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Photoshop: Rich Black and Whites
Black and white photos are great, but many of the really nice black and white work actually has a little color tint in it. In this video we're going to take a look at how to introduce some color tint into your black and whites and actually control where it goes. In the end you'll have a richer, fuller photo that really stands out.
Photoshop: Double Processing in Camera Raw
Camera Raw is great for global changes; what you do in the raw dialog tends to change the whole photo and not just part of it. That's great and all but what happens when you make one part of the photo look good and another part starts to look bad? That's when you call in a technique called Double Processing. Let's take a look.
Photoshop: Vibrance
Trying to get the color in your photos saturated enough, but not too saturated, is a very common problem. Plus, trying to saturate the color of portraits without degrading the skin tones has always been an issue for photographers. The new Vibrance adjustment in CS4 makes this task much easier.
Photoshop: On Image Controls
Photoshop CS4 introduced a new way to change parts of your image called On Image Controls. In a nutshell, they take the process of figuring out which sliders will affect certain areas of your photos and make it much simpler. Now, with CS4, you just open an image adjustment and click-and-drag on it — Photoshop takes care of the rest by adjusting the sliders that will affect the area of the image you clicked on. Let's take a look at how it works in this week's video.
Photoshop: Background Blur
When we think of blurring we usually think of the Gaussian Blur filter. But the blur photographers get from it tends to look fake. The Lens Blur filter provides a much more realistic blur and, with some setup time, can create some very realistic results.
Color Balancing Multiple Parts of a Photo
Color balancing one part of a photo often makes another part look worse. It can be difficult to perfect all parts of a photo. Luckily the Adjustment Brush, a new tool in Photoshop CS4 Camera Raw, lets us achieve good color in multiple parts of a photo.
Photoshop: Ghosted Man Effect
I saw an ad for a reality TV show that included the outline of a person wearing a suit – with no one actually wearing the suit. This could have been done in a number of ways, but I'll show you how to fake it in Photoshop to achieve the same effect.
How To Get The Most Out of Alpha Channels in Photoshop
Live from Macworld Conference & Expo, 2009, digital artist Bert Monroy explains what an alpha channel is and where you can and can't apply a filter channel in a Photoshop painting.
How To Create Light Sources from Various Directions in Photoshop
How do you change the directions of light sources in layer styles? Live from Macworld Conference & Expo, 2009, artist Bert Monroy demonstrates which Photoshop features allow you to create realistic details in your digital painting.
How To Use Adobe Photoshop Photomerge to Fix Your Images
Live from Macworld, 2009, Jeff Carlson, author of Photoshop Elements Visual QuickStart Guide, shares quick and easy tips for fixing challenging flaws in a family photo using Adobe Photoshop Photomerge.
How to Create 3D Effects of Light, Bevel, and Emboss in Photoshop
Live from Macworld Conference & Expo, 2009, artist Bert Monroy shows you how to create the effects of light, bevel, and emboss for a digital painting in Photoshop.
Photoshop - Photo Restoration: Scanning and Cropping
Author Katrin Eismann explains how to easily crop and straighten images you scan into Photoshop CS3.
Photoshop: Curves and Blending Mode
Author Dan Margulis shows users how curves and blending modes can increase color saturation, contrast and vibrancy.
Photoshop: Layer Masks and "Save a Copy"
Author David Cross describes how layer masks can adjust the effects of an image.
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