Quick CS4 tip

So you have a layered file with different types of layers, some 3D, some text, some just raster. Well, in CS4, if you select a layer and want to select all the layers of a similar type, you can go to the Select menu and choose Similar Layers. Pretty cool!

So, for example, if you want to select all of your type layers, select just one of the type layers, then go to Select > Similar Layers and all of your type layers are selected.

Photoshop: Over The Top Editing

My buddy Tim Lynch, from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts, is features in this video interview by diet.com where the interviewer is shot by Tim and then retouched via Photoshops Liquify command and other tools.

Great job Tim!

Cool Photoshop Contest

Here's a cool Photoshop contest: http://www.photoshopcafe.com/contests/contest-8.htm The prizes are amazing and since there's no entry fee...

Speed Performance for Photoshop

We've all been there, waiting while the beach ball of death spins endlessly on a Photoshop process that shouldn't take that long. What can you do to make Photoshop faster? This interesting article from Scott Byer, an engineer with Adobe, features some of the ways you can monitor Photoshop's performance.

80 Photoshop Text Effects

Some of these are great and others are, well, I'll let you decide. Link

CS3 30-Day Trial Available!

http://www.adobe.com/special/try_buy/trial_availability.html

Photoshop World 2007

I made it to Photoshop World today and was expecting a lot of wowing. I did get some of that from Jack Davis. He demonstrated the new Black & White filter in Photoshop CS3. John Nack was demonstrating the new features of the extended version of Photoshop. Including all of the wild things you can do with an image stack. Very impressive! I saw a lot of Terry White. He was talking about the Bridge over in the Peachpit booth and he was talking about the new integration with Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

I spent some time over at the Wacom booth and man, those Cintiq systems are really something else. Sure, you'll have to take out a small loan to purchase one, but I can totally see the value now.

I also talked with the guys at the Corel booth who were demonstrating Painter X. There's a really impressive auto clone feature and the brushes have never been better. They are so dynamic and expressive now. Combine that with a Wacom and you have a full art studio again.

I got a chance to talk with Corey Barker from Planet Photoshop. Then I talked to Dave Cross, who was filming a short segment with his daughter Stephanie for Photoshop TV.

All in all, I left feeling inspired, but frustrated at the same time. It's great that CS3 is coming out, but because it's not totally here yet, I can't really play with it yet.