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Generate Amazing Text FX
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Create AMAZING Text FX Online!

Generate your own amazing, photoshop quality text effects online! textfx.co

Contrast Boosting
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Contrast Boosting

Finished touching up and image, but it still looks kind of dull? Boost the contrast and increase the vividness by brightening the highlights of your image to give it visual pop!

Color Selection in Photoshop: Hex, RGB, and the eyedropper tool
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Color Selection in Photoshop: Hex, RGB, and the eyedropper tool

Not seeing eye-to-eye with Photoshop when it comes to color? This basic tutorial gets you beyond the frustration of point-and-click color selection/sampling and on your way to better communication with Photoshop.

Photoshop: Reduce and Simplify
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Photoshop: Reduce and Simplify

Author Chris Orwig shows you to use Photoshop to clarify the message of the image.

Photoshop Curves Tutorial - Video
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Photoshop Curves Tutorial - Video

I'll go through the standard RGB curves adjustments in both Photoshop and Lightroom.

Photoshop: An Overview of Blend Modes - Part 1
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Photoshop: An Overview of Blend Modes - Part 1

Author Matt Kloskowski gives an overview of the four blend modes you will use the most in Photoshop.

Photoshop: An Overview of Blend Modes - Part 2
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Photoshop: An Overview of Blend Modes - Part 2

Author Matt Kloskowski gives an overview of the four blend modes you will use the most in Photoshop. Part 2.

Photoshop: Using a Grid
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Photoshop: Using a Grid

Author Matt Kloskowski offers a grid shortcut tip to help compose your digital photos.

Photoshop: Three Approaches to Creating B&W Images
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Photoshop: Three Approaches to Creating B&W Images

Author Jack Davis shares multiple ways you can create a black and white image.

Photoshop: Intro to Infrared and Black & White Imaging
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Photoshop: Intro to Infrared and Black & White Imaging

Author Jack Davis gives you an introduction to infrared photography and black & white imaging.

Create Lomography effect using Photoshop: 123RF Tutorial
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Create Lomography effect using Photoshop: 123RF Tutorial

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to manipulate your images to make them adopt the effects of Lomographs.

Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs
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Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs

Well, inspired by James's designs, I decided to figure out my own way of creating that type of effect in Photoshop. In this tutorial, I show you how to mix cool retro geometric shapes into your photos.

Using curves to adjust color and tone in a portrait
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Using curves to adjust color and tone in a portrait

Without overwhelming beginners, this tutorial takes you through a crucial first step in a good portrait retouching workflow: color and tone adjustments. Curves adjustments layers are used to create restrained but effective improvements.

Quick Tip: Color Correction in Photoshop with the Curves Adjustment Tool
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Quick Tip: Color Correction in Photoshop with the Curves Adjustment Tool

Quick Tip: Color Correction in Photoshop with the Curves Adjustment Tool

Using Curves
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Using Curves

This tutorial will explain exactly what curves are. It will show you some of the most famous curves such as the s-curve and explain how they work.

Lighting Contrast Effect
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Lighting Contrast Effect

This tutorial will show you how to make a nice lighting contrast effect for a picture

Enhance local contrast with PhotoLift
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Enhance local contrast with PhotoLift

PhotoLift is a plugin to manipulate local contrast in an image. The tutorial shows how changing local contrast can accentuate texture and bring otherwise boring images to life.

Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves
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Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design!

Photoshop: How to Use the Filter Panel in Bridge CS3
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Photoshop: How to Use the Filter Panel in Bridge CS3

NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows you how to use the Filter panel in Bridge CS3 as your one-stop shop for finding images and photos on your computer.

Photoshop: How to Add Text on Top of Photos
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Photoshop: How to Add Text on Top of Photos

There are many ways to include type in your designs, but unless you've got a blank area in your photo, it can be a lot harder then you think. NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows you how to make text fit in just about any place on your image.

Photoshop: Move Those Palettes!
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Photoshop: Move Those Palettes!

NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows you how to move palettes automatically out of your way in Photoshop CS3.

Photoshop: Adding Dimension to Your Images
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Photoshop: Adding Dimension to Your Images

Author Chris Orwig illustrates a few tricks that can help you add dimension to your images.

Photoshop: Creating Compelling Photographs
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Photoshop: Creating Compelling Photographs

Author Chris Orwig explains how you can take more compelling photos and improve your images using Photoshop.

Photoshop: Using Camera Raw 4’s Recovery Slider
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Photoshop: Using Camera Raw 4’s Recovery Slider

NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to adjust the exposure of specific areas of a photo using Camera Raw 4's Recovery slider.

Using The New, Improved Curves Tool
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Using The New, Improved Curves Tool

NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski walks you through all of the improvements made to Photoshop CS3's Curves tool.

Photoshop: Using the Clone Source Palette
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Photoshop: Using the Clone Source Palette

NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Photoshop CS3's new Clone Source palette for "what you see is what you get" editing.

Photoshop: Using Camera Raw Smart Objects
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Photoshop: Using Camera Raw Smart Objects

NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Camera Raw Smart Objects both within the camera raw plug-in and Photoshop's main interface.

Photoshop: Resizing Images in Photoshop CS3
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Photoshop: Resizing Images in Photoshop CS3

NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Photoshop CS3 to take the guesswork out of resizing tasks.

Photoshop: Using the Refine Edges Dialog
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Photoshop: Using the Refine Edges Dialog

NAPP instructor Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Photoshop CS3's Refined Edges dialog to make a selection and then view that selection on another background.

Photoshop: Hue & Color Blending Modes
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Photoshop: Hue & Color Blending Modes

Helpful color correcting tips from Photoshop pro Ben Willmore. Learn to easily change or tweak any object’s color without ruining background elements, plus quick keyboard shortcuts for making or saving selections.

Photoshop: Experimenting with Your Photos
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Photoshop: Experimenting with Your Photos

Author Chris Orwig demonstrates a few Photoshop tricks that will help you experiment with your photos.

Photoshop: Filters and Layer Styles
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Photoshop: Filters and Layer Styles

Author and Photoshop World Hall of Fame member Bert Monroy gives a few tips on filters and layer styles in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Photoshop: Retouching Portraits: Creating a Symmetrical Face
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Photoshop: Retouching Portraits: Creating a Symmetrical Face

Author Kevin Ames shows you how to retouch digital portraits in Photoshop.

Photoshop: Understanding Channels
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Photoshop: Understanding Channels

Author Bert Monroy discusses channels in Photoshop.

Photoshop: Understanding Displacement
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Photoshop: Understanding Displacement

Author Bert Monroy discusses understanding displacement in Photoshop.

Photoshop: Using Curves to Get Contrast
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Photoshop: Using Curves to Get Contrast

Author Dan Margulis shares some tricks on how to use curves in Photoshop to adjust contrast in your photos.

Photoshop: Level Adjustments
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Photoshop: Level Adjustments

Author Richard Harrington explains how to use Photoshop levels adjustments to fix many problem pictures in a short amount of time.

Photoshop: Hue/Saturation Adjustments
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Photoshop: Hue/Saturation Adjustments

Author Ben Willmore demonstrates how hue and saturation adjustments can improve colors in digital images.

Portrait Glow Effect with High Contrast
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Portrait Glow Effect with High Contrast

Portrait Glow Effect with photoshop - give portraits a dreamy/soft look with high contrast

Photoshop: Background Blur
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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.

Photoshop: Rich Black and Whites
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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: Quick Portrait Thinning
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Photoshop: Quick Portrait Thinning

If you need to take a few pounds off of someone quickly, the Free Transform tool in Photoshop can do it. It's the fastest diet around.

Photoshop: High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR), Part 2
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Photoshop: High Dynamic Range Photography (HDR), Part 2

HDR software combines multiple images into one photograph to get the best of multiple exposures. In Part 1 of this series, we explored how to use the HDR software that comes with Photoshop. In Part 2 we're going to look at another program called Photomatix that let's us take HDR even further.

Photoshop: CS4's Hue/Saturation Dialog
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Photoshop: CS4's Hue/Saturation Dialog

CS4 made some pretty slick changes to the Hue/Saturation dialog that take some of the guesswork out of using it. We'll take a look at 'em (and some neat shortcuts) in this video.

Photoshop: What's a Camera Raw Image
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Photoshop: What's a Camera Raw Image

In this video, author and Adobe Certified Instructor Gabriel Powell introduces you to Camera Raw, explains how it works, and reveals why you should use it to edit your images.

Using Curves in LAB Color Mode
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Using Curves in LAB Color Mode

This tutorial shows you how to use Photoshop curves in the LAB color mode to isolate a color and make it pop. Lab color mode can help you make realistic enhancements to the colors of your choice.

Getting To Know Photoshop: The Count Tool
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Getting To Know Photoshop: The Count Tool

Adobe Photoshop is full of useful tools, some of which you probably won’t ever use. In this quick guide I’ll be showing you photoshops count tool.

Curves
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Curves

Learn how to use the curves tool to enhance dark or bright images.

Contrast and Temperature in Color Photography
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Contrast and Temperature in Color Photography

In order to learn color photography it requires a firm understanding of the basic elements of photography which can be broken down into the following easy to understand elements.

 Contrast Layers
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Contrast Layers

Use this technique to create a high contrast or low contrast image using a set of contrast adjustment layers.