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July 31, 2003
Imaging/Design Industry News:
• Maxon Releases BodyPaint 2
New version supports projection painting on 3D geometry

• Anark Studio 2 Comes to Mac OS X
New release supports OpenGL, QuickTime

• Digital Anarchy Readies Texture Anarchy for Photoshop
Plugin suite generates procedural textures and edge effects

• Pictographics Releases iCorrect EditLab 4.0
Color correction software offers adaptive batch processing

• Newtek Debuts LightWave [8]
Forthcoming release offers new and improved dynamics, character animation tools

• Macromedia Ships Contribute 2
Web content management tool supports Mac OS X

• Extensis Provides Pro Photo Raw Image Filter
Free software offers raw image management in Portfolio 6

• Alias Releases Maya PLE 5.0
Free download version coming in the fall

• ALAP Intros Imposer Pro for InDesign
Imposition software adds support for split web, sheetwise and multiple unit printing

• WoodWing Ships Smart Catalog 2 for InDesign
Utility supports dynamically linked database content

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Photoshop Sky Effects, Part 1
Creating clouds and basic atmospheric features
by David Nagel
This week we kick off a new series of tutorials for Adobe Photoshop: sky effects. There comes a time in every designer's life when he or she needs to create skies with a photographic quality. Maybe you're compositing a masked out image onto a moody, moonlit scene. Maybe you need to create a sky for a backdrop for an animation. Whatever the reason, here's a simple, step by step guide for creating your basic sky with clouds and haze using just the tools available in Photoshop.

Weekly Download: Photoshop Brushes, Series 10
25 bristled and textured brushes
by David Nagel
I've posted an awful lot of bristle-style brushes for just about every program out there, but never for Adobe Photoshop. The main reason for this is that Photoshop doesn't support stretch-style brushes, so it's difficult to give a bristly look to a brush whose texture is maintained with a heavy application of color. And so I set out to find a way around this. The result is this week's free download, a collection of 25 textured brushes that will hopefully satisfy your craving for natural media emulation.

My God! It’s full of stars!
Slit Scan camera effect in After Effects 6.0
by Stephen Schleicher
One of the trippiest effects of all time has to be the Star Gate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Originally, Kubrick and the rest of the crew didn’t have the benefit of computer technology to assist in the creation of the movie. Instead they relied on a “Slit Scan” machine created by innovator Douglas Trumbull. This created the illusion of two planes of infinite proportions. Some of the shots that went into the final effect included aerial landscape footage and chemical interactions.

Boxes, Boxes!
Creating 3D geometry easily in After Effects 6
by Ko Maruyama
If you're making your own 3D boxes in AE 5, you know it can be done, but what a hassle. Perhaps you saw Digital Anarchy's 3D Assistants, but thought, "I only need a cube." Well, Adobe heard you. Packaged inside the new After Effects 6.0 Pro is 3D Assistants Lite from Digital Anarchy.

Drawing Outside the Lines ... Just a Little
Creating wet edge effects in Macromedia Freehand MX
by David Nagel
Did you ever think you'd see the day when the word "painterly" could be applied to a vector graphics program? I didn't. For the longest time I thought illustration apps were good for nothing more than creating Patrick Nagel knockoffs and PeeChee™ notebook-style graphics. And I was completely right, if a little snotty about the whole thing. But the latest generation of applications from Macromedia, Creature House and Adobe have introduced creative tools that finally make it possible to draw outside the lines (or paths or polygons or Bezigons) while maintaining the advantages of vector-based graphics applications--editability and resolution independence.

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