Simulating tilt-shift photography with the Bokeh plugin

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Another unique feature of the Bokeh plugin is the ability to simulate tilt-shift photography on an existing image. Tilt-shift photography simulates the effect of turning your subject matter into a miniature model. You produce the effect through special camera lenses that adjust the image plane via camera movements when taking the photo.

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Adobe software eligible for K-12 federal funding sources.

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Federal funding resources for educational technology software and curriculum-related integration at schools and districts are available through numerous government programs.

See whether your purchases of Adobe education solutions are eligible for one or more of these funding sources.

Funding overview matrix (PDF, 79k) Federal Funding for Adobe School Solutions (PDF, 127k) Carl […]

K-12 School Site Licenses, $159 Poser Pro, $186 iSpring Pro, Director 11.5…

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K-12 School Site Licenses, $159 Poser Pro, $186 iSpring Pro, Director 11.5…

Adobe Flash Platform for TVs, Set-Top Boxes and Blu-Ray Players

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Silicon, OEM, Cable and Content Partners Embrace Adobe Flash Platform for Televisions, Set-Top Boxes and Blu-Ray Players SAN JOSE, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, Nev. — April 20, 2009 — At the 2009 NAB Show, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the extension of the Adobe® Flash® Platform to connected digital home devices […]

gamedev.net reviews Photoshop CS4

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Most game artists rely on Photoshop for their diverse texture pipeline. Whether mapping textures to 3D models, creating concept art or painting environment art, Photoshop is an essential tool. For 3D artists, the 3D features found in previous versions of Photoshop were not robust enough to have a significant impact on the […]

Build It: The Ultimate Adobe CS4 Machine

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Adobe Creative Suite 4 has been out for a while, and it’s been widely praised, not the least by us. It’s a great piece of software—provided you’ve got the hardware to run it. That got me thinking: If money were no object, what would the ultimate CS4 system be? Well, by […]

lifehacker’s Five Best Image Editing Tools

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Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom are two of the five contenders for the crown of Best Image Editor.

Photoshop CS4 Extended is available at an academic discount price of $299.

Photoshop Lightroom 2 is available at an academic discount price of $98.

MLB.com chooses Flash

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Q: What did you see in Flash that impressed you? Bowman: You see several things. You see a high-grade product that’s in some form on 99 percent of the browsers. You’ve got something that’s got mass usage. Secondly you see with Adobe a company committed to the customer experience in video […]

Recreating Dealey Plaza for Watchmen

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The shot Snyder wanted starts with Kennedy’s motorcade arriving, with the camera dollying around. “It’s a God’s eye view because you actually see Zapruder filming the scene,” Hirota says. “Then you see the impact of the shot, and the camera pans around and you see the limo speed away.” Snyder’s twist on […]

Upgrading from Dreamweaver 8 to CS4

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Lately I’ve fielded a lot of questions from people considering upgrading from Dreamweaver 8 (CS2) to Dreamweaver CS4. While it’s fairly easy to find information about the incremental updates: from DW8 to CS3 and from CS3 to CS4 (links at the end of this post) I haven’t found a source […]