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Imaging/Design Industry News:
• Macromedia Unveils MX 2004 Lineup
New versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks slated for September release
• The Big 4 Graphics Bundle Launches
Plugins from Alien Skin, Andromeda and Nik bundled with Ingram textures
• Lemke Updates GraphicConverter
Version 4.8.1 gets enhanced features, bug fixes
• NewTek Offers Fourth Texture Collection
50 high-resolution textures available as free downloads
• Human Software Ships AutoFocus Filter
Photoshop plugin provides deblurring, sharpening
• Gluon Releases ProScale EV 7.0
Quark XTension gains Mac OS X support
• Hitachi Intros 4 GB Microdrive
$500 storage device coming in November
• Plextor Announces Multi-Format DVD Burner
FireWire/USB 2.0 combo drive supports DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW
• Fujifilm Launches S3000 SLR-Style Camera
$400 model offers 3.2-megapixel resolution
• SanDisk Launches Ultra II Flash Cards
CompactFlash, SD cards get read/write performance boost
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Using advanced Paint Engine functions to create custom effects
If you haven't already, you will at some point in your design career be forced to composite hair or fur into a project. The specific reason isn't important. But how are you going to do it? Use a plugin? Not any of the ones I've seen. Copy and paste hair from another image? Too much of a pain, what with the complex masking and color matching. So what will you do, paint the hair follicle by follicle? Absolutely. But it isn't anywhere near as time-consuming as it sounds. With the tools available in the Photoshop 7 Paint Engine, you can generate hair and fur with as much detail as you like in almost no time at all.
New versions of Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks slated for September release
Macromedia today unveiled its new lineup of graphic design tools in the MX 2004 family. These include two new versions of Flash, Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004; Dreamweaver MX 2004; and Fireworks MX 2004. The company has also introduced the new Studio MX 2004 suite, as well as Flash Player 7. All are expected to be available next month for Mac OS X and Windows.
26 brushes for hair and fur effects
For years the process of creating hair and fur in Adobe Photoshop has been a tremendous labor. But the advent of the Photoshop 7 Paint Engine has made this process almost simple. I recently wrote up an article covering techniques for creating hair and fur effects in Photoshop using Paint Engine dynamics, and interest was enormous, as was the volume of requests (and sometimes demands) for a set of preset brushes for accomplishing this technique. Hence this week's free download, featuring a range of brushes for generating hair and fur effects.
Part 1: Basic creation of custom shapes, buttons and drop zones
When I got my first gander at Apple's DVD Studio Pro 2.0, I knew instantly I'd be launching out a whole new tutorial series on customization and design techniques. But where to start? Over the coming weeks and months, we'll be covering just about every aspect of this program to help you get started with DVD design and get into some advanced techniques, but I thought I'd kick things off at the point where most users begin to customize their DVD projects: buttons and drop zones.
Lighting Transparent and Semi-Transparent Objects
Now that the new school year is about to start, time for you to move up in your lighting knowledge. From the previous lighting lessons, you should be very familiar and comfortable with lighting a person for an interview. In Lighting 201 we’ll move away from lighting the single person interview and look at ways to light objects and environments.
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