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  How to use Magic Wand in Photoshop.

  269 readersIf you need to quickly select an area of similar color such as replacing the sky or a green screen Magic Wand is your tool. Activate Magic Wand by hitting (W) key or select it from the tool box. Magic wand works by selecting similar colors in your photo, so if you have a photo of  a

• Sample Color from Anywhere

  222 readersYou can use the Eyedropper tool to pick colors from any area of your screen. First, press the letter I to select the Eyedropper tool, then click-and-hold inside your document, and drag outside the document window onto the object you’d like to sample. Release your mouse button and the sampled color appears as your new

• Photoshop Top 40, Feature #8: The Eyedropper

  475 readersJust as most of us take for granted clean water and fast food, we give little thought to the fact that Photoshop offers an eyedropper. Press the I key to get it. Then click in an image to sample a color and use it elsewhere. The tool is simple, ubiquitous (the target adjustment tool is

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  Increase highlights & Shadows with Burn & Dodge tool in Photoshop

  373 readersDodging and Burning can help you brighten and darken small or big areas of your photo instantly. I advise using this only for small touch ups as it is directly applied onto your photo so it is difficult to reverse the effect. Before you start, you should duplicate your photo so that you can start over

• Change the default Eye-dropper sample setting

  229 readersThe sample size of the Eyedropper tool (I), found in the Options Bar, controls the size of the area that’s evaluated when it provides color and tonal feedback, but it can also affect how certain selection tools work,e.g., the Magic Wand or the Color Range command. The default Sample Size value is Point Sample,

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  Layer Blending Modes Part two

  528 readerscontinue from Layer Blending Modes Part one The following sets are combination of the last two set, where 50% gray area has no effect on the photo, darker pixels on the blending mode will behave like their Darkening counterpart and the lighter pixels on the blending mode will behave like their Lightening counterpart. Overlay –

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  Remove Background Using The Extract Filter

  306 readersOne of the easy and simple methods to remove background from a photo is by using the Extract Filter. Though there are several other ways to delete the background, the Extract tool is pretty useful and it's faster.

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  How to Sharpen Photo without Increasing Noise Visibility

  455 readersSometimes it happens that we need to sharpen photos for which there is noise, for example, pictures taken at night. But overall increase in photo sharpness increases and the noise visibility also. How to be in this situation? I can show you one method in Photoshop, how to avoid it. First of all you should find

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  Using clone stamp on Photoshop (with Video)

  523 readersClone stamp is not just for cloning objects in photos, you can also “erase” them. Blemishes and wrinkles can be magically erased from your model’s faces as well as that annoying person who somehow made it in to your photo. To start, select the clone stamp on your tool bar or press S on keyboard. You will

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  Layer Blending Modes Part one

  1080 readersThink of Photoshop layers as stacking pieces of transparent papers one on top of another to create the final image. In addition to your “normal” layers there are also special layers that can interact with the layers below. This is useful to create photo montage, light adjustment, color corrections and anything else you can think