Gadgets

Wacom’s Intuos5: An Art Tablet With Multi-Touch, Express Keys and App Gestures

Gizmodo AU

Wacom’s latest tablet — that’s tablet as in professional art accessory, not so much iPad or Android — features a bevy of new features, including wireless connectivity and multi-touch support.


Software

Photoshop CS6 Will Easily Fake A Shallow Depth Of Field

Even though you’re only shooting with the crappy camera built into your smartphone, Photoshop CS6′s new Blur Gallery will easily make it look like your shots came from an expensive DSLR.


February 27, 2012
Software

Adobe Photoshop Touch For iPad 2 Is Available Now

Gizmodo AU

The Android version of Photoshop has been out for some time now, and it’s just popped up on the App store — although it’s not without a couple of limitations.


February 16, 2012
Software

Photoshop CS6 Can Magically Move Around Any Object In Your Photos

When Adobe Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes demonstrated the new content-aware features of CS6 to me, my mouth opened like an imbecile out of complete disbelief. You can basically move objects around your image freely and effortless. It’s black magic.


February 11, 2012
Entertainment

Photoshop Tutorial, North Korea Edition

There’s nothing better than a good Photoshop tutorial. Unless maybe it’s a Photoshop tutorial done under the extreme duress of the North Korean regime. And honestly, who hasn’t shopped a strategic golden chariot or two into a profile pic?


February 5, 2012
Geek Out

Photoshop Disasters: When Layers Go Wrong

Pro tip: When you decide to recolour the hair of a model on your clothing website, ensure all the layers are visible when you save the picture for use on the internet. Otherwise, you’ll end up looking as stupid as the designers of this online shop.


January 24, 2012
Geek Out

Fulfil Your Dinosaur-Riding Fantasies For $US50

So far, science has completely failed to deliver a real Jurassic Park. Hate to be the one to tell you this, but you’ll never actually ride a Tyrannosaurus rex. Luckily, the geniuses at Dinoprints are really good at Photoshop.


January 17, 2012
Cameras

How The USSR Cleaned Up Photos In 1987 Reminds Me That Photoshop Is Awesome

The USSR has a rather frightening history when it comes to photo manipulation. Over time they’ve decided to use their photo manipulation skills for good instead of, well disappearing people.


Geek Out

Movie Posters From A Parallel Universe

Imagine if your favourite films were written and acted during a different period of time: the actors and director would be different, the style it was shot in completely alien. These film posters by Peter Stults are an amazing glimpse into how Hollywood could’ve been.


January 15, 2012
Online

A ‘Realistic’ Photoshop Simulator For The Web

Wow, I am blown away by this! A programmer over at Visual Idiot has created a perfect simulation of Photoshop that runs in your web browser. It’s only been tested under Chrome, but it should work in other browsers too.