Product Review: Adobe Photoshop Mix

Mobile image editing is undoubtedly hindered by a number of hardware shortcomings, including the lack of horsepower required for intensive processing tasks. Adobe Photoshop Mix, a new iPad-only app, addresses that problem by turning to cloud-based servers to handle a trio of power-hungry Photoshop features that a tablet simply can’t handle. While Upright, Shake Reduction and Content-Aware Fill are the stars of this app (they’ve never before been available on a mobile device), Mix also offers less process-demanding tools and features, including a Cut Out tool for compositing, enhancements, preset “looks” and cropping.

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Global Village
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Julieanne Kost. Principal Digital Imaging Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc. Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

Great stuff from Julieanne Kost for Adobe Photoshop CC (2014)



Julieanne Kost. Principal Digital Imaging Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc. Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

Adobe Ink and Slide

For visual artists, nothing beats putting pen to paper, but in the digital world these analogue tools might seem out of date. Not to the folks at Adobe, who have created the Ink & Slide, a digital pen and ruler designed to make sketching and drawing on the iPad a more natural and fluid experience. Adobe Ink is a fine-tipped, pressure-sensitive, three-sided aluminum stylus that employs Adonit Pixelpoint technology to give artists control and precision when creating images on the iPad. Adobe Slide is a digital ruler that lets you draw a variety of shapes on the iPad, including straight lines, perfect circles, snazzy French curves, or whatever your artistic heart desires. The Ink & Slide connects wirelessly to the iPad via Bluetooth, and integrates with the Creative Cloud to give you access to your creative assets in the Cloud Clipboard, along with all the Kuler color themes. You’ll almost think that you’re back in composition class in art school.

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Global Village
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Importing Photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

"Lightroom is essentially a catalog management program and raw image processor combined into one. It is important to appreciate how Lightroom differs from browser programs such as Adobe Bridge, where you simply point Bridge at a folder to inspect the contents. The browser method is really suited for those times where you need the freedom to search everything that’s on your computer. The downside of this approach is that you first have to know where to look in order to find what you are searching for. Plus, you’ll be shown all the files that are contained in each folder. If there are also lots of non-image files to sort through this can make image browsing quite tricky."

This article by Martin Evening is slightly dated in today's terms, but still very basic and applicable to current Lightroom catalogs.  Of all the Lightroom functions, the database is one of the most important things to get down.  This article by Martin Evening (a Lightroom guru - books from Martin here) covers very important aspects of the import process and the full treatment and source can be found right here.

Photoshop and Lightroom

IMO - this is about the best thing to come down the pike for photographers in a very, very long time.

Get the world's best photography tools for one incredible price. Photoshop CC and Lightroom are tightly integrated for a complete photography workflow across your desktop and mobile devices. Create composites in Photoshop on your iPad and refine on your desktop. Organize and enhance images in Lightroom on your iPhone. And automatically sync all your changes back to your Lightroom catalog.

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