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Adobe demos awesome new masking technology for Photoshop

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Adobe’s working on some new selection and masking tools for the next version of Photoshop. Ever since the Extract filter was removed in Photoshop CS4, Adobe has had plans to bring its various parts back as built-in tools. newadobemaskingtechThe first part of that is a new selection tool that’s already being demoed over at John Nack’s Adobe blog. The future of selection in Photoshop looks pretty bright, because this tool grabs edges really accurately.

In the demo, the new tools makes a great-looking mask from a low-res photo of a cat and a baby. There’s tons of detail, but the tool differentiates between hard and soft edges. They even manage to grab a cat whisker with a little extra brushing. Nice! With all the heat Adobe’s taking over Flash video right now, it’s easy to forget the really impressive tools they’ve built for the Creative Suite apps, and it looks like they’re only getting better.

Check out the demo video at high resolution on Facebook.

Paint.Net plugin lets you view and edit Photoshop PSD files

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The aptly-named Paint.Net PSD Plugin is one of those pieces of software which pretty much spells it all out right in thepaint-psd-sdv name. It’s a plugin…for Paint.Net…(wait for it)…which lets you open files saved in Photoshop’s PSD format.

Download the zip archive, dump the included PhotoShop.dll file into your Paint.Net FileTypes folder (usually c:\program files\Paint.Net\FileTypes), and you’re ready to rock. Pretty well anything in the PSD for which Paint.Net has an implementation will load just fine. Saving is another story, so you’d best stick to Paint.Net’s native .PDN file when you’re done working.

If you don’t have Photoshop, the plugin is a handy for looking at PSDs your friends might send you to look at. It’s also a nice way to transition yourself to a free alternative if you no longer require Photoshop.

Visit: Paint.Net PSD Plugin

i.Mage – Freeware graphics editor

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i.Mage is a small and fast graphics editor slanted towards quite and easy i-magepixel editing, ala DPaint from the DOS/Amiga days. Instead of being a bloated behemoth with a zillion plugins it starts in under a second and it does a lot of the mundane jobs of image editing quickly and without fuss. The right tool for simple jobs.

Source code is available under the LGPL. If you don’t see links in the download section I can provide then on request. I’m usually hacking on code rather than keeping every last i dotted and t crossed. If you don’t see a feature you want your welcome to add it to the code and send me a diff.

Main features

  • Load/Save: Gif, Tiff, Jpg, Pcx, Bmp, Ico.
  • 2 pane view, zoomed and 1:1.
  • Downsampling/upsampling bit-depth, dithering, halftone, error diffusion.
  • Resampling (smart resizing), cropping, rotating, offseting and flipping images.
  • 8-bit palette editor: RGB/HLS ramps, colour cubes/stock palettes, reverse ramps, remapping.
  • Clipboard support.
  • Alpha blending.
  • Basic linear/radial gradient fill.
  • Undo que for most tools.
  • Conversion of image to C/C++ code.
  • Transparency support.
  • Invert image.
  • Convert to grayscale.
  • Brightness/contrast adjust.
  • Save/load/flip/rotate the current brush.
  • Flood fill.
  • Basic drawing primitives.
  • Polyline editor.
  • Text tool.
  • Simple scripting language.
  • Basic colour management via Little CMS, does RGB<->RGB on load/save to the internal colour space (sRGB), allows viewing of colour profile details.
  • Known bugs.

Visit: i.Mage

Paint.NET Plugin Lets You Open Photoshop Files

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If Paint.NET is your editor of choice and you find yourself needing to open paint.PSD Photoshop files, this plugin will help you introduce .PSD images into your Paint.NET workflow.

The plugin doesn’t replicate all of the numerous functions of the .PSD file, just the ones that relate to functionality within Paint.NET. You can work with layers, load masks, and open a variety of color modes and profiles. Because of the limited integration with the .PSD file, the plugin is best suited for pulling a .PSD file into Paint.Net and converting it to be used in your Paint.NET workflow. Working with it in Paint.NET and then trying to bring it back into Photoshop is a bit dicier as far as compatibility goes and can have unexpected results. PSDPlugin is free and required Paint.NET 3.0+.

Visit: Paint.NET PSDPlugin

Top Notch Photoshop Tutorials Collection

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Photoshop is an amazing image editing software that lets you do unthinkable tutzoreffects with images and photos. While there are many tutorials online that teach you how to use Photoshop, Tutzor lists collection of high quality photoshop tutorials that show how to achieve concrete effects with step-by-step illustrated instructions.

For instance, you can learn how to design your own war movie poster or how to get a Star Wars text effect, apply water effect on the image and more. Each tutorial includes high quality images with step-by-step illustrations. Browse tutorials by type (Design, Drawing, Text Effects, Interface etc) or search by keywords.

Features:

  • Free high quality Photoshop tutorials with detailed examples.
  • Step by step illustration on how to achieve specific effects in Photoshop.
  • Browse tutorials by type (Design, Drawing, Text Effects, Interface etc).
  • Submit your own tutorial and get some cash. (100$ per tutorial)

Visit: www.tutzor.com