- Photoshop CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide: Workspaces
- Feb 5, 2009
- Learn about new interface options, such as the Application bar and document tabs, how to arrange multiple document windows, change zoom levels, rotate the canvas view, change screen modes, configure panels, customize the menus, create and save custom workspaces, and use the Options bar.
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- Photoshop CS4 Workflow Tips
- Apr 15, 2009
- Since compositing is, by definition, the blending of multiple images into one, it makes sense to discuss some new ways to work with multiple images onscreen. Photoshop introduces some great workflow enhancements that make this task quite a bit easier and more flexible.
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- Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide: Calibrating Your Display
- Dec 6, 2010
- In this excerpt from Photoshop CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas show you how to calibrate your display using a hardware calibration device.
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- Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers: Commercial Effects
- Dec 28, 2011
- Corey Barker explains how you can use commercial work to challenge your imagination to come up with creative solutions, even when you are limited by assets, time, and sometimes input from the client.
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- Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers: Playing with Photographs
- Mar 6, 2014
- In this chapter from Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks for Designers, Volume 2, Corey Barker takes photos from some of well known photographers and runs them through the creative ringer to see what comes out.
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- Photoshop Elements 7’s New Smart Brush Tool
- Aug 26, 2008
- One of the things I love about kicking the tires of a new version of software is finding out that a new feature has more to it then I originally thought. That's the case with the Smart Brush tool in Elements 7. See, when I first heard about the tool, I thought we'd be able to do some smart dodging and burning and that the editing process would be more intuitive. But when I actually got to use the tool I realized it's so much more.
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- Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac OS X: Quick Fix Edits
- Nov 19, 2009
- When you don't want to mess with the particulars, or when you know that a photo needs just a bit of tweaking but you want a bit more control over the adjustments, Jeff Carlson shows you how to use Quick Fix features of Photoshop Elements 8.
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- Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac OS X: Using the Smart Brush
- Dec 8, 2009
- Jeff Carlson shows you how to use the Smart Brush in Photoshop Elements 8, which lets you select an area and apply common fixes such as intensifying a blue sky or brightening a person’s teeth.
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- Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: Quick Fix Edits
- Nov 19, 2009
- When you don't want to mess with the particulars, or when you know that a photo needs just a bit of tweaking but you want a bit more control over the adjustments, Jeff Carlson shows you how to use Quick Fix features of Photoshop Elements 8.
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- Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: Recomposing a Scene
- Dec 8, 2009
- Jeff Carlson shows you how to use the Recompose tool in Photoshop Elements 8, which can help shift objects that you choose while retaining a workable background.
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- Photoshop Elements 8: Laying the Foundation
- Nov 26, 2009
- Brie Gyncild gets you started with Photoshop Elements 8 with a walk through the basics, including opening files, undoing actions, managing color, and working with selections and layers.
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- Photoshop ER: Restoring Critically Damaged Photos
- Oct 6, 2005
- To trash or not to trash? At first glance, some photos are all-too-obvious candidates for your computer's recycle bin. Anyone else would trash them, but should you? Before you give up, with some Photoshop tricks you can have a go at recovering the essence of the photo. Helen Bradley shows you some techniques for fixing images that might otherwise be unusable.
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- Photoshop for Video: What About Transparency?
- Aug 19, 2010
- One of Photoshop’s greatest powers lies in its ability to preserve complex transparency. By employing masks, both in layers and embedded into the saved files as alpha channels, this transparency data can travel seamlessly into the nonlinear editing (NLE) or motion-graphics environment.
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- Photoshop Layer Sets
- Apr 5, 2002
- Photoshop 6 Artistry co-author Sean Duggan shows how to make the most of Photoshop 6's Layer Sets to create order out of the chaos of crowded, cluttered layer palettes.
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- Photoshop Tips for Photographers
- Jul 1, 2005
- Your sister's wedding photos are tainted with red eye and the sweeping landscape you shot in Yosemite is muddy looking and off-kilter. What's a photo hobbyist to do? Photographer Helen Bradley shows you great techniques for fixing these, and other common image problems, with Photoshop tools.
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- Photoshop's Curves Have Never Looked Better: Making Adjustments in CS3
- Jun 22, 2007
- Looking for a reason to upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS3? Look no further than the retooled Adjustments menu. The Curves dialog box received a major update, and the new Black & White converter has taken us out of the dark ages of Photoshop and made it possible to quickly and easily get a great looking grayscale image out of a color original. Ben Willmore takes you on a tour of all of the Adjustment menu's new features and explains how to make the most of them.
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- Photoshop's Mixer Brushes: Realistic Wet and Dry Paint Effects for Creating Luminous Images
- Nov 18, 2014
- Many people think of Photoshop as a utilitarian retouching software for thinning thighs and whitening dull smiles. But Photoshop isn't just a makeup box for glamorizing photos; it's also an art studio with built-in brushes and paint. Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, author of The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Using Wacom and the iPad, Second Edition, shows how to harness the power of Photoshop to create a finished 'canvas' that delights the eye, without getting a single splotch of paint on your apron.
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- Planning a Dynamic Site with Macromedia Studio MX 2004
- Jan 9, 2004
- Planning a dynamic site is hard work. Project Scope documents, creative briefs, technical briefs... Thankfully this sample chapter helps pull it all together.
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- Planning and Building SVG Components
- Dec 6, 2001
- The unique functionality of SVG to render visual elements is creating new graphics horizons for the Web. Learn how to expand your SVG know-how to create an entire library of components to use again and again.
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- Plug In with Nik: Silver Efex Pro 2
- Feb 6, 2013
- Silver Efex Pro is simply the best and most essential black-and-white plugin on the market. John Batdorff explains his approach to using Silver Efex Pro while orienting you to SEP’s interface and rich set of creative tools. Of course, you’ll do this by creating images and exploring all the creative possibilities SEP has to offer.
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