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Controlling Your Color Sampling
in Photoshop Basics
Controlling Your Color Sampling

The Brush tool, the Color Replacement too, the Pencil tool, and the Gradient tool. You can use each of them to select a foreground color by Option/Alt clicking in the image. Did you know that you can control how many pixels are used to determine that new foreground color?...

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Lens Blur with Alpha Channels
in Photo Editing
Lens Blur with Alpha Channels

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, June 2005
Learn how to blur your background a bit in order to make the subject of your photo stand out in sharp focus. Photoshop author Peter Bauer makes it easy.

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Perspective for Type Layers
in Text Effects
Perspective for Type Layers

Photoshop’s Transform> Perspective command is grayed out when you have a type layer active in the Layers palette. That gives you a choice of rasterizing the type layer or not using the Perspective transformation. Or does it?...

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Crop and straighten photos
in Photoshop Basics
Crop and straighten photos

Photoshop CS includes the Crop and Straighten Photos feature. It enables you to scan a number of images at once and automatically separate that single scan into individual image files. However, sometimes you need to give it a little help...

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in Photoshop Articles
Resizing In Camera Raw

Photoshop's Camera Raw includes a pop-up menu named Size that let's you change the number of pixels in an image. But is it better than resizing with Photoshop's Image Size command? Not dramatically...

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Dashed Lines in Photoshop
in Textures & Patterns
Dashed Lines in Photoshop

While Photoshop doesn't offer a dashed line option, such as that found in Illustrator's Stroke palette, you can easily simulate them by editing a brush in the Brushes palette. The key to dashed lin...

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Editing a Drop Shadow
in Drawing Techniques
Editing a Drop Shadow

Sometimes a drop shadow needs to fall on only part of the layer or layers below. Perhaps the shadow should fall on the content of the layer immediately below, but not the layer below that. You'll need to convert the drop shadow layer effect to a layer of its own, then edit that layer...

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