Tuesday, September 10, 2013

best free Photoshop Plugin for designer


Photoshop is an amazing tool-capable of , photo editing & web designing All this power offers a world of possibilities - but occasionally it's worth adding a few optional extras to get the most out of your investment.

In this article we've lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe's photo editing giant today!

01. Freeware Boundary Noise Reduction
Photoshop plugins: Freeware Boundary Noise Reduction is a big improvement on Photoshop’s own noise reduction filter

  • Publisher: Colormancer
  • Price: Free
  • Good for: Photographers
This Photoshop plugin is a freeware version of the full Boundary Noise Reduction plugin from Colormancer. Offering a simplified set of user controls when compared to the pro version, it's superior to Photoshop's own noise reduction filter.

02. Pano Warp
Photoshop plugins: Pano Warp lets you correct for panorama distortion easily 

  • Publisher: MV's Plugins
  • Price: Free
  • Good for: Print and web designers, photographers
While Photoshop offers a handy Lens Correction feature, this filter takes an entirely different approach. Use this Photoshop plugin to adjust the focal length, roll and horizon height to correct for panorama distortion easily.

03. NKS5 Natural Media Toolkit
Photoshop plugins: Nkurence's tool lets you quickly access real-media preset effects

  • Publisher: Nkurence
  • Price: Free
  • Good for: designers & artists
This amazing free Photoshop plugin provides a new panel in Photoshop CS5 and above, allowing you to quickly access real-media preset effects in order to generate documents with natural paper backgrounds, realistic water-colour brush strokes and many more.

04. Sinedots II
Photoshop plugins: Generate abstract, random wave patterns with Sinedots II


  • Publisher: Philipp Spoeth
  • Price: Free
  • Good for: Designers


If you're looking for a quick way to generate abstract, random wave patterns for use as background art, this Photoshop plugin could be just what you need. It's phenomenally complex, and it’s surprisingly old - having been around for at least a decade - but still does the trick and creates some amazing patterns.

05. Web Font Plugin
Photoshop plugins: Web Font Plugin lets you use Google Web Fonts inside Photoshop


  • Publisher: Extensis
  • Price: Free
  • Good for: Web designers
It's frustrating working on mockups where you plan to use web fonts in the final rendered web page, as up until recently it's been impossible to legitimately get those web fonts onto your system. This Photoshop plugin is one of a few solutions that are arriving, allowing you to instantly install and use Google Web Fonts inside Photoshop.

06. CSS3PS
Photoshop plugins: CSS3PS makes it easy to convert your Photoshop layers into CSS3 layers



  • Publisher: CSS3PS
  • Price: Free
  • Good for: Designers
This free plugin uses the cloud to perform the calculations required to convert your Photoshop layers into CSS3 layers, complete with live-rendered effects where these are achievable with CSS. So, drop-shadows, strokes, outer glows, text and rounded corners are all converted to CSS3 automatically. Well worth a try to see if it could save you valuable coding time.

Friday, September 6, 2013

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a professional graphics and image editing software package developed and published by Adobe Systems. Adobe distributes Photoshop in Windows and Macintosh versions.

INTRODUCTION:

Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the 13th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image creation, motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features. Adobe Photoshop Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite   offerings except Design Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition.
  • Developer(s)  : Adobe Systems
  • Initial release : February 19, 1990;
  • Stable release : CS6 (13.1.2), available as a perpetual software license; CC (14.0), available for rental only / 18 June 2013; 
  • Development status : Active
  • Written in : C++
  • Operating system : At least Windows 7 or Mac OS X 10.7
  • Platform : IA-32 and x86-64
  • Available in : 27 languages
  • Type : Raster graphics editor
  • License : Proprietary
  • Website : adobe.com/photoshop
Alongside Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family". In 2008, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly on blogs and social networking sites. In 2011, a version was released for the Android operating system and the iOS operating system, followed by a release of a version for Windows 8 in 2013.

Photoshop's primary strength is as a pixel-based image editor, unlike vector-based image editors. Photoshop also enables vector graphics editing through its Paths, Pen tools, Shape tools, Shape Layers, Type tools, Import command, and Smart Object functions. These tools and commands are convenient to combine pixel-based and vector-based images in one Photoshop document, because it may not be necessary to use more than one program. To create very complex vector graphics with numerous shapes and colors, it may be easier to use software that was created primarily for that purpose, such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW. Photoshop's non-destructive Smart Objects can also import complex vector shapes.

File format:
Photoshop files have default file extension as .PSD, which stands for "Photoshop Document." A PSD file stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, clipping paths, and duotone settings. This is in contrast to many other file formats (e.g. .JPG or .GIF) that restrict content to provide streamlined, predictable functionality.

A PSD file has a maximum height and width of 30,000 pixels, and a length limit of 3 Gigabytes.The .PSD file format can be exported to and from Adobe's other apps like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, and After Effects, to make professional standard DVDs and provide non-linear editing and special effects services, such as backgrounds, textures, and so on, for television, film, and the web.

Language availabilities:
Photoshop is available in more than 20 languages. These are the following:
Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Also Arabic and Hebrew as of Photoshop CS6.

Photoshop plugin:
Photoshop functionality can be extended by add-on programs called Photoshop plugins (or plug-ins).
Adobe creates some plugins, such as Adobe Camera Raw, but third-party companies develop most plugins, according to Adobe's specifications. Some are free and some are commercial software. Most
plugins work with only Photoshop or Photoshop-compatible hosts, but a few can also be run as standalone applications.
There are various types of plugins, such as filter, export, import, selection, color correction, and automation. The most popular plugins are the filter plugins (also known as a 8bf plugins), available under the Filter menu in Photoshop. Filter plugins can either modify the current image or create content. Below are some popular types of plugins, and some well-known companies associated with them:
  • Color correction plugins (Alien Skin Software, Nik Software, The Plugin Site, etc.)
  • Special effects plugins (Alien Skin Software, Auto FX Software, Flaming PearSoftware etc.)
  • 3D effects plugins (Andromeda Software, Strata etc.)
  • Adobe Camera Raw (also known as ACR and Camera Raw) is a special plugin, supplied free by Adobe, used primarily to read and process raw image files so that the resultant images can be processed by Photoshop. It can also be used from within Adobe Bridge.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Microsoft Office 2013

Microsoft Office 2013  is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor of Microsoft Office 2010 and includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or later version of either. A version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices.
Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on 29 January 2013. This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Hotmail, Skype, Yammer and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.

Microsoft Office 2013 comes in twelve different editions, including three editions for retail outlets, two editions for volume licensing channel, five subscription-based editions available through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain for on-premises installation for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.

Microsoft Office 2013- Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote
  • Developer(s) : Microsoft
  • Initial release : January 29, 2013
  • Operating system :Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7
  • Platform       : IA-32, x64, ARM
  • Available in  : 33 languages
  • Website       : office.microsoft.com

Windows 9 Release Date: November 2014

Windows 9 will be similar to the desktop OS, with plans to bring back the Aero interface as well, according to "WZOR." The user also added that Windows 9 will debut as soon as next year, ahead of previous expectations.


Microsoft communications chief Frank Shaw said Microsoft wasn't ready to talk about how often Windows might come out when we spoke to him in January, but he agreed "you have certainly seen across a variety of our products a cadence that looks like that; Windows Phone is a good for example of that, our services are a good example of that".
We don't know if Windows 9 will be available as an upgrade from Windows 7 that you can buy as a standalone product or if you'll have to have Windows 8 to get the upgrade. But it may not be with us for a while yet - Windows business chief Tami Reller has talked about "multiple selling seasons" for Windows 8, meaning that we'll likely have several versions of it.