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Photoshop Top 40 with Deke McClelland

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 invaluable. Lea... Read more

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Photoshop Feature #2: The Layers Palette

Photoshop Feature #2: The Layers Palette

Home to at least eight of the features Deke has mentioned so far in the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, the Layers palette i... Read more

6 Apr 2010

19mins

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Photoshop Feature #4: Navigation

Photoshop Feature #4: Navigation

Photoshop lets you modify your view of an image using a variety of tools, commands, and options. But you don’t need a si... Read more

23 Mar 2010

9mins

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Photoshop Feature #11: Opacity Mode and Blend Modes

Photoshop Feature #11: Opacity Mode and Blend Modes

Changing the Opacity is like mixing a cocktail with, say, 30% active layer and 70% all layers below. Assigning a blend m... Read more

2 Feb 2010

12mins

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Photoshop Feature #7: Undo, History, and Revert

Photoshop Feature #7: Undo, History, and Revert

The safety-net trio of Undo, History, and Revert protect the intrepid image editor from unexpected disasters. But they a... Read more

2 Mar 2010

13mins

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Photoshop Feature #1: Open and Save

Photoshop Feature #1: Open and Save

Virtually every Photoshop project starts with Open (how often do you choose New?) and ends with Save. And unlike other a... Read more

11 Apr 2010

12mins

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Photoshop Feature #6: RGB, CMYK, and Lab

Photoshop Feature #6: RGB, CMYK, and Lab

Photoshop doesn’t just support multiple color spaces, it supports infinite variations on the device-dependent ones. You ... Read more

9 Mar 2010

17mins

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Photoshop Feature #3: Image Size

Photoshop Feature #3: Image Size

The essential Image Size command lets you scale an image on screen or in print. Here's your chance to understand resampl... Read more

30 Mar 2010

13mins

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Photoshop Feature #5: The Sharpen Filters

Photoshop Feature #5: The Sharpen Filters

Photoshop doesn’t sharpen focus, it sharpens detail. Using any of three remarkable filters, Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen,... Read more

16 Mar 2010

13mins

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Photoshop Feature #12: Camera Raw

Photoshop Feature #12: Camera Raw

Camera Raw is an independent application that lets you develop your raw photographs and exploit every byte of the vast i... Read more

26 Jan 2010

14mins

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Photoshop Feature #8: The Eyedropper

Photoshop Feature #8: The Eyedropper

The ubiquitous eyedropper is simple in purpose and easy to use. But imagine a world without it, where you had to dial in... Read more

23 Feb 2010

15mins

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Photoshop Feature #10: Color Settings

Photoshop Feature #10: Color Settings

The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Sui... Read more

9 Feb 2010

10mins

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Photoshop Feature #9: Levels

Photoshop Feature #9: Levels

The Levels command, and its cohort the histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The ups... Read more

16 Feb 2010

12mins

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Photoshop Feature #13: File Info

Photoshop Feature #13: File Info

Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author (you!), a ... Read more

19 Jan 2010

8mins

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Photoshop Feature #14: Gaussian Blur

Photoshop Feature #14: Gaussian Blur

Gaussian Blur is a filter that blurs an image. But its also the math behind the Feather command, drop shadows, and every... Read more

12 Jan 2010

11mins

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Photoshop Feature #15: Alpha Channels

Photoshop Feature #15: Alpha Channels

Much can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire w... Read more

5 Jan 2010

13mins

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Photoshop Feature #16: Adjustment Layers

Photoshop Feature #16: Adjustment Layers

An adjustment layer is an independent layer of color adjustment that can edit any time you like. Plus it affects all lay... Read more

29 Dec 2009

12mins

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Photoshop Feature #17: Layer Effects

Photoshop Feature #17: Layer Effects

Yes, layer effects let you make drop shadows. But they also let you create credible compositions, render simple layers i... Read more

22 Dec 2009

8mins

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Photoshop Feature #18: Smart Objects

Photoshop Feature #18: Smart Objects

Smart objects aren't all that smart. And they aren't objects. What they are is envelopes. The kind that hold things. And... Read more

15 Dec 2009

9mins

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Photoshop Feature #19: Luminance Blending

Photoshop Feature #19: Luminance Blending

Buried deep inside the Layer Style dialog box are two slider bars, This Layer and Underlying Layer, that let you blend p... Read more

8 Dec 2009

8mins

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Photoshop Feature #20: Free Transform

Photoshop Feature #20: Free Transform

As powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer... Read more

1 Dec 2009

8mins

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