Paravue just announced a new image masking tool called Turbo Mask, a plug in for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended that significantly streamlines the process of cutouts. Turbo Mask will be available in late May 2007 for $249 USD. The product will be available for Windows and Mac Universal.

Submitted by Todd Howard  April 4, 2007 - 6:08pm

Dennis Radeke at The Genesis Project blog has been putting together some excellent tutorials on After Effects basics. The blog is said to be "A blog for beginners in the creative space. Beginner to intermediate trips, tricks and tutorials on several Adobe products, especially After Effects, Premiere Pro and Photoshop.

Upon first digging into Adobe Photoshop CS3, a few features have really popped out at me as incredibly useful. I would like to offer a brief overview of some of these new ways of attacking your creative challenges using the latest version of Adobe's flagship app. PsCS3 will run you about $649 to buy it outright if you do not own any previous versions. If you own Photoshop 7, CS, or CS2, you are eligible for upgrade pricing - looks like $199 for the upgrade.

The brand new—and long-awaited "universal"—versions of Adobe's industry cornerstone apps for Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs running Mac OS X version 10.4.8 or above and Windows machines running XP or Vista have been officially announced, and the day is finally here when we can all start figuring out which Adobe CS3 package we're going to pick up.

Adobe announced on its Blog this morning that "The wait is nearly over!

STAY TUNED: I am in the process of putting together an interview with Orren Merton, musician, author, consultant, and pro-audio guru - who is currently in Annaheim, CA, at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) conference, and will provide a first hand look at what's going on on the floor at this year's show.

By way of introduction, I thought I'd start with a brief (by 'brief' I mean crazy-long) post about me—who I am and why I'm a new contributor to the Zoom In Online blog.

Writers pitch, actors audition, and cinematographers, editors, animators, and visual effects artists create reels.