PSIG News: February 2004 e-News
February 18, 2004

February Meeting Information

The February meeting will be held on Thursday the 19th, from 6:30 to 8:30pm at Voorhees High School in room 245. (The January Photoshop SIG meeting was cancelled due to a weather-related school closing.) February’s program will focus on the recently-released Photoshop CS, exploring some of the features and workflows with this new version. In addition, we will delve into Photoshop’s Layer Styles feature. Members who wish to bring images for discussion or troubleshooting during the meeting are encouraged to do so.

Raw plug-in Updated

The Photoshop Camera Raw plug-in, created to handle RAW file format images from a variety of cameras, has been updated. The Photoshop camera raw plug-in functionality provides fast and easy access within Photoshop software to the proprietary “raw” image formats produced by many leading professional and midrange digital cameras. According to Adobe, “by working with these ‘digital negatives,’ you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility while still maintaining the original ‘raw’ files.” Visit the support section of Adobe's web site for the latest download of this update. Adobe plans to update the plug-in as necessary to keep up with new cameras being released.

Q&A with Photoshop’s Kevin Connor

Read an illuminating interview with Kevin Connor, director of product management for Adobe’s Photoshop, as he talks about the latest features in Photoshop CS and gives a glimpse of what we may see in Photoshop’s future. This interview appears on the Graphics IQ site.

Tips and Tricks

Copyright Action

Need to add protection to your images? Think about creating an Action that adds your copyright info (or captions, notes, etc.) to the File Info of an image. You can then run the Batch command to add that same copyright info to folders filled with images. (This tip found at Mac Design Online.)

Save For Web Preview Tip

When using the Save for Web dialog, you can closely approximate how your image will look on different platforms by using the arrow in the upper right corner of the preview pane and selecting the platform you want to see.

March Meeting

The March meeting will be held on Thursday March 18th, 2004.