The easiest photographs to make are those taken at the photographers eye level. In my experience though, the best shots are to be had by those willing to get down low and explore their subjects more intimately....
If youve ever watched a magician performing a trick, you know its not really magic, but it sure can look that way. The same is true of the new Content-Aware Fill feature in Photoshop CS5. I mentioned this feature back in May when did my first hands on write-up on the new features of Adobes latest creation but Ive gotten several questions about it since then and wanted to take this opportunity to cover it more fully....
Because digital camera resolution continues to increase over time, the image files most of us work with get bigger too. Thankfully, computer processing power and memory also keep going up so we can work on those bigger images. To better manage all the memory needed to push around huge numbers of pixels, Adobe has added new tuning options to Photoshop CS5 that may need a bit of explaining....
The file management capabilities of Windows or Mac OS are fine for most tasks, but both pale in comparison to what you can do with your images while browsing them in Adobe Bridge. But if switching away from Photoshop to a separate application strikes you as overkill, Adobe has an answer for you. Introducing Adobe CS5 Mini Bridge....
With every new release of Photoshop, Adobe rewards those who upgrade with a bunch of new features both big and small. So it is with Photoshop CS5, the latest version. Unfortunately, each new release also brings with it new bugs and complications that can frustrate those attempting to upgrade. Again, so it is with CS5. Here are a few pointers and suggestions if youre stuck in upgrade hell....
At some point while learning the art of scripting in Photoshop you are bound to run up against something that seems to have no way to be done based on Adobes documentation. Even at hundreds of pages, there are things you can do in Photoshop that dont seem doable in script if you limit yourself to what Adobe tells everyone about. Thankfully, theres the ScriptListener....
Recently, weve been looking at the scripting feature in Adobe Photoshop. While you can write your scripts with pretty much any program that can read and write text files, this isnt necessarily the best way to do so. Its time to introduce two tools that come with Adobe Creative Suite that can make scripting much easier....
You may have noticed that there isnt a "New" option of any kind on the Scripts menu in Photoshop. You can infer from this that creating a script isnt quite the same as creating an action. Although a script is just a simple file as mentioned last week, what goes in that text file isnt all that simple. But there is a method to the madness....
Most photographers tend to be creative people, but sometimes even creative people have to invest a lot of repetitive effort in Photoshop to get the results they are after. After spending the last two weeks discussing actions, its time to tackle the other principle way to automate Photoshop. It may not be for the faint of heart, but Photoshop scripting can work some powerful magic....
