| 81. | - Creative Lighting Effects with Adobe Photoshop CS6
- Apr 23, 2012
- Lighting Effects has been around a long time, but the Lighting Effects filter in Photoshop CS6 is essentially a brand new feature in the sense that it has been completely remade. This article provides a general overview of the filter (including its new interface), and demonstrates how you can use Lighting Effects to dramatically impact the composition or look of your photographs.
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| 82. | - Optimizing Raw Workflow with Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Camera Raw 7
- Apr 23, 2012
- This article will give you a taste of how powerful Adobe Camera Raw 7 is, by taking one shot from a series of bracketed exposures (originally used for HDR imaging), and restoring the important details in both the highlight and shadow regions.
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| 83. | - Recomposing Picture Elements with Content-Aware Move and Content-Aware Patch in Adobe Photoshop CS6
- Apr 23, 2012
- This tutorial provides two examples of how these new Content-Aware additions in Photoshop CS6 can help you to recompose or remove elements in your pictures that are slightly out of place, or that are not as easily removed by other methods.
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| 84. | - The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes: General Techniques
- Apr 23, 2012
- This excerpt from The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes familiarizes you with the basics of blend modes.
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| 85. | - The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes: Removing Vignetting
- Apr 23, 2012
- In this excerpt from The Hidden Power of Photoshop Blend Modes, Scott Valentine shares a handy method to realize some basic recovery using the Divide blend mode. It also leaves you some creative latitude for additional effects, but it does have some limitations.
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| 86. | - UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6: The Illustrator Workspace
- Apr 23, 2012
- The Adobe Illustrator workspace is designed to allow you to be as creative as you want without a lot of distractions. In this excerpt from UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, Rick Moore shows you how to choose the right measurement units, select the optimal color space, and create artboards and organize your work.
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| 87. | - Using the New Content-Aware Move and Interactive Blur in Adobe Photoshop CS6
- Apr 23, 2012
- This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS6 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the new Content-Aware Move tool in Adobe Photoshop CS6 to add a few more posts to the beach photo project, so that they echo the deck rails, creating a smoother rhythm for the composition.
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| 88. | - Using the New Gradient on a Stroke in Adobe Illustrator CS6
- Apr 23, 2012
- This excerpt from Adobe Illustrator CS6 Classroom in a Book shows you how to apply a gradient fill and gradient stroke to a rectangle that will become a painting.
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| 89. | - Why Photographers Should Expect Big Gains in Efficiency in Adobe Photoshop CS6
- Apr 23, 2012
- Dan Moughamian demonstrates a few of his favorite options for working more efficiently in Adobe Photoshop CS6.
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| 90. | - Fast, Accurate Facial Retouching with Perfect Portrait
- Jan 31, 2012
- The Perfect Photo Suite 6 from onOne Software is a collection of plugins that extend the capabilities of Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom, and Apple Aperture. Plugins for precision masking, Lightroom layering, and portrait retouching comprise the most powerful elements of the suite. Photoshop expert and professional photographer Dan Moughamian focuses on the brand-new Perfect Portrait 1 plugin.
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| 91. | - Creating Layers with Lightroom and Perfect Layers 2
- Jan 17, 2012
- Adobe plugin developer onOne Software recently unveiled its brand new Perfect Photo Suite 6. The suite includes seven well-known plugins that cover a wide range of photo-editing tasks. Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian showcases for you several of these new plugins, including Perfect Layers 2.
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| 92. | - Creating Lens Blur Effects with Focal Point 2
- Jan 6, 2012
- Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian demonstrates how Focal Point 2 helps photographers to draw attention to the most important parts of their image, by carefully blurring other parts of the shot.
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| 93. | - Creative Color Effects with Photoshop and Perfect Effects
- Dec 30, 2011
- A popular developer of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins, onOne Software recently unveiled its brand-new Perfect Photo Suite 6. The suite includes seven plugins that cover a wide range of photo editing tasks such as masking, portrait retouching, and image styling. Photoshop expert and professional photographer Dan Moughamian introduces you to some of the suite’s new capabilities, namely, a major update to Perfect Effects (formerly Photo Tools).
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| 94. | - Precise Background Swaps Using Photoshop and Perfect Mask
- Dec 28, 2011
- A popular developer of Photoshop and Lightroom plugins, onOne Software recently unveiled its brand new Perfect Photo Suite 6. Photoshop expert and professional photographer Dan Moughamian explains how the suite includes seven well-known plugins that cover a wide range of photo-editing tasks such as masking, layering in Lightroom, and image styling.
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| 95. | - Color Efex Pro 4: Professional Styling for Color Photos
- Nov 17, 2011
- Color Efex Pro offers several useful workflows that can enhance your digital arsenal, including options that mimic real world tools like neutral density filters and various types of negative and E-6 film stock. Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian explores some of the color styling workflows available in Color Efex Pro 4 Complete, which was released in September 2011.
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| 96. | - Bokeh 2: Adding Soft Background Focus
- Oct 3, 2011
- Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian explains how Alien Skin Software’s Bokeh 2 provides intuitive and powerful options for selectively blurring your digital photos. Common uses include blurring unwanted background details, creating the “bokeh effect” behind a close-up subject, and creating faux miniature cityscapes and landscapes.
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| 97. | - What’s New and Improved in Adobe Flash CS5.5
- Sep 29, 2011
- Adobe Flash just keeps getting more powerful as the versions roll on, and CS5.5 is no exception. While those services are very useful, Adobe expert Brian Wood shows us how the latest version of Flash has something for everyone, and walks us through his top ten list of new features.
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| 98. | - HDR Efex Pro: Tone Mapping Secrets
- Sep 26, 2011
- Photoshop expert Dan Moughamian, author of Adobe Digital Imaging How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques for Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3, and Camera Raw 6, examines the following HDR Efex Pro settings: Tone Compression, Global Adjustments, and Selective Adjustments.
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| 99. | - Create Polished eBooks with New Features in InDesign CS5.5
- Aug 22, 2011
- For several versions, InDesign has been able to convert your print–only content to the .epub file format. With the release of InDesign CS5.5, that process has been made much easier. Adobe expert Brian Wood shows you some of the great new features available with Adobe InDesign CS5.5.
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| 100. | - Why Adobe Soundbooth Users Fall in Love with Audition
- Aug 17, 2011
- Maxim Jago, author of Introducing Adobe Audition CS5.5: Learn by Video, salutes the features Soundbooth brought to video editors and beckons you to discover the power and elegance Audition now brings to Adobe Creative Suite 5.5. He compares the two tools and shares his joy as an Audition user.
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