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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #5 – The Sharpen Filters
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #6 – RGB, CMYK, and Lab
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Photoshop doesn’t just support multiple color spaces, it supports infinite variations on the device-dependent ones. You can open an RGB photo, process it in Lab, and output it to CMYK, with certainty that the conversions will work.
Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #7 – Undo, History, and Revert
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010The safety-net trio of Undo, History, and Revert protect the intrepid image editor from unexpected disasters. But these commands also let you toggle operations, compare before-and-after images, and move back and forth through time. In this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke takes us through the features of each by modifying a document using a number of features we’ve learned in previous Top 40 episodes, and then using Undo, History, and Revert to un-modify the document as desired.
Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #8 – The Eyedropper
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The ubiquitous Eyedropper is simple in purpose and easy to use. But can you imagine a world without it, where you had to dial in every one of Photoshop’s 16.8 million+ colors manually? The Eyedropper is Photoshop’s color ambassador. In this week’s episode of the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke gives us the complete rundown of the humble and powerful Eyedropper tool.
Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #9 – Levels
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, February 16th, 2010The Levels command, and its cohort, the Histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The upshot is that you can increase contrast, correct for color cast, and make a bad image good.
Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #10 – Color Settings
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, February 9th, 2010The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Suite. While admittedly techie, it ensures that what you see is what everyone else sees, too.
Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #11 – Opacity Mode and Blend Modes
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Changing opacity is like mixing a cocktail with, say, 30% active layer and 70% all layers below. Assigning a blend mode is like shining a light or casting a shadow: The active layer infuses those behind it with life. In this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke shows how to mix and blend layer opacities for best results.
P.S. If you want to see all of the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown tutorials in one place (and maybe want to bookmark some features), they are now compiled in the Online Training Library®!
Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #12 – Camera Raw
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Camera Raw is an independent application that lets you develop your raw photographs and exploit every byte of the vast information captured by your digital SLR camera. Not just powerful, it is a force unto itself. In this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke shows us how to tap into its many features.
Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #13 – File Info
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then use File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author, a copyright, and a Web site. No image should go out without a visit to File Info.
Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #14 – Gaussian Blur
Published by Crystal McCullough, executive editor | Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Gaussian Blur is a filter that blurs an image. But it’s also the math behind the Feather command, drop shadows, and everything that is soft in Photoshop. In this week’s video, Deke explains just why Gaussian Blur is so important.
