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Adobe Photoshop CS4 — What's New?

Smoother panning and zooming and fluid canvas rotation

Navigate to any area of an image with new, ultra-smooth zooming and panning. Maintain clarity as you zoom to individual pixels and easily edit at the highest magnification with the new Pixel Grid. And use the revolutionary new Rotate View tool to smoothly turn your canvas for distortion-free viewing at any angle.

Adjustment Panel

Simplify image adjustment by easily accessing every tool you need to nondestructively adjust and enhance the color and tone of your images; on-image controls and a wide variety of presets are also included in the new live and dynamic Adjustments panel.

Masks Panel

Quickly create and edit masks from the new Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks, adjust mask density and feathering, easily select noncontiguous objects, and more.

Content-Aware Scaling

Use the new and revolutionary Content-Aware Scaling feature to automatically recompose an image as you resize it, smartly preserving vital areas as the image adapts to the new dimensions. Get the perfect image in one step without time-intensive cropping and retouching.

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 — What's Enhanced?

More Powerful Printing Options

Get outstanding prints with superior color management, tighter integration with leading printer models, and the ability to preview out-of-gamut image areas. Support for 16-bit printing on Mac OS offers increased color depth and clarity.

Industry-leading Color Correction

Enjoy dramatically enhanced color correction with reengineered Dodge, Burn, and Sponge tools that now intelligently preserve color and tone details.

Better Raw Image Processing

Enjoy superior conversion quality as you process raw images with the industry-leading Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 5 plug-in, which now offers localized corrections, post-crop vignetting, TIFF and JPEG processing, and support for more than 190 camera models.

Improved Lightroom Workflow

Select multiple photos in Adobe® Photoshop Lightroom software (sold separately) and automatically open them in Adobe Photoshop CS4 to merge them into a panorama, a high dynamic range (HDR) photo, or a multilayered Photoshop document. And seamlessly roundtrip back to Lightroom.

Auto-blending of Images

Combine a range of images, each with a different exposure, color, and focal point — with options to preserve tones and colors — into a single color-corrected image.

Extended Depth of Field

Easily create a single image from a series of shots that have different focal points with the enhanced Auto-Blend Layers command, which smoothly blends color and shading and now extends your depth of field, automatically correcting vignettes and lens distortion.

Auto-alignment of Layers

Create accurate composites with the enhanced Auto-Align Layers command. Move, rotate, or warp layers to align them more accurately than ever before. Or use spherical alignment to create breathtaking panoramas.

Efficient File Management with Adobe Bridge CS4

Get instant access to Adobe Bridge CS4 with faster start-up, use new workspaces to jump to the right display for every task, easily create web galleries and PDF contact sheets, and more.

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Tutorials, Resources & More...

Free Photoshop Tutorials by Christopher Swift

For a full listing of his tutorials, go to Chris Swift's tutorial page or click on a link, below, to get started right away. To view Chris' award-winning photographic work, go to the home page of swift-images abstract photography. Chris has been living as an expatriate since 1992 and the vast majority of his abstract fine art work was taken in Thailand.

Free Photoshop Tutorials by our Contributors

To get the full listing of our contributor's free tutorials, go to our Contributor's Tutorials page. It covers a wide variety of techniques and were chosen for photoshop-pro.com because of their usefulness and ease of understanding. We'll keep you up to date here and be adding the latest and greatest we come up with.

onOne Software Discounts

If image enlargement is your thing, onOne's Genuine Fractals is your plugin. Visit our onOne page to find out all you need to know about this amazing application.

Genuine Fractals 5 Print Pro is the industry standard for image resizing. As a Photoshop plug-in, it is renowned across the photographic and printing industries for its ability to increase image size well over 1000% without the loss of sharpness or detail that you would normally expect. Its patented, fractal based interpolation algorithms work like nothing else and the results speak for themselves.

Ordering any of their products through photoshop-pro.com will get you nice discounts, also.

Free Photoshop Brushes

Visit our brushes page and get links to an amazing selection of brushes for Adobe Photoshop, including a preview of and links to Javier at Deviant Art. He has an enormous variety of brushes like Abstract, Fractals, Grunge, and many more. Another great source for brushes is psbrushes.net — they're billed as the largest resource for Photoshop brushes. And lest we forget, don't miss getbrushes.com — they are another source of an amazing number of free brushes for Photoshop.

Photoshop CS3 Resource Center

Download and purchase Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended from Adobe Labs and start enjoying the upgrades and enhancements of the program. For news, reviews, and articles on all things CS3, visit our Photoshop CS3 Resource Center, and for the latest CS3 tutorials, go to our CS3 Tutorials page.

Fluid Mask 2.0 — Special Offer — US$189

Order Fluid Mask through us and get a special discount — you pay only US$189 and you get 6 months of free upgrades. This offer is exclusive to photoshop-pro.com and to take advantage of it, visit our Fluid Mask Discount Page. To find out more about this software, what it does and how it does it, visit our Fluid Mask page.

As a short preview of this extraction tool (taken from their site), you might know that Fluid Mask is a highly advanced software tool designed to make life easier for everyone who creates cut outs. Built as a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop, Fluid Mask is the new next-generation cut-out tool. Behind the product is breakthrough technology that mimics the way the eye, optic-nerve and brain perform visual processing. It offers an intuitive, accurate and fast approach to cut outs. A key feature is the new Edge Overlay showing object edges within an image. Suddenly masking become a whole lot easier - it's now possible to select, group and mask objects in images to make great cut outs.

Alien Skin

Visit our Alien Skin page to get all the details of this most amazing software — how easy it is to use, how versatile the effects are, and how cheap it is!

SiteGrinder: designing websites with Photoshop

You don't need to know any code (e.g. HTML, CSS) or learn a new development application to make a great-looking website. With SiteGrinder, you use your Photoshop design skills and the site is automatically created for you.

In Photoshop, you do all the designing while adding relevant names to your layers. You then open SiteGrinder from the Automate menu in Photoshop, and build your site. SiteGrinder incorporates full functionality in the ability to create buttons, rollovers, multiple pages, email forms, menus, and more. What's nice about this product is that you can stick to all the creative stuff and let SiteGrinder grind out all the tedious code.

Media Lab offers free live web audiovisual training several times weekly.

This training is primarily for those interested in finding out more about SiteGrinder before purchasing, but it's also available after purchase to help you get the most out of SiteGrinder.

See SiteGrinder in action with a view of the presenter's computer on your own screen (how cool is that?), and ask for specific demonstrations over your phone.

Seminars cover:

The training is free, and all you have to do to get going is download their free trial of SiteGrinder. (The full, free, training package is still available after you make the purchase.)

Free Photoshop Plugins

This one of our most popular pages. Go to our free plugins page to find links to the latest Photoshop plugins, information, and resources. You'll also find links to commercial plugins like Alien Skin, Extensis, Auto FX software, Xaos Tools, Photozoom, Photomatix, and many more.

Free Photoshop Actions

Check out our free Photoshop actions page to find links to the latest and greatest actions from sources like Adobe Studio Exchange, the Adobe Evangelists, Action Central, Action FX, and PicsToBits Actions.

You'll also find news about actions and an introduction to actions with links to excellent tutorials.

Recover Your Photos

Catastrophic disc failures are just waiting to happen. If you're not prepared, you may lose an entire life's work, but not now. Visit our Recover Your Photos page and discover a wealth of resources and links to immediately recover digital photo files from a catastrophic hard drive failure or a corrupted media card. For total hard drive crashes, check out DriveSavers. They specialize in providing expert recovery from HD failure. Also, get information on and links to PhotoRescue which is an extremely popular solution for recovering photos.

Can't Get Enough Fonts

Let's face it — you can never have enough fonts. Searching for good fonts is a past time of ours and we believe we've found some excellent ones.

Visit our free fonts page for an extensive list of links to font resources. We also have some links here to commercial font sites if you want to buy some.

Free Stock Photos

Contrary to popular belief, there are many places on the internet which offer free stock photos. If you are in the middle of a project where you need some, visit the page below for all the links.

If you're looking for stock images for free, visit our free stock photos page.

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Header photo credit

This is a picture of an abandoned restaurant wall taken by Christopher Swift of Swift Images.

The Search

Photomatix

Create amazing high dynamic range images using Photomatix Pro software. View some examples of the kind of images which Photomatix can produce.

SiteGrinder

Create websites from Photoshop with Site Grinder software. You do the creative part, it does the coding.

onOne

If image enlargements are your thing, you really need to check out onOne's Genuine Fractals. We offer exclusive discounts, too.

Adobe Discounts

The latest addition to Photoshop-pro: a page dedicated to displaying the very latest discounts and deals offered by Adobe. Visit our Adobe Discounts and Deals page and stay up-to-date on the latest savings. Why pay full price when you don't have to?

Videos

For those who learn best by visual means, we have an excellent selection of video tutorials from Christopher Swift.

Alien Skin

Add some zest to your Photoshop work with plugins by world renowned Alien Skin, featuring Snap Art, Eye Candy, and Exposure.

Fluid Mask

Extract images from their backgrounds with uncanny precision using Fluid Mask. Take a tour of Fluid Mask and find out how amazing it is. Special discount price when you order Fluid Mask through us!

Photozoom

Enlarge your images to enormous proportions with virtually no loss in sharpness or detail with Ben Vista software — Photozoom Pro 2.

Books

Photoshop LAB ColorThis is simply the best book on the LAB color space you'll ever buy

CS3 Resources

• Photoshop CS3
• CS3 Tutorials

Auto FX

Stunning effects with Auto FX software for Photoshop:

• Mystical Lighting
• Mystical Tint
• Dream Suite One

Wacom

From graphic design to photo touch ups, Wacom pen tablets make life easier: Wacom Pen Tablets

Site Hosting

This site is hosted by pair.com.

 

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