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Colin Smith's Speaking Agenda

PhotoshopCAFE UPCOMING EVENTS

Orange County CA
OCMMA
July 15 2008

Ignite '08 Malibu
Pepperdine University
July 31 - Aug 02

Orlando FL
Create Choas 08
Oct 13-17 2008

See a full listing of events that Colin is Speaking at

ARTICLES

Buying a Digital Camera and Digital Camera Anatomy

Trends in Logo Design

Preparing your Files for Print.

Blog entry: First look at the Macbook Air

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Get the free Photoshop CS3 Plug-In Google Warehouse and get 3D models free.

LATEST REVIEWS

What's new in Adobe Photoshop CS2?

FONT AGENT PRO
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Newest Posts from PhotoshopCAFE Forums

Photoshop tutorials and resources at PhotoshopCAFE Photoshop CAFE V3
Over 6,000,000 unique Visitors!

Check out the Photoshop CS3 Launch site for CS3 Tutorials, reviews and videos

Newest Photoshop Tutorials

Dodging and burning tutorial in Photoshop

Dodging and Burning in Photoshop CS3
FREE VIDEO TUTORIAL
Forget the Dodge, Burn and Sponge tool. They are old-hat. Welcome to the new School.

HDR Photos in Photoshop CS3

Shooting and combining HDR photos.

Create a searchlight / spotlight

Hollywood style searchlight effect

PhotoshopCAFE TV

Say hello to PhotoshopCAFE TV! We now have our own channel on Adobe TV with a weekly installment of PhotoshopCAFE TV. All content. No Filler!

Colin Smith's blog

Read Colin's opinions about design, photography, news and technology. Check it out

Spyder 3 Review

data color spyder
What you see on screen doesn't match what you print by default. If you want accurate results, screen Calibration is not an option!

Here is a really easy way to get accurate color on your monitor.

Check out our review from DataColor. The latest offering, Spyder 3.

Review

Wacom Cintiq 12WX Pen tablet Display Reviewed

NEW! Flash Tutorial

Video Player in Flash CS3

Play multiple videos on a webpage.

Photoshop Lightroom 2 Beta - learn new features

Adobe announces Photoshop Lightroom 2 Public beta
Check out our Learning site. Free videos, turorials and a feature list.

Photoshop Photorealistic Illustrations

I won the GURU Award for Illustration again at Photoshop World and I was a finalist in the MacWorld Design contest. I also was a finalist in the Web Design Category. Check out my Guitar and other images in the new Gallery.

PhotoshopCAFE Design Challenge 8

PhotoshopCAFE Design Challenge 8 Winners announced! Congrats RandyToons
Design a cover for a Video Game with Photoshop.

PhotoshopCAFE Job Board

We have launched a job board in association with CreativeHeads.net to bring you hundreds of fresh jobs from the creative industry.

Check it out and see if there's anything that suits your employment needs.

Colin featured as spotlight interview on Renderosity home page. Read the interview here

Flash CS3 Boot Camp and How to Wow with Flash

BRAND NEW VIDEO!
FLASH CS3 for Designers

This is the video for those wanting to get on the fast track to Flash CS3. This 8 hour video is designed for the complete beginner/Int user. You'll learn all about CS3 and create some cool interactive projects as well as wet your feet in Action Script 3! Based on Colin's Summer Camp tour. This is a must for all Flash Users.

Colin will be speaking at Flash Forward in Boston. Sept 19-21

Pixeloverload

Check out Colin's Flash work on his portfolio site. This site is all done in Photoshop and Flash.
This is Colin's commercial Portfolio.

Pixeloverload.com Flash site.

Also check out Colin's Flash Summer Camp tour. Coming to 3 cities in August

PhotoshopCAFE Video Tutorials

9 Free video tutorials uploaded. Digital Photography, Wacom Tablets, Special Effects and Dreamweaver. Click here

Check out our youtube channel (Smaller versions of tutorials)

ORNAMENTS MEGA PACK - SAVE $10

Check out the Ornaments Mega pack. This is the largest and best collection of clip-art ornaments, frames etc in the world. When I first saw these things, I was surprised just how good the quality it. These are not old, outdated designes, they are hip and current. PhotoshopCAFE visitors have the chance to get these at a discount for a limited time.

Check out this product and
Download some free samples

Check out the new Icons pack!

News

The Story Behind Colin Smith - Interview in Issue 11 of Photoshop Creative Magazine August 2006. Read it here

Colin featured in Advanced Photoshop Magazine. (Jan/Feb 2006) See the Spreads here

Photoshop Secrets: CS2 for Digital Photographers CD
Featured on Cover Disk of Computer Arts Magazine
Issue 116 (Nov 05)
Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration DVD
Featured on Cover Disk of Computer Arts Magazine
Issue 117 (Dec 05)
More news

Featured on Renderosity Spotlight July 15th 07

Colin Smith interview on Ten Ton Books

PhotoshopCAFE NEWS

Shawn King from "Your Mac Life" caught up with Colin at Times Square New York at DL Expo and at the Apple SoHo Store in NYC Hear the interview.

more news

PhotoshopCAFE founder, Colin Smith Nominated for the Photoshop Hall of Fame at Photoshop World 2005 & 2006, Las Vegas

How to Wow with Flash

flash training book How to Wow With Flash
Colin Smith (Peachpit Press)
I have just written my first book on Flash. This Flash 8 book is for beginner/intermediate Flash users. You will find about 80 recepie style tutorials in the book that will teach everything from building a full website in Flash, adding video to webpages, custom mouse cursors, Character Animation, photogalleries, draggable movieclips, new filters, drop down and side out menus, email forms, stunning animations and special effects, music players and tons more. All the source files are on the enclosed CD.
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PHOTOSHOP BOOKS

Complete Photoshop CS2 For Digital Photographers
Publisher: Tomson/Charles River Media
Author: Colin Smith
This book is jammed full of imagery and instructions for beginner to pro. Perfect for Photographers who are using Photoshop CS2. This book will show you the workflow of the pros and how to make your images dazzle. The techniques are proven in the real-world. No lab-rat techniques in here! Every image is included on the CD as well as several of my video tutorials. I'm really happy with the way this book came out and you will be too! click.

Photoshop and Dreamweaver Integration
Publisher: Osborne/Mcgraw Hill
Author: Colin Smith

Learn how to build stunning web pages using Photoshop and Dreamweaver together. This step-by-step approach makes it so easy, that even beginners can produce great webpages.

This book includes iframes, design theory, CSS, drop down menus, liquid sites, embedding Flash, and no programming ecommerce. From concept to obtaining a domain name and host and uploading you site to the web. Read more