- Color Correct Your Images in Photoshop Elements 4
- Aug 4, 2006
- In this chapter, you'll discover Photoshop Elements' color-correction tools and discuss which tools you may want to use, and when you'll most likely want to use them. You'll also learn how to make sure colors display and print accurately (also known as color management) and how to correct colors and tonal values in your images. Along the way, you'll find out why what may at first appear to be the most obvious color-enhancement options are not always the best choices for improving the color in an image.
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- Frame It: How to Frame Digital Images with Photoshop
- Aug 4, 2006
- A good picture deserves a good frame. Just as you frame the artwork you hang on your wall, you can also create frames for your digital photos and art. Photoshop has plenty of tools to help you make wonderful frames that complement and enhance your photos. Helen Bradley shows you how to create a range of frame effects in Photoshop. In the process, you'll learn some handy ways for working in Photoshop and discover practical applications for styles and filters.
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- Working Smarter with Photoshop's Adjustment Layers
- Jul 21, 2006
- The catch phrase "work smarter, not harder" could have been written about Photoshop adjustment layers. If you're not using this Photoshop tool, you're probably costing yourself a lot of time. Adjustment layers are the smart way to apply many of Photoshop's most-often-used adjustments because they don't permanently change the image itself. Imagine being able to undo, remove, or alter an adjustment such as levels at any time without losing all your subsequent work. Helen Bradley shows you how to save time and effort and get better results using Photoshop adjustment layers.
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- Cream of the Crop: Cropping and Resizing in Adobe Photoshop CS
- Jul 14, 2006
- This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for various resizing projects in Photoshop CS. Included are hints to create custom tools to resize photos in specific and useful ways.
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- Fabulous Filters in Photoshop
- Jul 14, 2006
- The Photoshop filter collection offers more than just filters to make your photo look like it's painted in watercolors. There are filters to add spotlights and some fun options that don't appear on the menus but are only a click or two away. Helen Bradley tells you all you need to know about filters, including how to apply multiple filters at once, how to find hidden options, and how to change the colors that a filter applies to your images. A bonus is a list of 10 filters you can use today!
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- Real World Adobe Creative Suite 2: View from the Bridge
- Jun 30, 2006
- Adobe Creative Suite 2 introduces an new application-- Adobe Bridge--for visually managing the different file types you'll work on within the CS2 applications. Just as the Bridge on the starship Enterprise was the main hub for all the ship's departments, the Adobe Bridge helps you work better with all the CS2 applications. In this chapter you'll get an introduction to Adobe Bridge and learn its major features.
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- Jealous Type: Cool Type Effects in Adobe Photoshop CS
- Jun 23, 2006
- Scott Kelby shows you some great type effects in Photoshop CS, including Neo Grunge, Black Chrome, and Gothic Chiseled.
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- Adobe Photoshop Master Class: From Inspiration to Image
- Jun 16, 2006
- In this chapter, you'll see how Maggie Taylor's distinctive photoshop images are created in step-by-step fashion through a series of images.
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- Basic Photo Corrections in Photoshop CS
- Jun 9, 2006
- Adobe Photoshop and Adobe ImageReady include a variety of tools and commands for improving the quality of a photographic image. This lesson steps you through the process of acquiring, resizing, and retouching a photo intended for a print layout. The same workflow applies to Web images.
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- Basic Photo Corrections in Photoshop CS2
- Jun 9, 2006
- Adobe Photoshop includes a variety of tools and commands for improving the quality of a photographic image. This lesson steps you through the process of acquiring, resizing, and retouching a photo intended for a print layout. The same basic work-flow applies to Web images.
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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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- Edgy Edge Effects in Photoshop
- May 19, 2006
- We're surrounded by images with interesting edges. Look around and you'll see photos with soft foggy edges and others that look torn or sanded. These edges provide interesting outlines for photos and digital art, and they're easy to create for your own images. Better still, when you create an interesting edge treatment, you can save it to use again on another image. Helen Bradley shows how to create a range of different edge effects and how to apply them by using masks and layers to any photo or image in your collection.
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- Master Image Editing Basics in Photoshop CS/CS2
- Mar 10, 2006
- How does a mere image become a masterpiece? Editing. This chapter will help you familiarize yourself with the basics of image editing in Photoshop CS/CS2.
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- Create Your Own Comic Strip with Comic Life
- Mar 3, 2006
- If you take a lot of pictures, you might be getting tired of the same old layouts, and chances are your relatives are getting bored looking at them, too! Bryan Hoff shows you a whole new way to show off your snapshots with Comic Life. Turn your life into a comic strip that everyone will have fun reading!
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- The Photographer's Guide to Planning a Vacation
- Mar 3, 2006
- A photographic journey is 80 percent preparation and 20 percent vacation. Planning the perfect trip requires a bit of mental elbow grease and a lot of time finding resources, looking up information, and managing logistics. In the end, work you do before you go pays off in spades when you see your photographs. This chapter helps you do the preparation that results in a fantastic photographic vacation.
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- Essential Techniques for Working with Photoshop CS2
- Feb 24, 2006
- In this chapter, you'll find tips and techniques covering features new to Photoshop CS2 along with some lesser known or frequently overlooked features and tools that have been around for a few versions. In addition, many of the tips in this chapter also work in ImageReady, Photoshop's Web graphics-centric component.
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- Top 10 Reasons Why Adobe Lightroom Rocks
- Feb 24, 2006
- Matt Kloskowski doesn't just like Adobe's new Lightroom application; he's crazy about it. With a ton of useful features, Lightroom helps digital photographers to get in, get done, and get away from the computer, so they can focus on what they do best: taking pictures.
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- Super Size Me: Resize and Crop Your Pix in Photoshop Elements 4
- Feb 17, 2006
- If a chapter on resizing and cropping doesn't sound exciting, really, what does? It's sad, but a good portion of our lives is spent doing just that—resizing and cropping. Why is that? It's because nothing, and I mean nothing, is ever the right size. Find out how to make it the right size in this sample chapter.
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- Thinking Outside the Box-Shaped Photo: How to Create Cool Photo Edges in Photoshop CS2
- Feb 17, 2006
- Don't be satisfied with boring rectangular photos! Thanks to Photoshop, you can use simple techniques to create amazing edge effects and cool artistic borders that can add the ultimate finishing touch to your photos. Dave Cross shows you how easy it is to create many different variations from three key techniques.
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- Master Image Editing Basics With Camera Raw
- Jan 27, 2006
- This chapter covers the image editing basics that you need to understand to use your raw converter and to get the most out of your digital camera and your image editor.
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