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It's generally understood in the Photoshop world that almost every image can benefit from judicious sharpening. Popping into the Unsharp Mask filter isn't your only option. Understanding sharpening can help you make the right choices...
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In the Layer Style dialog box, up near the top, is the under-utilized Blending Options. Learning the basics of layer blending can take your images to the next level, and save you quite a bit of time with certain jobs...
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We prepare the image in Extract by using the
Edge Highlighter tool to identify the edge and then filling the subject area with the Fill tool.
Clicking the Preview button gives us a good look at what Extract will do...
One of the most difficult issues for many Photoshop users is color management. Let's take a look at some basic concepts of color management and the minimal steps that everyone should take...
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With Halloween right around the corner, it's time to start dressing things up. And nothing quite says "Happy Halloween" like some slimy letters sliding down the wall. In this installment, we'll create the slimy text and next time we'll make it drip down a wall in an animated GIF...
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In the previous column, we created some slimy text on a wall. Now let's have some fun and make that slime drip down the wall in an animated GIF, using Photoshop and ImageReady. The Gif file will be suitable for playback on your favorite Halloween Web site, or for use as in an animated Halloween...
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One of the more advanced techniques available for animating GIFs in ImageReady is tweening. Derived (more or less) from "in between," the term refers to the automatic generation of frames for your animation. You create the first and last frames and let ImageReady do the work in the middle...
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What if Photoshop had a separate tool for every variation of every option? What if there was one Crop tool to create 4x6 inch images at 240 dpi, another Crop tool for 8x10 at 300 dpi, another for 800x600 pixels at 72 dpi, and so on. The Toolbox would be pretty crowded...
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Photoshop 7 adds several major new capabilities, such as the File Browser, the Healing Brush, and Tool Presets. But you'll also be quite pleased with the dozens of little tweaks in the program, including some long-awaited improvements in the type department...
read moreFew things can be as big a headache as a misbehaving Photoshop. Thankfully, replacing Photoshop's preferences file can do wonders when the program is acting up. Think of it as "Photoshop Aspirin." Here's how to do it, and a tip that makes it easy to do regularly.
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