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With this video course you will learn to create web pages and graphics for them, as well as learn about the most popular programs, such as: Publisher, Dreamweaver, Expression Web, Photoshop, and Flash. This is the most complete software for those who want to create web pages and manage Web sites.

DVD authoring software lets you create Hollywood-style DVDs using your own videos, music, and photos. Sams Teach Yourself DVD Authoring in 24 Hours helps you make the most of this new technology. This book gives you hands-on, step-by-step instruction on the entire DVD creation process: from video and audio production to DVD authoring. It eases you into the DVD authoring process then gradually helps you build your skills to the point where you can create professional-looking DVDs.

The #1 selling consumer photo-editing software1.Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 8 software combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look extraordinary, share your life stories in unique print creations and web experiences, and easily manage and protect all your photos and video clips.Quickly recompose your photos to any size, without distortion.Help protect your photos with automatic online backup and 2GB free storage.2

ContrastMaster is a plugin for effective contrast enhancement as well as creating dramatic contrast looks, photorealistic paintings and HDR-like effects. It can turn low-contrast photos into vivid and detailed images and transforms ordinary photos into interesting and dynamic shots. ContrastMaster works with dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, Photo-Paint, IrfanView and PhotoImpact under Windows. For accelerated rendering it supports hyperthreading as well as multiple processors and cores. ContrastMaster works with 8bit and 16bit RGB images.

FocalBlade lets you sharpen your photos for screen display and print as well as produce great looking blur, soft focus and glow effects. It is a Photoshop-compatible plugin which can be used in dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint, Fireworks and Photoshop Elements under Windows as well as MacOS X. It also runs natively in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 on Intel-Macs. It works with 8bit and 16bit RGB and grayscaled images.

B/W Styler is a plugin for B/W conversion, creating traditional B/W effects and styling B/W photos. BW Styler works in dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, PhotoPlus, Photo-Paint, IrfanView and PhotoImpact under Windows and MacOS X. It also runs natively in Photoshop CS3 on Intel-Macs. It supports 8bit and 16bit RGB images.

LightMachine is a plugin for performing all kinds of light adjustments in photos. It combines shadow/highlight, virtual lighting and color-based correction tools for performing sophisticated corrections without the need for time-consuming selections and layer stacks. It lets you selectively correct photos taken under bad light conditions or with inadequate camera settings and achieve results that rival photos taken under the best circumstances. Additionally LightMachine can achieve special effects like glows, sunsets, high key and selective b/w effects, replace one color with another and simulate polarizing filters. LightMachine works in dozens of graphics applications including Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, IrfanView, Photoshop Elements, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint and Fireworks under Windows as well as MacOS X. It also runs natively in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 on Intel-Macs. LightMachine can be applied to 8bit and 16bit RGB images.

Video lessons from the magazine Digital Photo & Video Camera for November 2008.To master these lessons you'll need Adobe Photoshop Elements/CS2-3.Images for independent passage attached.

VTC - Adobe Photoshop CS4 Tutorials
VTC - Adobe Photoshop Image Restoration Tutorial
VTC - MasterClass! - Adobe Photoshop HDRI Tutorials
VTC - QuickStart! - Adobe Photoshop CS4 Tutorials
VTC - Adobe Photoshop - Mastering CORE Concepts Tutorials
VTC - Adobe Photoshop Advanced Artistry II Tutorials
VTC - Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended Tutorials
VTC - Adobe Photoshop CS3 for Photographers Tutorials
VTC - Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Tutorials

Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner. Adobe Photoshop is a fantastically powerful program and there are a million ways to do anything, we hope that reading Psdtuts+ will help our readers learn a few tricks, techniques and tips that they might not have seen before and help them maximize their creative potential!

EZ Mask is an easy to use interactive image masking tool capable of extracting almost any object in an image--even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. This extraction process creates what is known as a mask--essentially a black and white cutout. White mask areas are extracted, black areas not, and gray areas in between represent a level of transparency. Once a mask is extracted, the foreground object can be seamlessly composed onto a new background in Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as well as apply filter and image corrections only within the area defined by the mask.

Program Adobe Photoshop Elements combines great features and easy to perform a wide range of tasks: editing and photo processing, image storage is always "at hand, creative work with photos with the use of exciting new ideas that you can implement in the original slide show, photo mailing -letters, web galleries, and countless other possibilities.

Image Trends Inc develops filters for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro. Graphic designers and digital photographers everywhere use plugins for print, Web, and photo restoration work.
PearlyWhites 2.0.3 - a digital teeth whitener that you may use within Adobe Photoshop to improve the quality of your images.
Fisheye-Hemi 1.1.4 - includes three plug-ins that support a wide range of camera and fisheye lens combinations.
ShineOff 2.0.3 - improves skin tones by eliminating the overly reflective effect of the flash!
Read reviews and check out examples on the pages below.

Topaz Adjust - Redefining Creative Exposure for Photoshop. "Creative exposure" takes on a whole new meaning with the new Topaz Adjust image manipulation plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Easily and effectively take full control over image exposure, color, and detail for stunning creative effects and automated exposure correction. Topaz Adjust uses advanced algorithms to achieve unique exposure effects and adjustments in seconds. It offers the user full control over creative exposure, color, and detail effects, and has the ability to save and reuse presets for maximum convenience.

Change in v3.4.0:
- Fix blocky artifacts for certain setting
- Fix crashes on certain AMD CPU.

Premiere Pro CS4 is the flagship movie making software from Adobe. It allows the full creation of a movie from capture, through editing and output to various formats, including DVD, FLV, MP4 and Blueray. This course, authored by freelance filmmaker Mark Struthers of ENERGY STUDIOS, illustrates many tips and tricks that can be integrated into your own Premiere projects. An assortment of movie clips, photographs and audio files that were used throughout the course are made available for practice purposes.

Version: CS4
Developer: Adobe
Platform: X86/X64
Language: English

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

You can turn your favorite digital photos into realistic looking paintings such as watercolor, oil painting, pencils, etc. with a few simple mouse clicks. No difficult setup is required. Your photos are turned into paintings in front of your eyes in a few seconds.

Virtual Painter 5 could not be any easier to use -- all you need to do is to select a digital photograph, taken with a digital camera, scanned with a scanner, or downloaded from the web, select one of the 16 painting styles (also called painters or filters), choose the material on which the painting will be created (canvas, wood, stucco, etc.), and let Virtual Painter 5 do the work for you.

Virtual Painter 5 is not a painting tool that you must master to create your own works of art. Rather, the filters it offers are like agents, virtual artists who have their own characteristic techniques and methods. You can preview their art and even request a few changes, but you can leave the hard work to them. Sit back and watch them paint. You're sure to be pleasantly surprised, time after time.

Adobe® Dreamweaver® software is the ideal tool for web designers, coders, and application developers of all levels. Enhanced coding functions make it a breeze to navigate through complex site pages at design time. Improved layout tools bring expedited workflows, from comp conception to client approval. Innovations throughout the Dreamweaver beta can help teams and individual developers alike reach the next level in performance and functionality.

Background Remover is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software that can work with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Macromedia Fireworks etc.

The main purpose of the Background Remover is to extract some part of an image i.e. 'the object' and remove part that which is unwanted, i.e. 'the background'. Background Remover can help you remove the background and make it transparent, leaving the complex objects in the picture. It can even remove the fine transparent parts between hair or lace and their backgrounds. The cut-out objects may be used for collage, scrap-book and greeting card creation.

Version 3.0 new features:
* Defringe zone brush tool for color unmixing was added. Using this tool you can extract semi-transparency objects like flying hair, glass objects, smoke and haze properly.
* New tool for lace-like object extraction was added.
* New sleek user interface, most of the tools were improved. Also added undo/redo feature.
* Tested and works fine with Photoshop CS3 and CS4!

One of the main problems with HDR-type post-processing is that you can easily end up with glowing haloes around your subject matter. Topaz Labs has come up with Topaz Detail Photoshop Plug-in to address this problem.Detail is also perfect for enhancing or reducing image sharpness, and for converting your images to grayscale with full control over the tonal range.

Dreamweaver remains the best Web editing solution for designers and developers, both self-employed freelancers and members of large production teams. The improved CSS support is a welcome improvement for complex designs and the Photoshop smart objects makes it easier than ever to keep your images looking sharp. This latest version of Dreamweaver adds a lot of value and is a must-have for designers building complicated, cutting-edge Web sites.

Dreamweaver CS4 is still the editor of choice for freelancers and corporate Web designers alike, and this release just makes it more useful. As with CS3, Dreamweaver CS4 has strong integration with Flash, Photoshop, and Fireworks. But now there are some new elements as well:

Photoshop smart objects
These act just like images inside of Dreamweaver, but they are generated from the Photoshop original PSD. So any time you edit it in Photoshop, you can get it updated in Dreamweaver. And if you resize the image in Dreamweaver, you can get an optimized version for that size from the original.

If you are just starting to work with digital images and want great results fast, this complete, easy-to-follow guide is the one for you. As you take your first steps into the magical world of digital imaging, you'll rapidly gain mastery. Everything you need to make your once-in-a-lifetime photos look like a pro shot them is herewith real-life examples and hands-on projects from author and professional photographer Philip Andrews. Become skilled at how to capture superb images from the start as Philip guides you in plain-English through real-life examples.

PhotoWiz ColorWasher is a plugin for correcting the colors, contrast, exposure and saturation of 8bit and 16bit photos. It is a Photoshop-compatible plugin which can be used in many graphics applications, e.g. Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop Elements, PhotoImpact, Photo-Paint, Fireworks, IrfanView, under Windows as well as MacOS X. It also runs natively in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 on Intel-Macs and works in the 64bit version of Photoshop CS4 under Windows Vista64.
ColorWasher features a wide range of automatic, semi-automatic and manual tools for correcting, enhancing and restoring photos. It is very easy to use as it offers interactive explanations and hints for each feature, incorporates an Easy Mode and detailed step-by-step instructions in the manual.
ColorWasher lets you do professional photo corrections within seconds and also offers a Cloak mode for processing dozens of images very quickly.
ColorWasher can be used on digital photos as well as scanned photos. It even achieves great results on old and faded photos. But you can also use ColorWasher to enhance web graphics, drawings, cartoons, paintings or screen shots. ColorWasher is also recommended for photos in RAW format. Some RAW converters don't produce perfect color correction results, so after the RAW files have been converted you can still apply ColorWasher to enhance the result.
Moreover, if you want to create artistic and stylish color or b/w effects, ColorWasher lets you correct photos and apply impressive color effects in one step.
ColorWasher is revolutionary algorithms help you to turn even the worst photo into a delightful visual experience. Unlike other tools ColorWasher contains seven sophisticated methods called Cast Types for reconstructing lost colors and details in photos. ColorWasher's exposure correction features are superior to simple brightness and gamma correction methods used in known graphics applications and plugins. It also features built-in mechanisms for hiding image noise, camouflaging overexposed areas, boosting contrast, keeping saturation constant, fixing chopped histograms and increasing the number of colors in photos. To make ColorWasher that effective a lot of time has been invested for research, evaluation and testing.

Digital Light and ColorMechanic Prov2.0 :-
Color Mechanic is a selective color correction plug-in for Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. What makes Color Mechanic so powerful is that it lets you change one or more colors in an image without changing any other colors in the image and without the painstaking work of selecting the parts of the image you want to change. This type of selective color correction is both easier to use and more powerful than conventional color balancing or filtration techniques that simply apply a uniform correction to the entire image or give you a few sliders to adjust. * Background processing for better performance