- 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 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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- Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Senior Portrait
- Sep 5, 2011
- It’s become a really hot trend to take seniors out to a cool, fun, or dramatic location for their graduation photo shoot. But, with compositing, you don’t have to take them anywhere. In this chapter, Matt Kloskowski shows you how to create a great school portrait.
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- Photoshop CS 2 in the Raw: An Interview with Author Bruce Fraser
- May 20, 2005
- Peachpit Press author Bruce Fraser answers the question, "Photoshop CS 2 is new, but is it better?"
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- Photoshop CS2: How Layers Work
- Nov 23, 2005
- Layers play such a huge role in Photoshop that to deny yourself any crucial information about them is asking for trouble. With every new release, Adobe likes to pack more and more functions into the Layers palette. So as time goes on, understanding them will become even more crucial. This chapter will help you feel more comfortable working with layers in Photoshop CS2.
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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.
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- Photoshop CS3 Navigation Tips
- Feb 29, 2008
- In this excerpt from Real World Adobe Photoshop CS3, David Blatner, Conrad Chavez, and Bruce Fraser focus on magnification tricks and how to "zoom your zooming."
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- Photoshop CS4 Compositing Tips: Image Alignment and 'Smart Scaling'
- May 11, 2009
- Dan Moughamian illustrates how to capture and create images with wide fields of view by using the Photoshop CS4 alignment and blending functions. You'll also learn how to “narrow” the field of view within a single image by using the brand-new Content Aware Scale function.
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- Photoshop CS4 Compositing: Combining 2D and 3D, Part 1 of 3
- Oct 14, 2009
- Dan Moughamian presents the first of three articles in a series that demonstrated how to combine 2D and 3D elements in a single composite image.
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- Photoshop CS4 Compositing: Combining 2D and 3D, Part 2 of 3
- Oct 19, 2009
- Dan Moughamian continues his discussions on how to create interesting composites with Photoshop. In part 2 of this three-part series, we're working with Photoshop CS4 Extended to combine 2D imagery and 3D objects.
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- Photoshop CS4 Compositing: Combining 2D and 3D, Part 3 of 3
- Nov 24, 2009
- Concluding his three-part series, Dan Moughamian uses Photoshop CS4 Extended to finish his seamless composition of 2D and 3D elements.
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- Photoshop CS4 Compositing: Surreal Landscapes, Part 1
- Jun 30, 2009
- Dan Moughamian begins a new series showing how to create a unique landscape scene by blending or compositing multiple stock photos.
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- Photoshop CS4 Compositing: Surreal Landscapes, Part 2
- Aug 13, 2009
- Dan Moughamian presents the second in a series of articles designed to illustrate the compositing workflow for a surreal landscape.
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- Photoshop CS4 Compositing: Surreal Landscapes, Part 3
- Aug 31, 2009
- Fool the viewer's eyes into believing the impossible. In the final article in his series on the creating surreal landscapes, Dan Moughamian shows you how to pull together all the pieces of your composite image.
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- Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks - Dangerous Type: Type Effects
- May 26, 2009
- Scott Kelby shows you how to re-create popular type effects such as a halftone pattern, a fracture effect, PlayStation type, and a passport stamp.
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