Justin Palmer (of Prototype fame) has a quick tutorial for Scripting Photoshop With JavaScript and Ruby. This technique uses a Ruby/AppleScript bridge (RubyOSA) to do most of the heavy lifting.

Veerle Pieters has a fantastic step-by-step tutorial on creating Header Backgrounds in Photoshop. She proves that inspiration can indeed be found in photographs as she creates an awesome header graphic by applying some Photoshop magic to an existing photo.

PhotoShop may not be free, but these 10 Free Plug-ins to Enhance Photoshop reviewed by ExtremeTech certainly are! OK - one or two of them may be a bit dorky but the others look quite interesting.

Here is another good article that describes how to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos in Photoshop CS2. The article offers very good explanations of HDR photography - my latest favourite way to take pictures!

If you have a digital camera and Photoshop CS2, you should take a shot at creating a High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photograph. You’ll be amazed at the results which includes fantastic color and detail in both the brighter and darker areas of your images. To get started, check out this tutorial titled High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography in Photoshop CS2. It offers one of the best descriptions of HDR that I have read. If you’re wondering what an HDR photo looks like, check out the HDR Pool on Flickr.

If you’re looking to create a virtual digital darkroom, you should definately take a look at this collection of Photoshop CS2 Actions. All the actions are free and if you like them enough, send the creator a donation via PayPal. I recently used the Digital Velvia action to enhance a few pictures I took at a local park.