Jeff Tranberry's Photoshop Crawlspace

Russell Brown and the good folks at Photoshop World have announced a fresh new pre-conference workshop: 3D Lenticular Imaging with Photoshop.

Registration and a class description can be found on the Photoshop World website:

In this special advanced Photoshop class we will cover the techniques behind layering and animating images to make lenticular stereo grams that create the illusion of 3-dimensionality. This class is specially designed for graphic designers and photographers who want to experiment, and play, in the 3rd dimension. Adobe's senior art director, the mad scientist "Dr. Brown" will guide you through this amazing adventure. Learn some advanced masking secrets of Photoshop as you create your very own lenticular poster.

Warning! This class is definitely not for beginning Photoshop users. All participants must bring their own computer to class and they must have Adobe Photoshop CS3 installed on their computer prior to class starting. This event is limited to 50 participants, so sign up early."

Additional information about class can be found on Russell's website.

We tried this class out on a group of Photoshop World instructors at the previous Photoshop World and everyone seemed to really enjoy it.

Photoshop World is in Las Vegas, September 3rd through the 6th.

As much as I enjoy working at the event, I won't be able to attend. My wife has a baby 'berry in the oven and she is due September 4th!

Hany Farid, director of Dartmouth College's Image Science Laboratory and Adobe collaborator, recently appeared on PBS's NOVA program to discuss his research on detecting doctored photographs.

If you're interested, you have one day to submit questions for Dr. Farid. Answers to viewers questions will be posted to the NOVA website on July 1st.

Scientific American also published an article entitled "Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo" by Dr. Farid earlier this month.

Please take this Scripting Survey to help us understand how you use ExtendScript, JavaScript, ActionScript, AppleScript, VBScript and other scripting languages with Photoshop and the Adobe Creative Suite.

Trevor Morris, of Morris-Photographics, has posted two great articles on scripting Photoshop:

Scripting Photoshop, Part 1 — An Introduction

Scripting Photoshop, Part 2 — A Practical Example

Trevor also writes custom scripts for hire.

Tom Ruark and I presented at Photoshop World Orlando last week. The new class files are located here.

Dr. Brown's Services has been updated to 1.9.4.

Not related to scripting: Be sure to check out Adobe TV. Russell Brown and Julianne Kost already have videos posted. Let us know what kinds of things you'd like to see there from the Photoshop team.

Russell Brown has produced a great collection of FREE workflow scripts for Photoshop CS3 & CS3 Extended in Dr. Brown's Services 1.9.2 which he announced at Photoshop World, Las Vegas earlier this month.

"Background Remover," "Interpret Video," "Fit Video to Audio," and "Slide Show" scripts all take advantage of Photoshop CS3 Extended's spanking new video capabilities. Fit Video to Audio and Slide Show are especially nice for allowing photographers to easily make video slideshows with music.

"Stack-A-Matic" is another script to take advantage of CS3 Extended and it's new Smart Object Stack Modes. If you haven't checked out Stack Modes, check out the tutorial video Russell has provided, and Martin Evening's tutorial over at Photoshopnews.com and open yourself up to new way of shooting and manipulating images.

If you want to save time on your next Photoshop project, do yourself a favor and head over to russellbrown.com and download Dr. Brown's Services 1.9.2!

For all you scripters out there, there's a wealth of code to learn from in Dr. Brown's Services, everything from manipulating the Animation (Timeline) palette to working with Smart Objects.

I'll also point out that Photoshop ships with a folder of simple sample scripts in the "Scripting Guide" folder in the Photoshop application folder. However, some of the best example code, showing you how to tie it all together, can be found in the scripts that are increasingly becoming part of Photoshop - Image Processor, Merge to HDR, Photomerge, Export Layers to Files, and any of the Layer Comps workflow scripts. You can find these scripts in the Presets>Scripts folder inside the Photoshop CS3 application folder.

The class schedule for Photoshop World Las Vegas, September 6-8, 2007 has been posted. I'm happy to announce that there are not one, but two, Photoshop Scripting Classes this time around:

Thursday, September 06

01:00p-02:45p - Photoshop Scripting (Beginners) - with Jeff Tranberry:
“Do you think Scripting is just for geeks? Photoshop offers a world of new possibilities to those who are familiar with writing scripts to automate and extend Photoshop. In this session you’ll learn the basics of scripting in Photoshop CS3 using Javascript and examine some real world examples of how you can make use of these basics to push Photoshop even further.”

03:00p-05:45p - Photoshop Scripting (Intermediate, Hands-on Workshop) - with Tom Ruark:
“In this session you’ll learn the how to write and debug more complex scripts using the Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit. You are encouraged to bring your own laptop to participate in the class workshop, where you can put your skills to work writing your own scripts with the help of the instructors. Class participants can then share their creation during a final show-and-tell discussion.”

We did a Beginners session at Photoshop World Boston back in April. This time Tom Ruark, a Computer Scientist at Adobe, who is responsible for the SDK, plug-in API, and scripting API for Photoshop, will show some more advanced stuff during the intermediate session. Tom and I will be on hand for both sessions, so come by and check it out.

As John Nack has already announced, Adobe has just released Adobe Media Gallery.

What is Adobe Media Gallery? It's an extension for Bridge CS3 that lets users easily and quickly create Flash-based and HTML-based web photo galleries.

To get started using AMG, make sure you first update to Bridge 2.1. (It won't run in 2.0)

Then download the Adobe Media Gallery installer from Adobe Labs.

I've created a quick start video tutorial:

• Tutorial Video (8.1mb)
[Disclaimer: I had to to make some edits to match the actions to the words better, and fake the upload section because I didn't have a net connection when I recorded the video.]

• Quick Start Guide
• Known Issues
• FAQ

I'll do another video tutorial on how to modify, create and save your own templates.

I'll also point out some of the interesting ExtendScript code used to extend Bridge and build AMG in future posts.

Lastly, tell us what you think. We want to hear your ideas. That's what Adobe Labs is all about.