Viero Photoshop and Photography

Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 Available

viero — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:30:40 +0000

Camera Raw 5.6 and Lightroom 2.6 are now available on Adobe. (Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6) The release includes new camera support for the following models:

Canon EOS 7D
Canon PowerShot G11
Canon PowerShot S90
Leaf Aptus II 5
Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31
Nikon D3s
Olympus E-P2
Pentax K-x
Panasonic FZ38
Sigma DP1s
Sony A500
Sony A550
Sony A850

Strobox Lighting Diagrams on Iphone

viero — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:12:19 +0000

Strobox is a very cool, free app that lets you create lighting diagrams directly on your iPhone.
It includes a large variety of different lights and modifiers.
You can drag the lights, cameras and subjects around on the diagram and rotate them to fit your given scene.
After saving your lighting diagram you can send it by email.
You can find Strobox in the iPhone App Store for free !

Photoshop CS4: Download the CS4 Help File

viero — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:39:22 +0000

You can download the cs4 help file in pdf format here.
This is obviously handy if you’re frequently working offline.

Photoshop & Lightroom: SimpleViewer 2.0 available

viero — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:15:44 +0000

Airtight Interactive has released a new version of SimpleViewer Web gallery package with new enhancements like, Fullscreen Mode and External Image Links, Easy Flickr Integration, International Language Support (also in Dutch!) …
You can use it to create galleries directly from Photoshop or Lightroom.

Photoshop Shortcut: Unlock your Background layer (II)

viero — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:38:53 +0000

In a previous post i did mention how you can unlock the background by dragging the lock icon to the trash.
But there is another way to do it: use alt + double click (mac Option + double click) on your Background layer !

Photoshop Tip: Big Type Preview

viero — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:45:46 +0000

When you’re choosing a font from the drop down list on the tool options bar, Photoshop will display the name of the font with a small sample alongside it.
You can change this type preview size by going to the menu:
Edit->Preferences->Type and Change The “Font Preview Size” to Huge.

Photoshop Mobile: Photoshop iPhone App (free)

viero — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:34:12 +0000

Today Adobe Systems did release, for the Europeans, their Photoshop IPhone App .
The app is available free of charge at the iPhone store and allows users the ability to edit and add simple effects on photos with their iPhone.
You can crop, rotate, change colors, give a glow with soft focus, etc. More info and download here

Photoshop tip: Heal and Clone Between Documents

viero — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:22:07 +0000

You can use the Healing brush and Clone Stamp tools between two open documents: use Alt + click (mac Option+ click) in the source document and then clone in the destination document.

Photoshop Tip: Previewing Type

viero — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:00:39 +0000

While type in the image is selected and you want to change the font or size…, the selected type is annoying to preview.
Press Ctrl + H (mac: Command + H) this will hide the selected “reversed out”.
To invert, press again Ctrl + H.

Photoshop tip: Save for web

viero — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:45:42 +0000

When you are in de Save for Web dialog box press the Alt key (Option key for Mac) the Cancel button will change to Reset and the Done button to Remember
Click Remember if you want to save the current settings as default.