- From Laptop to Desktop: Synching Catalogs on Two Computers in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
- Dec 16, 2010
- Moving photos from your location laptop to the Lightroom catalog on your studio computer is easier than it sounds. You just have to make a few choices about how Lightroom handles the process.
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- Fun Effects in Photoshop CS3: Fold Your Photo
- Jul 27, 2007
- Helen Bradley shows you a simple process to create a folded photo effect in Photoshop using the Liquify filter to create the distorted edges and gradient fills to add dimension.
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- Fun Effects in Photoshop CS3: Make Your Photos Bend with Vanishing Point
- Jun 29, 2007
- Are you ready to showcase your art on a billboard or up on a building? In this article, Helen Bradley shows you how to harness the power of the Vanishing Point filter to create fun effects with your digital images.
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- Fun Effects in Photoshop CS3: Photo Frames From Photos
- Aug 3, 2007
- If there's one thing better than a great photograph it's a great photograph in a frame that you create yourself. Just as you might make and decorate a store-bought frame, you can make and decorate a digital frame for your favorite pictures. It is a simple process to photograph objects to use to create your own frames and then put them together to illustrate your art. In this second article in her series on fun effects in Photoshop CS3, Helen Bradley looks at how you can create photo frames using your own photos and harnessing the power of the selection tools in Photoshop CS3.
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- Fun with Particles: Painting with the Particle Brushes in Painter 2015
- Apr 30, 2015
- Painter's Particle brushes deliver a range of interesting effects, including special shapes, textures, sparkles, and glows. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, Second Edition, shares techniques for using the Particle brushes to give dynamic expression to a drawing.
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- Fun with Puppet Warp in Photoshop CS5
- Jan 14, 2011
- One of the more entertaining (and powerful) new features in Photoshop CS5 is the Puppet Warp command. This feature provides the ability to apply a warping mesh to any selected object in your scene, and then bend and twist that object around in different ways. Dan Moughamian, author of Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6, shows you how to combine both Puppet Warp and the new Content-Aware Fill command to apply a snowman effect to a lighthouse.
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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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- Get Your Picture Perfect—No Photoshop Required
- Feb 2, 2007
- Photoshop offers incredible tools for correcting and adjusting exposure, tone, and color. However, very often an image is unusable not because of problems with its exposure or color, but because it's poorly composed. In this chapter, you'll learn how—by employing a few good shooting habits and paying more attention when shooting—you can get your compositions right in the camera, and avoid a trip to your image editor.
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- Getting Down & Dirty with Corey Barker: Corey's Favorite Photoshop Tricks
- Mar 17, 2014
- Corey Barker, author of Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers, Volume 2, shares some of his favorite Photoshop tricks.
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- Getting the Best Grayscales in Photoshop CS3
- Feb 1, 2008
- Trusted instructor Ben Willmore shares his techniques for optimizing grayscale images in Photoshop CS3.
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- Give Lightroom Its Own Identity
- Nov 30, 2007
- Make Lightroom your own by creating a custom identity plate. NAPP instructor Dave Cross shows you how. He also explains how to use identity plates to create reusable, custom border effects.
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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, you’ll 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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