- Applying the Lens Blur Filter in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- What formerly required the use of multiple channels, gradients, and editing steps can now be accomplished with a single filter. In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to use the Lens Blur filter.
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- Applying the Unsharp Mask Filter in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to work with Amount, Radius, and Threshold in the Unsharp Mask filter.
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- Changing Print Dimensions and Resolution in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to resize three common types of files for print output —low res/large dimensions, high res/small dimensions, and medium res/small dimensions—and how to resize a file for Web output.
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- Changing the Canvas Size in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to change the canvas size by using the Canvas Size command.
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- Changing the Zoom Level in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to change the Zoom level in Adobe Photoshop CS5 using the Zoom tool or the Navigator panel.
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- Converting the Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- There are many things you can do to a layer that you canβt do to the Background. You can, however, convert the Background into a layer, at which time it will adopt all the functions of a normal layer. In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how.
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- Creating a Contact Sheet in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- You can use a contact sheet to catalog images, such as the photos that you back up onto DVDs, for easy reference and identification. In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to create a contact sheet.
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- Creating a PDF Presentation Using Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to create a PDF presentation that lets you easily package and send files to a client or friend.
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- Creating Layers in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to create new, blank image layers. To those layers, you can apply brush strokes, clone imagery, etc.
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- Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide: Calibrating Your Display
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to calibrate your display using a hardware calibration device.
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- Refining Selection Edges in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- Use the improved Refine Edge dialog to apply refinements, such as feathering, to your selections. In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how.
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- Slicing Images for the Web with Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- Using the Slice tools in Photoshop, you can carve images into smaller pieces that are easy to use on the Web. Adobe Certified Instructor Rafael Concepcion shows how to work with the Slice tools, optimizing your website's images to improve the site's performance.
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- Straightening a Crooked Image in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to straighten a crooked image using the Ruler tool.
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- Using Clipping Masks in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to create a clipping mask, release a layer from a clipping mask, and release an entire clipping mask.
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- Using the Color Replacement Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to use the Color Replacement tool.
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- Using the Magic Wand Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- With the Magic Wand tool, you simply click a color in the image and the tool selects all adjacent pixels of the same (or a similar) shade or color. In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to use the Magic Wand tool.
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- Using the Quick Selection Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- If the area you want to select has well-defined borders, instead of using a lasso tool, try using the Quick Selection tool. In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how.
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- Using the Replace Color Command in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- By using the Replace Color command, you can adjust the hue, saturation, or lightness of colors in specific areas of an image using selection and color controls in a dialog. In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how.
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- Using Two of the Eraser Tools in Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to use the Eraser tool and the Magic Eraser tool.
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- Synchronizing Edits in Adobe Camera Raw
- Dec 2, 2010
- A great time-saver in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Lightroom is the ability to take the adjustments made to one photo and apply them to similar shots with a few clicks. Dan Moughamian shows you how to quickly apply a series of edits to multiple shots.
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