Be they pits, pock marks, or pimples, we all suffer blemishes that we wish we didn’t. Or so we would were it not for Photoshop’s Healing Brush. This amazing tool grafts good skin onto bad—and heals the seams in between. This week, Deke shares his techniques for using the Healing Brush to its full potential.
If you use the Magic Wand tool, stop what you’re doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image as easily as the wand, but with more flexibility and much better results.
You may know that you can add to a selection in Photoshop by pressing the Shift key. But you can also press keys to subtract and find an intersection. Better yet, these tricks apply to layers, channels, and paths. They’re a power user’s dream, and in this week’s episode of the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke shows us how to best use them.
Since the first daguerreotype, photographers have cropped their images to hone in on the details that matter most. The crop tool does that, as well as straighten and more. Check it out in this week’s episode of Deke’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown.
Hue/Saturation not only spins colors and intensity values, it lets you modify one color independently of all others. And it does so in such a credible way, you would never know it was there. This week, Deke reveals the power of Hue/Saturation in Photoshop Top 40 Countdown #28.
The Liquify filter lets you paint in distortions, so you can perform digital nips and tucks. You can slim people down, edit their posture, and make them look exactly how you want them to. Deke shows how in this week’s episode of the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown.
The Actions palette lets you record your work on effects in Photoshop so that you never have to do it again. Plus, you can build up complex visual effects and share them with others, as Deke demonstrates in this jaw-dropping video.
The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It’s not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as Deke demonstrates in this week’s Photoshop Top 40 Countdown episode.
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Many folks select images in Photoshop with the likes of the Quick Select and Magic Wand tools. Highly automated, but these tools rarely work accurately.
Experts use the Pen tool. Using the Pen tool is an art form worth learning, because it always works. In this week’s episode of the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, Deke unveils his secrets to expertly using the Pen tool for selections.
Jon Gray, an out-of-work planning and analysis manager featured in The Wall Street Journal “Laid Off And Looking” segment, today named lynda.com as his online training site of choice in his blog entry.
The Modern Media Leadership Institute recently blogged about the importance of digital literacy and how it “is critical in life and in every kind of job and organization.”
A news report by WSIL included lynda.com as a resource for those laid off or looking for better jobs.
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