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Open GL in Photoshop – should you turn it off?

September 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Adobe CS5, Adobe Training, Irreverent photo tool of the month, Photography, Photoshop, Photoshop CS5, Technology

The answer is – maybe. Software can take advantage of the speedy graphics memory on the computer’s graphics card and that has become popular. (Windows Explorer 9 does this, uses the graphics card’s memory, which has ticked off the XP folks because they are now being marginalized.) Adobe introduced Open GL features in Photoshop CS4, [...]

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Photoshop CS5 12.0.1 Update

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Photoshop, Photoshop CS5, Photoshop Extended 3D, Technology

Get your Photoshop 12.0.1 point release update now, from the Adobe auto updater, or by going to the Help menu in Photoshop or Bridge and choosing Updates. The update includes plenty of bug and speed fixes. I’m finding some huge speed boosts in 3D draft rendering among other things. Don’t delay, download it before your [...]

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Get your Creative Suite Updates

June 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Photography, Photoshop, Photoshop CS5

In case you have Auto Updates turned off in Photoshop, you’ll want to go to the Help menu in Photoshop or Bridge and choose Updates. There are currently updates to both Bridge and Camera Raw, and the Bridge update especially is worth having for a bunch of fixes. If you have a version of the [...]

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Photoshop CS5 Easter Egg Fun

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Arts & Entertainment, Everything else, Photoshop, Photoshop CS5

If you have Adobe Photoshop CS5 and want to be entertained by a hilarious string of text-style messages from the Adobe Photoshop team, do this: Choose “About Photoshop” Wait and the list of names on the right of the splash screen starts scrolling. You can hold down the Option/Alt key to speed up the scrolling [...]

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More Photoshop CS5 (and earlier) New Tutorials Added

June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Adobe CS5, Adobe Training, Photography, Photoshop, Photoshop CS5, Technology

On the heels of updating the tutorials page, I have added several new tutorials for Photoshop techniques like Split Toning, Skin Smoothing, Midtone Masking, Content Aware Scaling, and more. Enjoy these, they are very much version independent. So if you are using Photoshop CS2, CS3, CS4, or CS5, you’ll still get plenty out of these. [...]

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