Samsung introduced a new tablet computer that not only competes with the iPad but also Wacom tablets, news reports say. Shown publicly at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is an iPad-sized device that comes with…

The lengthy session list at the 2012 PEPCON print and ePublishing conference could be boiled down into one sentence: Attend this event or fall behind.
Seriously, just look at these session titles (which are only a sampling of the full…

Photoshop’s senior product manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, gives you a glimpse into Photoshop CS6. Although Adobe hasn’t officially announced when CS6 will be released, the fact that this sneak peek is out in the wild makes me think it won’t…

When CreativePro.com senior editor Ben Long reviewed version 3 of Alien Skin’s Exposure software, he gave it a score of 90 out of 100, praising version 3 for its speed, presets, and unique tools.
Now Alien Skin has announced Exposure…

Over the years, many people have written tutorials on fixing red eye in photos; in fact, CreativePro.com has published several! The various techniques have involved channels, brushes, sponges, selective color, and more. But did you know that since Photoshop CS2,…

Animated GIFs, once sneered at as being too 1990s, have staged a comeback in the last few years and been rechristened as “cinemagraphs”. But cinemagraphs aren’t just any animation; they’re a series of still photos that, joined together into a…

Bibble was a software program from Bibble Labs that helped you manage and improve digital photos. Corel bought Bibble Labs last year, and now Corel has released a program based on Bibble’s underpinnings. The reborn app is called AfterShot Pro.…

Photographers, take note! You can try out a major update to Adobe’s Lightroom software for free. Just download the Lightroom 4 beta from the Labs area of adobe.com.
Because this is an early beta, don’t use it for production work.…

Oloneo has released a new application, called HDRengine, for an introductory price of $59. This software is designed to make creating high-dynamic-range photos quick and easy.
Oloneo says that HDRengine give you “full control over light and exposure in real-time,…

If you use Adobe’s Lightroom or the Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, you’ll want to grab the free updates to versions 3.6 and 6.6, respectively. There are a few bug fixes, plus support for nine new cameras, including Canon Powershot S100…

CameraBag began life several years ago as an iPhone app. This image editor let you easily add filters to photos shot with your mobile phone. It’s still available for the iPhone, but the software makers, Nevercenter, also branched out into…

LevelUp is a game from Adobe that you play within Photoshop. The goal is to walk through a series of image-editing tasks and rack up points as you complete each task. For every 400 points you earn, you automatically get…

DxO Labs says that its newly updated DxO Optics Pro 7, which runs on both the Mac and Windows, gives photographers even more capable image-processing power. A redesigned interface simplifies the workflow. The software automatically corrects optical defects and improves…

Excerpted from Deke’s Techniques on lynda.com.

Words communicate ideas. So can photos. Combine the two and you have not just an image that’s worth a thousand words, but an image that is a thousand words.
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A few months ago, I wrote an article called “So You Think You Know Photoshop?” that introduced you to five videos from Photoshop product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Each of these videos revealed little-known abilities in Photoshop CS5.
Now Bryan…

Typography…
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If you regularly need to enlarge photographs a lot with little — if any — quality degradation, Alien Skin Software’s Blow Up program is worth a look. This $199 plug-in for Photoshop (and now Lightroom, too) recently updated to version…

Excerpted from Deke’s Techniques on lynda.com.

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Over on the Deviant Art website, Julia Starr is giving away scores of Photoshop actions she’s created. You can apply any of these actions to a photo and instantly change its mood.
While some people who distribute their actions for…