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With Adobe Creative Cloud, a simple monthly membership gives you the entire collection of CS6 tools and more. Love print? Interested in websites and iPad apps? Ready to edit video? You can do it all. Plus, Creative Cloud members automatically get access to new products and exclusive updates as soon as they’re released. And, with cloud storage and the ability to sync to any device, your files are always right where you need them. Creative Cloud is available for individuals or teams. Viewing And Zooming Images In Photoshop CS6 - 2 Video Tutorials
Changing the Photoshop view
The best way to work on your images in Adobe Photoshop is to work in the best view, and this video will show how to get the best view for the job at hand.
Working with the Zoom tool Have you ever worked on an image, and wished it were a bit bigger? Well, that's what the Zoom tool is for, and this video will show you some creative touches to this standard Photoshop tool.
Photoshop CS6 (free trial) now includes powerful features in backup and autorecovery. From changing the frequency between background saving to working while you save an image, these tools will prove to be invaluable and time efficient for creative artists. Watch video.
Photoshop expert Howard Pinsky gives an overview of the 3D tools in Photoshop CS6 Extended (30-day free trial of PSCS6 Extended), showing how to extrude live text, apply textures, and control lighting effects.
If you're new to working in 3D, the wealth of tools, panels, and options might be a bit overwhelming at first. You probably wouldn't want to jump in without and expert to guide you. So Photoshop expert Howard Pinsky is here to show you the ropes and give a sample of what you can do with 3D in Photoshop CS6 Extended.
Here are 4 clips from Photoshop CS6 Creative Cloud: New Features Workshop. If you decide to purchase the complete training, use our Discount Code “PSARTIST20” for an instant 20% off, good through February 28, 2013.
If you’re an Adobe Creative Cloud user, you’ll find that the Photoshop 13.1 update gives you access to some exclusive new features. In this workshop Chad Chelius and Ellery Connell take you on a tour of these enhancements, which focus on file handling and web features. You’ll learn how to edit nondestructively with the Blur Gallery and Liquify filter using new Smart Object support, create conditional actions, copy CSS data to a web page, and more. Also included are tutorials on the new 3D options in Photoshop Extended (30-day free trial).
What Is the Creative Cloud?
What is the Creative Cloud and what does it mean to you as an Adobe software user? This video will explain.
Crop Tool Refinements
The tried-and-true Crop tool in Photoshop has gotten a facelift and some new features to make cropping images easier and more flexible than ever. We'll have a look at the changes in this video.
Importing Swatches from HTML/CSS/SVG
Photoshop now enables you to import swatches from external web files such as HTML, CSS, and SVG files. You'll see how it's done in this video.
Get a jump on Valentine’s Day by building custom artwork for your valentine in Adobe Illustrator (30-day free trial). Building on the last technique, this week’s installment of Deke’s Techniques shows how to create the very picture of a couple in love—in pictogram form, of course. Learn how to combine your finished ISOTYPE figures (based on the picture language of the same name designed by Otto and Marie Neurath in 1935) and have them join hands. Follow along with Deke in this week’s free video.
onOne has released Standard Editions of Perfect B&W, Perfect Effects 4, Perfect Portrait 2, and Perfect Mask 5.2. Designed for photographers of all skill levels to enhance, stylize, and improve images, these Standard Editions work as standalone applications and allow for direct photo editing without the need for additional software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, or Apple Aperture.
All Standard Editions of Perfect B&W, Perfect Effects 4, Perfect Mask 5.2, and Perfect Portrait 2 are now available from onOne Software. Each of these Standard Editions may be purchased for $29.95 and delivered via download. Complimentary email and online technical support are available with purchase, along with 90 days of live phone technical support. Free 30-day trials of each Standard Edition are also currently available.
Photos open directly through the Standard Edition browser. One-click effects, presets, or automated adjustments may be applied to create new looks, solve problems, or act as starting points for creative inspiration. Designed by professional photographers, each product includes the best tools that address specific digital photography needs and assist with the creation of the most popular and sought-after looks seen today. With these powerful tools, photographers of all skill levels can enhance and stylize all of their photos quickly, solve today’s most common digital photography problems, and get professional level results easily.
Perfect B&W converts images to black and white and offers dozens of expertly crafted presets that replicate both traditional and contemporary processing techniques. Additional tools are also available to adjust tone, contrast, and more.
Perfect Effects 4 includes instant-click and paint-in photographic effects that allow users to create unique new looks—from subtle to dramatic—for their images. The Standard Edition includes a library of more than 295 effects that can be browsed through and previewed on the image being worked on, offering inspiration on what stylistic path to take.
Perfect Mask 5.2 removes and replaces backgrounds. Powerful tools make selecting subjects and isolating backgrounds for removal extraordinarily accurate—even around tough subjects like hair, tree branches, and glass.
Perfect Portrait 2 makes portrait retouching fast and easy. With Perfect Portrait 2, users can improve skin texture, remove blemishes, even out skin tones, and enhance eyes and teeth with natural and realistic results.
Here are 6 free videos from Creating Composites in Photoshop. If you decide to purchase the complete training, use our Discount Code “PSARTIST20” for an instant 20% off, good through February 28, 2013.
Putting together composite images is a great way to exercise your creativity, and in this course Tim Grey shares his tips for getting great results when you do so. After introducing the basic concepts and looking at some automated methods of creating a composite, Tim covers a wide variety of nifty techniques, from creating composites based on a gradient, to painting on a mask, to using a selection as the basis of a mask.
You’ll also learn how to clean up and improve the overall quality of your layer masks, apply adjustments to specific elements of a composite, add creative effects, work with layer groups, and much more.
Creating Layered Documents
In this lesson you'll learn how to combine multiple images into a single document, which forms the foundation of a composite image.
Removing People with Photoshop Extended
Photoshop Extended includes an automated feature that can remove moving elements by blending multiple exposures of a scene. In this lesson you'll learn how to use this process to remove people from an image.
Blending an Image into Texture
This lesson will introduce the concept of a displacement map, which enables you to blend a subject into the texture of a background image.
Using the Refine Mask Command
The Refine Mask command provides you with powerful tools for improving the blending of layer masks, and in this lesson we'll take a look at this helpful feature.
Adjusting Perspective Matching
Maintaining accurate perspective in the images that comprise your composite can be very important, and this lesson will show you how to apply adjustments for this purpose.
From Julieanne Kost: I’m reposting this video (Creating Transparent Logos for Watermarks and Overlays in Photoshop), because it’s still one of the most popular questions that I receive at events.
Although the video covers the topic in detail, in a nutshell, the technique is to use the Fill slider on the Layers panel to hide the content on the layer while maintaining the applied layer styles.
From Digital Camera World: Each time they open a new image, the first question most people ask is ‘Can I do anything to improve the tones?’. Even if you have a perfect exposure, the answer is usually ‘Yes’. A few tonal tweaks will often lift an image, especially if you shoot in raw format, as raw files are naturally a little flat straight out of camera. One of the best tools for controlling and tweaking tones is the Photoshop Levels tool.
Available in both Photoshop CS and Elements, the Photoshop Levels tool allows you improve the tonal range of your images. It may lack some of the more advanced features found in other tonal commands like Curves, but Levels makes up for it with ease of use and functionality. Not only can you use the Photoshop Levels tool to darken or lighten your images, you can also improve contrast, check for clipped pixels, correct a colour cast and much more besides. Read on for our six top Levels tricks.
From Julieanne Kost's blog: There are several ways to display a photograph within a shape in Photoshop. This first example uses a vector mask to control what portion of the photo is hidden or revealed. To create this effect, select the desired shape tool and set the Shape tool options (in the options bar) to Path. Then drag out the shape and choose Layer > Vector Mask > Current Path.
The second example shows the photo (Layer 1) clipped by a shape layer. To create this effect, select the desired shape tool and set the Shape tool options (in the options bar) to Shape. Then drag out the shape, reposition it in the Layers panel so that the shape is below the layer with the photo and – with the photo layer selected, choose Layer > Create Clipping Mask. Note: you can achieve different effects by changing the shape layer’s fill and stroke.
The third example shows that if you create a copy of the original photo and reposition it under the shape layer, lowering it’s opacity and adding a drop shadow can make it more interesting.
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Nik Software Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are the leading photographic filters for digital photography. The award-winning Color Efex Pro 3.0 filters are widely used by many of today's professional photographers around the world to save time and get professional level results. Whether you choose the Complete Edition, Select Edition, or Standard Edition, you’ll get traditional and stylizing filters that offer virtually endless possibilities to enhance and transform images quickly and easily.
Patented U Point technology provides the ultimate control to selectively apply enhancements without the need for any complicated masks, layers or selections. Control color, light and tonality in your images and create unique enhancements with professional results. With 52 filters and over 250 effects found in Color Efex Pro 3.0, you can perform high quality retouching, color correction, and endless creative enhancements to your photographs. Download a free Trial version.
Viveza The most powerful tool to selectively control color and light in photographic images without the need for complicated selections or layer masks.
Two of the most important factors in creating great photography are color and light. Mastering the art of selectively correcting or enhancing each of these is now possible for every photographer without the need for complicated masks or selections, or expert-level knowledge of Photoshop. Integrating award-winning U Point technology, Viveza is the most powerful and precise tool available to control light and color in photographic images.
U Point powered Color Control Points, placed directly on colors or objects in an image (such as sky, skin, grass, etc.), reveal easy-to-use controls that photographers can use to quickly adjust brightness, contrast or color in a fraction of the time needed by other tools. With Viveza you’ll spend more time shooting photographs and save hours of image editing. Download a free Trial version.
Silver Efex Pro Complete power and control to create professional quality black and white images in one convenient tool.
Silver Efex Pro from Nik Software is the most powerful tool for creating professional quality black and white images from your photographs. For the first time, all the advanced power and control required for professional results have been brought together in one convenient tool.
Featuring Nik Software’s patented U Point technology to selectively control the tonality and contrast of the image, Silver Efex Pro includes advanced imaging algorithms to protect against unwanted artifacts, a comprehensive collection of emulated black and white film types, a variable toning selector for adding traditional toning techniques, over 20 one-click preset styles, and a state-of-the-art grain reproduction engine that help produce the highest quality black and white images possible from your color images while providing more freedom to experiment. Download a free Trial version to use Silver Efex Pro.
HDR Efex Pro Experience the power, control, and creative expression of HDR. This all in one toolkit lets you achieve your best HDR images ever, ranging from the realistic to artistic.
HDR Efex Pro is the essential new standard for creating amazingly high quality realistic to artistic HDR images with a revolutionary new all-in-one workflow. HDR Efex Pro includes a vast selection of one-click visual presets for incredibly fast results, advanced tone mapping algorithms, powerful and detailed HDR controls, and patented U Point® technology
onOne today announced the availability of Perfect Photo Suite 7. Improved to give photographers even more ways to maximize their creativity and solve common problems in digital photography.
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For those who have purchased Perfect Photo Suite 6 on or after August 1, 2012, onOne Software will issue a complimentary upgrade to Perfect Photo Suite 7 via download
Perfect Photo Suite 7 introduces five new products—Perfect B&W, Perfect Portrait 2, Perfect Layers 3, Perfect Effects 4 and Perfect Resize 7.5 Pro, integrated with existing favorites Perfect Mask 5.2 and FocalPoint 2.
Photographers can effortlessly move between all of the modules while editing their photos using Perfect Photo Suite 7 as a standalone application. Photographers can also use Perfect Photo Suite to extend the image editing power of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture, and as a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Perfect Photo Suite 7 features a redesigned user interface with a new browser, search functionality, and the ability to flag and access favorite effects and presets. It also includes the powerful new edge-detecting Perfect Brush, presets that give users instant results alongside manual controls that offer photographers the option to fine-tune adjustments and create the images they envision. Exclusive 15% Discount On Topaz Plugins, Bundles And Upgrades
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Topaz Labs Photoshop plug-ins are specifically designed to expand a photographer's creative toolbox by harnessing powerful image technology developments. Photographers everywhere are now taking advantage of the creative exposure effects, artistic simplification, unique edge manipulation, and top-of-the-line noise reduction offered in Topaz products. The Topaz Photoshop Plugins Bundle is a super powerful Photoshop plugins package that includes the following Topaz products: Topaz Adjust
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There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.
Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.
Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool SiteGrinder seeks to bridge this gap between design and development. Basically, SiteGrinder turns Photoshop into an easy-to-use and fully functional web design tool. With SiteGrinder, designers will now have the freedom to totally let their creativity loose and then, without skipping a beat, transfer their designs to the web. Bringing esthetic concerns together with more practical considerations, SiteGrinder is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks. Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download.
If you know Photoshop then you already know enough to start creating WordPress themes and blogs for yourself and your clients. Creating a blog or a WordPress site in Photoshop is easy with SG3xpress. Now you can go directly to WordPress with your design saving even more time and money for yourself and your clients. Photoshop Masking Plugin Fluid Mask - Exclusive Instant Discount
The 4 1/2 out of 5 star review of Fluid Mask at MacWorld begins by saying that this "Photoshop plug-in takes the pain out of extracting backgrounds," and goes on to recommend the latest version, stating that "Fluid Mask is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve."
Fluid Mask is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously. In a streamlined interface and workflow, Fluid Mask instantly shows key edges in the image and provides comprehensive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lattices. Fluid Mask will also preserve all-important edge information for a professional quality cut out. Go to our Fluid Mask page for more info. lynda.com Online Training Library - View Free Video Clips
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Here are 4 clips from Photoshop CS6 Creative Cloud: New Features Workshop. If you decide to purchase the complete training, use our Discount Code “PSARTIST20” for an instant 20% off, good through February 28, 2013.
onOne has released Standard Editions of Perfect B&W, Perfect Effects 4, Perfect Portrait 2, and Perfect Mask 5.2. Designed for photographers of all skill levels to enhance, stylize, and improve images, these Standard Editions work as standalone applications and allow for direct photo editing without the need for additional software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, or Apple Aperture. 
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onOne today announced the availability of Perfect Photo Suite 7. Improved to give photographers even more ways to maximize their creativity and solve common problems in digital photography. 
Enter our exclusive discount coupon code PHOTOSHOPSUPPORT during the checkout process at Topaz Labs for an instant 15% discount on any Topaz product, including bundles and upgrades.
Topaz InFocus uses the latest advancements in image deconvolution technology to restore, refine and sharpen image detail.
There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.
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The 4 1/2 out of 5 star review of Fluid Mask at MacWorld begins by saying that this "Photoshop plug-in takes the pain out of extracting backgrounds," and goes on to recommend the latest version, stating that "Fluid Mask is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve."
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