Articles on using Photoshop

Read more photographic Articles on using Adobe Photoshop. Articles provided by Professional Imagemaker magazine, a publication for photographers who are members of the Societies.

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Photoshop - Infrared
Patrick Rice discusses the mechanics of infrared and digital infrared. In a nutshell, monochrome infrared imagery distorts tonal rendition, the most prominent effects being a lightening of foliage, deepening of blue sky, a glowing, softening of skin tones and, often, enhanced grain in the image.
Photoshop Layers
The Layers Palette in Photoshop is like the skeleton upon which other parts of the image are attached.
Plug-ins Printing & Flashes
Then along came digital and everyone was on a learning curve. Most of us still are, but what concerns me is the quality of some of the prints I am now examining.
Seven Simple Ideas Worth Knowing
Here are some thoughts on quick and easy digital exposure, contrast and color balance with simple aids and devices.
Sharpening in Photoshop
It is considered by many experienced uses of Photoshop that sharpening should be applied in repeated smaller doses. For example if 100% is determined to be the correct total amount, a superior result will result will be obtained by the application of 25% four times.
Soft on Skin Texture – soft on the causes of skin texture!
All methods soften the skin by blurring or smearing pixels about to lose detail. This provides a large number of ways of accomplishing the same task and the differences are often very subtle. Some of them are tabled below:
Jane Conner-ziser Marylin Sholin Vikki Popwell
For this feature we showcase three artists; all are female, all are American, all are highly creative and frustratingly skilful! They are: Jane Conner-ziser from Ormond Beach, Florida. Marylin Sholin from Miami, Florida. Vikki Popwell from Andalusia, Alabama.
Treasures from Snapshots by Jane Conner-ziser
Photoshop and Painter have blown the roof off of the product lines portrait studios can offer, and with all of the freedom it’s easy to just go crazy!
EXTRACTIONS How to do it without going near your dentist
How to make cut outs in photoshop
The End Game Setting End Points
In our rush to sell you into RAW shooting we sometimes forget that some of our photographers either cannot or choose not to shoot RAW.
The Sharper Image
It is quite possible that your camera is capable of producing much sharper pictures than you think
Tinting and Toning
The duotone is becoming something of a dinosaur in this age of high-speed, on-demand, colour printing. It remains, in skilled hands, one of the best ways of reproducing monochrome in full and luscious depth.
XChange Int'l Announce Photoshop/Element Plug-ins
SkinTune - Correcting skin colour with Adobe Photoshop is one of the most difficult tasks professional photographers face every day.

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