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    Transform Your Old, Worn Out Photos in Minutes with Adobe Photoshop

    February 21st, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    Do you have old photographs that are faded, worn out, crinkled or even torn? Of course you do; everyone does. Many of these photos are likely very old family photographs that are simply irreplaceable. In the past, it was very expensive and time consuming to have old damaged photographs restored, usually requiring a photo restoration expert, and sometimes the results were not really that great.

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    Fixing Red Eye with Adobe Photoshop

    February 20th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    You have captured some adorable photographs of your new baby boy and can’t wait to show them off to your friends and family only to be disappointed, when you look at them on your computer or pick them up from the photo lab, by the terrible red eye. Your precious child looks like a demon or something from a scary movie! This problem is commonly referred to as “red eye.”

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    Merging Two or More Images in Photoshop

    February 16th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    Have you noticed how magazines, newspapers and some Web designers are able to combine multiple photographs together to create cool collages of merged images? Everywhere you look you will see examples. You can benefit from the ability to merge photographs. Photo merging techniques will allow you to create original logos, advertisements, backgrounds for websites, and much more.

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    Retouching and Improving Your Photographs – Photoshop Makes it Possible

    February 15th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    Digital imaging and more specifically Adobe Photoshop as well as other image editing software have revolutionized photography. The advances in digital image manipulation now allow for unlimited possibilities in the area of improving photographs through retouching and restoration.

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    A File Format for Every Occasion

    February 13th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    As you learn and become more familiar with Adobe Photoshop, you will likely notice that Photoshop allows you to save images in many different formats or file types. Having a working knowledge and understanding of these different image formats is essential to making the most of your digital photo projects.

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    Layers: The Photoshop Backbone

    February 12th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    Adobe Photoshop is not cheap. There are certainly more affordable photo editing software applications available, but there are reasons why Photoshop is so popular among professional Web designers, photographers and graphic design specialists. The ability of Photoshop to allow you to work in layers makes otherwise complex designs easy.

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    Easily Change the Appearance of Any Photo in Photoshop

    February 9th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    With Adobe Photoshop you can apply all kinds of cool special effects and transform the appearance of photographs relatively easily. Following are just a few of the special effects you can do:

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    Cropping for Perfect Composition in Photoshop

    February 8th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    There are many things that make a great photograph, but one of the most important elements of a good photo is composition. Composition has to do with the placement of the subject and objects in a photograph and how these various elements interact together.

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    Photoshop’s Grow Tool: Precise Photo Editing Made Easy

    February 7th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY DAVID PETERS

    If you’ve been learning digital photo editing in Photoshop and have been going crazy trying to do precise object selection, the following is going to be music to your ears. Just about everything you do in Photoshop seems to involve selecting objects or people for purposes such as copying, color correction, special effects, and more. Have you ever wanted to cut an irregular shaped object out of the photo for use with another background? It can be difficult if not darned near impossible to perfectly select the object using your mouse and the selection tool.

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    Transparent Background Leaving a Smooth Blended Edge

    February 6th, 2007 • Bookmark on | del.icio.us | Digg It | Reddit
    BY LONNIE NIVER

    Clipping out the background of an image is a tedious job but the results are awesome. I clip out about 60 backgrounds a week and boy does it get boring. I use Photoshop to clip out backgrounds, taking the polygonal lasso tool and selecting the edges of the object to keep, and then inverting the selection. The results have very rough edges… you can still see the background in some areas of the image.

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