Photo Image Editing

Create Picture Frames in Photoshop: Part 2

In Part 1 of this tutorial, you learned how to create a picture frame, fill it with a photo, and change the perspective so the framed photo faces right or left. Now discover how to apply all those steps to any photo with one simple click. The secret? Automation courtesy of Photoshop's Actions and Droplets.

Create Picture Frames in Photoshop: Part 1

Using Photoshop, you can create a silver, gold, or wood-grain picture frame, fill it with a photo, and transform both frame and photo so that they're skewed in different perspectives. The realistic results are easier to achieve than you might think!

Best of the Blogs: Old School and New Skills

Don't have time to keep up with design and photography blogs? Keep calm and read on. In this blog round-up you'll find the most popular fonts of 2011, an amazing type book from 1912, a Herb Lubalin video from the 1980s, and a Photoshop cooking demonstration from 2007. Plus, there are plenty of Photoshop how-tos, digital photography tips, and design ideas.

Take a Peek at Photoshop's Near Future

Photoshop's senior product manager, Bryan O'Neil Hughes, gives you a glimpse into Photoshop CS6 in this sneak peek video.

Exposure 4 from Alien Skin Is Faster, Easier

The upcoming version of this Photoshop plug-in that simulates the look of traditional film has been revved up and redesigned. It will be available for sale next month.

Get Rid of Red Eye

In this one-minute video, you'll learn how to remove red eye from any photo using a hidden tool in Adobe Photoshop.

Create iPhone Cinemagraphs

Kinotopic is an iPhone app that helps you make the popular animated GIFs called cinemagraphs out of video filmed on your phone.

Corel's AfterShot Pro Seeks to Lure Lightroom and Aperture Users

If you're looking for an alternative to photo management and non-destructive editing that products such as Adobe's Lightroom offer. The software, available for Mac and Linux as well as Windows, will cost $99 or $79 for existing Bibble 5, PaintShop Pro X2, Lightroom or Aperture customers.

What You'll Find in Lightroom 4

The beta version of Adobe's Lightroom 4 imaging software is now available as a free download. Here are some of the new tools you can experiment with.

Scanning Around With Gene: Painting With Air

Before there was software to create illustrations and retouch photos, there was the airbrush, which uses compressed air to create a fine spray of paint. Here’s a 1947 look at airbrush technique from the Paasche Airbrush Company.

Easy HDR Photo Software Debuts

Oloneo says that its HDRengine is affordable and easy to use yet still packs the punch of pro-level software.

Adobe Issues Updates to Lightroom and Camera Raw

You can now download the final releases of Lightroom 3.6 and Camera Raw. Free to registered users, the updates include Raw support for nine hot new cameras.

Try CameraBag 2 Photo Editor for Free

Download the public beta of CameraBag 2 for Macs and PCs and play with a new way to crop, correct, and stylize photos.

Game Gives You Chance to Win Photoshop and Much More

LevelUp for Photoshop is a new online game from Adobe. The aim is to master Photoshop, and the reward is the chance to enter a monthly drawing to win the Creative Suite Master Collection.

Knock 33% Off Updated Image Processing Program

Version 7 of DxO Optics Pro will be available for download starting November 30, 2011. Until December 24, 2011, the company is cutting the price by 33 percent. Optics Pro 7 has a retooled interface and workflow that promises to make your image processing more accurate and faster.

Photoshop How-To: Fill a Face Full of Words

Using one photo and three layers of text, you can create a powerful image in Adobe Photoshop.

How Well Do You Know Photoshop?

Four videos teach you Photoshop skills that include selective image sharpening that doesn't suck, automatic correction for camera lens distortions, combining Photoshop and a tablet app for original effects, and the big helper known as Mini Bridge.

Best of the Blogs: November 4, 2011

This circumnavigation of the blogosphere includes posts about fonts (best, worst, and missing), color correction (Photoshop curves and/or levels), paper (handmade and mill run), printers (desktop and press), color calibration (monitor and printer), and an impressive if controversial demo of photo-deblurring technology. Plus, job hunting tips and product how-tos.

Enlarge Images with Alien Skin's Blow Up 3

This Photoshop plug-in has a simplified user interface, and Alien Skin say that Blow Up 3 produces images that are sharper than before.

Turn a Red Car to Gold in Photoshop

It's fun and useful to change the color of one object in a photo. While you can do it easily enough in Photoshop, the Hue/Saturation technique most people try usually doesn't work well. Instead, use my foolproof method.