 SAVING
FILE BROWSER SETUPS In Photoshop CS, your custom
File Browser setups can be saved as Workspaces, which opens
a new way of working within the File Browser. For example,
if you shoot a lot of portraits, you can double-click on
the Folders tab (to roll it up out of the way, giving you
a taller Preview palette), then drag the divider bar between
the palettes area and the thumbnail area to the right to
make your preview even bigger. Since your preview is so
large, you can shrink the size of your thumbnails (go to
the View menu in the File Browser and choose Medium Thumbnail).
Once you’ve done all
this, save this setup as a Workspace by going to the Window
menu, under Workspace, and choosing Save Workspace (name
it “File Browser Portrait”).
Then, next time you’re looking through some proofs,
you can have huge previews in just one click. You can do
the same thing for wide photos—just drag the divider
bar much farther to the right, until the preview of photos
with a landscape orientation takes up most of the File
Browser Screen. Now switching between huge portrait and
landscape previews only takes one click.
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Photoshop
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Photoshop CS and CS2 Tutorials |
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 Matt Kloskowski offers this video tutorial for creating stunning multi-photo collages in Photoshop.
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 Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine, shows how to add a Matte Effect to your photos.
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 Matt Kloskowski show how to add a photographic edge to your images using Illustrator and Photoshop.
This Video tutorial requires Flash player |
 Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine, shows how to use the Gradient Map in Photoshop to add gradient colors to your photos.
This Video tutorial requires Flash player |
 In this, the final installment of the haunted library tutorial, you will fill your shelves with books, reflect the bookcases in the floor to create a shiny surface and create the light effects that give the library atmosphere and real sense of depth. |
In this part of the tutorial you will learn how to create a custom pattern and use a Pattern fill layer to make the tile floor for the library. Then, you will use patterns to add a marble-like texture to the fireplace. These are techniques I have found to be useful in many situations. They’re not difficult, but there are a few "gotchas" you need to watch out for. |
I was recently asked to create a quick, 3D-looking concept rendering of a haunted library. I wasn’t given much time, so I had to dip into my Photoshop bag of tricks and find something that would give me that 3D, CG look I was after without taking the time needed to actually create the illustration in a 3D program. |
 It would take several entire issues of Photoshop User to even begin to cover all of the filters in Photoshop. Instead, let’s take a look at some key strategies to using filters in general—then you can explore the wonderful world of filters on your own. |
 In this final part of the tutorial, you will create a title treatment and type that will add to the emotion and be integrated with the overall illustration. A spread such as this, indeed any ad or page layout, will have more impact and hold together better if the type interacts in some way with the other elements in the composition. |
In the first part of this tutorial we got our major elements placed and the composition pretty much worked out. In this part, we will use a variety of techniques to unify the images and to create the mysterious, slightly ominous effect we are after. |
As much as we like to think of ourselves as creatures of reason, we humans are emotional beings. For any ad or visual composition to be truly effective, it must tell a story and elicit the right emotion. In this tutorial you will use color and lighting to create a dramatic introductory spread to a magazine short story. These same elements, techniques, and concepts in another configuration could be a movie poster or a billboard. |
 The panoramic format has always interested photographers, and with Photoshop’s Photomerge automation, anyone can shoot high-resolution panoramic photos. Getting it to work smoothly, however, takes practice. With a few simple procedures on the shooting end, the composited images will work seamlessly together. |
 In this technique we’ll show how to take a crisp, clean vector image, place it onto an old weatherbeaten
surface, and make it appear as if it had been there for years. While we’ve seen different
variations on this technique before, we’ll put our own “down & dirty” spin on it. |
 I saw this effect used on the graphic on the side of a delivery truck. The truck was from a service that
delivered just about anything, and the graphic made it look like the corner of the truck was being
peeled or curled back so that you could see the boxes stacked up inside—pretty clever. It got me
thinking about how you’d do that in Photoshop CS2 now that it has an image warp feature. |
 Generally low-wage labor is either easy but boring or difficult but fun. If you are doing something that's both easy and fun you're probably paying for the privilege. If you are doing something that's both boring and difficult you're probably moving layers from Photoshop to Flash. |
 Join Terry White as he takes you through the brand new Photoshop CS2. As Photoshop continues to grow it continues to add more features. Terry shows you how to view these new features and also shows you how to customize your pull-down menus in Photoshop CS2. |
 The Gradient tool is one of the more useful tools in Photoshop and it can be
employed for a variety of tasks, ranging from photographic color correction and
masking to collage, graphic design, and illustration. In this issue, we’ll explore
three different uses for the Gradient tool. |
 Since digital cameras can only capture a fraction of the brightness range that your eyes can see, Adobe has added a new Merge to HDR function in Photoshop CS2 that lets you merge several exposures into one High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. |
Mention actions to many Photoshop users and they either don’t know what an action is, think actions
are only useful for major projects, or they tried making one and had a “bad experience.” We’ll attempt
to dispel any fears as we look at creating an action. |
In the premiere issue of Layers magazine, I wrote an Illustrator tutorial on how to convert a photograph to a vector image
(May/June 2005, p. 48). In the first step, I mentioned a technique in Photoshop to help out with getting this process started.
Here’s the tutorial mentioned in the magazine that accompanies the Illustrator column. |
Back in 2003, Adobe released Camera Raw as a Photoshop plug-in for providing access
to the RAW file format that’s offered by many prosumer and professional digital cameras
on the market today. Camera Raw 3.0 is now available as part of Photoshop CS2 and can
be launched from either the new Adobe Bridge or from Photoshop. |
There are a number of different techniques for changing the color of an object, but this particular version gives you the most flexibility because it uses an adjustment layer. This way, if you decide you want to change the color again, it just takes a few seconds—just double-click on the adjustment layer in the Layers palette and pick a new shade. Check it out! |
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Until Photoshop CS2’s introduction of the Vanishing Point filter, cloning
away things in perspective was one of the hardest removal tasks of all. Luckily,
this incredibly cool filter not only simplifies removing things in perspective,
it actually makes it fun. In fact, this is one of those filters that’s
so amazing, you can wind up spending hours cloning away things that have no business
being cloned away. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. |
The inspiration for this one came from a zoo T-shirt I saw someone wearing. You start with
photographs and convert them into silhouettes, and the final effect looks as if you drew the
figures in Adobe Illustrator. At the end of the technique, I give you a couple of different
examples of how this handy technique can be utilized. |
Photographic edge effects have long been one of the classic Photoshop tricks you can
apply to photos to give them that extra something to make them really stand out in a
design or layout. This type of effect is so popular that it’s almost a genre unto
itself, with different companies offering software with the sole purpose of creating
cool edges. |
The Displace filter is great for any situation when you want to transfer the surface
contours of one photo onto another image element. The secret to a good result lies in
creating a custom displacement map that will suit your purposes. When used correctly,
objects can be made to “bend” precisely around existing curves and bumps in an image. |
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