Extreme Painting Using Photoshop CS5 – Russell Brown?
Russell Brown innovates again!
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?Content Aware Fill / Scale / Heal in Photoshop CS5?
Richard Harrington demos three features that use Adobe’s new Patch Match.
They’re game changers.
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Blend It Out
It’s a perfect shot! If only those unwanted moving objects (UMOs, i.e., a person or a crowd) in the scene would disappear. As long as the unwanted elements in your frame move, even just a little, you can make them disappear from your image by taking two or more shots and using Photoshop’s layering and blending capabilities.
You don’t have to retouch your image. Blending is different than retouching. The unwanted elements aren’t covered over with new information by hiding them with replacement information similar to the surround, either from the same source or another. With blends, the information behind the moving subject is revealed. How? It’s contained in the other shot(s).
You even can do this with exposures that are made with slightly different angles of rotation or framing, so you can use this technique with handheld exposures, not just those made with a tripod. Camera motion may make manual registration difficult, but Photoshop automatically will align and, in some cases, distort the separate exposures so that they register precisely …
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 New Features – Richard Harrington
Richard Harrington reviews Photoshop CS5’s new features.
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How to Get the Best Color with Blurb’s PDF to Book
Manage color with Blurb’s PDF to Book workflow.
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Reduce Color Noise With Photoshop
It’s challenging to reduce the luminance (light and dark) component of noise without compromising image sharpness; often it requires a careful application of specialized software.
However, you can easily reduce the color component of noise using Photoshop.
Here’s how.
1 Duplicate the Background layer and turn the duplicate layer’s blend mode to Color.
2 Blur the layer (Filter: Blur: Gaussian Blur).
Be careful not to use the blur filter too aggressively. If contours exhibit reduced saturation, use a lower filtration
Using this technique, only the color of an image will be blurred, not its luminance; image sharpness will not be compromised. Luminance noise will persist; other methods are required to remove it.
This industrial strength technique is most useful when dealing with serious color noise when a Raw converter’s features can’t go far enough, such as the larger areas of color noise found in some images from Bayer pattern demosaicing.
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Printing Printer Targets With No Color Management in CS5
The option to print without color management is missing in Photoshop CS5. This makes it impossible to print IT8 targets to make custom profiles with. Adobe has released the Adobe Color Printer Utility to help you do this.
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When To Use Virtual Copies and Snapshots in Lightroom – Julianne Kost
Julieanne breaks down the differences and points out the advantages of using virtual copies and snapshots in Lightroom 3. Since both features were designed for specific tasks, discovering what they do best will allow you to take advantage of each of their strengths.
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Saving Changes To Your Photographs In Lightroom 3
Julieanne Kost explains how changes made to photographs are saved automatically to the Lightroom Catalog, how to use both the “Save Metadata to Files” command, as well as the “Automatically write changes to XMP” Catalog Setting to push changes made to photographs from the catalog into individual files (or sidecar files) so that they can be read and utilized within additional applications such as Adobe Bridge.
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