In the digital age, we shoot full-color photographs. Which is a good thing, because it means we can distill the perfect black-and-white shot in Photoshop. Deke shows us how in his Photoshop Top 40 Countdown tip #36, Black & White.
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Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #36 – Black & White
Published by Crystal | Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #38 – Vector Type
Published by Crystal | Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Type in Photoshop is forever editable and super-smooth. In Photoshop Top 40 Countdown episode #38, Deke shows how it works by assembling a high-res, pro-quality magazine cover in one short video. He demonstrates how align text to a path to wrap it to a shape, how to mask text, and make text suitable for hi-res printing.
See all of the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown tutorials.
Introducing: Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland – plus #40, Reset & Purge
Published by Crystal | Tuesday, July 14th, 2009America likes its lists, and here’s another one we’ll be publishing every Tuesday on the lynda.com blog. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 features in Photoshop—beginning with #40 and working his way up to #1—one weekly video at a time. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptual. All are invaluable. Learn these 40 features and you’ll know Photoshop.
And because we couldn’t wait to see what the first tip is, we’re rebelling against convention and playing next week’s video THIS week. So, without further ado, here’s Deke’s Photoshop Top 40: #40 – Reset and purge!
Save time and brain power: Photoshop CS4 Power Shortcuts
Published by Crystal | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Photoshop CS4 offers an abundance of helpful shortcuts and hidden tricks that allow designers and photographers to get more done in less time. In Photoshop CS4 Power Shortcuts, Michael Ninness reveals hundreds of tips to boost productivity, including the top 20 power shortcuts every Photoshop user must know. He covers strategies for better document and panel management, and offers techniques for becoming quicker and more nimble when using layers, adjustment layers, and layer masks.
Finish your photographs: learn Photoshop CS4 image adjustments with Jan Kabili.
Published by christoph | Thursday, June 11th, 2009Photoshop CS4’s adjustment features offer unparalleled opportunities to correct and manipulate images. In Photoshop CS4: Image Adjustments in Depth, senior trainer Jan Kabili explains how to use all the major Photoshop adjustment features. She shares the best techniques for adjusting image quality, and shows how to use the new Adjustments panel to streamline a photo correction workflow. Jan also demonstrates multiple ways to eliminate color casts, and explains how to use the new On-Image Curves control to adjust brightness and color. This course offers a detailed look at the techniques photographers and designers use to master image adjustments in Photoshop.
Master Photoshop CS4 with the master
Published by Crystal | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Those wanting to master Photoshop have come to the right place. Deke McClelland’s 13 hours of hands-on instruction Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Mastery recently went live in our course library. Recommended prerequisites: Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Fundamentals and Photoshop CS4 One-on-One: Advanced, both part of the lynda.com Online Training Library®.
Photoshop CS4: Blend Mode Magic already a hit
Published by Crystal | Wednesday, May 27th, 2009Live for just a day, Michael Ninness’s new lynda.com course, Photoshop CS4: Blend Mode Magic, has already been receiving great feedback from members:
I find Michael Ninness the best contributor I’ve experienced here so far. His training is clear, moves along at a good pace, and offers invaluable tips. -isabelle g.
Great series. I’m a longtime Photoshop user, but it showed me some new tricks and reminded me of some techniques I had forgotten. -rita p.
Take a look at Photoshop CS4: Blend Mode Magic and let us know what you think.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Published by Lynda | Monday, May 18th, 2009
Author dinner on Thursday, May 14th From left to right: Taz Tally, Lesa Snider, Jay Nelson, Max Smith, Jan Kabili, Megan Andersen, Bruce Heavin
Taz is here recording Photoshop CS4: Color Correction, Lesa is recording internal movies for our staff related to iStockPhoto usage, Jay is recording QuarkXpress 8 Essential Training, Max is our lead training producer and he’s making sure our authors are eating a well-produced meal, Jan is here for a staff meeting, but her next project is Photoshop CS4: Selections in Depth, Megan is relating in her Author Relations role at lynda.com, and Bruce is here for the good meal and conversation with me, who is not in the shot as I am behind the lens taking the photo. We have meals with authors all the time, and now that I am blogging I hope to document these occasions and let you know which authors are in town and what new courses they are cooking up.
Dr. Taz Tally at lynda.com
Published by Lynda | Friday, May 15th, 2009
Taz Tally in the lynda.com recording space as he waits for his movies to render!
My first memory of Taz is from the late 1990’s when I observed his blurry figure running up and down a giant escalator as fast as he could in the lobby of a hotel where a photography trade show was taking place. Years later, when he first came to record video classes at lynda.com in 2004, we invited him to our house for dinner. Bruce and I will never forget Taz showing up, covered in mud from a local hike he took after work, with a live caterpillar poking out of his curly hair! These two examples describe some of the many sides of Taz Tally. He’s a digital photography master, a fitness fanatic, sports a Ph.D. in geology, and is a true mountain man who loves to hike and explore the wild.
Taz is currently recording a photography color correction course using Photoshop CS4. He pitched the idea to me of creating a fitness video sharing all the techniques he uses when traveling, working at his desk, or how to take advantage of every day situations and objects instead of gyms and cumbersome equipment. What do you think? Are we ready for fitness videos at lynda.com?
