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Under a promotion Sitepoint is giving away free downloads of e-Book titled ‘The Photoshop Anthology’ in .PDF format. No strings attach, no payments. All you need to do is, go to the website, enter your email address and start downloading. The is a limited time offer and expired on 13 June 2008.The e-book explains 101 web design tips and tricks - tried and tested real-world Photoshop solutions that will add impact to your next web design project. If you’ve ever been stuck for inspiration, have puzzled over just how to create a shiny aqua-style button, or wanted to create that seamlessly tiling background image you saw on a site recently, you need to download this book.[source] - Download
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Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop Express, an online version of Photoshop that allows you to edit, publish and share your photos in image galleries for free. It is made with the help of Flex, the Adobe framework for creating Rich Internet Applications.You will be able to upload photos and organize them in albums. Also you will get 2 GB of free storage space for your photos .As compared with the desktop version Photoshop, Photoshop Express has only a few features, but they are enough to enhance your photos online. The tools available with this application is able to remove red-eye, auto correct images, perform various tuning actions like highlight, sharpen, white balance, focus and apply effects. [source:softpedia]
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Want to create horror effects using Photoshop? At Photoshoproadmap, you can see special brushes and list of Photoshop tutorials filled with gore, splatter and blood.

Some previews have been blocked just because the final effect was too explicit. Have some fun with your photos, but don’t scare your kid brother too much, please.

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Luxa is a community site dedicated to Adobe Photoshop, provides articles and new design tutorials, and have a voting system like digg, which ensure the quality of the tutorials.

As a powerful graphic editor, PS is widely used in graphic designs and there is lot of things to learn everyday. If you are a graphic designer, in my personal opinion, you should visit Luxa there you can find something useful.

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By using software shortcuts you can boost up your work. At Webdesignerwall you can see some secret Photoshop shortcuts which are not documented in the menus. All shortcuts are quite useful for speed up your works.

For example:

>To scale the font size - increase or decrease, press Ctrl + Shift + > or <.

>To set the Layer opacity or selected Brush opacity, press the number keys (1=10%, 2=20 %....) to adjust opacity.
You can find such 30 tricks there
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For some design works Photoshop required additional plug-in. Richard Rosenman’s site features a growing set of (mostly free) Photoshop filters / plug-in coded by him.

Here are some lists of Photoshop plug-ins founded on the site:

3D Sphere Generator - generates a 3D sphere and allows you to configure many of its properties.

Scanlines Generator - create those hard to produce scanlines on your image to simulate a monitor.

Spherical Mapping Corrector - produces texture map correction for spherical texture mapping.

Pixelate - pixelate an image.

Portable PixMap - imports and exports Portable PixMap (PPM, PGM, PBM) images. The PPM / PGM / PBM file format is a convenient image file format which allows one to save an image in ASCII or BINARY mode.

Superformula - generates a wide variety of geometric shapes using the Superformula…and more.

For more information and download visit his site

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This is a great site for Photoshop Filters. Here you can find thousands of Photoshop filters and see how they modify your picture. They provide descriptions of effects of each filter and you can also download the file from here.

Moreover, one and the same photo has been used to show all effects and to facilitate you comparison of particular filters.

These filters have been custom made by individuals who use Filter Factory in making custom Plug-Ins for Photoshop. If you have your own, favorite filters, you can also contact and publish them on the site.

To see and download click here

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Even though resources are not so big, we can search and find useful tutorials at Xtream.Pixel.com. For example to make Vista wallpaper, buttons with light under or crating a web2 button etc. are found under Photoshop.

Search tutorials by category like Photoshop, 3dMax, Macromedia Flash, HTML, CSS etc.

Another search engine for tutorials is Tutorial-search.com. We can find many useful tutorials on different subject here. Tutorial on Swish Max, Blender, etc are the main attractions.

The tutorial links are uploaded by people and are free to use.
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Browse through the archive of Photoshop, Corel Painter, and Paint Shop for tips and tutorials and learn cool tricks and enhance your skills. This is the site where you can learn remarkable tips about using your graphics programs.

All tips and tutorials are described in detail and quite easy to understand and are free for personal use. Just visit the site and learn Photoshop and other graphic programs and enhance your skill.

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Photoshop tips page

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Have a try at ImageChef

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Adobe announces a free online version of Photoshop image editor, which will attract more users who looking to manipulate pictures.

It is reported that the company will release the online service in six months and will be available for free. But it comes with ads displayed by Adobe for revenue. This announcement may increases the accessibility of Photoshop.

As per the report of TechCrunch " This announcement comes at a time when developers are lavishing attention on Adobe’s Flex platform, particularly in the video editing and sharing space and reasonable for startups to question if Adobe will plan on competing with them in areas beyond photo editing”.

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Photoshop required large memory to function well (1 GB or more is preferable) because it handle image files. Here discussing how to speed up startup of Photoshop.

Each time Photoshop start, all plug-ins (necessary or unnecessary) also load with Photoshop. You can prevent unnecessary plug-ins by loading thus reduce start up time.

Navigate to C:\program files (assuming ‘C’ is your installed directory)\Adobe. Open the directory. Here you can see folder named ‘plug-ins’. Within this folder you find the plug in files, all of which loaded each time Photoshop started.

You can disable plug-ins which you scarcely use. To do this simply edits the name of the files or folders containing plug-ins and insert a tilde (~) before each name. You can always re-enable the plug-ins by deleting the symbol ‘~’.

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