Apply amazing filters to your photos with Virtual Photographer

If you are looking for a software that lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images with just one click, then optikVerve Labs ‘ virtualPhotographer is the software you need.

This free package comes in two versions: as a Photoshop plugin or as a standalone software.

I tested the PS plugin and that’s what I think about it:

First, on the official site you will find virtualPhotographer is compatible with Photoshop CS3 and older

But I successfully installed (and used) it on my CS4 Master Collection version. Read more

Adobe CS4 Master Collection

Do you want to know what do Adobe ships to you when you purchase the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection?

Here it is:

Five DVDs with the suite itself and one DVD with two hours of video footage about using CS4 softwares.

Let me remember you the software included:

InDesign CS4
Photoshop CS4 Extended
Illustrator CS4
Acrobat 9 Pro
Flash CS4 Professional
Dreamweaver CS4
Fireworks CS4
Contribute CS4
After Effects CS4
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Soundbooth CS4
Adobe OnLocation CS4
Encore CS4
Adobe Bridge CS4
Adobe Device Central CS4
Dynamic Link
Version Cue CS4

I still haven’t installed it, so I can’t say, at the moment, if there is something made exclusively for the box retail edition, something the downloadable version does not have.

When you are looking for a free software like Photoshop

There are thousands of posts around the web about free Photoshop alternatives.

Let me start from another point of view. There isn’t any free alternative to Photoshop. As far as I know, there isn’t any alternative at all to Photoshop.

But if you aren’t going to use all Photoshop features or you are somewhere around the world and for some reason your Photoshop crashes and need a quick, somewhat powerful and free way to mess around with photos, colors and shapes, you may find this list useful.

They’re listed in alphabetical order, so the first isn’t necessarily the best.

But I tried to point you to a couple of softwares for each OS, such as Windows, OS X and Linux, and some interesting online tools.

I didn’t try personally all the softwares, so the description of each one is taken from their sites. I just tried to download them for free and install them on various machines. Screenshots too are taken from their sites.

If you used some of them, leave a review comment. Read more

Photoshop files to make your own key icons

Today I needed some key icons for developing an help window in a project I am working on and I stumbed upon 104 Standard PC Keyboard Key Icons.

These icons are free for personal and commercial uses but I needed something a bit different (and I have some keys on my keyboard that aren’t listed there) so I decided to draw my own icons.

The result worked pretty well in my opinion

so I decided to release the layered PSD file to let you make your own keys.

In the PSD you will find a white and a black key, ready to be customized.

If you manage to make an entire set of icons using these files, let me know and I will be glad to add them to the blog.

Download the PSD files.

Another vintage color action for Photoshop

I am always looking for new ways to simulate vintage colors.

I already published Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop and Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop but I decided to turn into an action this tutorial from CreateBlog.

This action can convert a photo like this one (made by Tommy Huynh)

into this one

in a matter of seconds.

Download the action.

Photoshop action to create an arcade stone background

Today I was playing a bit with Photoshop to create a stone background for a one-week game I am developing for the experiment.

I wanted something random, with a style that reminds old style arcades.

I found this tutorial and I modified it to fit to my needs.

Then I developed an action to optimize and speed up the entire process.

This is the result of the action, obviously always random.

It’s not a state-of-the-art action but is what I need, and you can custom some level styles to use it in a profitable way.

Download the action and give it a try

Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop

Today I was playing with Photoshop looking for some interesting photo effect and I found a quick and easy way to convert a modern photo in a vintage one.

I have already created an action to simulate this effect in Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop, but I am sure you’ll like this effec too.

Follow me through this very easy tutorial and you’ll find by yourself how easy is to achieve this effect.

1) Open your photo

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Photoshop action to create an outer space scene

The net is full of tutorials about creating an outer space image, but every one of them, in order to achieve good results, require the user (you) to manually draw stars or adjust some parameters.

The real challenge is to code an action that creates an outer space without any drawing by the user.

The result I got, is a quite realistic outer space, and every time I play the action I get a different image.

Look at the examples:

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Create a flash movie like Linkin Park one

When I was looking at Linkin Park homepage, I was impressed by the intro. It’s very simple but very nice.

To do something similar, we need four elements:

1) A b/w photo with an high contrast
2) PhotoShop
3) Flash
4) An awesome music track

Finding the photo

It’s quite easy to find (or shot) a photo… just remember it should have an high contrast between the white background and the black foreground. Read more

Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop

Today I found an interesting tutorial on deviantart and once fitted to my needs, I converted it to a Photoshop Action

Look at the colors:

Before

After

Download the action and give me some feedback

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