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Lightroom 2 Develop Module

Chris Alvanas — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:08:15 +0000

This tutorial discusses some of the changes and new tools in the Develop module of Lightroom 2.

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Lightroom 2 Library Module

Chris Alvanas — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:05:06 +0000

This tutorial covers some of the new feature in the Lightroom 2 Library module.

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Lightroom 2 Adjustment Brush, Part 2

Chris Alvanas — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:33:55 +0000

Photographer Chris Alvanas finishes explaining the adjustment brush and goes through doing some minor portrait retouching with Lightroom 2.

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Lightroom 2 Adjustment Brush, Part 1

Chris Alvanas — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:16:11 +0000

This tutorial covers the basics of Lightroom 2’s new adjustment brush and reviews most of the setting options.

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Retouching Eyes with Photoshop CS4, Part 2

Chris Alvanas — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:12:53 +0000

Photographer Chris Alvanas uses some of the new tools and functionality of Photoshop CS4 to retouch the eyes of his subject. This video involves Quick Mask mode, and isolating Hue/Saturation adjustments for a specific tone.

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Retouching Eyes with Photoshop CS4

Chris Alvanas — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:42:32 +0000

Photographer Chris Alvanas uses some of the new tools and functionality of Photoshop CS4 to retouch the eyes of his subject.

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Photoshop CS4: New Beauty, Part 2

Chris Alvanas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:01:50 +0000

This video is about using the new adjustment layers panel and the new masking panel in Photoshop CS4. You can still work with adjustments and masks the same way you did in CS3, but there are also some new options and abilities that you are going to love.

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Photoshop CS4: New Beauty, Part 4

Chris Alvanas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:01:42 +0000

Continuing with color adjustments in Photoshop CS4, photographer Chris Alvanas goes through the process of creating a mask out of a color range to isolate the color adjustments to certain tones. The new version contains a lot of powerful features that will help users to create masks quickly and easily.

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Photoshop CS4: New Beauty, Part 3

Chris Alvanas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:01:35 +0000

In the third video of this series Chris goes over some of the new color options and advances in Photoshop CS4. There are new options for the eye dropper tool, direct modification abilities with hue and saturation adjustments, and amazing new zoom capabilities.

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Photoshop CS4: New Beauty, Part 1

Chris Alvanas — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:01:11 +0000

In this tutorial series, photographer Chris Alvanas is going through some of the new features of Photoshop CS4. In this video, Chris walks us through the new zoom levels, the live preview ability of the healing brush, and the new rotate view options.

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Working with Hair in Photoshop

Chris Alvanas — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:50:01 +0000

Hair can be a difficult thing to work with in Photoshop. Here are some tips to help make it easier.

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Retouching Eyes in Photoshop

Chris Alvanas — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:01:59 +0000

When doing portrait work, the eyes of your subject are the most important points of the image. In this tutorial, photographer Chris Alvanas takes us through the process of retouching an eye to remove a catch light, do some recoloring, get rid of red streaks and more.

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