In this video taken straight from the laptop of our Senior Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes, get an early look at some of the things the Photoshop team is working on for Camera Raw.

Most of you probably know those awesome letters that were generated with 3D programs. But what about when you don’t have any particular program and you need to make 3D typography? This tutorial will show you how to create the 3D text shape and give it a high quality metal look using pure Photoshop. Check it out! Link

Hubble images are made, not born. Images must be woven together from the incoming data from the cameras, cleaned up and given colors that bring out features that eyes would otherwise miss. In this video from HubbleSite.org, online home of the Hubble Space Telescope, a Hubble-imaged galaxy comes together on the screen at super-fast speed. Learn more about how Hubble images are made by visiting Behind the Pictures.

I give you GuideGuide: a columns, rows and midpoints panel for Photoshop CS4 & CS5

*Note* Thanks to all the love you guys have been showing GuideGuide, I’ve come across a number of improvements and features I plan to fix/implement. Please see the bottom of this post to see what’s coming up.

After many hours spent meticulously nudging nav elements and building grids for layout in web comps, I began to wonder why Photoshop didn’t have a grid tool like InDesign. At a certain point I decided to stop thinking about it and just build a tool to do it for me.

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This is a tutorial on how to create an action by me. A friend asked me to put together a little video to show him how to create or record actions in Photoshop. I thought I would share it with everyone else. Hope you enjoy. Steve Link

PageCurl Pro is an new version of an extremely popular Photoshop plugin that has been around for a long time. The name can be a bit misleading and make you think that this plugin can only make page curls, which is an easy effect to do with Photoshop. Wrong! This plugin can do wonders with your images. It can fold anything, any way you want in a 3D space. It has a clear, easy to use and very responsive interface and the results are much more than outstanding. Let the images speak for themselves: Read more about AVBros. PageCurl Pro

I posted this some time ago and thought it would be good to review again.

PhotoProto is a Photoshop add-on that automatically transforms your Photoshop graphics into a working, interactive, user-driven prototype. Simply arrange and name your Photoshop graphics layers for buttons, screens and other user interface objects. Click on the PhotoProto menu and out pops a working prototype that you can instantly try or send to colleagues, users and executives. No complex scripting languages to wrestle. No new authoring environments to learn. Continue reading…

Blogger Chris Carter has posted a tutorial for creating a patterned silhouette from a normal source photo, in this case a portrait.

Pattern/silhouette tutorial using a layer mask [Live Journal]

Interested in getting good with Photoshop but know nothing about the popular photo editing software? Weblog Elite By Design puts together a crash course for mastering Photoshop in one week that might be a good place to start.