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Discover the Navigator
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Discover the Navigator

Welcome to the Navigator tutorial. This is a cool little tool. I don't personally use it that often but you can if you want to. It basically shows you a smaller version of the entire image and the portions which are visible (depending on the zoom level)...

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Discover the Histogram
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Discover the Histogram

Another palette that you should be aware of is the Histogram palette. This palette shows a real-time preview of all kinds of image information and features the Levels readout from which you can choose the different color channels...

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Discover the Eraser Tool
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Discover the Eraser Tool

Choose the Eraser tool from the toolbar. You'll notice a letter next to it. This is the keyboard shortcut (E) which selects the tool. Duplicate the background layer of a photo by dragging it to the new layer icon on the bottom of the layers palette as shown...

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Discover Color Fill
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Discover Color Fill

Make a selection of the simplest area to select (in this case the sky) with the magic wand tool. We are soon going to cut the sky out of the background and put a new background behind the cactus...

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Discover the Gradient Tool 2
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Discover the Gradient Tool 2

Like many tools have the option of doing, you can try and use blend modes for applying the tool. This will determine how the tool 'reacts with' the light of the layers beneath it. Changing blending modes here causes you to add or subtract light each time that you use the gradient tool...

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Discover the Magic Wand
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Discover the Magic Wand

Welcome to a magic wand exercise/demonstration. Choose the magic Wand tool (w). Note in the options bar you can change the tolerance. What this means is the color range that it is going to select...

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Discover Hue/Saturation
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Discover Hue/Saturation

Now that you've got a selected area (the wall in this case); go to Image: Adjustments: Hue/Saturation. Click on the Colorize box. Now you can move the Hue sliders around to choose a value which you can preview in real-time to see your wall change color...

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Discover the Lasso for making selections
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Discover the Lasso for making selections

For this tutorial grab the lasso tool in the toolbar. Now make a general selection by dragging the lasso around your subject. Try to keep it as close as you can. You have to go all the way around the subject to meet endpoints to close off the selection...

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Blending modes part 1
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Blending modes part 1

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, April 2005
Blending modes define how layers, fills, strokes, fades and paths blend. Here is a list of blending modes with a description and examples for each one of them.

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