- Goodbye 2, Hello 3: New Lightroom Still Holds Surprises
- Aug 2, 2010
- While working on his book Photoshop Lightroom 3: Visual QuickStart Guide, Nolan Hester figured heโd seen all the secrets with the Lightroom 3 betas. But when the final version of the program arrived, his heart skipped a beat.
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- Guide to Creating and Managing Images in Photoshop Elements 5
- Apr 6, 2007
- This chapter offers some basic guidelines on adjusting image size and resolution, depending on whether you want to print, email, or post to the Web. The authors also cover creating images from scratch (which is what some people use Elements for, ignoring the Organizer entirely). You'll also learn the different methods for viewing additional information about your images.
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- Hands-On Photoshop CS: Correcting a Problem Image
- Feb 27, 2004
- Barry Haynes and Wendy Crumpler teach overall color correction using adjustment layers on a scanned image lacking good white or black points.
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- Harnessing the Power of Photoshop Selections
- May 16, 2003
- Photoshop provides an assortment of tools for selecting the portion of the image with which you want to work. Gary Bouton explains them here.
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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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- How to Add A Quick Border In Photoshop Elements 6
- Sep 25, 2007
- You can give your photos a professional finish by adding a white or colored border to them. The technique is so easy, youโll want to do it for all of your photos. The Adobe Creative Team shows you how.
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- How To Back Up And Keep Your Lightroom Images Safe
- May 2, 2008
- Accidents happen. So do viruses. Are you prepared? Martin Evening gives a brief review of the backup options in Lightroom to help you (hopefully) prevent or at least recover from trouble.
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- How to Batch Process Files in Photoshop Elements 3
- Aug 12, 2005
- There are dozens of image file formats out there, but when you're working in Photoshop Elements, you really only want to be working with JPEGs and TIFFs. This article explains how to convert a large number of image files to the proper format using Photoshop Elements 3.
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- How to Create a Novelty Slideshow Template in Lightroom 2
- Aug 1, 2008
- Photo slideshows don't have to be a yawn. Martin Evening shares a technique he devised for creating a slideshow template in Lightroom 2 with an "old-fashioned TV" look for a series of black-and-white shots. You can apply this trick in zillions of different ways to suit your own slideshows.
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- How to Create Flexible Documents in Photoshop CS2
- Sep 16, 2005
- Flexible? Learn the true power of flexibility as you create layered Photoshop documents that offer a high level of control and the ability to easily change your mind. Dave Cross focuses on "nondestructive" ways of working in Photoshop that give you the best combination of creativity and flexibility.
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- How to Edit Metadata and Target Photos in Lightroom
- May 23, 2008
- Often you'll want to edit the metadata for a bunch of images at once. But sometimes you'd like to be able to skim along through a selection and tweak the metadata for individual photos as you go. Martin Evening shows how to use a Lightroom 1.1 feature to edit metadata for individual images within a selection.
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- How to Make Plastic Pushbuttons
- Feb 26, 2001
- This article, from Photoshop 5/5.5 Wow! Book co-authors Linnea Dayton and Jack Davis, will walk you through adding Layer Effects to the graphics and icons for a panel of buttons, changing the effects to produce three unique button states.
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- How to Make Tonal Corrections in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta
- Mar 23, 2007
- Tonal corrections are those adjustments and changes you make to the brightness and contrast of your image. For years, Photoshop's workhorse tonal-correction tools have been the Levels control and the Curves dialog box, both of which can be applied either destructively or as adjustment layers. The Levels control remains untouched in the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, but Adobe has made major changes to both the Curves and Brightness/Contrast tools. Ben Long takes you through these new features in this sample chapter.
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- How to Undo Any Change at Any Time in Photoshop Lightroom
- Oct 12, 2007
- Producing good digital images can require a lot of steps, but the occasional "oops" doesn't have to put you back at the starting point. Scott Kelby explains how to undo those little errors.
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- How to Use Filters in Photoshop CS6
- Aug 16, 2012
- Learn some cool techniques for applying filters in Photoshop CS6, including using the Filter Gallery and Smart Filters, and use filters to make a photo look like an oil painting or tinted drawing.
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- How to Use Lightroom's Catalog Export and Import Features
- Nov 30, 2007
- Martin Evening shows step by step how to import/export Lightroom catalogs from one computer to another (for instance, from a desktop computer to a laptop and vice versa).
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- How to Use Photoshop Elements to Remove Glare from Glasses
- Oct 5, 2007
- In this tutorial, Matt Kloskowski describes step by step how to remove annoying reflections from a subject's eyeglasses.
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- How to Use the Field Blur Filter in Photoshop CS6
- May 9, 2012
- This excerpt from Photoshop CS6: Visual QuickStart Guide shows you how to use the Field Blur filter, which is handy when you need the most flexibility and control in blurring specific areas of an image while keeping other (more important) areas in sharp focus.
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- How We Created an iOS Game for Fun and (Very Little) Profit
- Oct 30, 2014
- Shawn Nelson, author of Photoshop for Games: Creating Art for Console, Mobile, and Social Games, describes how he and a programmer pal combined their talents to go from 'We have holes' and 'We have a ball' to the addicting 'Gopher Go Boom,' an exploding-gopher game for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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- Image Editing Background & Basics in Adobe Photoshop Elements 14
- Jan 19, 2016
- This lesson from Adobe Photoshop Elements 14 Classroom in a Book begins with an overview of the core concepts behind image correction, and then introduces a range of quick and easy techniques to help you get more from your photos in just a few clicks.
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