- 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 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 Management in the New, Improved Adobe Bridge CS3
- May 18, 2007
- Although Adobe Bridge isn't a new program, the updates to this file browser in the release of Photoshop CS3 make it a more powerful and useful tool for all your image-management needs. Jon Canfield shows you some useful new features that should make Bridge CS3 a more popular option for managing your media files. (And not just images, either!)
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- Image Silhouettes with Adobe Photoshop CS
- Jan 30, 2004
- Photoshop guru and New Riders author Bert Monroy shows you how to use clipping paths to create stunning silhouettes in Photoshop CS.
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- Importing Smart Objects in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 13, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to work with a Smart Object by placing text created in Illustrator into a toy store poster.
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- Impressionist Pastel Painting with Painter 2015: Loose, Luminous Pastels
- May 26, 2015
- Corel Painter 2015 gives artists the tools to create soft, glowing effects that flatter complexions and make landscape canvases look dreamy. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Painter Wow! Book, Tenth Edition, shares techniques for working with Painter's Pastels brushes for effects that look beautifully natural.
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- InDesign vs. Photoshop Smackdown: Who Will Be the Winner?
- Aug 31, 2007
- Mike McHugh shows you how to use the new Effects panel in InDesign CS3 to take care of tasks formerly reserved for Photoshop. Let the InDesign vs. Photoshop smackdown begin!
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- Integrating Photoshop and Illustrator to Create Professional Imagery
- Nov 18, 2004
- Using some cool filters and effects from Adobe Illustrator, you can create vector mosaics from bitmap graphics, or even change squares into circles. Find out here how to make it work for you.
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- Introduction to Using Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Jul 30, 2009
- This chapter summarizes fundamental Photoshop features, including using the main application features; configuring the panel docks; choosing the correct image size and bit depth; cropping and rotating images; applying content-aware scaling; choosing and saving colors; using the Layers and History panels; creating and using adjustment and fill layers; and creating and managing presets.
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- Jealous Type: Cool Type Effects in Adobe Photoshop CS
- Jun 23, 2006
- Scott Kelby shows you some great type effects in Photoshop CS, including Neo Grunge, Black Chrome, and Gothic Chiseled.
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- Jumping Between Lightroom and Photoshop
- Apr 28, 2008
- Lightroom is pretty darn slick, but sometimes you need to "Photoshop" a photo. There's a reason that Adobe has all of these great tools with different but related features: They work as a family. You can send images back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop, and Scott Kelby explains how and when to do that.
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- Keeping Great Color When Emailing or Posting Photos to the Web
- Dec 19, 2010
- In this excerpt from The Adobe Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers, Scott Kelby shares a trick that lets anyone you email (or anybody who sees your photos on the Web) see your photos pretty much the same way you do in Photoshop.
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- Layer Basics in Adobe Photoshop CC (2014 release)
- Sep 9, 2014
- In this excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2014 release), you will learn how to work with layers in Adobe Photoshop CC.
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- Layer Basics in Adobe Photoshop CC (2015 release)
- Oct 5, 2015
- In Photoshop, you can isolate different parts of an image on layers. Each layer can then be edited as discrete artwork, giving you tremendous flexibility as you compose and revise an image. This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release) shows you how.
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