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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)

Bird’s Eye View

When you’re zoomed in on an image so tightly that you’re only viewing a fraction of its contents, press-and-hold the H key and then click-and-drag your mouse to temporarily zoom out and see the full contents of the image. A rectangle will appear to indicate which area you were previously viewing. Drag that rectangle to a new location and release the H key to quickly zoom into the new area. This is a great way to quickly navigate a large document.

May 12th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Preview RAW Masks

When using the new Adjustment Brush in Adobe Camera Raw 5, you can mouse over the adjustment pins to temporarily view the mask that’s limiting where that adjustment is affecting your image. This makes it very easy to determine which marker is affecting a particular area.

May 11th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Gestures Bring You Closer to Your Work

Photoshop CS4 can detect when you use more than one finger on the trackpad of the newest Apple MacBook laptops. Pinching your fingers together will cause you to zoom out on the active image. Starting with your fingers together and then spreading them apart will zoom in on the image. Dragging with two fingers held close together will scroll around your document as if you had the Hand tool active. Placing two outstretched fingers on the trackpad and twisting them (as if you’re spinning a top) will cause Photoshop to rotate your view of the document. You can also drag left or right with three fingers to move forward or back in a slide show in Bridge.

May 8th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (2)

Bring Back Missing Features

Many features that were found in Photoshop CS3 are missing in CS4 (Extract, Web Photo Gallery, Contact Sheet II, etc.). Just find those files in the Photoshop CS3 folder, then you can copy them to the equivalent folder in CS4 to regain their functionality.

May 7th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (3)

Auto Process HDR Brackets

If you regularly shoot multiple exposures for merging into a single high-dynamicrange (HDR) file, try this when viewing a folder full of bracketed exposures: In Bridge, choose Tools>Photoshop>Process Collections in Photoshop. This will cause Bridge to analyze the metadata for all the images and if it finds that the images were shot as a rapid sequence with only the exposure changed between shots, it will send each set of images through the Merge to HDR feature and save the resulting 32-bit HDR image in Radiance format. That way you can have Bridge merge your images while you sleep and you can tone-map the images using Photoshop or Photomatix at a later date.

May 6th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

Getting to Adjustment Options

The Curves and Levels dialogs in Photoshop CS3 featured an Options button that seems to be missing from Photoshop CS4. Press-and-hold the Option (PC: Alt) key and click the Auto button in the new Adjustments panel to access the Options dialog (or choose Auto Options from the flyout menu located at the top right of the panel).

May 5th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (0)

Getting Rid of Tabs

Photoshop CS4 defaults to opening multiple documents as tabs in a single window. To open your images in separate windows as in prior versions, press Command-K (PC: Ctrl-K) to open your Preferences, click Interface from the list on the left, turn off both the Open Documents as Tabs and Enable Floating Document Window Docking checkboxes, and click OK. You’ll still be able to combine two documents into a tabbed window by pressing the Control key (PC: Right-click) after you start dragging the title of one document and dropping it onto another.

May 4th, 2009 | Web Editor | Tip of the Day | Comments (1)

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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).