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Learn All About Digital Watermarks and Image Branding

Stuart Little — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:51:35 +0000

These days a simple copyright logo on the bottom corner of your images is not going to be enough. You need to be able to quickly and easily learn all the different ways to add a digital watermark or digital signature onto any image from any point in your workflow.

Introducing Signature

Pre-Order Today £44.99

We all post images on the web and if you are not, then your missing out on sharing your photography with the world. Whether its on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, SmugMug, websites, forums or on blogs, there are 1001 place to upload to the web & more besides. But how well do you protect your photography from image theft. Ask a member of the public if they are allowed to use images from searching the web. 7/10 will probably say yes! Can you afford to have your work being passed off as someone else’s work? No! well good. So what are you going to do to protect your images?

Welcome to Signature… Over 7 hours of Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge training… It’s your survival guide to protecting your images from theft on the web. But you don’t want to just slap a big copyright stamp in the middle of things ready for someone to remove it with the new “content aware fill” feature of Photoshop CS5.

No, you want to optimise your image for web output. Embed your personal copyright terms directly into the meta data, and finally add a stylish signature that is unique to you and is much harder to remove without someone else compromising the image.

Textured Signature

In this training dvd, Stu will show you how to create a personal workflow for protecting your images in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 & 3, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Photoshop CS4 & CS5. So regardless where you are in your own digital workflow you can save or export an image that not only looks great but has your name all over it, but with style and flare!

So what are you going to learn today?

There are many different ways to create a personal brand, signature or digital watermark and in this dvd we look at how to create and use the most effective logos, signatures, and watermarks across the whole of your digital workflow.

Creating the Famous 5. Start with the basics…

There are 5 basic ways to create a logo and apply it onto you image. You are going to start by learning all the basics and this will include using the type tools, creating custom brushes, creating custom, editing and saving custom shapes, and finally creating high quality image files ready for scaling and batch processing. You don’t need a business to be able to create a logo. Personal & Professional branding should be fun and it is something that you can carry across onto personal address cards, business cards, letterheads and any other stationery. Pre-Order Today

Signature in Box Design

Learn How to Create

Text based logo
Brush based logo
Patterned logo
Shape based logo
Image file logo

Bonus Tutorials

Creating a Letterhead
Creating a Business Card
Creating a Personal Address Card

(Includes Templates and Resources)

Custom Copyright Icon in Rounded Box

Now its time to Play. Digital Workflow Automation

Once you have learned how to effectively create a personal logo, now you need to be able quickly and easily add it into your own workflow and call upon your own brand in Bridge, Lightroom 2 & 3 and of course Adobe Photoshop CS4 & CS5. So in the 2nd part of the training dvd, you are going to learn how to automate adding a brand to your images in both portrait and landscape formats. Pre-Order Today

Sizing & Resizing
Creating PDF’s
Creating Signature Actions in Photoshop
Batch Processing RAW Images with Image Processor
Creating Automated Droplets
Exporting from Lightroom and Applying Photoshop Actions
Creating Web Galleries
Getting Image Uploaded & Online

Don’t think this dvd is just for Pro’s! This is essential training and resources for every photographer, because the people who take images don’t care whether they come from a professional or amateur photographer!

Using Adobe Watermark for CS5

The clever boffins at Adobe just released Adobe Watermark through Adobe Evangelist Russell Preston Browns website. This is a powerful little panel that really adds to the way you can apply a signature or digital watermark to your images. But it can do so much more than it says on the tin! So let me demonstrate how you can make the most of this seriously cool processing tool.

An Artist signs their work. So why don’t you?

As child we all learned how to write our name. In fact I think writing my name was the very first thing I ever learned to do with a pencil and paper, and If you have seen it today, you would probably say I am still learning how to do it. But my point is a signature is a very personal brand that is unique to each of us. So why not show pride in your photography and sign it for all to see… That way in 100 years our children’s children will know who took that photo of great gran! Pre-Order Today

Now, we don’t all have graphics tablets or a steady hand for that matter. But if you do you can skip the other 2 videos. If you don’t then the first part of creating a signature is all about how best to sign your signature for scanning. If you don’t have a scanner than your kinda stuffed! I kid, I will also show you the best way to photograph your signature as well.

Signing with a Graphics Tablet.
Signing on paper and scanning your signature.
Signing on paper and photographing your signature.

Get scissors out! Its time to cut n paste

Now that you have captured your own signature, its time to tame it. So in this part of the dvd I am going to give you the tools and show show the techniques that turn that little scribble into a shiny vector based shape that can be scaled down for the web or up for print.

Level & Curves
Selections and Masks
Cutting and Pasting into New Layers
Paths & Points
Creating & Editing Vector based Shapes

Remember all those lovely video tutorials you learned at the beginning? Well that was just the stretching and warm up exercises for what is to come. Now, your going to learn how to do it all with flare, style and with your own signature. This time its personal…

Signature with Rounded Corners

We revisit the same techniques, but with different rules for getting your signature to be automated and working with both Portrait and Landscape images! This is not for the faint of heart and its a journey. But one you will be glad you made because at the end of it, you will have the coolest looking signature on the web.

Sizing & Resizing
Creating Advanced Actions in Photoshop
Layers Styles
Batch Processing RAW Images with Image Processor
Creating Automated Droplets
Exporting from Lightroom and Applying Photoshop Actions
Creating PDF’s

Personal Brand with Rounded Corners

If you have your own blog and update it regularly then this is your shop window for potential clients to browse in. So you want to dress up your images and make them look a million bucks! Right? Well in the final part of signature we look at the latest ways you can present your images on the web with “Storyboard”. A comprehensive set of actions and power panel for creating blog boards that present and brand your images giving them a consistent and colourful look for you own blog. The bonus is that if someone does want steal your images then all they are doing is advertising for you! Bless, viral marketing…

Loading the Actions.
Loading the Power Panel.
Using the Actions via the Power Panel.

Pre-Order Today

This product will ship on Monday 24th May 2010 – Pre-Order Today

A Very Special Offer for 100 Lucky Customers!

Photoshop CS5 Essential Training DVD

NEW – Photoshop CS5 Essential Training Learn More…

The first 100 customers to order Signature will receive a free copy of Photoshop CS5 Essential Training (Worth £44.99) But you had better be quick because as soon as 100 pre-orders are completed the offer will close. An offer not to be missed… Thats 2 Amazing Photoshop Training DVD’s for the price of 1.

Specifications

Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS3, CS4 & CS5
Windows XP or higher
MAC OS 10.3 or higher
DVD ROM
Internet Connection 512kbps or higher

Introducing the Storybook Album Designer Pro Power Panels

Stuart Little — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:42:51 +0000

It has always been a goal of mine to get Storybook Album Designer out of the actions panel and onto its own interface. Well, I have gone one better because now you can run Storybook using the whole of Photoshop CS4 workspace and I can’t begin to tell you how cool this is for creating digital wedding albums. Watch the demo screencast after the jump…

There are ten panels that make up the Storybook Album Designer Workspace and I have also created panels for the 14×11 and 12×12 page templates. Once you they are installed and the workspace saved, you can then call upon Storybook Album Designer at any point. It cuts out all the scrolling involved in the actions panel and all controls are right at your finger tips!

Storybook is now the most powerful piece of album design software on the market and combined with the New LPS Workflow Power Panel makes it one of the most useful, flexible, and did I mention “powerful” ways to create beautiful wedding albums, wall portraits as well as keeping the digital scrap-booking enthusiasts very happy indeed.

Finally…

I am recording the screencasts that show you how to install, arrange and save the panels. Once these videos are ready an upgrade will be made available for download. Unfortunately we can’t make this a free upgrade for everyone, but if you bought Storybook Album Designer after the 15th March then you will qualify for a free upgrade and that includes anyone purchasing Storybook Album Designer using the Easter Sale code that comes with the LPS Workflow Power Panel. >

Buy the LPS Workflow Power Panel Today

Greg McAusland — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:30:28 +0000

Do you love our FREE LPS Workflow Essentials Actions? Wanna Power Up for £4.99? Check out the Limited Edition Workflow Power Panel.

The NEW Power Panel takes the essential workflow actions and puts them right at your fingertips in Photoshop CS4. The 35 workflow essential actions are Stuart’s personal core actions that have been refined over the past 13 years to become a “go to” collection of shortcuts for everyday use and they have now been supercharged into a custom panel adding even more functionality to your workspace…

Power Panel Demonstration

In this screencast I will show you how to save your existing workspace before learning how to instal the LPS Workflow Power Panel. Finally, check out the speed at which you can change image size and alter the look of an image all within a click. Now you can tuck the LPS Workflow Essential actions at the bottom of your actions panel and use the power panel to drive your workflow.

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This is a product is available for purchase and download. You will be able to download this direct to your computer immediately after purchase. Make sure that you meet the system specifications and are running the correct version of Adobe Photoshop as this is only compatible with CS4 & CS5.

Specifications

The FREE Workflow Essentials Actions kit
Power Panels are only available in Adobe Photoshop CS4 or CS5*
Windows XP or higher
MAC OS 10.3 or higher

New Templates & Tutorials for Storybook Album Designer v6

Stuart Little — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:00:09 +0000

You asked for them and now they are here! Last week I finished a set of 30 (14×11) Auto-Page Templates for Storybook Album Designer v6. There 15 templates on a white background and 15 on a black and they make full use of the new vector based apertures that I introduced to Storybook last week.

In this continuing series of screencasts for Storybook Album Designer. I am going to show you how to resize the 12×12 Auto-Page Templates that are included with the Storybook actions. I will also introduce you to the new range of 14×11 Templates and show you that Storybook is not just for professionals who design wedding album… It can be used for enthusiasts to present their photographs to family and friends.

14×11 Auto Page Templates

14x11 Auto-Page Templates on White

When we launched Storybook a few weeks ago it came bundled with 60 (12×12) Auto-Page Templates. We then asked you what sizes would you like to see added to Storybook? And the answer back was; (10×8), A4, (14×11), (14×12), (16×12) plus a screencast on how to scale the (12×12) templates without losing quality. So I have started with the (14×11) size because it does not take much to get it up to (14×12) and I have a couple of great screencasts that will help you to work with the (12×12 templates and also show you how easy it is to swap out one set of images for another using the (14×11) templates.

Resizing Templates

Download Screencast

Replacing Images

Download Screencast

14x11 Auto-Page Templates on Black

Storybook Album Designer v6 is available for immediate download >

Storybook Album Designer v6 Tutorials

Stuart Little — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:58:32 +0000

I have just finished recording 2 hours of screencasts showing you how to use my latest version of Storybook Album Designer 6. 1000′s of photographers worldwide use Storybook every day to design and create digital albums and portrait collages for the wall. Download the brand new series of screencasts.

Digital Album Design. Made Easy.

The video tutorials have been moved to the “Free Product Training” section in the store. There you will be able to download all the Storybook6 screencasts in HD 720p. Learn More >

Storybook Album Designer 6 Power Session

Stuart Little — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:00:16 +0000

My highly acclaimed Storybook Album Designer is soon to be launched and I thought it would be really cool to start showing you some of the new features. What better way to do this but with a power session of eight Photoshop user tips that make using both Storybook and Photoshop a lot faster…

Tim, Michael, and Catherine have been kindly testing the software and helping me to refine it in readiness for you to get your hands on it. We have made sure it is available for CS2, CS3 and of course CS4 users. You will love what it can do! So enjoy the power session and look out for more screencasts in the few days on the lead up to the launch on Thursday 11th February. >

LPS Workflow Essentials Demo

Stuart Little — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:17:28 +0000

Posting will be a little erratic this week, as its a really busy here at the LPS world headquarters We are about to launch 4 new “Really Cool” sets of actions for your clicking pleasure and all being well they will be available towards the weekend. Normal screencast and article duties will resume next Monday and I have a couple of really cool techniques lined up to satisfy your craving for knowledge. In the meanwhile Greg and I have created a permanent home for the 35 Free LPS Workflow Essential Actions and I have also recorded a screencast demonstrating some of the many benefits that this kit brings to your digital workflow.

35 Free LPS Essential Workflow Actions

Finally…

Share your experience with our community

All our actions are numbered so that you can easily document which actions your using. So why not share how you are using the essential workflow actions with other photographers on our Flickr discussion group.
Flickr is free to join and and out group is open to anyone who wishes to pass their knowledge of Photography and Photoshop with like minded people. Our actions are not only a shortcut to better images, but a way of learning and expanding your knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. So why not share which blend modes you favour? and what opacity settings work best for you? Give back a little and in turn gain increase your knowledge of Adobe Photoshop from fellow Photographers from around the world. Enjoy! >