Photoshop CS4 Class: (1) Photoshop CS4 Presets

Introduction
Adobe Photoshop does not only provide extended capabilities with the new features, but also a better workflow with the new document presets.

In this article, we will start by digging into how to use the presets feature in Photoshop CS4 to easily create different of documents.

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Site of the Week Contest

This site fo the week is grupoambit.com. The site is very creative and provides a joyful experience to the user through the links of the site.

A new site of the week contest started, so start posting your creative work and let the ideas get out of the box HERE.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 review

Sine a long time ago, Adobe Photoshop has drawn the history of the image editing and retouching. There were other products in the market of image editing, but Adobe Photoshop was the best and the most powerful tool to accomplish the task when it comes to working with images. What ever you profession as a graphic designer, photographer or web designer, you will need Adobe Photoshop with a way or another.

And with the new technologies in the digital imaging, Adobe Photoshop becomes in more need to more tools and this makes it more complex. However, finding another version of Photoshop that is only specialized in digital photography workflow becomes a must.

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Face to Face: Rick Sammon’s Complete Guide to Photographing People

Photographing people is one of the most common interest and daily activity fro most of us. You take photos fro your friends, kids…etc. for printing, publishing on the web at as your mobile device background.

It is strange that we did not find many books that cover people photographing. Rick Sammon`s book comes to cover this area of interest by his new book Face to Face as a guide to photographing people. The book only concentrates on people photography and taking and focus on people faces.

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Adobe Flash Player 10 is now available

With the happiness of the shipping of Adobe Creative Suite 4, Adobe had released Adobe Flash Player 10. The new Adobe Flash Player comes with a news features to support the display of Flash CS4 new features.

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Adobe CS4 Now Shipping

YES, the day has come. As Adobe promised to ship the new creative suite 4 on 15 Oct. 2008. After a hundrad refresh, you can see that Adobe has officially ship CS4 products.

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Adobe CS4 School

Graphic Mania Adobe CS4 School is a dedicated section for all tutorials, reviews, resources and news about all Adobe CS4 products. Make sure to bookmark this page and subscribe to the Adobe CS4 School feed HERE for up-to-date news about new tutorials and news.

Adobe CS4 books flows – Peachpit CS4 upcoming book

The Adobe CS4 book started to flows to the market after the Adobe CS4 announcement later last month, and before the release of the creative suites. we already listed the upcoming O`reilly CS4 books, and now we will list the Peachpit CS4 book that is expected to be published later this year.

Some of these books are a rough-cut version and some will be published as a final version:

Adobe Photoshop CS4: Up to Speed
By Ben Willmore
Published Oct 22, 2008
by Peachpit Press

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Classroom in a Book
By Adobe Creative Team
Published Oct 31, 2008
by Adobe Press

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Adobe CS4 upcoming book list

O`reilly has announced the upcoming Adobe CS4 books that will start to be published within the next few days. The upcoming list unclude Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Indesign books, below are a list of the CS4 titles:

Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One

By Deke McClelland

October 2008 (est.)

$49.99 USD

How can you master the fundamentals of Photoshop CS4, with all of its incredible features? Deke McClelland’s proven One-on-One learning system offers step-by-step tutorials, five hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and… Read more.

The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers

By Derrick Story

October 2008 (est.)

$24.99 USD

Many photographers, including the pros, feel overwhelmed by all the editing options Photoshop provides. The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers not only shows you which tools you’ll need most often… Read more.

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The Art of Black and White Photography Review (by Rafiq Elmansy)

The black and white photographing has a special taste no one can deny. It is a real challenge to create a good photograph using only the two black and white colors.

When most of the published books talk about the cameras and how to use your digital camera, the Art of Black and White Photography book takes a different unique topic to concern about. Torsten book take you through a wonderful adventure to give you a complete guide of how to take a million dollars black and white photo.

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Graphic Mania Best Web Site Contest – Start voting

The submission for the Graphic Mania web site contest is now closed and the voting ins now open, please choose your best design from the 3 submitted works. The voting is open for 3 days and the deadline for the voting is next Friday Oct 10 2008. Start voting for the best design here.