A day after the official release of our fully redesigned website, we decided to celebrate it with our most popular extension that made the design on the home page look so awesome - HTML5 Parallax Slider. Our featured articles are… Read More

Ultra Faded Examples These faded film effects are popular with many wedding and portrait photographers. They work great on high-contrast photos and they’re useful whenever your clients want the the retro/film look. With the right effect, you can change the… Read More

Sylvain Paris (creator of previous eye-popping tech demos) presents a sneak peek of a way to transfer the appearance of lighting in one image or video to another. Any yes, you’ll find Rainn Wilson’s interjections annoying. I recommend skipping the… Read More

[Translate] Day 1 of Adobe MAX wrapped up yesterday with a lot of buzz and news. We kicked things off in the morning with our keynote session, “A Creative Evolution.” We announced a slew of news as well, including all-new… Read More

Just in time for the big NAB show, Adobe has given us an enormous window onto what they’re calling an “upcoming version” of their industry-leading Creative Suite professional video tools: Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, SpeedGrade, Prelude, Adobe Anywhere, Media… Read More

Rubber Monkey Software brings the world of analog to Photoshop (they also offer versions for Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and Motion) with a very easy-to-navigate user interface to produce these effects with FilmConvert Pro.… Read More

In recent days Adobe has been slipping out little sneak peeks of new product versions (perhaps CS7?) entitled, “Early Views Into the Next Generations Of Dreamweaver and Flash Professional.” These quick first looks show improvements centered on re-architecting the tools… Read More

One could say that Adobe After Effects is the Photoshop of the video editing world, creating graphics and visual effects for moving pictures… And rotoscoping is effectively cutting an object out from a video so that it can be manipulated… Read More

You know what sucks? Trying to win a tech fair shootout against the After Effects team. “Dammit,” I’d tell them, “whenever we put something in Photoshop, you strap wheels on it—not cool!” But it is cool, of course, and this… Read More

Video Tutorial Split Toning The first effect you will learn is split toning. Split toning is an effect that tints the highlights and shadows of your black & white photo to give it a two-tone color effect. You can do… Read More

In this video I take a flat, 2D image and transform it into a 3D image that a camera can pass into. If you’ve not worked with Vanishing Point before then you may wish to take a quick look at… Read More

This afternoon from 2:45–4:00 pm… Pacific time, please join me for an entertaining and informative roundtable panel discussion with some of the world’s best Photoshop instructors! It’s free, online at www.creativeLIVE.com. My panelists are Lesa Snider, Ben Willmore, Jack Davis Read More

I love this video from British director Cyriak: The Fox Is Black writes: What starts out as a few simple repeating elements soon becomes a chaotic collage of video snippets that take on a life of their own. He says… Read More

So far this was the hardest Top 5 to make. In our Image Galleries, Photo Albums and Slideshows section we have so many top class extensions, but after long hours of sorting and analyzing, we came up with today's Top… Read More

Vector isn’t just used for creating inspiring illustrations, fancy UI elements, amazing icons and fantastic typography. Vector can also be used as part of sleak animations! Today we’re going to show you a great Batman animation created initially in Adobe… Read More

A great city finally gets its tilt-shift due. I can’t wait to take our lads there for Christmas. [Via Terri Stone] Bonus miniaturized water traffic: The “Toy Boats” of Sydney harbor, which Nathan Kaso created by applying a tilt-shift effect… Read More

In August I pointed out the inspired lunacy of Old Spice’s Muscle Music (see below, especially if you have Flash installed as it becomes interactive at the end). Now Jake Friedman, creative director and co-founder of LA-based Wildlife, offers a… Read More

This certainly won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, and you’d do well to skip right ahead to 1:20 or so, but at that point it showcases some great illustrations: “The animation section was created by taking illustrations by Adam Relf,… Read More

Photoshop isn’t easy to learn, and neither is GIMP, its open-source, free image-editing competitor. With a native Mac version now available, The Artist’s Guide to Gimp, by Michael J Hammel, should find a broad audience. This is the first full-color,… Read More

“Ross Ching, the director,” writes Gizmodo, “used Adobe Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere to delete every human and moving car from all the timelapse sequences. His short, the first of a series called Empty America, shows every landmark from the… Read More