Adobe Creative Cloud for Photographers, Part 2

David Salahi Photoshop, Photoshop Touch, Tablets 3 Comments

In this second of my three-part video series, The Adobe Creative Cloud for Photographers, I look at the impressive array of editing features in Photoshop Touch, Adobe’s tablet-based version of Photoshop, and at improvements in Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera RAW. I also discuss some of the limitations of the Creative Cloud and workarounds that you need to be aware …

Adobe Creative Cloud for Photographers, Part 1

David Salahi Photoshop, Photoshop Touch 5 Comments

In this video, the first of a two three-part series, I take a look at Adobe’s Creative Cloud and what it has to offer photographers. In addition to both Photoshop CS6 Extended and Lightroom 4 the Creative Cloud also includes cloud storage with features to simplify the photographer’s workflow and image sharing with clients and colleagues. In part 1 I …

Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual

David Salahi Books, Photoshop Leave a Comment

I’ve been a fan of The Missing Manual series ever since I switched from Windows to a Mac in 2008 and needed a way to get up to speed on the Mac OS quickly. I bought a copy of The Missing Manual for the Mac OS and it did the trick in helping me finding my way around. Alas, it …

Comparison of Photoshop CS6 Tilt-Shift Blur and onOne Software’s FocalPoint

David Salahi Photoshop 5 Comments

Photoshop CS6, now in public beta,  has three new blur filters including: Tilt-Shift Blur which simulates the kind of depth-of-field effects you get by adjusting a camera’s aperture and focal length Iris blur in which focus is maintained on a specified point and increasing blur is applied radially outward from that point Field blur which blurs the entire image Each …