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Skin Smoothing Camera Raw Style

Flawless skin can be key to successful portraits of ladies. Make their skin creamy soft by tapping the K key in Adobe Camera Raw 5 to call up the Adjustment Brush. Set the Clarity slider to –40 for starters. Brush over the skin you want to smooth. Want it smoother? Drag the slider farther to the left. This is a great way to get proofs out quickly without losing gallons of time with the Healing Brush tool in Photoshop.

May 27th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (4)

Pre-clipped Adjustment Layers

Want to clip your next adjustment layer before you even make it? Open the Adjust-ments panel, click the triple-black-over-white-circle icon to clip the next adjust-ment layer you choose from the panel. Now the adjustment only a?ects the layer immediately below it before the adjust-ment is made. Bliss!

May 26th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

One Button Layer Clipping

Clipping an adjustment layer to affect only the layer below it required remembering to hold down the Option (PC: Alt) key, while hovering the cursor between the layers, until a black-over-white-circle icon appears, and then click. Now all we have to do is highlight the adjustment layer in the Layers panel and then click the third icon from the left at the bottom of the Adjustments panel (Window>Adjustments). Hooray! No more arcane keystroke/mouse moves!!!

May 22nd, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Layer Mask Love

The new Masks panel consolidates working with layer masks by putting most of the functions commonly used in one place. Show this panel by selecting Masks from the Window menu. Want to change the layer mask from its normal white reveal all to black hide all? Click the Invert button. Bonus tip: You can do the same thing from the key-board by pressing Command-I (PC: Ctrl-I).

May 21st, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Where is the Feather Command?

Feather is still hidden in the Select menu under the Modify option. More useful is the new keyboard shortcut Shift-F6, which replaces the old shortcut Command-Option-D (PC: Ctrl-Alt-D). Mac users rejoice… you no longer have to give up the keystrokes to hide and show the dock to call up the Feather dialog from your keyboard. (Note: Just don’t forget to select something first!)

May 20th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Stretch (or Shrink) to Fit

When the image won’t fit the page, use Content-Aware Scale to resize the background. And if you’re working with a human subject, click the Protect Skin Tones icon in the Options Bar, it will even leave the subject itself untouched. Press-ing Command-Option-Shift-C (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C) gets you there.

May 19th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

I Had Panels. Where Are They Now?

Okay, I’m pressing the F key to cycle through the screen modes. I’m in Full Screen Mode and poof, my panels disap-pear. Where are my panels? Tapping the F key twice changes from Standard Screen Mode to Full Screen Mode (View>Screen Mode). In Photoshop CS4, the panels disap-pear in Full Screen Mode, focusing on the photograph. Press the Tab key to reveal the panels.

May 18th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

More Vibrance Eyes

Choose the Sponge tool (nested under the Dodge tool [O]) from the Toolbox. In the Options Bar (shown below), choose Saturate from the Mode menu, set the Flow to at least 50%, and then click the Vibrance checkbox. Brush over the irises and ta-dah! Brilliant irises. Bonus tip: This works for lips too!

May 15th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Vibrance Eyes

Bring excitement and pumped up color to your subject’s eyes by adding a Vibrance adjustment layer from the Adjust-ments panel (Window>Adjustments). Move the Saturation slider all the way to the left until it reads –100 and every-thing turns grayscale. In the Masks panel (Window>Masks), click the Invert button and the image returns to normal. Grab the Brush tool (B) and paint on the layer mask with white over the irises of the eyes turning them to grayscale. Now drag the Saturation up to 0 then increase the Vibrance until the irises dance.

May 14th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (4)

Edit File Info Dialog

If you frequently use the File Info dialog (found under the File menu in Photoshop and Bridge), you might want to limit the number of tabs that appear so that you can quickly find the fields you use most frequently. To remove a tab, simply remove the corresponding folder from the following directory on your hard drive:
Mac: HD/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels/2.0/panels
Windows: C:\ Program Files\ Common Files\ Adobe\XMP\ Custom File Info Panels\2.0\panels

May 13th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

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Photoshop Tutorials

3D Light Beams
This effect was discovered by a 'happy accident' and uses the 3D features inside of Photoshop CS4 Extended.
More Texture Effects
Further experiments into what you can do with texture images in Photoshop.
Reverse Restoration
Corey shows you how to make a new photo look damaged by blending in some unusual textures.
Rain Drops
In this tutorial, Corey not only creates the raindrops, but also the splashes that are formed with the raindrops hit the hands.

Light From 3D Shapes

Corey shares another way to get a cool 3D light beam effect.
Olympic Graphics, Part 2

Corey finishes up the Olympic-inspired design that he began last week in Part 1.
Olympic Graphics, Part 1

The Olympic-inspired tutorial will be coming in two parts. Stop by next week for the conclusion to this video.
Masking with Channels

This week’s tutorial deals with creating masks for complicated images by using channels.

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Open in Camera Raw from Bridge

You can open RAW images in Camera Raw right from Bridge in Photoshop CS3. This frees up Photoshop to continue working on your files while they’re being processed in Camera Raw. Just select one or more images in Bridge, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on them, and choose Open in Camera Raw. This will open the image(s) in Bridge’s Camera Raw rather than Photoshop. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command-R (PC: Ctrl-R).