Photoshop Top Secret is an Extreme Training Course that teaches you, step by step, how to create cutting-edge graphics and special effects with Adobe Photoshop. This student-friendly home study course includes five DVD-ROMs with over 18 gigabytes of video tutorials and project files. You can look, learn, practice, and master these advanced techniques wherever you may be, without the need for expensive classes or tutors.

Collection of all the latest released at this time graphic filters and plugins company Alien Skin Software for Adobe Photoshop. These filters and plug-ins will be useful for both novice and professional users of Photoshop. With them you cmozhete easily and quality process or to decorate your pictures.

Photoshop Top Secret is an Extreme Training Course that teaches you, step by step, how to create cutting-edge graphics and special effects with Adobe Photoshop. This student-friendly home study course includes five DVD-ROMs with over 18 gigabytes of video tutorials and project files. You can look, learn, practice, and master these advanced techniques wherever you may be, without the need for expensive classes or tutors.

This is an eBook I found while searching for more usefull ideas to use with photography. I just like it, it explains how to do many tricks in photoshop. In short, it's 267 pages of excellance.

Digital painting, sketching and illustration software

Corel® Painter™ X mimics traditional painting better than any other software. Unique digital brushes, art materials and textures help artists achieve the perfect composition, color palette and brush stroke. Ideal for professional artists, designers and photographers, it's a complete digital art studio.

Features

Corel Painter X offers a broad range of digital painting, sketching and illustration tools that inspire creativity, increase performance, and further extend file compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications, such as Adobe® Photoshop®.
Increased Performance
Painter X is optimized to provide artists with the fastest version of Painter ever. Depending on system hardware, brushes perform up to 35% faster, while opening and saving files is up to 200% faster!

New! RealBristle™ Painting System
This new painting system heightens the responsiveness of the brushes and represents a major milestone for digital painting. You can now faithfully replicate the sensation and interaction between the paint, canvas and brush.

Lynda:Photoshop CS4 New Features
Photoshop CS4 New Features
with: Deke McClelland
Running Time: 1.5 hours
Released on: 9/23/2008

In Photoshop CS4 New Features, leading industry expert Deke McClelland covers the latest developments in Adobe's powerhouse image editor, Photoshop CS4. Deke explores the new tabbed window interface and the Adjustments and Masks palettes, the enhanced toning tools, content-aware scaling and the latest versions of Camera Raw and Bridge, which prove nearly indispensable to the digital photographer's workflow. From the interface to integration, Deke leaves no stone unturned.

Table of contents:
* 1. Photoshop CS4 New Features
o Welcome 2:21 26.9 MB
o The new tabbed window interface 5:36 11.9 MB
o Working with panels 3:23 6.4 MB
o Navigation and OpenGL 5:22 13.4 MB
o The new zoom behavior 3:19 5.4 MB

Adobe Photoshop CS4, the latest version of Adobe’s premier photo editing software, codenamed Stonehenge has been leaked to torrent sites. The date of compilation of this build is Nov 1st 2007, so there are chances that this could be a version sent out to testers. There is also rumor that this version will have only few fixes for Vista users. Here is an image of the new version running on Windows XP. There is no news on when this new version will be available

Extract on hard disk or USB key and run PhotoshopPortable.
If you drag'n drop a file on (or open with) PhotoshopPortable: it will be opened in Photoshop.
Settings of installed Photoshop should be preserved.

Starts up so much faster!!!
TESTED AND WORK 100%

The Decorator plug-in allows you to change the surface of an object in a realistic manner.
Select a part of an image – a dress on a girl, a car, a piece of furniture, etc, and apply new textures to it. The girl can have her dress painted in gay patterns, dotted or chequered, appear as if made of velvet or satin, or even of wood or candies. There is a great variety of built-in patterns to apply - from fabrics to stones and metal, from food to nature elements.

You can apply your own textures – just save a square pattern as a jpg file and load it into the library.

Unlike the "bucket-fill" tool in many photo editors, the plug-in follows the underlying features of the object, the texture that already exists, and makes the new color or texture look natural.

Applying a snake scale to a car’s surface can be fun, but of more practical use is to apply AKVIS Decorator for design purposes.
With this software you can quickly choose a suitable design for your apartment by playing with different colors and patterns for furniture, walls, curtains, decorations, etc. It’s useful for designers to show the customers the same room in different versions or for web-designers to represent the same items in an online shop (china-ware, blankets, clothes, piece of furniture, etc) in different colors/patterns.

By AKVIS tradition, the program has a simple interface, easy grasped even for newbies. In the plug-in’s window you go to the Texture tab and select a texture from the library (you can adjust its color and frequency of the pattern), press the Run button and get a wonderful result. If needed, you can adjust the brightness and the angle of lighting.
If all you need is just to change the color of the surface, then you go to the Color tab and choose a new color.

This Pack includings:
Alien.Skin.BlowUp.v1.0.2.for.Adobe.Photoshop
Alien.Skin.Eye.Candy.Textures.v5.1.0.for.Adobe.Photoshop
Alien.Skin.Image.Doctor.v1.1.0.for.Adobe.Photoshop
Alien.Skin.Xenofex.v2.1.1.for.Adobe.Photoshop

Eye Candy® 5: Textures is a collection of ten seamless texture generators. The first of three upgrades to Eye Candy 4000, Textures produces a wide variety of texture effects, including snake and lizard skin, fur, brick, stone and wood. Graphic designers, Web developers and 3D artists can quickly create backgrounds, skins, seamless tiles and more.

Image DoctorTM is an all new set of powerful image-correction filters for Photoshop®, Fireworks®, Paint Shop Pro®, and other image editors. Image Doctor magically removes blemishes and defects, quickly repairs over-compressed JPEGs, and seamlessly replaces unwanted details and objects. Professional and amateur photographers, photo editors, archivists, graphic designers and Web designers can more quickly fix their images with Image Doctor.

Digital painting, sketching and illustration software

Corel® Painter™ X mimics traditional painting better than any other software. Unique digital brushes, art materials and textures help artists achieve the perfect composition, color palette and brush stroke. Ideal for professional artists, designers and photographers, it's a complete digital art studio.

Features
Corel Painter X offers a broad range of digital painting, sketching and illustration tools that inspire creativity, increase performance, and further extend file compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications, such as Adobe® Photoshop®.
Increased Performance
Painter X is optimized to provide artists with the fastest version of Painter ever. Depending on system hardware, brushes perform up to 35% faster, while opening and saving files is up to 200% faster!

New! RealBristle™ Painting System
This new painting system heightens the responsiveness of the brushes and represents a major milestone for digital painting. You can now faithfully replicate the sensation and interaction between the paint, canvas and brush.