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Photoshop Feature #26: Dodge and Burn

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - October 20, 2009 14:00 - 13 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Photoshop offers two tools that paint with luminance: The dodge tool paints in brightness, the burn tool paints in darkness. Crazy useful, and they've gotten so much better in Photoshop CS4.

Photoshop Feature #27: The Crop Tool

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - October 13, 2009 14:00 - 9 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Since the first daguerreotype, photographers have cropped their images to hone in on the details that matter most. The crop tool does that, as well as straighten and more. Check it out.

Photoshop Feature #28: Hue/ Saturation

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - October 06, 2009 14:00 - 15 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Hue/Saturation not only spins colors and intensity values, it lets you modify one color independently of all others. And it does so in such a credible way, you would never know it was there. Perfection.

Photoshop Feature #29: Liquify

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - September 29, 2009 14:00 - 12 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
The Liquify filter lets you paint in distortions, so you can perform digital nips and tucks. You can slim people down, edit their posture, and make them look their absolute best. See how in this video.

Photoshop Feature #30: Actions

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - September 22, 2009 14:00 - 14 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
The Actions palette lets you record your work so you never have to do it again. Plus, you can build up complex visual effects and share them with others, as Deke demonstrates in this jaw-dropping video.

Photoshop Feature #31: The Brush Tool

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - September 15, 2009 14:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It's not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as this video demonstrates.

Photoshop Feature #32: The Pen Tool

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - September 08, 2009 14:00 - 8 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Many folks select images in Photoshop with the likes of the Quick Select and Magic Wand tools. Highly automated, but these tools rarely work accurately. Experts use the Pen tool. Using the Pen tool is an art form worth learning, because it always works.

Photoshop Feature #33: Calculations

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - September 01, 2009 14:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
One of the oldest, most abstruse, downright incomprehensible commands in Photoshop, Calculations lets you merge two channels to create a new alpha channel. Learn it: It's the backbone of masking.

Photoshop Feature #34: Save for Web and Devices

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - August 25, 2009 14:00 - 7 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
If you're creating Web graphics, then there's no substitute for Save for Web and Devices. It disposes of non-essential data, reduces file sizes to their absolute minimum, and converts the image to sRGB, the color space of the people.

Photoshop Feature #35: Refine Edge

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - August 18, 2009 14:00 - 7 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Photoshop offers lots of tools for automating selections, but two stand out from the pack: The first, Refine Edge, lets you modify your selection using five different parameters and preview the results in five different ways.

Photoshop Feature #36: Black and White

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - August 11, 2009 14:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
In the digital age, we shoot full-color photographs. Which is a good thing, because it means we can distill the perfect black-and-white shot in Photoshop.

Photoshop Feature #37: Fill Functions

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - August 04, 2009 14:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Many of Photoshop's best features can only be accessed from the keyboard. Like, how would you know Alt+Backspace (or Option-Delete) fills with black? Watch. It gets better.

Photoshop Feature #38: Vector Type

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - July 28, 2009 14:00 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Type in Photoshop is forever editable and super-smooth. Deke shows how it works by assembling a high-res, pro-quality magazine cover in one short video.

Photoshop Feature #39: Layer Comps

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - July 21, 2009 14:00 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Layer comps let you assemble multiple image variations or even independent pieces of artwork inside a single Adobe Photoshop file. The Layer Comps palette gives you the freedom to explore.

Photoshop Feature #40: Reset and Purge

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - July 14, 2009 14:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Deke gets things started with a pair of options that can clean out Photoshops plumbing when things get clogged up: Reset and purge.

Introduction

Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland - July 13, 2009 14:00 - 1 minute - Video ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 features in Photoshop—beginning with #40 and working his way up to #1—one weekly video at a time. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptu...