trani: Creative Cloud is so much more than just the apps available. It’s about removing the clutter from work and focusing on producing great projects. It’s about sharing and collaborating. It’s about syncing more than just a file, and more than just with yourself. In this session, Paul Trani [...]

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Automatically Set as Target Collection in Lightroom 5 Beta

News Bot — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:30:22 GMT

In previous versions of Lightroom, you could Control (Mac) / Right Mouse (Win) -click a collection and choose �Set as Target Collection�. Then, adding additional images to the collection was as simple as tapping the �B� key (as oppose to dragging each image from the grid view into the collection). In the Lightroom 5 Beta, [...]

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