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Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom Reflect Digital Photography's New Workflows: Jun 1, 2007; Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 offer the widest and deepest range of digital-imaging options ever produced by Adobe. How do you decide which of these applications should be on your upgrade list? Conrad Chavez sheds light on which combination is the best for your digital photography workflow.

Misunderstood Photoshop: Paths: May 25, 2007; In the ninth article in her series on handy Photoshop tools that are often overlooked or misunderstood, Helen Bradley looks at paths, which is a useful Photoshop tool for working with and saving selections. Although working with paths brings you into contact with the sometimes complex Pen tool, the combined power of these two tools makes them important additions to your Photoshop skill set.

Image Management in the New, Improved Adobe Bridge CS3: May 18, 2007; Although Adobe Bridge isn't a new program, the updates to this file browser in the release of Photoshop CS3 make it a more powerful and useful tool for all your image-management needs. Jon Canfield shows you some useful new features that should make Bridge CS3 a more popular option for managing your media files. (And not just images, either!)

Misunderstood Photoshop: Channels: May 18, 2007; In the eighth part of her series on handy Photoshop tools that are often overlooked or misunderstood, Helen Bradley discusses channels, a feature that not only provides information about your image but can also be used for photo editing. You learn how to use channel data to convert an image to black and white and even how to save a selection in a channel for reuse later on.

Misunderstood Photoshop: The Apply Image Command: May 4, 2007; Photoshop's Apply Image command is a tool for blending two images or layers. You can use it to apply masked borders to images and to create interesting collage effects. It's also one of the quickest ways of creating a mask from an image. Helen Bradley explains the basics of using the Apply Image feature in Photoshop.

The Top Five Add-ons for Apple's iPhoto: May 4, 2007; Ever since its initial introduction, Apple's iPhoto has been a great tool for anyone with a digital camera. As great as iPhoto is, however, longtime users with libraries containing thousands of photos know that the application does have some areas that need enhancing to make it more powerful and seamless for today's digital photographers. Ryan Faas gives his top five iPhoto plug-ins and helper applications to help tame your iPhoto library and expand your iPhoto experience.

Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 3: Type-Related Palettes: Apr 27, 2007; In Part 3 of his three-part series, Photoshop expert Pete Bauer provides an in-depth look at the many type-related options Photoshop offers through the Character and Paragraph palettes.

Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 2: Type Layers and Tools: Apr 20, 2007; In Part 2 of his three-part series, Photoshop expert Pete Bauer explains how you can work with Photoshop's type layers and tools to add text to your artwork.

Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 1: Apr 13, 2007; In Part 1 of his three-part series, Photoshop expert Pete Bauer explains the fundamental concepts you need to understand to work with type in Photoshop.

Guide to Creating and Managing Images in Photoshop Elements 5: Apr 6, 2007; This chapter offers some basic guidelines on adjusting image size and resolution, depending on whether you want to print, email, or post to the Web. The authors also cover creating images from scratch (which is what some people use Elements for, ignoring the Organizer entirely). You'll also learn the different methods for viewing additional information about your images.

Misunderstood Photoshop: The Gradient Map Tool: Apr 6, 2007; Helen Bradley continues her "Misunderstood Photoshop" series with some examples of the interesting effects you can create with Photoshop's Gradient Map tool. This tool easily converts color images to black-and-white, or colorizes grayscale or color images in a flash!

How to Make Tonal Corrections in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta: Mar 23, 2007; Tonal corrections are those adjustments and changes you make to the brightness and contrast of your image. For years, Photoshop's workhorse tonal-correction tools have been the Levels control and the Curves dialog box, both of which can be applied either destructively or as adjustment layers. The Levels control remains untouched in the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta, but Adobe has made major changes to both the Curves and Brightness/Contrast tools. Ben Long takes you through these new features in this sample chapter.

Retouching the Mouth in Photoshop Elements 5: Mar 16, 2007; After the eyes, the mouth and the smile tend to be the other areas we look at the most in a portrait. Unfortunately, there's a ton of things that can distract us in, on, or around the mouth. Teeth, lip color, braces, the overall smile, these are all things that can make or break a photo. In this chapter, we'll look at some small and subtle ways to make the entire mouth area the star of your photos.

Misunderstood Photoshop: The Match Color Tool: Mar 16, 2007; Photoshop's Match Color tool is great for color-correcting photos and matching color in two photos when you're assembling them in a collage or montage. It's also a handy tool for turning daytime into sunset. Helen Bradley explains how you can put Photoshop's Match Color tool to work in your photo-editing workflow. She's also included a video tutorial so you can more easily follow along.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Scott Kelby on Adobe’s New Lightroom and the Future of the Digital Workflow: Mar 2, 2007; On the eve of the release of Scott Kelby's new Lightroom book, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers from New Riders, Dave Cross got a few moments to sit down with Scott to talk about Lightroom, how it relates to Photoshop, and how it will impact today's digital photographers. It's a very candid interview, where Scott gives some surprising insights about Lightroom, the development of his Lightroom book, and the reaction to the launch of his new magazine for Lightroom users, called "Darkroom."

Misunderstood Photoshop: The Patch Tool: Feb 23, 2007; Photoshop's Patch tool is great for fixing flaws in photographs and for smoothing wrinkles to give portraits a digital facelift. Helen Bradley explains why the Patch tool often provides better results more quickly than the Clone Stamp tool, and shows how to use the Patch tool for your next photo-fixing task. To follow along as Helen explores the Patch tool, be sure to check out the accompanying video tutorial.

Misunderstood Photoshop: Clipping Masks: Feb 16, 2007; The Photoshop clipping mask feature is a quick way to create effects such as text filled with a photograph. Helen Bradley points out more handy uses for clipping masks, such as limiting the effect of adjustment layers, or simplifying the process of editing a portion of an image. You can follow along with the accompanying video tutorial to see exactly how it's done.