Articles on using Photoshop

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Cutting it In Photoshop - Mastering the Wacom Pen
Cutting It In photoshop
Real retouching requires mastery of a variety of Photoshop tools in order to create the best possible results in the minimum amount of time.
Cutting In photoshop
These retouching guidelines are by no means written in stone. They are just things to consider while you are retouching different age groups. Look for these things and then decide what you should or should not do about them. It’s easy to overlook small things, like blemishes in the eyebrows or a hair sticking out of a nostril. This list is more of a reminder of what to look for and some information about what retouchers generally do. Thanks!
Lightroom 3: Noise Control & Lens Tool
Lightroom 3 represents a great leap forward for photographers in the area of image processing. We can now enhance our digital images creatively in ways that couldn’t be done before. There are a few new and refined tools that come to mind when we think of these improvement changes. Starting with the new Process Version (PV) 2010, which is an entirely new RAW demosaic algorithm, or RAW decoder, that works to enhance the images from the building blog of your digital image files, to the muchneeded refinement made to the noise-reduction algorithm, with the biggest advance made in the area of Luminance noise reduction. Also consider the new Lens Correction tool built right into the RAW adjustment fundamental. These are the tools that we’ll spend time building up a familiarity with so that we can harness the great power of Lightroom 3 image-processing capabilities.
Michael Crocker - The Post-Production Sequence
Skin-smoothing technique used on the image opposite Marko’s brief for this set of images was to retain the early morning, spring feel. The TIFF images supplied already had a delicate warmth to them [1], so, after adding quick Levels and Hue & Saturation adjustment layers [2], I set about smoothing the model’s skin tones.
Cutting it in Photoshop
Hi everyone at Professional Imagemaker! It’s great to be here and I hope I will be providing some interesting insights into my world of pro retouching. I work with all kinds of photography, from snapshots to fine art images and I’m not a snob when it comes to retouching photos; I’ll work on anything if I feel I can make it better and more meaningful.
P4B Lightroom 3 Spot Removal and Crop Tools
In the past few issues I have discussed the localised editing brush and the graduated filter in both its intended uses and creative application. For this issue, I am going to focus our discussion around the spot removal tools and the crop tools.
Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Design Premium
Generally at Professional Imagemaker we avoid all the hoopla that accompanies the release of a new Creative Suite upgrade. There are a couple of reasons for this. Most initial reports tend to be regurgitations of Adobe reviewer’s press releases (and are readily available faster than we can get to press) and for ‘real use’ we adopt a more cautious approach before committing our workflows to potential pitfalls.
P4B - Lightroom 3Lightroom Graduated Filter - How to!
The Localised Adjustment tools, in Lightroom, allow photographers to expand their creative freedom beyond global image adjustments. This tool was originally released in Lightroom 2 and as a further refined tool in Version 3.
Photoshop 4 Beginners - Brush Up Your Photoshop Skills
The Brushes Panel is one of the most comprehensive of Photoshop’s panels, containing eight sub-tabs, five on–off tabs and a drop-down menu of around 20 items. It is not surprising then that the beginner is daunted by it all!
Lightroom 3: Lightroom Adjustment Brush In-Depth
The release of Lightroom 2, in 2008, generated great excitement in the digital community over the improvements made to the functionality of the program through the introduction of Localize Adjustment Tools. In Lightroom 3, these tools remain, for the most part, unchanged with some minor improvements to the user interface and usability, most notably the disappearance of the less intuitive button mode.
PhotoShop 4 Beginners: Levels and Curves
Almost everything that you tackle may be accomplished by about five different methods and there is a general confusing babble about which is the most effective way. Adjusting tone range and colour are two such tasks. Although they are effected by the same tools, these tools are used in different ways and so it is sensible to divorce the discussions from each other
Photoshop For Beginners - Lightroom: Top 10 Features Count Down
Following McNamee's feature on Bridge, Art Suwansang now gets all his ducks in a row using Adobe Lightroom
Photoshop Can Paint
Wow! CS5 came out smoking with new features and new ways of doing things! One of the most talked about features is the new Mixer Brush Tool.
Photoshop For Beginners: Using Bridge
Bridge acts like a super file browser and at the basic level it has the functionality of Windows Explorer. In Explorer you may look at (some) thumbnails, move, copy, arrange or delete files.
Lettering and Type
At some stage almost everybody needs to put some text on their images
Photoshop Can Paint
Wow! CS5 came out smoking with new features and new ways of doing things! One of the most talked about features is the new Mixer Brush Tool. Nested with the Brush Tool in the vertical tool bar as the bottom option
Adobe Lightroom 2
The first thing to do is have a look at Develop in general, before getting down to the nitty gritty of individual tools.
3 Simple Steps to a Beautiful Custom Image
With Photoshop®, a handful of handy Actions, and a simple workflow, you can create beautiful custom images in 2 minutes or less. Let’s see how it’s done.
Adobe (RGB)1998 versus sRGB
The debate on choice of RGB working space goes on and on and so perhaps it is timely to put the thing to rest or at least give you the tools to make the decision.
Photoshop, Philosophy & Painter
McNamee takes a slightly grumpy look at resolution issues in these two applications
Adobe Lightroom
The additional learning curve for swithcing workflow with remnants of other methods lurking, meant that we had stuck conservatively to Adobe Bridge.
The Mystery of Lab Colour
Colour has to be shown in a three-dimensional graph so that the colour and lightness may be depicted. However, to simplify things the Lab plot is frequently shown in just two dimensions which is effectively a crosssectional slice through the 3-D shape.
Photoshop TV CS3 Launch Episode
Adobe Photoshop TV has produced a special video podcast, taped at the much-anticipated launch of Adobe's Creative Suite 3 (CS3) in New York City.
Add a Luminous Glow to your images with Photoshop
The technique does have many steps, so making an action is the most practical way to apply it. I have also found it to yield consistent results with the settings described below.
Photoshop CS3 features revealed
Increased productivity and streamlined workflows-Photoshop CS3 comes with a wide array of new features and improvements to existing ones, but if there’s one thing you will notice immediately, it is this: Compared to previous versions of the software, Photoshop CS3 is just faster. As of December 1, 2006, beta versions of Photoshop CS3 are performing 40% faster than Photoshop CS2 on Intel-based Macs.

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