Pete Bauer | Planet Photoshop

Step-and-Repeat in Photoshop

“Step-and-repeat” is the term used for the process of duplicating an object and spacing. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Tools, Tutorials | Comments (4)

Portrait Toning Adjustments

Sometimes the lighting for an image is just a little bit off. Perhaps it’s unbalanced, or there’s a shadow Continue Reading »

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Bleeds and Crop Marks from Photoshop

Page layout programs, such as InDesign, and illustration programs, like Illustrator, can easily handle “bleeds” Continue Reading »

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Printing Separations in Color

It’s easy to see individual channels in color in Photoshop’s Channels palette Continue Reading »

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Select Hair by Using Channels

Selecting fly-away hair can be one of the toughest assignments in Photoshop. The Extract command can be helpful. Continue Reading »

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Compound Paths: Creating a Gear

Photoshop’s Pen and Shape tools are incredibly powerful tools, especially when creating complex compound paths by intersecting paths. To see how this works, let’s create a gear in Photoshop. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Tools, Tutorials | Comments (2)

Color Picker Versatility

The vast majority of the time, the vast majority of us use Photoshop’s Color Picker in the default configuration. Continue Reading »

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Eliminate Noise with the Color Replacement Tool

Although it’s not the purpose for which it was designed, the new Color Replacement tool in Photoshop CS is an incredibly efficient way to remove digital noise from photos. Continue Reading »

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Dashed Lines in Photoshop

While Photoshop doesn’t offer a dashed line option, such as that found in Illustrator’s Stroke palette, you can easily simulate them by editing a brush in the Brushes palette. Continue Reading »

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Working with Spot Color Channels

Spot colors can be used with CMYK or Multichannel documents intended for print to add additional colors, create “bump plates,” and to control varnishes. Continue Reading »

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Viewing and Basking in your Image

When I’m done working with an image, I like to sit and admire it (hey, I spent six hours working on it, I should). To do that, I hit the Tab key, then hit the F key three times. This hides all of the panels and toolbars and lets you see the image by itself surrounded by black. To get back to regular mode, press the F key and the Tab key one more time.