Strokes in Photoshop CS6 »

I had no idea Photoshop CS6 has vector strokes. Very interesting indeed.

Layer tags in Photoshop CS6 »

Wow, this is amazingly useful for complex PSDs.

Photoshop Grids »

Photoshop grid templates for various screen sizes and common constraints.

iOS 6 GUI PSD iPhone 5 »

An Explanation of Photoshop Blend Modes »

350 Pixel Perfect Icons »

Free for both personal and commercial use. Nice.

iOS Photoshop Actions & Workflows »

A must have for all iOS designers.

GuideGuide »

Looks like a must-have for anyone who uses Photoshop CS4+.

Brush Pilot »

“The fast and easy Photoshop brush previewer for Mac OS X”

18 PSDs For Mobile Phones UI Design »

Ultimate Round Up of Free Photoshop Patterns »

2000 Free Photoshop Brushes »

Tileables »

via @jasongraphix A “collection of free, seamless patterns and textures. That’s about it. They’re designed to be repeated as background images and they’re supplied in the .PAT format for Adobe Photoshop. The .PSD files are included for your own customisations and .PNG’s of the tiles are rendered in each pack so you can use them in other applications.”

GuideGuide »

Awesome plugin for Photoshop that sets up guides along midpoints and makes it easy to create rows and columns. Even cooler, you can run it based off of a selection in addition to running it on the document as a whole.

Easily Remove White Or Black Backgrounds with Blending Sliders in Photoshop »

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers »

“Helpful and *subtle* suggestions for the process of web design in Photoshop, and making the transfer of PSD’s less painful.”

The Photoshop Etiquette Manifesto for Web Designers »

“Helpful and *subtle* suggestions for the process of web design in Photoshop, and making the transfer of PSD’s less painful.”

BrushLovers »

A "collection of exclusive free and premium Photoshop Brushes. Our high resolution brushes are beautifully and carefully crafted and can be used for both personal and commercial projects."

Photoshop CS3 Beta

Adobe has announced that they will release a beta of Photoshop CS3 today (Dec. 15). Needless to say I am awaiting the release with high levels of anticipation as it will come out as a Universal Binary on the Mac, which means a major speed boost for those of us running on Intel-based Macs. The National Association of Photoshop Professionals has some great information about the new package, including videos! Check out some of the new features and UI changes included in CS3.

I’ll post more when I’ve snagged my copy and played around with it.

Apple Delivers Speed Boost to Creative Suite

My copy of Adobe Creative Suite CS2 arrived last night (woohoo!), making me a very happy man. This morning, as I perused my feeds, I came across the great news (via John Nack, via JD on EP) that Apple’s release of the 10.4.8 system update includes significant improvements to Rosetta, the software that ensures older applications will continue to run on newer platforms (like my Intel-based notebook). These improvements, according to Macworld’s benchmarks, provide a 34% improvement for the CS2 suite on the MacBook Pro! The tests specifically relate to image manipulation, so that number actually matters. The same improvements had only a minor impact on non-graphics oriented applications like MS Word, which gained a tiny bump of 3%.

While this isn’t quite as good as Intel-native versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, et al, it is a much appreciated and unexpected improvement. Thanks Apple!