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December 18, 2003
Imaging/Design Industry News:
• Apple Updates QuickTime
Version 6.5 adds enhanced DV playback

• Reindeer Graphics Ships Wide Histogram Plugin
Free filter provides improved histogram for Photoshop

• Turbo Squid Debuts 3D Modeling Service
Service provides access to pool of 6,300 artists

• Kekus Releases Panotools 2.0
Photoshop plugins get 16-bit support

• ALAP Updates Imposer for Quark
Version 2.6 adds Mac OS X support

• Amapi Designer 7.1 Released
Update gets more than 100 enhancements and fixes

• Macromedia Launches Flash Video Initiatives
New tools, resources, gallery and streaming service unveiled

• Eovia Posts Carrara Studio 3.0.2
Corel and Eovia also launch Painter/Carrara cross promotion; Art Recon launches new 3D content for Carrara

• Flaming Pear Updates SuperBladePro
Photoshop texture plugin now recordable

• Extensis Cuts Plugin Prices in Half
Discounts on all creative software available through Dec. 31

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Weekly Download: Photoshop Brushes, Series 14
30 sky effect brushes
by David Nagel
This week for our series of free brushes for Adobe Photoshop, I've moved away from brushes designed to emulate traditional media. Instead, I've decided to continue a series of brushes I started a while ago focusing on sky effects--in other words, brushes designed to reproduce sky elements that might be useful for you in your compositing efforts. Last time around it was clouds and jet trails. This time I've expanded the brushes to include lightning, the moon, aurora borealis and, of course, more clouds.

3D Effects in Illustrator CS, Part 2
Custom bevel creation
by David Nagel
In our last installment on Adobe Illustrator CS, we explored the basic workings of the software's new 3D capabilities, with an extensive look at the Extrude & Bevel effect. What we left out though was one of the key features of this tool, namely the creation of custom bevels. In Illustrator, as in some other applications, custom bevels allow you to mold not only the edges of the face of your object, but also its sides, similar in some ways to putting your object through a lathe. It's a fairly straightforward process, but there are some limitations and caveats.

Quick Tip: InDesign CS and Master Page Objects
Overriding and detaching master items for editing
by David Nagel
One of the unpublicized features of the new Adobe InDesign CS is its increased flexibility for handling master page objects. The new functionality isn't extensive, but it does allow you to override master items much more easily. So today we'll take a brief look at this simple technique and also some other tips for working with and editing master page items.

Let's Put Some Lipstick on This Pig, Part 1
After Effects and Photoshop team up to smack down the mostest boringest of visuals
by Kevin Schmitt
Every once in a while, some of us are called upon to perform a task so heinous, so unmentionable, so undeniably hideous that the very thought of it is generally enough to send even the atheists amongst us fleeing to the nearest place of worship to pray for our very souls. The task, of course, is to somehow make the average, ordinary screen capture somehow look like the most exciting bit of animation that has ever existed. But never fear. Here's one way to dress it all up, with Photoshop and After Effects as our instruments of salvation.

3D Effects in Illustrator CS
Part 1: Extrusion & Bevel basics
by David Nagel
We've taken a brief look at the 3D capabilities in Adobe Illustrator CS, and now it's time to go deeper and explore some of the new application's creative possibilities. So this week we're launching a new series exploring all of the details of Illustrator's new 3D tools. We kick off the series today with a look at extrusion and bevel techniques, including surface mapping and other options available for fine-tuning the look of your 3D object, including a preliminary overview of the basics of 3D in Illustrator CS.

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