Creative Stuff

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Adobe to open Lightroom to developers

Adobe plans to release Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 on Tuesday, but bigger changes will come later when the company starts letting outside programmers add their own plug-ins to the software.

The update responds to user complaints, fixes bugs and adds features that Adobe couldn’t squeeze into the 1.0 release last February, said Lightroom Product Manager Tom Hogarty. For example, performance and memory errors are improved on Windows systems; tools for sharpening, noise reduction and red-eye removal work better; photographers get more control over storing images in catalogs; and the software now fully supports Windows Vista.

Lightroom 1.1, unlike the original Photoshop software, remains a closed package that only Adobe can modify. But that will change when Adobe opens up its interfaces to outside developers.

Hogarty wouldn’t say when Adobe will release a software developer kit to permit that third-party programming, but the wheels are in motion.

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Red Glow

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to create a red glow web layout.

Step 1.Start of by making a new photoshop document, with dimensions

Step 2.Create a curve, Next, we’re going to convert the path into a curved line. Set the brush size to 7, the foreground color to dark grey (433A39) and then create a new layer. Right click on the path, in the path panel, and select “stroke path”. This will create a dark grey stroke with a radius of 7.

Step 3.Next, make a selection using the curve, feather (select > feather) it by 1 pixel, contract (select > modify > contract) it by 2 pixels and then fill the selection with a light grey (DADADA)

Step 4. Change the blending mode of the layer to “color dodge”, in the layers paneland.

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