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Working with CS3 Extended, 3D Layers

Working with CS3 Extended, 3D Layers

Bert will show you how to work with the texture editing features for 3D layers, recoloring, creating special effects and creating multiple layer effects to rework model textures.
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Color Modifications with Masks and Brushes

Color Modifications with Masks and Brushes

In this video, you will learn how to quickly and easily modify the color in a defined area of your photo using layer masks, adjustment layers and the brush tool.
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Special Effects Using the Marquee Tool

Special Effects Using the Marquee Tool

The marquee tool can be used to quickly and easily add some pop to your digital photos. In this video, we will take a look at several techniques and effects we can use to accomplish this.
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Creating Altered Video Effects

Creating Altered Video Effects

Learn to create altered video effects to a video in Photoshop CS3, and speed up the process of working in video by creating dedicated action sets.
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Flame Animation

Flame Animation

Learn how to work with traditional Photoshop frame based animation to create a flickering flame effect.
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The Web Photo Gallery Makeover

The Web Photo Gallery Makeover

In this Web Photo Gallery tutorial, we will take a look at giving our photo gallery a complete makeover using some simple Dreamweaver commands and basic HTML editing.
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Realistic Water Ripple

Realistic Water Ripple

Learn how to use a mixture of Photoshop's filters to create a photorealistic watery ripple effect.
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Crop a Background Using Paths

Crop a Background Using Paths

Want to separate an object in a photograph from all the clutter surrounding it? Paths are a great way to create a smooth, accurate selection around any object - no matter what's in the background.
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Brighten Images

Brighten Images

This video is an illustration of how even the darkest of images can be brightened, showing how to work with curves to achieve the best and most printable result.
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Adding Fireworks to an Image

Adding Fireworks to an Image

Learn how to take a photo of a cityscape and a photo of fireworks and combine them effectively for a very realistic effect.
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Extracting with the Pen Tool

Extracting with the Pen Tool

Although there are multiple techniques for extracting images from a background, this technique is not only incredibly accurate, but will introduce you to the power of the pen tool.
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Using Paths to Crop a Background

Using Paths to Crop a Background

Learn how to create a simple path around an object, convert the path to a selection and then mask out the background so the selected object becomes an independent image.
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Ripple

Ripple

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a classic background image of ripples on water.
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Marquee Tool

Marquee Tool

In this tutorial, you will learn an effect using the marquee tool. This is a popular effect used in almost every magazine and splash page.
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Graffiti Text Effect

Graffiti Text Effect

Learn how to add graffiti to a textured surface while using gradients and the Overlay option.
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PictoSketch

PictoSketch

In this tutorial, you will learn how to take a digital photo and convert it into a realistic sketched drawing. You will learn how to give the effect of a hand drawn picture by using filters and layers.
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Vanishing Point Filter

Vanishing Point Filter

Learn how to edit your photos with a brand new filter called Vanishing Point. Learn to use the plane tool to paint out objects and keep in scale with the photo.
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Building Your First Gallery

Building Your First Gallery

In this tutorial, learn how to build your first web photo gallery. This will include folder navigation and populating the web photo gallery banner with the appropriate text content.
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Using Actions

Using Actions

Watch this tip for an introduction to Actions, demonstrating how to record or save steps and apply those same steps to other images.
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Water Drops

Water Drops

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add water droplets to your pics by using the Elliptical Marquee Tool and adding layer styles. Learn how to use blending options while working with layers to get a realistic water drop.
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Sharpening Techniques

Sharpening Techniques

Here are two optional sharpening techniques to clean up those digital photographs. Option one can speed up your work flow, while option two offers greater control with a more obscure, yet powerful tool, the High Pass Filter.
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Lighting Adjustments

Lighting Adjustments

Learn the technique for adjusting dark and light areas in your digital photographs.
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Vignetting for Digital Photos

Vignetting for Digital Photos

Learn how to Vignette, or achieve a burned in edge effect on your digital photographs.
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Using Levels and Unsharp Mask

Using Levels and Unsharp Mask

Learn how to use Levels and Unsharp Mask to adjust the lighting and sharpness of a photograph.
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Gradient Background and Drop Shadow

Gradient Background and Drop Shadow

Learn a simple way to add richness and depth to an object's appearance by adding a gradient background and a drop shadow.
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Black and White Conversion Tool

Black and White Conversion Tool

Photoshop CS3 offers up a powerful new option for converting your color digital photos to black and white with a brand new interface. Learn how to utilize these adjustments to create true art with your black and white photos.
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Planet Eclipse

Planet Eclipse

Learn how to create the illusion of a solar eclipse, or a planet out in space.
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Touring the Galleries

Touring the Galleries

In this tutorial, we will go through many of the great photo galleries available.
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Map Burn

Map Burn

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create the look and feel of an old antique map. You can apply this effect to new maps and wow your friends and clients. You will learn to create the effect of burnt edges and yellowed paper.
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Laser

Laser

In this tutorial, you will take a digital photograph of a person or layout and create a sci-fi looking laser blast. You will learn how to create colors using layers and blending modes. This is an exciting tutorial that will WOW your friends!
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Warp

Warp

A new feature to Photoshop CS2 is the Warp control. Learn to take an image, and not only distort and transform, but now warp the image and still retain quality. Photoshop CS2 now lets us take image control beyond free transform.
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Gradient Background Image for the Web

Gradient Background Image for the Web

This tutorial illustrates a quick way to produce a fast loading gradient background for a web page.
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Lens Correct

Lens Correct

In this tutorial, you will learn how to correct photos within Photoshop using the new lens correction filter. Learn to adjust the perspective of your photo without re-taking the shot.
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Gradient Mask Blur

Gradient Mask Blur

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a gradient mask to add a blur effect to the background in your photos.
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Blur Filters

Blur Filters

Learn to use the new blur filters provided in Photoshop CS2. These new blur filters take your projects to a new level. In this tutorial, you will learn about the very exciting new blur filter called "Suface Blur" that will add a professional look to any digital photo.
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Creating Realistic Ice

Creating Realistic Ice

In this tutorial, Craig Campbell will demonstrate how to give a realistic ice texture to your shapes using Layer Styles.
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Creating a Carpet Texture

Creating a Carpet Texture

In this tutorial, trainer Craig Campbell demonstrates how to create a fibrous carpet texture in just a few simple steps in Photoshop.
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Casting Shadows

Casting Shadows

In this tutorial, Craig Campbell will show you how to create a shadow that stretches out behind a text field and slowly fades out.
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Making a Photo Old

Making a Photo Old

There are many methods of aging a photo. Instead of just weathering and roughing it up, Brian Harber shows us the basic properties of old photo exposure, and how to achieve the same look in Photoshop.
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Clear Skies

Clear Skies

In this tip, Brian Harber explores the wide potential in sky replacement and subsequent color adjustment. If you've ever had a picture that you loved, but it was unfortunately very cloudy or dull, here's an easy way to spice up that picture.
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3D Angled Text

3D Angled Text

Have you ever wanted a line of text to pop off the page? In this tip, Brian Harber shows a 3D angle effect that will make your text standout.
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Bicubic Sharper

Bicubic Sharper

When resizing an image in Photoshop, if you use all the default settings, the image will end up with a little bit of a blur to it--hardly distinguishable, but it is there. In this tutorial, you will learn how to customize the way your image is resampled when you resize it in order to maintain the sharpness of the image.
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Wood Grain Texture

Wood Grain Texture

In this video tutorial, trainer Craig Campbell will show you how to create a wood grain texture from scratch in Photoshop.
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Rubber Band

Rubber Band

The pen tool can be a little tricky to use, and until you get used to it, you might not always know where your next anchor point is going to leave you. In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to use the Rubber Band option with your pen tool, which will allow you to see hints of what your shape will look like.
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Dotted Lines

Dotted Lines

Photoshop doesn't provide any quick means of creating dotted lines, but in this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to create your own customized dotted line quickly and easily, using the paintbrush tool.
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Tricky Selections

Tricky Selections

It's not always easy to make complex selections in your Photoshop images, but in this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you one very effective way to use the highlights in an image to make a selection in order to alter an image.
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Open Type Font Embellishments

Open Type Font Embellishments

In today's tutorial, Photoshop trainer Geoff Riggs shows you how to add embellishments and alter the appearance of specific letter pairings for open type fonts.
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Document Sizing Tips

Document Sizing Tips

In this video tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs illustrates a few different tips for setting document size in Photoshop, including a shortcut on how to create a new document that's the same size as your current document.
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Magic Selection

Magic Selection

The magic wand tool can be very handy in making complex selections in Photoshop, but it has its limitations. In this video, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you another more effective way of creating magic selections.
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Cucoloris ("Cookie") Effect

Cucoloris ("Cookie") Effect

A cucoloris (or "cookie") is a metal sheet with patterns cut out of it, intended to cast patterned shadows on the background (and often the subject) of a photograph. In this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you how to achieve the same effect in Photoshop
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Warping Text with Smart Objects

Warping Text with Smart Objects

There are many ways to warp text in Photoshop, but most of them have their limitations. Some methods allow you to edit your text after warping, but don't provide full customization of HOW you warp the text. Other methods allow full customization but don't allow you to edit the text afterwards. In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you a method for warping text that will give you the best of both worlds.
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Taming the Skies

Taming the Skies

Ever have one of those photographs where the sky is too bright and harsh? In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you an amazingly effective trick for toning down and recoloring an overly bright sky.
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Glowing Lights

Glowing Lights

In today's tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will teach you how to take an image of a light bulb that's turned off and add a glow to it to make it look like it's illuminated.
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Painted Frames

Painted Frames

In today's video tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to create a quick and easy frame for your photographs simply using the eraser tool.
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Colorizing Black and White Photos

Colorizing Black and White Photos

Many black and white images can be made much more interesting simply by adding a little color. In today's tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to paint color onto a black and white photo.
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Create a Steel Text Effect

Create a Steel Text Effect

The great thing about text effects is that they're usually very easy to reproduce. In this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you how to make a steel text effect, and then he'll show you how to save this effect so that it can easily be applied to other layers in the future.
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Perspective Cropping

Perspective Cropping

It seems like it would be quite a task to straighten up a picture of an object that was taken at a severe angle. However, Photoshop's Perspective Cropping feature allows you to do this in one simple step. In this video, you'll learn how to use this amazing tool in Photoshop.
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Intuitive Levels Adjustment

Intuitive Levels Adjustment

You may already know the basics of the levels adjustment tool, but in this video, Geoff Riggs will show you a neat little trick you may not have known. Using this method you'll be able to very quickly and effectively adjust the brightness and contrast of your image in a very intuitive manner.
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Creating a New Document

Creating a New Document

Today's tip is an excerpt from the upcoming video series, "Introduction to Photoshop CS 2" by trainer Geoff Riggs. In this video clip, you'll learn some of the basic options available to you when creating a new document in Photoshop.
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Casting Shadows

Casting Shadows

In today's video tutorial, Geoff Riggs will teach you how to create an elongated shadow cast in front of a block of backlit text.
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Smoothing Skin

Smoothing Skin

Sometimes the camera does TOO good a job of capturing all the details, especially when it comes to skin. A close-up portrait can sometimes reveal tiny bumps and roughness that we might not want to see. In this video, you'll learn a very effective technique for smoothing out your skin in Photoshop.
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Polaroid Pictures

Polaroid Pictures

In today's video tip, you will learn how to take a photo and transform it into an old-fashioned Polaroid photograph.
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Grunge Borders

Grunge Borders

In today's Photoshop tutorial, Geoff will teach you how to create a very easy, but very effective, white grunge border around your photographs.
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Create a Custom Grid Pattern

Create a Custom Grid Pattern

In today's video tutorial, Geoff will show you how to create and define a custom pattern in Photoshop and then use that pattern to create a grid background for your Photoshop file.
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Using Clipping Masks

Using Clipping Masks

You've all seen postcards or advertisements with a picture of something inside a block of bold text. In this tutorial, you'll learn just how easy it can be to achieve this effect.
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Changes Across Multiple Photos

Changes Across Multiple Photos

Ever wanted to resize a group of images or add a watermark to a group of images, but you just didn't have the time to do it? Well, with Photoshop's Batch processing capabilities, you can make changes to multiple images all at once. In this video, you'll learn how to add a watermark to a collection of images all at once.
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Posterizing Images

Posterizing Images

Turning your images into illustrations isn't as difficult as you might think. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to make your images look cartoonish in just one simple step.
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Adding Smoke to an Image

Adding Smoke to an Image

Want to make your motorcycle photo gallery a little more exciting by adding a little smoke to your pictures? In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create smoke in Photoshop using filters and blending modes.
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Saving Color Swatches

Saving Color Swatches

When designing a web layout or some other type of design layout, you will often need to use some of the same colors over and over again. In this video, you'll learn how to add color swatches to your Swatches pallette, save your current set of color swatches, and load a set that you've already saved.
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Text That Follows a Path

Text That Follows a Path

Creating text that follows a path in Photoshop is an extremely simple process. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a circle of text using selections, paths, and, of course, the text tool.
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Creating a Tennis Ball

Creating a Tennis Ball

Learn how to create a realistic tennis ball.
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Linking Effect

Linking Effect

Ever wanted to link two objects together in Photoshop so that they seem to weave in and out of each other, kind of like the Olympic rings? Well, it's easier than you might think! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create this linking effect in just a couple very easy steps.
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Turning Pictures Into Statues

Turning Pictures Into Statues

Today's tip is a two-for-one for those of you who want to know how to extract a person from an image. After learning how to do this, you'll also learn how to turn that person into a statue in just a few simple steps.
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Using Layer Masks

Using Layer Masks