Layers TV Episode: 29

Corey talks about some useful scripts on the web that are available to anyone for download to use with Photoshop.

• Russell Brown is a Senior Creative Director at Adobe and has a great website at RussellBrown.com
• If you click on the Tips and Techniques link, you will find a listing of CS3 Scripts from Dr. Brown
• These Scripts are free for anyone to download and install
• Dr. Brown's 1-2-3 Process is a an image processor script that's great for batch processing
• Check them out and enjoy

RC answers a viewer question about turning an image into a cartoon using Illustrator.

• Open Illustrator and place the graphic or image you want to work on
• Open the Live Trace command and apply it to your image
• Experiment with the Threshold and Minimum Are settings to get the look you want
• Clicking on the Expand button will convert the image into vectors
• Open up your color swatch and start playing around by adding some color to different parts of your image
• There are a lot of possibilities and variations using this creative technique

RC and Corey announce the winner of last week's Layers TV contest and give out a new contest question with a special prize this week. Tune in to find out!