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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 »

June 20th, 2006 | Jim Patterson | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

A More Complex Distortion Problem

The city and countryside of Chartres, France, are dominated by the magnificent cathedral. Continue Reading »

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Simple Photoshop Distortion Corrections

As a photojournalist, I’ve always been partial to my “normal” lens: the wide angle. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Jim Patterson | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

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 »

June 20th, 2006 | Jim Patterson | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (1)

Recovering Lost Highlight Detail

Tips and tricks are the trading cards of Photoshop. Continue Reading »

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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 »

June 20th, 2006 | Jim Patterson | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Red Eye Reduction with Photoshop CS2

There are almost as many ways to minimize red eye using Photoshop as there are people using Photoshop. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

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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.

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.

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.