"Project: Photoshop and Lightroom reaffirms Adobe's commitment to photography and photographic education," said Julieanne Kost, senior evangelist at Adobe. "This program enables students and educators to experience the Lightroom beta first hand, get in-depth training on Photoshop as well as serve as a conduit from which they can freely share their work, ideas and tips through a dynamic online community."

There will be a two-day seminar at each venue with world-renowned documentary photographer and four-time Picture of the Year Award winner Colin Finlay taking participants under his wing. He will share some tidbits of his career as a photographer, while Julianne Kost will take the wheel on the second day, briefing students on how to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom beta. A selected group of students will be chosen to join Finlay in a workshop assignment. Students will place images from this assignment into a portfolio which will be uploaded to the Web site for sharing with the extended community.

Adobe Lightroom, available in public beta for both Windows® and Macintosh platforms.

Schedule:

Sept. 5-6, Lansing Community College, Lansing, Mich.
Sept. 7-8, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas Sept. 11-12, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, Calif.
Sept. 13-14, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Calif.
Sept. 15-16, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, Calif.
Sept. 18-19, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, Calif.
Sept. 20-21, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif.
Sept. 26-27, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
Sept. 28-29, Syracuse University, The Newhouse School of Communications, Syracuse, N.Y.
Oct. 5-6, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
Oct. 9-10, Antonelli Institute, near Philadelphia, Pa.
Oct 11-12, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M.
Oct. 16-17, Art Institute of Colorado, Denver, Colo.
Oct. 18-19, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah Oct 23-24, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, N.Y.
Oct. 27, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, New York City, N.Y.
Oct. 28, Parsons - The New School for Design, New York City, N.Y.
Nov. 6-7, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga.
Nov 15-16, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Fl.
Nov. 27-28, New England School of Photography, Boston, Mass.
Nov. 29-30, Hallmark Institute of Photography, Turner's Falls, Mass.
Dec 4 - 5, Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, Wash.
Dec 7 - 8, School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York

So here's the situation.

Your really hot pen-pal in Europe has finally sent his or her picture to you and is now asking you to send one of your own as well. Knowing that that old prom pic just won't do, you take your digicam and pose as only a model would, then you download all the shots into your computer. Just as you were about to send off those pictures, something catches your eye: the lack of a hairline.

In the words of Douglas Adams: Don't Panic!

That's because David Nigel has prepared a step-by-step tutorial to help those in a... not-so-hairy situation. By creating a simple custom brush in Photoshop 7, which is pretty much composed of a few squiggly lines, one can create convincing hair and fur effects for those emergency touch-ups. He has also included directions and tips on how to blend the effect with your photo to make it look as convincing and as real as possible.

So, with that problem out of the way, things should be fine. Well, at least until the time that you and your pen-pal decide to meet up, that is.

Click on Read for the step-by-step procedures.

These days, thanks to Photoshop, any guy can photoshop his head on Collin Farrell's body and pass it as genuine. But trick photography isn't a new art form. The article "How To Make Incredible Pictures" was printed back in September 1955, before the time of Photoshop and Farrell. But what the people lack in technology then, they made up with creativity.

Making the photo of a boy holding up the oversized fish or the woman smelling a rose bigger than Gary Bonds took more than a few clicks of a mouse. In a nutshell, the finished product are composite photos. The boy and the woman were photographed pretending to hold the whale, er, fish or smelling the giant flower, respectively. The fish and the rose were added later manually (you do remember what "manually" means, right?) by cropping pics of fish and rose and putting them in place on the previous photographs. A third picture was taken to create the amazing photographs.

Crude and amateurish by today's standards. But less pathetic than guys with fake Collin Farrell bods.

Sydney Harbour is renowned not only for the Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, but also for its panoramic night view. No wonder tons of photos and images of that particular area keep popping up on the net. Let's face it, though - not everyone is good at taking pictures. It's difficult to cram something so grand and majestic in one single shot. This is why Scott Howard put together 170 images taken with a Canon 10D and a Canon 100-400L lens. The result? An awesome 715 megapixel (40,000 x 18,000) photo of Sydney Harbor at night.

Most of the photos were taken using 400mm, with some "fill" shots (e.g. sky in the top left corner) taken at around 200mm. All photos are at ISO 200, 6 seconds, f/6.7 in manual mode. All the office buildings are taken at least 1200 meters (about 1300 yards) away from the camera. The Harbour Bridge shot was taken about half of that distance. When zoomed in, the image is made up of 14,729 .jpg files, each about 5 to 15kb in size. The original image is a 1.3GB Photoshop file.

Check out Scott Howard's photography site and play around with the picture. You can zoom in, zoom out, move it left, right, up, and down. It's fun and it's breathtaking.

If I am to make a list of the things I love the most, these two will definitely make the top ten - Summer and Anime. First, who hates summer?! No homeworks to tackle, no class bully to avoid, and no worries of staying up late because you have to wake up early tomorrow for class; the only downside is, boredom. On the other hand, who doesn't love Animes?! Don't go telling me it's kid stuff, I used to handle a column space and most of the quotes I used were from animes, like Kira Yamato's (Google him) "If we don't do anything just because we think it won't do something, then we just did worse than nothing". The downside, you can only enjoy them so much.

So what can we do with these downsides? Well, try to find a way to hit 'em two birds with one stone; use the spare time (spare equates boring) to learn something that can expand your love for animes, like this neat trick using Adobe Photoshop (provided by the good people over at TutorialDash). What we have here is a set of steps to make a real thing appear it's taken right from the frames of an anime episode. Talk about doing things in reverse right? (Anime creators stive hard to make their work realistic, and here we are trying to make real things look, well, anime-istic.)

The steps await after the jump!

It has been quite some time since we last heard from Bibble Labs, and now you might consider yourselves lucky because finally, Bibble Labs has returned again to release its latest version of Bibble Pro.

Bibble Pro 4.8 is a free update to its professional workflow solution. This application offers an integrated browser, powerful batch processing, hotkeys assigned by the user, one-click image correction, a Photoshop plug-in, a flexible renaming system, and a advanced lens correction. With this 4.8 update though, the Lens correction tool will be more powerful.

There will also be an additional application that will allow robust Black and White conversion and a Spot Color feature. Bibble Pro 4.8 also has added support for additional digital cameras and comes in two versions: the Universal Binary that costs $70 and the Pro version with added copy/paste functions, multithread operation, digital noise correction/suppression, work queues and tethered shooting for $130. This application is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux systems.

I'm pretty sure you've heard a lot of celebrities say not to believe the photos that you see in the magazines because they aren't real. There's some truth into that and with Mizuno's Photoshop tutorial you'll see why.

Before

Step 1


Use the Heal Brush tool  to remove any obvious marks or blemish. A small sized brush would be advisable so as to brush away the blemishes without losing any important detail.

Read full article after the jump!

This is an attempt by photoshop/4106" id="tag" title="">Dr. Photoshop to recreate the default wallpaper for Mac OS X called Aqua Blue. It will help if you have the original picture of the Mac wallie in front of you as you work for real time comparison. It may not be much but it is something to call your own. Just add your own touch to this wallpaper classic.

1. Create a new document that is double the size for your intended project. In this example it is 5000 pixels x 5000 pixels. Use #0A5FAF as a fill for the background.
2. Create a new layer.
3. Expand the window making a large margin outside the document canvas.
4. Using the pen tool, make a curve that starts outside the document and ends outside of it as well.
5. Right click or Ctrl Click on the pen path and fill the path with white or #FFFFFF.
6. Apply a stroke effect of about 1 to 5 px depending on the size of the document.
7. Adjust the fill to about 10-30%
8. Repeat Steps 2-7 a couple of times.
9. Duplicate each layer for safety measure. Just hide the original so no changes will take effect on it. Also, so you won't have to re-do every layer in case you make a mistake.
10. Apply a mask to the newly rasterized layer (you can find the button in the bottom of the layer palette). Take the gradient tool and set it to black to white and blending mode darken. On the layer mask, apply gradients by clicking and dragging. By setting the blending mode to darken, you can apply the gradient multiple times and it will not undo the region masked region created on the gradient you dragged out just before. This would not be true if it were normal. You want to leave the center and the middle of the stroke mostly intact and hide the ends and sections not close the the line.

Download: [How to Video]

If you're a Windows user, then this sight is pretty familiar to you.

But if you're a city dweller like me, then wouldn't you want this as wallpaper instead?

Inspired by very interesting cloud formations, Sam Javanrouh took this image of a city landscape in Canada. The image was made with only one exposure. The post processing involves various adjustment layers including channel mixer, curves and selective dodging and burning in Photoshop. Here's a "before/after processing" of the raw photo.

All of us are aware that we'll encounter some limitations with our digital cameras sooner or later - most especially with compacts - so we definitely need all the advice we can get on how to make the most out of them.

Fortunately for us, there are ways to improve our digicams in inexpensive ways. Here's one you can do yourself that greatly improve the images that you take. You can attach a wide-angle door viewer to the lens of your camera that will provide your old camera with a 160-degree wide angle view.

You need a wide angle door viewer which you can buy at any hardware store. You have to look for one that has the largest possible eyehole as the ones with small openings will not produce good images.

You then remove the threaded backing from the door viewer and then start snapping away. If your camera has a center-weighted mode, turn that on to force it to focus on the image that you've chosen.

You can also choose to edit photos you've taken in either Gimp or Photoshop to crop out the circular image (the object of the photo itself).