Author Archive for Pratik Naik

Adobe Feature: Behind The Scenes With Oleg Dou

With the launch of Adobe Photoshop CS6 they decided to feature the work of Oleg Dou on the cover of Photoshop CS6.

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Turn Your iPad Into A Mini Wacom Graphic Tablet Like The Cintiq

Since the iPad has come out, every creative professional has wanted to turn the iPad into a tablet where you could retouch photos with a stylus. Due to the OS, you couldn’t really run full versions of Photoshop on the tablet itself.

We’ve discovered a really great workaround that allows you to use your iPad as a Cintiq like tablet!

First and foremost, if you’re not familiar with a Cintiq tablet, go here: http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Cintiq.aspx

It’s essentially wacom’s touch screen tablet that allows you to work right on the screen.

Now, the first thing you’re going to need to do is watch this video from fstoppers:

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Supermodels At Their Core


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Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta

Good news Photoshop users, Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta is out!

You can download a copy here to try: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html

There have been many new updates from CS5, it may make it worthwhile to pick up.

Here’s a video that illustrates the top 6 new features from CS6:

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Adobe Creative Cloud

Good news comes out of Adobe with their new Adobe Creative Cloud.

“Adobe® Creative Cloud™ is a creative hub where you can explore, create, publish, and share your work using Adobe Creative Suite® desktop applications, Adobe Touch Apps, and services together for a complete ideation-to-publishing experience. The vision of Adobe Creative Cloud is to turn previously difficult, disparate workflows into one intuitive, natural experience, allowing you to create freely and deliver ideas on any desktop, tablet, or handheld device.” Read More→

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Preview

What are your thoughts on the latest CS6 preview?


At first glance, the interface is completely new. I did not like it initially, but after watching the video, I immediately realized how much better it is. It allows you to focus on the image at hand and everything else almost visually disappears. It would have been nice if they gave us an option to change interface preferences, (light, medium, dark). Read More→

Fotoshop by Adobé

This is one video you have to check out. It exemplifies everything that’s wrong (or right) depending on how you look at it, about the beauty industry.

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Recycling Old Covers: Post Processing Variations

Recently, the January 2012 cover of Madison Magazine recycled an image of Kate Moss from a previous issue of Vogue magazine. The talented Mario Sorrenti was behind the image. This was all done through legal means of course, without any implication of stealing the image.

Photoshop Ban in the United States?

“Procter & Gamble has agreed to never again run an ad for its CoverGirl mascara because it used “enhanced post-production” and “photoshopping” to make eyelashes look thicker than they were in real life. P&G agreed to the ban even though it disclosed in the ad that the image was enhanced.” – Source

This is the image in question:

The Possible Future of Retouching

Recently, H&M decided to take a new turn for their recent campaign.

If you look closely, you’ll see a similarity. Notice it yet? That’s right, their poses are exactly the same.

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