True Painting in Photoshop
As part of last week's Photoshop World keynote, Adobe's Russell Brown gave a sneak peek of "experimental technology from Adobe Labs." He showed off new ways to paint in Photoshop, dragging out and blending colors that acted as if they were three-dimensional wet paint blobs. He also demonstrated new technologies for warping an image that uses control points to freeze and distort a mesh.

In yesterday's Adobe MAX keynote, Adobe senior VP Johnny Loiacono also showed the new painting tools, but he was more straightforward about the technology's status, saying that the painting tools will be in a future version of Photoshop. It's a safe bet that he means Creative Suite 5, which, by my calculations based on previous development cycles, will ship around April 2010.

You can watch Russell Brown's engaging demo of Photoshop's future here. And for more on Loiacono's big forward-looking MAX announcement, see Design & Develop iPhone Apps in Flash CS5.

Free For All: Textures
Pariah Burke assembled a hefty haul of free downloadable textures for you. Looking for paper, wood, zebra, grass, fabric? Got 'em. How about leather, leopard, metal, bricks, or giraffe? You bet! And a whole lot more, such as these:

Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game
Explore type's mysterious labeling vocabulary with James Felici. Understanding typeface categorization may seem like an academic pursuit, but it has very practical benefits.

From the following typeface samples -- all identified by their actual names -- can you define the typographic term antique?

Scanning Around With Gene: Linoleum Love
Gene Gable grew up with linoleum, and now he's sharing the love. As his scans from magazines of the 1930s through the '60s show, it was one floor covering that was anything but demure.

TypeTalk: Best Headline Breaks
When headline and subheads are more than one line long, grab the reins and make those breaks manually. Ilene Strizver shows you what to look for.

The following book subtitle has bad line breaks in the upper setting, as it not only divides two important phrases, but ends in a very short line. The bottom setting makes more sense and is more visually balanced.

Add Drama to Photos with Lightroom’s Graduated Filter
In this tutorial, you'll control the lightness of foreground and background elements in landscape photos using the Graduated Filter tool and the Adjustment brush. As the author and photographer Jay Kinghorn demonstrates, the results are nothing less than striking.

Design & Develop iPhone Apps in Flash CS5

Apple Sues Over Logo -- Again

Webcast Series: Controlling the Money Conversation with Clients

Significant Update to PDF2ID

Convert Colors to Black and White in Photoshop

Flickr Friday: October 2, 2009

Make the puppet dance!

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