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Photoshop Quick Mask

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Greetings all! Hope your week has been brilliant, and you have plenty to look forward to this weekend. Today I’ve made a video on how to use Quick Mask mode in Photoshop. Quick Mask mode, something rarely seen these days, but a great feature I call upon when making selections in Photoshop. Let’s take...

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Picking Apart Photoshop Actions

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Actions are a great way to get things done quickly, but they’re also a wonderful learning tool. Knowing how to examine an action can help you find new techniques as well as discovering bases that you can build on yourself.  In this video, I look at two actions and show you different ways of...

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Sepia Toning with LAB

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  I was recently adding a sepia tone to a photo and wanted to change the tone that was being used.I fiddled about getting the tone. Once I’d done that  I couldn’t help but feel that the toning wasn’t that strong oeither.  So I jumped over to LAB and did it there, here’s how;...

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Using Parametric Curves in ACR 6 to Improve Contrast

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When you need to improve the contrast in your raw photos, Parametric Curves are a great way to simplify the thought process and task of making a Curves adjustment. Instead of guessing or arbitrarily placing your points along an abstract line, you use special Histogram widgets to define which tones constitute “highlights”, “middle tones”,...

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Smart Brush and the Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop Elements

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Elements really has come of age recently and the release of Elements 9 with all its improvements and new features makes it a consideration of both amateur and professional photographers. In this video Gavin Hoey shows us one feature of Elements that makes editing images that much easier, the Smart Brush.

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HDR Toning Black and White Images

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  Richard Harrington, author of Understanding Adobe Photoshop, From Still to Motion and other great books demonstrates a technique for using HDR Toning on a black and white image. From Bridge, through Photoshop’s HDR Pro and then into Photoshop for finishing touches, Rich covers every step of the way. Can’t See The Video? Click...

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Blending Images with Various Focal Points with Photoshop

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For this video I’ve taken four photographs, all focused on a different Lego figure. Using Photoshop I’m going to blend them together so that I get one, in focus image. This technique is great for macro photography for shooting flowers, insects and other small objects.

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Quick Filmstrip Template in Photoshop

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If you’ve already upgraded to Photoshop CS5 then you have probably already tried some of the amazing headline grabbing new features. Things like Puppet Warp, Content Aware Fill and HDR Pro are the talk of the town, but I bet you didn’t even notice the new feature that I really love. I’m talking about...

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Recreating The Tilt Shift Effect in Photoshop

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I was recently asked about recreating the Tilt Shift effect in Photoshop. Looking back through TipSquirrel.com I realised that we’d covered it a couple of times, but never as a video.   Can’t see the video? Click Here Bookmark It Hide Sites

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Creative Use of Black and White Using Blend Modes

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Recorded at Photoshop World 2011, instructor and author Rich Harrington gets creative in an unusual and surprising way with the Black and White adjustment layer.

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An Introduction to Keyframes in Photoshop Extended.

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Keyframes are used throughout the Creative Suite in animation. In Photoshop Extended you can do simple animations. Here TipSquirrel gives a short introduction.

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Panorama and Content Aware Fill for Photoshop Elements 9

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When Photoshop CS5 was released one of the stand out new features was Content Aware Fill. This function could be used to remove unwanted objects or, as we see here, fill empty space around a panorama with new content. Photoshop Elements 9 came shortly after and boasted the Content Aware Spot Healing brush but not...

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HDR With Photoshop and HDR Efex Pro

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In this video, Richard Harrington takes a look at an HDR workflow. Using Bridge, HDR Efex Pro and Photoshop he demonstrates techniques and tips for all HDR photography.

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Complex Selections Made Simple with Photoshop CS5

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Every version of Photoshop seems to do something better and faster then it’s predecessors and Photoshop CS5 is no exception. At a recent photography trade show I spent many happy hours answering Photoshop CS5 related questions, but one topic kept coming up time after time… exactly how much quicker is Photoshop CS5 at selecting...

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Photoshop and The Alt / Option Key

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There’s few occasions when I’m in Photoshop that I don’t have my thumb resting on the Alt key. What makes this humble little key so special? Well, let me show you just a few of the occasions where I really couldn’t do without it.

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