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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

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.

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!

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: 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.

Understanding Aspect Ratio for Printing - Photoshop Video Tutorials
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Understanding Aspect Ratio for Printing - Photoshop Video Tutorials

Understanding Aspect Ratio for Printing is very important. I'll show you how to crop your images for printing various sizes like 8x10 or 5x7.

Understanding Color Settings in Photoshop
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Understanding Color Settings in Photoshop

The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Suite. While admittedly techie, it ensures that what you see is what everyone else sees, too.

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.

Curves
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Curves

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

Geometric Curves
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Geometric Curves

Create artistic geometric curves using only straight lines.

Change your haircolor with curves adjustments
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Change your haircolor with curves adjustments

Learn how to realistically change your hair color using a simple curves adjustment. This works for natural colors such as blonde and brown, as well as unnatural colors such as blue, green, purple, etc.

Understanding Actions
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Understanding Actions

In this video, I'll show you how actions work, and how you can create your own 'action' to improve workflow.

Understanding blending modes
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Understanding blending modes

To help you learn and understand how the blend modes work, I have provided a summary of all the blend modes currently found in Photoshop CS3 Extended

Working with Layer Styles - understanding Drop Shadows
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Working with Layer Styles - understanding Drop Shadows

Adobe Photoshop includes Layer Styles, a number of automated effects that you can apply to layers, including drop shadows, glows, beveling, and embossing, as well as a color fill effect

Working with Layer Styles - understanding Outer and Inner Glow
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Working with Layer Styles - understanding Outer and Inner Glow

We continuing our look at the Layer Style window, especially how Outer and Inner Glow work

Working with Layer Styles - understanding Bevel and Emboss
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Working with Layer Styles - understanding Bevel and Emboss

This versatile effect help create a feeling of depth by adding highlight and shadow to layer shapes. Depending on where these highlights and shadows are placed, a 3D effect can be quickly generated

Photoshop: Curves and Blending Mode
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Photoshop: Curves and Blending Mode

Author Dan Margulis shows users how curves and blending modes can increase color saturation, contrast and vibrancy.

Comparing The Levels And Curves Image Adjustments In Photoshop
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Comparing The Levels And Curves Image Adjustments In Photoshop

Photoshop's Curves adjustment can seem less like an image editing tool and more like something from a science lab, but in this tutorial, we compare it with the Levels adjustment to see just how simple Curves really is, and why Curves goes far beyond anything you could hope for with Levels!

New And Improved Curves In Photoshop CS3
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New And Improved Curves In Photoshop CS3

The Curves image adjustment is widely considered to be the most powerful and versatile photo editing tool in the entire program, and while the basics of Curves may not have changed in Photoshop CS3, the Curves dialog box received a major upgrade with new features and some welcome improvements that make Curves even better!

How to Create a Vignette with the Curves Adjustment Layer
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How to Create a Vignette with the Curves Adjustment Layer

A 60 second beginner Adobe Photoshop CS4 tutorial, giving you step-by-step instructions on how to create a vignette on an image. Tools Used: Curves, Layers, and a Gradient.

How To Use Curves in Photoshop
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How To Use Curves in Photoshop

The curves adjustment tool is an integral part of every professional’s knowledge base and image editing package.

Understanding Exposure Compensation in Photography
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Understanding Exposure Compensation in Photography

Sometimes with certain scenes, light meters are fooled by the conditions and make their own decisions. Most times they work great but there are times when they just don’t get it right. This is when exposure compensation can be used.

Understanding Levels and Histograms in Photoshop
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Understanding Levels and Histograms in Photoshop

The Levels command, and its cohort, the Histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The upshot is that you can increase contrast, correct for color cast, and make a bad image good.

How and When to Use Curves in Photoshop
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How and When to Use Curves in Photoshop

Where luminance correction is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. This one command lets you rein in highlights, open up shadows, and reveal all points in between. Curves takes a bud of an image and makes it blossom.

How to make retro/futuristic curves in 10 Steps
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How to make retro/futuristic curves in 10 Steps

This tutorial teaches you how to create retro futuristic curves in 10 easy steps. It combines both Illustrator and Photoshop

Professional Retouching Tutorial: Using Curves in Photoshop (Part 3)
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Professional Retouching Tutorial: Using Curves in Photoshop (Part 3)

Learn the theory behind Photoshop curves, and how to use them to create magazine-style professional photos. You will learn how to manipulate highlights and shadows, as well as alter specific colors within your image.

Understanding Exposure Value in Photography
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Understanding Exposure Value in Photography

Before explaining Exposure Value, it helps to know what Light Value means. When you find something, there are (generally speaking) two main levels of light you need to deal with.

How To Use Curves in Photoshop
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How To Use Curves in Photoshop

Even if you’ve taken a good photo, chances are it can be improved or it needs to be adjusted to work in a collage or collection. Or even to just to intensify a mood. You can always make a good thing better – and curves is a one-stop-shop way to do that.

Understanding Reciprocity in Photography
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Understanding Reciprocity in Photography

Perfect exposure settings: Reciprocity is the law of the relationship between shutter and aperture. It stipulates that one stop increases in aperture is equivalent to the shutter duration doubling.

Understanding Color in Photography
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Understanding Color in Photography

The appropriate use of color in any photography adds a dynamic element to your images that is very pleasing to the eye. Bold colors and bright composition in your photos result in images that sell.

Fully Understanding How to Crop in Photoshop
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Fully Understanding How to Crop in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to harness the full power of Photoshop's crop tool including information on pixels, preserving aspect ratio, pixels/metric unit and more.

Create a Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs Using Photoshop
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Create a Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs Using Photoshop

In this tutorial,Create a Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs Using Photoshop...........

How to Use the Curves Tool for Color Effects
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How to Use the Curves Tool for Color Effects

How to create some interesting and unusual color effects using Curves (in Photoshop). This tool allows you to change the tone and feel of a photo with either subtle or heavy color adjustments.

Understanding Basic Light Properties for Photography
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Understanding Basic Light Properties for Photography

The way light acts upon a subject will depend on the physical properties each light source presents. Before taking on the challenge of creative photographic lighting it will be worth your while to understand some of these properties.

Curves Midpoint Gray Eye Dropper Effects in Photoshop
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Curves Midpoint Gray Eye Dropper Effects in Photoshop

Using the midpoint gray eye dropper to unbalance the color in your photos. This is a unique but powerful way to create custom color effects and a certain "feel" to your photos.

Photoshop For Beginners: Understanding Layer Masks
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Photoshop For Beginners: Understanding Layer Masks

Today I will show you one of the most powerful Photoshop tool: layer masks. They can result difficult to use for a beginners, but once understood how they work, you won't need the Eraser tool anymore. Let's start!

Curves Adjustment
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Curves Adjustment

Get familiar with the power of the curves adjustment tools.

Smooth Curves
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Smooth Curves

Learn how to make smooth curves using the path tool.

Using Curves
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Using Curves

What happens if you do unnatural things with the Image-Adjust-Curves command? Learn by example in this tutorial.

Lazer Curves
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Lazer Curves

Use different curves to make this interesting texture.

Understanding Textures & Lighting
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Understanding Textures & Lighting

Textures and the Lighting Effects filter can make an image jump right off the page or screen. Using a texture to create 3D, however, is a scary thing for most Photoshop users. Take some of the mystery

Understanding Textures & Lighting
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Understanding Textures & Lighting

Textures and the Lighting Effects filter can make an image jump right off the page or screen. Using a texture to create 3D, however, is a scary thing for most Photoshop users. Take some of the mystery

Multiple Curves
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Multiple Curves

Learn to use the pen tool to make curving graphics.

Sexy Smooth Curves
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Sexy Smooth Curves

Learn how to make smooth curves using the path tool.

Understanding Photoshop Blend Modes
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Understanding Photoshop Blend Modes

Learn the basics of all of the different blend modes in Photoshop.