- Peachpit Exclusive: Interview with Legendary Computer and Photography Book Author Scott Kelby
- Feb 19, 2008
- In this exclusive interview, bestselling Photoshop and technology book author Scott Kelby speaks with Peachpit Publisher Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel about being the top-selling computer book author for the fourth straight year, making the transition from podcast to television, his latest book projects, his photography equipment, his workflow, and much, much more.
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- Peachpit's Thanksgiving Photo Recipe: How to Shoot a Turkey
- Nov 16, 2010
- You don't need to cook your holiday turkey to enjoy it — all you need is one good shot, and this photography recipe will show you how to get it.
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- Perfect Black and White from onOne Software
- Jan 4, 2013
- onOne Software recently released version 7 of its Perfect Photo Suite, which includes a variety of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins, including popular apps like Perfect Portrait, Perfect Mask, and Perfect Layers. Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian explains how version 7 has introduced a brand new plugin for styling our photos, called Perfect B&W (Perfect Black & White), which allows you to create black and white photos from color originals using a large library of presets and robust controls.
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- Perfecting Focus and Lighting Enhancements in Photoshop CS4
- Apr 16, 2009
- Focus work is commonly required for composites that involve landscapes and other images with relatively long distances between the farthest discernable object in the frame and the viewer. Lighting layers are surprisingly easy to create, while providing great visual impact. This excerpt shows you how to work with focus and lighting enhancements in Photoshop CS4.
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- Perfecting Images in Photoshop CS5
- Sep 22, 2010
- Dan Moughamian offers some tips designed to help you work more efficiently with existing tools and functions, and to apply creative effects with new features like Puppet Warp and improved features like Merge to HDR Pro.
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- Perfecting Photos with the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Adjustment Brush
- Mar 6, 2012
- Dan Moughamian discusses the improvements made to the Adjustment Brush controls in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4, which are used for editing one specific area of the photograph without making similar changes to neighboring areas.
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- Photo Filtering and Searches in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
- Feb 6, 2009
- Martin Evening takes a look at how to use the Library module tools to conduct image searches to find specific photos.
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- Photo Restoration: Repairing Physical Damage
- Jun 4, 2015
- Robert Correll, author of Photo Restoration: From Snapshots to Great Shots, offer tips for repairing the physical damage to old photos, including filling holes and other surface damage and reconstructing torn or cut photos.
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- Photographer Kevin Ames On How to Get Light Right
- Oct 19, 2007
- Veteran photographer and Photoshop master Kevin Ames shows how digital photographers can work with light creatively to get great images within and without Photoshop.
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- Photoshop 6 Color Settings for Web & Multimedia Design
- Jan 18, 2002
- Photoshop expert Sean Duggan discusses Photoshop 6 color settings for a Web or multimedia workflow, as well as for combined print and Web production.
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- Photoshop 7 Interface Design
- Nov 22, 2002
- This sample chapter will help you develop the understanding and skills needed to create highly professional-looking interface elements for your website.
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- Photoshop 7 Layers and Shapes
- Dec 13, 2002
- Learn all about using layers and vector masks in Photoshop 7 to work more efficiently.
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- Photoshop 7 Special Effects
- Dec 13, 2002
- Scott Kelby toyed with other names like "Zowie-wowie effects," "Turbo-mondo spasmatic effects," and even "Intergalactic alien death-ray effects," but those names just weren't special enough for the effects he had planned for this sample chapter.
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- Photoshop as a Sandwich Filler for Lightroom 2
- Feb 17, 2009
- Martin Evening suggests ways that you can make this transition between Lightroom and Photoshop more fluid.
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- Photoshop Author Matt Kloskowski’s Five Faves
- Apr 9, 2008
- Everyone has favorites. We asked Matt Kloskowski, the education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals—and host of our Photoshop Reference Guide—about a few of his.
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- Photoshop Brushes as Artistic Tools
- Jun 9, 2006
- Photoshop can be artistic, right? In fact, Photoshop brushes are wonderful tools for creating original Photoshop art as well as for use in creating collages, making photo borders, and blending images together. Helen Bradley introduces you to the world of Photoshop brushes by showing you how to use the brush settings in Photoshop, how to create your own brushes, and how to find and use brushes that others have created.
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- Photoshop CC (2014 release) Visual Quick Start: Refocusing
- Jul 28, 2014
- In this chapter from Photoshop CC: Visual QuickStart Guide (2014 release), you’ll blur areas of an image using the Field Blur, Iris Blur, Tilt-Shift, Path Blur, and Spin Blur filters (collectively called the Blur Gallery). And you will apply sharpening via the Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Mask, and Shake Reduction filters, and via the Sharpen tool.
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- Photoshop CC Update: Linked Smart Objects
- Feb 21, 2014
- Photoshop educator Dan Moughamian brings you up to date on another new feature that’s part of the Photoshop 14.2 update, available to Creative Cloud subscribers. Smart Objects have always been a valuable part of the Photoshop workflow, whether you're a graphic artist or photographer. However, (embedded) Smart Objects can have a downside in that they can substantially increase the file size of your documents. Dan shows you how Smart Objects just got smarter, allowing images to be linked to one another rather than being embedded, providing several advantages.
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- Photoshop CC Update: Perspective Warp
- Feb 7, 2014
- Photoshop instructor Dan Moughamian walks you through the Perspective Warp command, the latest addition to Photoshop's arsenal of image transformation tools. Rather than being focused solely on image correction tasks (such as straightening lines), Perspective Warp also allows you to make subtle changes to the camera's viewpoint. This innovation, as well as other new features and JDI enhancements, are available as part of the Photoshop 14.2 update on Creative Cloud.
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- Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Extracting Hair
- Nov 10, 2011
- Matt Kloskowski shares some great tricks he uses to get even the wispiest of baby-fine hair to cooperate when compositing multiple images in Photoshop (no matter how badly it behaves in real life).
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