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These Photoshop Plug-In’s ROC and SHO
If you own a newer slide scanner, you’ve probably heard of Applied Science Fiction, developers of Digital ICE, the fantastic scratch- and dust-removing software. Continue Reading »
An Application That Has Me In Stitches
I first saw Realviz’ Stitcher (3.0 for the Mac) demonstrated at New York’s Mac World Expo. Ken Eyring, Realviz senior technical sales person, did a great job of putting this amazing application through its paces. Continue Reading »
Simple Photoshop Distortion Corrections
As a photojournalist, I’ve always been partial to my “normal” lens: the wide angle. Continue Reading »
Keeping Your Balance
Film photographers have always faced a balance challenge… color balance, that is. Continue Reading »
Recovering Lost Highlight Detail
Tips and tricks are the trading cards of Photoshop. Photoshop techniques, tips and tricks are like hamsters… they beget rapidly with each new user adopting a variation. Continue Reading »
Panoramas: When The Terrain Doesn’t Cooperate
When last we visited the exciting world of making panorama images with Photoshop, I used a relatively common subject as an example: a level drawbridge over Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway close by my home. Continue Reading »
Putting A Frame On Peripheral Vision
Panoramic cameras have been around almost as long as photography itself. Continue Reading »
ScatterLight Lenses
We spend hundreds and thousands of dollars to acquire the sharpest lenses possible. Continue Reading »
Depth-of-Field: Wide Angle Lenses
Last week we examined the nature of depth-of-field. Now let’s take a look at how depth-of-field can be applied practically and creatively. Continue Reading »
Depth-of-Field: Sharp From Stem To Stern
When most digital photographers stray from Auto or Program exposure modes, it’s usually to the Shutter-Preferred mode to better stop action. Continue Reading »
A More Complex Distortion Problem
The city and countryside of Chartres, France, are dominated by the magnificent cathedral. Continue Reading »
Simple Photoshop Distortion Corrections
As a photojournalist, I’ve always been partial to my “normal” lens: the wide angle. Continue Reading »
The Shadowy Face of The Luminosity Mask
Last week we learned how to use a Luminosity Mask (Command+Option+Tilde [~] or PC: Control+Alt+~) to emphasize highlight details in ultra bright situations such as snow on a Swiss Alp. Continue Reading »
Recovering Lost Highlight Detail
Tips and tricks are the trading cards of Photoshop. Continue Reading »
Panoramas: When The Terrain Doesn’t Cooperate
When last we visited the exciting world of making panorama images with Photoshop, I used a relatively common subject as an example: a level drawbridge over Florida’s Intracoastal Waterway close by my home. Continue Reading »
Photoshop Tutorials
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Wild West Grunge
Corey shows you how to recreate this rugged, weathered look using a couple of filters, blending modes, and layer masks.
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Wall of Text
Use a clipping group to place an image inside of a background of text, with another layer of text placed in front to create depth.
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Natural Brushes
In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it’s own custom brush.
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Custom Coins
In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter.
Text Shape Layers
Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.
Borders Under a Minute
Create really cool borders in under a minute to use on virtually any one of your photos or even video for that matter.- Custom Coins
In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter. - Natural Brushes
In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it's own custom brush.
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Creative Contrast in Photoshop CS3
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some interesting techniques for improving contrast using the Shadow/Highlight command, empty adjustment layers, blend modes, and the Blend If sliders in the Layer Style dialog. -
Enhanced Workflow in Lightroom 1.1
In this article, we'll focus on techniques that will strengthen your workflow skills and simultaneously reveal some of the new features in Lightroom 1.1. -
Handlin’ Photoshop and Illustrator Content in Flash
we’ll take a look at how things work across Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash-specifically, some features and techniques for getting rasterized Photoshop content and vector Illustrator content into your Flash movies. -
Understanding Channels in Photoshop CS3
Photographer Chris Alvanas wants to go over Channels, because understanding what they are and what they do is key to understanding what their potential is.
Removing Those Typographically Incorrect Spaces
If you’re trying to set type that looks typographically correct in Photoshop, there’s an old habit you’ll have to break, and that’s the curse of putting two spaces at the end of every sentence. This is a holdover from people who at one time used traditional typewriters, where adding two spaces was necessary, but in typesetting that’s a huge no-no. About 70% of the text I copy-and-paste from text files that people give me has two spaces, but I use this Photoshop tip to fix the problem in just seconds. First, go under the Edit menu and choose Find and Replace Text. In the Find field, press the Spacebar twice (entering two spaces), then in Change To, press the Spacebar just once. Click Change All, and every time Photoshop finds two spaces at the end of a sentence, it will replace it with just one, making you typographically correct.
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