400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions

60 Impressive Free High Resolution Textures and Backgrounds I’m passionate about textures. I’ve already published some compilations, such as 30 free paper backgrounds and textures at my Creative Closeup blog and 10 grunge, rusty and dirty tileable textures at this site. Now it is time for a new roundup of incredibly cool high resolution textures. Photoshop app to the iPhone At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs. That's far too much for any reader to follow. Fortunately, Techmeme arranges all of these links into a single, easy-to-scan page. Barcelona Photobloggers There are a ton of people out there that are shooting HDR photography, but the list of great photographers is much smaller. HDR definitely falls into the category of “easy to do, difficult to master,” and this is made apparent by the abundance of bad HDR out there. That said, there are a few HDR photographers that have seen tremendous success with the medium. Today we’re going to look at a few of those people, as well as show you some of the best resources to find high quality HDR photographers and bloggers. Let’s take a look at some of the best of the best.

Black & White Cheatsheet For Photoshop When it comes to black and white conversion, there is no definitive method that will get the best results every time. Some use the channel mixer conversion, while others will swear by black and white filter. Other just like the simplicity of the desaturate function. Which one is the best? Photoshop automator scripts I have rekindledmylove for Automator and all things automation lately. If you can find any way to fit these tools into your workflow, I highly recommend exploring your options - including Ben Long's just-updated Photoshop Automator Actions pack. This collection of 86 actions has just hit v3.5, bringing support for Photoshop CS3 and a fresh batch of new features, such as: New Auto Color action - executing Photoshop's Auto Color command which puts the control in Photoshop's hands, but allows you to pass the image(s) along to another process without interacting with any kind of dialog or making manual adjustments by hand Add Watermark can now center and rotate watermarks Saving TIFF files now includes all the standard compression options bug fixes and more Mr. Long also notes that he hasn't included new actions for any of Photoshop CS3's new features - those are coming in a future release. All with a mere double-click. [via PhotoshopSupport]

Photoshop Brushes: 17 Amazing Free Photoshop Brushes - Photoshop Here is a collection of 17 great Photoshop brush sets that are free to downoad and use, so if you are in need of great artistic resources and Photoshop stock then this is a something you should bookmark and share. The brushes are mostly cs2 and cs3 compatible and are free to use for both commercial and non-commercial projects. Enjoy! Celtic Photoshop Brushes Moon and Stars Photoshop Brushes Sparklines Photoshop Script A sparkline is a small line graph designed to be used in-line within text to illustrate a time series; the concept was developed by data presentation guru Edward Tufte. Here’s an example: University of California 403(b) pension fund cumulative return Jan 1990-April 2004 (original data) The idea is to show, using minimal space, how a value varies over time. One advantage of sparklines’ compactness is that several can be used together to allow at-a-glance comparison between a set of time series.

Tutocity.com - Full Photoshop Web Design - Journal Author: Scott Webb Type: Photoshop Difficulty: Medium Description: I n this tutorial we will be going through a full photoshop design of journal/personal type website . Beautiful Fluffy Clouds in Photoshop - Christmas Tutorial A few days ago I was watching a movie and I saw the Dreamworks logo. It's very well known and incredibly beautiful; that little kid sitting on the moon fishing. But what caught my attention was the clouds on the logo. They were so dramatic, and I thought that it would be a nice idea try to replicate the effect in Adobe Photoshop CS4. The first thing I did was search on the web for references, and to see if there was already a tutorial showing how to accomplish the effect. I found some, not showing exactly what I wanted; but they gave me a nice idea of what I would have to do.

October Tutorial #1: “Blend If:” Masking Note: *Intermediate and above. This is a semi-automatic masking technique that enables users to mask or knock-out complex and unwanted areas of a picture with ease and accuracy. Most designs and artworks will require us to do montaging of several images.