Olympus SP-560 UZ

Compact digital camera with 18x wide-angle zoom.

The 8-megapixel Olympus SP-560 UZ includes a remarkable 18x optical zoom lens, which is the 35mm film camera equivalent of 27–486mm with a maximum aperture of f/2.8–4.5. Continue Reading »

May 2nd, 2008 | Steve Baczewski | Reviews | Comments (0)

Perfection V350 Scanner

Epson’s Perfection V350 is a flatbed scanner for budget-minded consumers who want to digitize, restore, and store photos, documents, transparencies, and negatives. Continue Reading »

March 25th, 2008 | Steve Baczewski | Reviews | Comments (0)

Spyder2PRO

ColorVision’s Spyder2PRO hardware/software combination for monitor calibration and profiling is an excellent choice for generating consistent, accurate color. Continue Reading »

January 12th, 2008 | Steve Baczewski | Reviews | Comments (0)

ColorEdge CE240W LCD Monitor

Eizo’s 24.1″ ColorEdge CE240W LCD Monitor, with its 16:10 aspect ratio and increased horizontal viewing space, is perfect for use with Adobe Photoshop Continue Reading »

November 8th, 2006 | Steve Baczewski | Reviews | Comments (0)

Epson Perfection V750-M Pro

The Epson Perfection V750-M Pro is a solidly designed flatbed scanner for professional photographers and graphic artists. Continue Reading »

November 8th, 2006 | Steve Baczewski | Reviews | Comments (0)

Photoshop Tutorials

  • Wild West Grunge

    Corey shows you how to recreate this rugged, weathered look using a couple of filters, blending modes, and layer masks.

  • 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.

  • Natural Brushes

    In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it’s own custom brush.

  • Custom Coins

    In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter.

  • 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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