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• Adjustment Brush resize tricks

  • Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (Yesterday)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  When using the Adjustment Brush for retouching, you need to change the size of the brush quite often. You can use the Left and Right Bracket keys ([ ]) to make small incremental changes to the brush size, but the mouse scroll wheel is the quickest way to resize the brush. If you’re using a [...]

• Adjustment Brush masks and pins

  • Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (2 days ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  When you paint on a photo using the Adjustment Brush (K), a mask is created that shows where the effects of the Adjustment Brush are applied. By default, the mask isn’t visible, but you can press the O key to toggle the visibility. Note that you can’t view the effects of the Adjustment Brush when [...]

• Change adjustment mask colors

  • Monday, 26 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (3 days ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  When the color of your subject in a photo-graph is similar to the color of the mask (the default color is red), it’s difficult to see the mask. To change the color of the mask, press Shift-O to cycle through red, green, white, and black masks.

• Dust spot images quickly

  • Friday, 23 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (6 days ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Choose the Spot Removal tool (N) and zoom in to the top-left of the image. Press the Page Down key to move down the left side of the image incrementally. When you reach the bottom, press Page Down again and it will go to the top of the image next to your starting point. Do [...]

• Rotate View tool

  • Thursday, 22 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (1 week ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  A long-desired feature from other leading digital painting tools is the Rotate View tool, which allows you to rotate the document canvas to make otherwise uncomfortable strokes with a digitized art tablet perfectly natural. Press the R key or click-and-hold the Hand tool at the bottom of the Toolbox and select the Rotate View tool. [...]

• Pre-pro prep

  • Wednesday, 21 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (2 weeks ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  If my experience with develop-ing rich media in a collaborative environment has taught me anything, it’s to keep project assets as organized as possible. Even though the layers’ paradigm in Photoshop provides an inherent organizational approach, it can quickly become unwieldy and bloated. A well-structured file folder hierarchy allows for easy access to core project [...]

• Transform selection

  • Tuesday, 20 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (2 weeks ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  That selection not exactly how you want it? Don’t want to go all the way back into the path and modify it? No problem. Just go to the Select menu and choose Transform Selection and you can manipulate the selection just as you would with the Free Transform tool.

• Speedy clipping mask

  • Monday, 19 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (2 weeks ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Sometimes a masked layer is just an Option-click (PC: Alt-click) away. Simply click-and-drag the layer to be used as a mask directly above the layer to be masked. Press-and-hold Option (PC: Alt) and hover your cursor over the horizontal line separating the layers. The cursor (hand) becomes a Clipping Mask icon; just click on it [...]

• Invert to alpha

  • Friday, 16 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (2 weeks ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  When working with vector- created art and the source art is unavailable, modifying the art to create a logo can be a pain, to say the least particularly when it’s flattened and the background needs to be knocked out. A careful combination of Invert (Command-I [PC: Ctrl-I]), Color Bal-ance (Command-B [PC: Ctrl-B]), and layer Blending [...]

• Glow/Bloom effect

  • Thursday, 15 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (2 weeks ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  In the same composition, use Select>Color Range to select the high-lights of the base image. Be generous with the Fuzziness, as detail won’t be an issue. Copy the selection to a new layer (Command-J [PC: Ctrl-J]) and set its blend mode to Screen, which works kind of inversely from Multiply blacks become invisible [...]

• Get into Dodge

  • Wednesday, 14 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (3 weeks ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Anyone who’s used Photoshop CS3 (or prior) versions and tried to com-posite a human subject into an existing light setup knows that they eventually hit a wall with Levels, Curves, Color Balance andóeven in desperate situationsóBrightness/Contrast adjustments to match the environment. Careful use of the Dodge tool (O) in the right tone range can allow [...]

• Only shades of gray

  • Tuesday, 13 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (3 weeks ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  A simple tip to creating believable retro imagery is never to use 100% black or white tones in the artwork. The retro look often relies on distressed or faded artifacts, and a foundation of grays in a subtle tonal spectrum can enhance the vintage believability. Unlike using Desaturate (Image>Adjustments>Desaturate), Image>Adjustments>Black & White gives you control [...]

• Light depth with layer blending

  • Monday, 12 Jul 2010, 07:15 PDT (3 weeks ago)
  • By: Web Editor, Planet Photoshop
  

  Studio lighting can be quickly and easily dramatized by blending multiple layers. Duplicate a layer with a subject by press- ing Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J). Desaturate the new layer, then adjust the Levels dialog (Command-L [PC: Ctrl-L]) to create a strong contrast. Now, apply a Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur) to the new layer and [...]

 
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