- Working in Black and White in Adobe Photoshop
- Apr 2, 2012
- RC Concepcion (Kelby Training Instructor and host of DtownTV.com) talks about how to leverage the power of Photoshop to attain wonderful black and white images out of color images. With these tips, you'll be able to explore the power of the black and white photograph.
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- Everything You Need to Know about Applying Photoshop Filters
- Feb 9, 2012
- In this excerpt from Best Photoshop Filters, Susannah Hall talks about Photoshop Filters, including applying them, using Smart Filters, using the Filter Gallery, fading a Filter effect, using the History Brush, and finding and adding new filters.
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- Fast, Accurate Facial Retouching with Perfect Portrait
- Jan 31, 2012
- The Perfect Photo Suite 6 from onOne Software is a collection of plugins that extend the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom, and Apple Aperture. Plugins for precision masking, Lightroom layering, and portrait retouching comprise the most powerful elements of the suite. Photoshop expert and professional photographer Dan Moughamian focuses on the brand-new Perfect Portrait 1 plugin.
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- Creating Layers with Lightroom and Perfect Layers 2
- Jan 17, 2012
- Adobe plugin developer onOne Software recently unveiled its brand new Perfect Photo Suite 6. The suite includes seven well-known plugins that cover a wide range of photo-editing tasks. Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian showcases for you several of these new plugins, including Perfect Layers 2.
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- Creating Lens Blur Effects with Focal Point 2
- Jan 6, 2012
- Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian demonstrates how Focal Point 2 helps photographers to draw attention to the most important parts of their image, by carefully blurring other parts of the shot.
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- Creative Color Effects with Photoshop and Perfect Effects
- Dec 30, 2011
- A popular developer of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins, onOne Software recently unveiled its brand-new Perfect Photo Suite 6. The suite includes seven plugins that cover a wide range of photo editing tasks such as masking, portrait retouching, and image styling. Photoshop expert and professional photographer Dan Moughamian introduces you to some of the suite’s new capabilities, namely, a major update to Perfect Effects (formerly Photo Tools).
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- Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers: Commercial Effects
- Dec 28, 2011
- Corey Barker explains how you can use commercial work to challenge your imagination to come up with creative solutions, even when you are limited by assets, time, and sometimes input from the client.
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- Precise Background Swaps Using Photoshop and Perfect Mask
- Dec 28, 2011
- A popular developer of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins, onOne Software recently unveiled its brand new Perfect Photo Suite 6. Photoshop expert and professional photographer Dan Moughamian explains how the suite includes seven well-known plugins that cover a wide range of photo-editing tasks such as masking, layering in Lightroom, and image styling.
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- The Non-Designer's Illustrator Book: Drawing with Shape and Line Tools
- Dec 1, 2011
- If you feel that you’re drawing-challenged, follow the tasks in this chapter and then play with the tools in Illustrator. You’ll discover that you’re able to create all sorts of amazingly creative and useful images.
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- Color Efex Pro 4: Professional Styling for Color Photos
- Nov 17, 2011
- Color Efex Pro offers several useful workflows that can enhance your digital arsenal, including options that mimic real world tools like neutral density filters and various types of negative and E-6 film stock. Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian explores some of the color styling workflows available in Color Efex Pro 4 Complete, which was released in September 2011.
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- Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Extracting Hair
- Nov 10, 2011
- Matt Kloskowski shares some great tricks he uses to get even the wispiest of baby-fine hair to cooperate when compositing multiple images in Photoshop (no matter how badly it behaves in real life).
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- Get Dynamic Black-and-White Results with the Topaz B&W Effects Plug-in
- Nov 8, 2011
- Andrew S. Gibson, author of Exposure and Understanding the Histogram, has discovered a powerful (yet inexpensive) third-party plug-in for use with the major photo-editing programs. He demonstrates a range of black-and-white looks, from subtle to dramatic, that you can coax from your images, whether they start life in color or monochrome.
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- Working with Color in Photoshop
- Nov 2, 2011
- Getting accurate color is essential when working with photographs. RC Concepcion walks you through the tools built into Photoshop (as well as third-party tools) that help you be more efficient and more accurate with color.
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- Bokeh 2: Adding Soft Background Focus
- Oct 3, 2011
- Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian explains how Alien Skin Software’s Bokeh 2 provides intuitive and powerful options for selectively blurring your digital photos. Common uses include blurring unwanted background details, creating the “bokeh effect” behind a close-up subject, and creating faux miniature cityscapes and landscapes.
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- What’s New and Improved in Adobe Flash CS5.5
- Sep 29, 2011
- Adobe Flash just keeps getting more powerful as the versions roll on, and CS5.5 is no exception. While those services are very useful, Adobe expert Brian Wood shows us how the latest version of Flash has something for everyone, and walks us through his top ten list of new features.
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- Editing Photos in 5 Easy Steps with Photoshop Elements 10
- Sep 28, 2011
- If you’re anxious to get started with
Elements,
the steps outlined in this short
chapter will improve nearly all of your
digital photos.
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- HDR Efex Pro: Tone Mapping Secrets
- Sep 26, 2011
- Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian, author of Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6, examines the following HDR Efex Pro settings: Tone Compression, Global Adjustments, and Selective Adjustments.
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- Create Digital Magazines Using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and InDesign CS5.5
- Sep 21, 2011
- With the advent of the Apple iPad and other tablet devices, Adobe saw the future of digital publishing and created the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Adobe expert Brian Wood gives you an overview of the creation process for digital content that you can view and sell via tablet devices.
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- The Non-Designer's Photoshop Book: Select & Transform
- Sep 7, 2011
- Robin Williams and John Tollett show you how to work with selection tools and transform commands in Photoshop so you can modify images in almost unlimited ways.
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- Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Senior Portrait
- Sep 5, 2011
- It’s become a really hot trend to take seniors out to a cool, fun, or dramatic location for their graduation photo shoot. But, with compositing, you don’t have to take them anywhere. In this chapter, Matt Kloskowski shows you how to create a great school portrait.
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