Web Shop Design: Plugging into Photoshop

By Helen Bradley
July 22, 2008

For almost any task that you can perform in Photoshop chances are somebody has done it before. Luckily for you, many people who do great work in Photoshop either artistically or in a production environment like to share their work with others. Using the various technologies available in Photoshop features, such as actions, brushes, shapes, gradients and filters can be created and then saved as files and distributed as downloadable add-ins.

Finding the Right Stuff

Adobe Exchange is one of the best sites for finding help when working with Photoshop. At the Photoshop Exchange portion of this site, you can preview lists of actions, add-ins and plug-ins that people have created to perform tasks in Photoshop. For example, you can search for freeware only and then preview examples of the actions and see how other Photoshop users have rated the tools so you can get some indication as to how well they accomplish certain functions.


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