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Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 features in Photoshop. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptual. All are inval...
In today's installment of Photoshop CS5 Top 5, Deke demonstrates Photoshop's bristle brushes, which simulate traditional paint brushes—the k...
In this installment of Photoshop CS5 Top 5, Deke McClelland explores a feature he calls fun to use, funny to watch, and extremely powerful....
Refining selections and creating masks are unglamorous but utterly essential Photoshop techniques—you've got to master both in order to perf...
Whether you want to be subtle or brash, the greatly improved HDR features in Photoshop CS5 are worth a close look. They're the subject of to...
In this first episode of Photoshop CS5 Top 5 on lynda.com, Deke McClelland introduces us to the common sense enhancements, tweaks, and fixes...
Virtually every Photoshop project starts with Open (how often do you choose New?) and ends with Save. And unlike other apps, Photoshop treat...
Home to at least eight of the features Deke has mentioned so far in the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, the Layers palette is command central—th...
The essential Image Size command lets you scale an image on screen or in print. Here's your chance to understand resampling and resolution,...
Photoshop lets you modify your view of an image using a variety of tools, commands, and options. But you don’t need a single one of them. Le...
Photoshop doesn’t sharpen focus, it sharpens detail. Using any of three remarkable filters, Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen, and High Pass. Appl...
Photoshop doesn’t just support multiple color spaces, it supports infinite variations on the device-dependent ones. You can open an RGB phot...
The safety-net trio of Undo, History, and Revert protect the intrepid image editor from unexpected disasters. But they also let you toggle o...
The ubiquitous eyedropper is simple in purpose and easy to use. But imagine a world without it, where you had to dial in every one of the 16...
The Levels command, and its cohort the histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The upshot is that you can...
The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Suite. While admittedly...
Changing the Opacity is like mixing a cocktail with, say, 30% active layer and 70% all layers below. Assigning a blend mode is like shining...
Camera Raw is an independent application that lets you develop your raw photographs and exploit every byte of the vast information captured...
Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author (you!), a copyright, and a Web...
Gaussian Blur is a filter that blurs an image. But its also the math behind the Feather command, drop shadows, and everything that is soft i...
Much can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire weight of Photoshop t...
An adjustment layer is an independent layer of color adjustment that can edit any time you like. Plus it affects all layers below it, consum...
Yes, layer effects let you make drop shadows. But they also let you create credible compositions, render simple layers in dimension, and add...
Smart objects aren't all that smart. And they aren't objects. What they are is envelopes. The kind that hold things. And keep them safe. So...
Buried deep inside the Layer Style dialog box are two slider bars, This Layer and Underlying Layer, that let you blend pixels according to t...
As powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer? Right-click on it...
Every app offers a gradient tool. But Photoshops is special. Not only can you paint a soft transition from black to white. But you can softe...
Be they pits, pock marks, or pimples, we all suffer blemishes that we wish we didnt. Or so we would were it not for Photoshops healing brush...
If you use the magic wand tool, stop what youre doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image a...
Where luminance-correction is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. This one command lets you rein in highlights, ope...
You may know that you can add to a selection by pressing the Shift key. But you can likewise press keys to subtract and find an intersection...
Photoshop offers two tools that paint with luminance: The dodge tool paints in brightness, the burn tool paints in darkness. Crazy useful, a...
Since the first daguerreotype, photographers have cropped their images to hone in on the details that matter most. The crop tool does that,...
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...
The Liquify filter lets you paint in distortions, so you can perform digital nips and tucks. You can slim people down, edit their posture, a...
The Actions palette lets you record your work so you never have to do it again. Plus, you can build up complex visual effects and share them...
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 inval...
Many folks select images in Photoshop with the likes of the Quick Select and Magic Wand tools. Highly automated, but these tools rarely work...
One of the oldest, most abstruse, downright incomprehensible commands in Photoshop, Calculations lets you merge two channels to create a new...
If you're creating Web graphics, then there's no substitute for Save for Web and Devices. It disposes of non-essential data, reduces file si...
Photoshop offers lots of tools for automating selections, but two stand out from the pack: The first, Refine Edge, lets you modify your sele...
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...
Many of Photoshop's best features can only be accessed from the keyboard. Like, how would you know Alt+Backspace (or Option-Delete) fills wi...
Type in Photoshop is forever editable and super-smooth. Deke shows how it works by assembling a high-res, pro-quality magazine cover in one...
Layer comps let you assemble multiple image variations or even independent pieces of artwork inside a single Adobe Photoshop file. The Layer...
Deke gets things started with a pair of options that can clean out Photoshops plumbing when things get clogged up: Reset and purge.
America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 fea...