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Photoshop Tutorials

It is almost essential for photographers these days to have skills in digital editing. Here you find step by step photoshop tutorials to increase the quality and efficiency of your editing work.

The Secret to Using Adobe Photoshop to a Proficient Level
Anyone who has ever used Adobe Photoshop will tell you that there is a lot to learn in order to perform even simple tasks. You would be forgiven for admitting that you felt a little bewildered by the large array of menus, floating palettes and tools on offer. This article is intended to answer that very question. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a veteran, I believe that the approach outline here will benefit your further learning. . . . keep reading
Choosing the Best Selection Tool
Scenario: Using Adobe Photoshop, you wish to select and copy Aunty Edith from one photograph and paste her into another. Which selection tool do you use? . . . keep reading
Faster Photoshop at No Cost!
Many dedicated Photoshop users can get substantial speed gains from their existing, albeit modest, equipment by simply optimising their computer and software so that it runs Photoshop more efficiently. So to make sure that you are getting the best from the bucks you have already spent, here is our collection of speed-enhancing tips for optimising your machine. . . . keep reading
Making Repairs Using the Patch Tool
The Patch tool breaks the limitations of the Healing Brush by providing users with the ability to apply the repairing power of the tool to whole sections of their pictures in one step. Using the tool involves a simple two step process - 'select, drag the selection and patch'. When first selected the Patch tool works like the Lasso tool allowing you to draw a selection around a specific area of the picture. Just like Photoshop's other selection tools you can add to, subtract from or even use the intersection of multiple selections to refine your selected picture part. . . . keep reading
Changing Your Pictures Without Changing Your Pixels Using Adjustment Layers
The example picture (below), shot on a cold and overcast day, has several problems. Essentially it is too blue, too dark and doesn't contain enough contrast. When confronted with such an image most of us would immediately apply a couple of image adjustments, such as Levels and Color Balance, to correct the photograph. In the process the pixel values of the file are changed forever. Professionals prefer to apply the same adjustments in a layer form. Called Adjustment Layers, these special layers provide you with the same correction tools but in layer form. . . . keep reading
Perform a Series of Changes Automatically Using Actions
Perform a Series of Changes Automatically Using Actions Photshop CS, as well as other versions of the package, come complete with a built-in recorder feature that lets you save a sequence of changes you make to a picture. Called Actions, this feature is easy to use and is great for speeding up all those tasks that you repeatedly perform on your photographs. Once recorded the Action sequence can be applied to a single file or a group of files via the Batch command (File>Automate>Batch). . . . keep reading
Digital Camera Interpolation Explained
In a device such as a digital camera it is very important to understand the very basic aspects of the device so as to properly operate it and give it the due respect it deserves. Such a topic is interpolation! . . . keep reading
Adobe Photoshop Levels - Turn Junk into Gold by Clicking a Button
There is no doubt in my mind; Adobe Photoshop is the greatest Photo editing program in the world. Whether you are a novice or an expert Photoshop is the program for you. Photoshop is used by my children and by the movie making industry. So what exactly can I do with Photoshop The better question is what can't you do with Photoshop. . . . keep reading
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