rawformat announces: PS Masters DVD


  • From the same people who bring you rawformat.com, this DVD shows how master photographers take full advantage of Photoshop CS. Lots of Camera Raw tips and techniques are included.

Photoshop Training CDs and DVDs

  • Photoshop Path Essentials Training CD
    In Photoshop CS2 Path Essentials Chris McCormack explores the world of Paths and Vector shapes in CS2, exposing the many ways they can be used to make selections, create special effects and even scalable vector graphics. Utilizing one of the most important tools ever found in Photoshop, Chris combines the newest features in CS2 to show you how to take Paths to a whole new level. More info here.
  • Photoshop Masters on DVD
    Three of the world's top Photoshop users and authors share their mastery of Photoshop and show how to retouch, edit, and maximize Photoshop.
  • Photoshop Elements training on DVD
    On the "Making Your Photos Look Great with Photoshop Elements" DVD, two top Photoshop gurus show the best techniques for refining, retouching, and printing digital camera photos and scanned images. Tap into the power of Photoshop Elements and learn how to make your pictures perfect.

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  • Take Control of Your iLife
    The Macintosh iLife '04 is the latest edition of the top-selling book on iLife. It's a beautiful, full-color book and a companion DVD-Video disc containing two hours of tutorials, tips, and techniques for iTunes, iPod, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand.

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Creating custom shapes

Convert a bitmap logo into a reusable, resizable, shareable vector based custom shape. Say you create a logo that is pixel based (bitmap) or you copy one from a website and you want to convert that into a reusable and sharable vector based logo (custom shape) Here's how:
1. Make a selection of your logo (Cmd + click on the layer if it has transparency, Control + click if on a PC).
2. Go to the paths palette and either click on the 'Make work path from selection' icon button at the bottom of the palette or (for more control) click on the 'Make Work Path...' from the palette menu.
3. (if needed) fine tune the path that is generated from the selection by using the direct selection tool.
4. Click on the Edit menu -> Define Custom Shape (give it a name and click Save)
5. Bam! There you go. Now you can go to the Edit menu -> Preset Manager, select Custom Shapes, Save Set...and email to co-workers or friends. You can also post it on a server or publish it on a website and become famous.

Posted by on September 08, 2004 at 03:01 PM in Photoshop |

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