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Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #5: Painting Tools
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - April 30, 2010 14:00 - 17 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn today's installment of Photoshop CS5 Top 5, Deke demonstrates Photoshop's bristle brushes, which simulate traditional paint brushes—the kind your local art-supply store sells—and its new Mixer brush, which lets you give a photo a painterly look. Along the way, Deke passes along a tip for custo...
Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #4: Puppet Warp
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - April 29, 2010 14:00 - 14 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn this installment of Photoshop CS5 Top 5, Deke McClelland explores a feature he calls fun to use, funny to watch, and extremely powerful. Take a fifteen-minute tour of the Puppet Warp feature, then head over to check out all of our Adobe CS5 training to explore new courses and tutorials coverin...
Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #3: Refine Edge
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - April 28, 2010 14:00 - 15 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsRefining selections and creating masks are unglamorous but utterly essential Photoshop techniques—you've got to master both in order to perform tricky compositing tasks, such as extracting a person from an image and then adding a different background.
Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #4: High-dynamic range photography
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - April 27, 2010 14:00 - 11 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWhether you want to be subtle or brash, the greatly improved HDR features in Photoshop CS5 are worth a close look. They're the subject of today's Photoshop CS5 Top 5 movie. Watch as Deke McClelland walks you through Photoshop CS5's HDR toning and HDR Pro features.
Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #5: Common Sense Enhancements
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - April 26, 2010 14:00 - 10 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIn this first episode of Photoshop CS5 Top 5 on lynda.com, Deke McClelland introduces us to the common sense enhancements, tweaks, and fixes in latest version of Adobe Photoshop. Learn about the new Straighten button, the Content Aware Fill tool, and more.
Photoshop Feature #1: Open and Save
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - April 11, 2010 14:00 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsVirtually every Photoshop project starts with Open (how often do you choose New?) and ends with Save. And unlike other apps, Photoshop treats all image formats as native. Open and Save are the alpha and omega of imaging.
Photoshop Feature #2: The Layers Palette
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - April 06, 2010 14:00 - 19 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsHome to at least eight of the features Deke has mentioned so far in the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, the Layers palette is command central—the place where most of the action in Photoshop happens. Were it not for this one palette, Photoshop as we know it would not exist.
Photoshop Feature #3: Image Size
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - March 30, 2010 14:00 - 13 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe essential Image Size command lets you scale an image on screen or in print. Here's your chance to understand resampling and resolution, both of which affect the core quality of your digital photographs.
Photoshop Feature #4: Navigation
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - March 23, 2010 14:00 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsPhotoshop lets you modify your view of an image using a variety of tools, commands, and options. But you don’t need a single one of them. Learn a few shortcuts and you’ll be working at maximum efficiency in no time.
Photoshop Feature #5: The Sharpen Filters
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - March 16, 2010 14:00 - 13 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsPhotoshop doesn’t sharpen focus, it sharpens detail. Using any of three remarkable filters, Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen, and High Pass. Apply them as smart filters, and you’re ready for any output scenario.
Photoshop Feature #6: RGB, CMYK, and Lab
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - March 09, 2010 14:00 - 17 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsPhotoshop doesn’t just support multiple color spaces, it supports infinite variations on the device-dependent ones. You can open an RGB photo, process it in Lab, and output it to CMYK, with certainty that the conversions will work.
Photoshop Feature #7: Undo, History, and Revert
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - March 02, 2010 14:00 - 13 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe safety-net trio of Undo, History, and Revert protect the intrepid image editor from unexpected disasters. But they also let you toggle operations, compare before-and-after images, and move back and forth through time.
Photoshop Feature #8: The Eyedropper
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - February 23, 2010 14:00 - 15 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe ubiquitous eyedropper is simple in purpose and easy to use. But imagine a world without it, where you had to dial in every one of the 16.8 million+ colors manually. The eyedropper is Photoshop’s color ambassador.
Photoshop Feature #9: Levels
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - February 16, 2010 14:00 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe 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.
Photoshop Feature #10: Color Settings
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - February 09, 2010 14:00 - 10 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsThe Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Suite. While admittedly techy, it ensures that what you see is what everyone else sees as well.
Photoshop Feature #11: Opacity Mode and Blend Modes
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - February 02, 2010 14:00 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsChanging the Opacity is like mixing a cocktail with, say, 30% active layer and 70% all layers below. Assigning a blend mode is like shining a light or casting a shadow: The active layer infuses those behind it with life.
Photoshop Feature #12: Camera Raw
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - January 26, 2010 14:00 - 14 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsCamera Raw is an independent application that lets you develop your raw photographs and exploit every byte of the vast information captured by your digital SLR. Not just powerful, it is a force unto itself.
Photoshop Feature #13: File Info
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - January 19, 2010 14:00 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWant to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author (you!), a copyright, and a Web site. No image should go out without a visit to File Info.
Photoshop Feature #14: Gaussian Blur
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - January 12, 2010 14:00 - 11 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsGaussian Blur is a filter that blurs an image. But its also the math behind the Feather command, drop shadows, and everything that is soft in Photoshop. Watch this video and learn why GB is so important.
Photoshop Feature #15: Alpha Channels
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - January 05, 2010 14:00 - 13 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsMuch can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire weight of Photoshop to the task of editing a selection. And masking, thy name is alpha channel.
Photoshop Feature #16: Adjustment Layers
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - December 29, 2009 14:00 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsAn adjustment layer is an independent layer of color adjustment that can edit any time you like. Plus it affects all layers below it, consumes very little space in memory, and affords the opportunity for selective edits.
Photoshop Feature #17: Layer Effects
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - December 22, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsYes, layer effects let you make drop shadows. But they also let you create credible compositions, render simple layers in dimension, and add ambient lighting. I cannot imagine working in Photoshop without them.
Photoshop Feature #18: Smart Objects
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - December 15, 2009 14:00 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsSmart objects aren't all that smart. And they aren't objects. What they are is envelopes. The kind that hold things. And keep them safe. So that everything you do protects the image from harm. This is Photoshop at its best.
Photoshop Feature #19: Luminance Blending
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - December 08, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsBuried deep inside the Layer Style dialog box are two slider bars, This Layer and Underlying Layer, that let you blend pixels according to their brightness. Despite their prosaic names, these sliders rank among the most powerful features in all of Photoshop.
Photoshop Feature #20: Free Transform
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - December 01, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsAs powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer? Right-click on it and select Rotate? Choose Rotate from the Layer menu? Click on the Rotate tool? The answer is no, no, and no. Fortunately, there's the Free Transform command...
Photoshop Feature #21: The Gradient Tool
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - November 24, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsEvery app offers a gradient tool. But Photoshops is special. Not only can you paint a soft transition from black to white. But you can soften the transition from one image to another. The gradient tool fades, swipes, and more.
Photoshop Feature #22: The Healing Brush
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - November 16, 2009 14:00 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsBe they pits, pock marks, or pimples, we all suffer blemishes that we wish we didnt. Or so we would were it not for Photoshops healing brush. This amazing tool grafts good skin onto bad--and heals the seams in between.
Photoshop Feature #23: Color Range
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - November 10, 2009 14:00 - 11 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsIf you use the magic wand tool, stop what youre doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image as easily as the wand. But with more flexibility and much better results.
Photoshop Feature #24: Curves
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - November 03, 2009 14:00 - 14 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsWhere 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.
Photoshop Feature #25: Selection Calculations
Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - October 27, 2009 14:00 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsYou may know that you can add to a selection by pressing the Shift key. But you can likewise press keys to subtract and find an intersection. Better yet, these tricks apply to layers, channels, and paths. They're a power users dream.
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