I may be the last person on the planet to discover the awesome power of Photo Merge. It’s something I never really felt the need to explore, until the other day when I wanted to composite several images shot from the Empire State Building into a panoramic image. I planned on spending hours doing this, and wound up finishing the entire project in about 2 minutes!
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A lot of people are confused about Alpha Channels in Photoshop. In fact, Alpha Channels are very useful, very powerful, and not that difficult to understand. In this screencast I introduce you to the basic concepts around Alpha Channels, explain what they do and how you can use them to enhance your Photoshop experience.
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You don’t need to know everything there is to know about Bridge in order to use it effectively. I came up with a work flow that is the quickest and easiest way to:
- View the photos on your camera card
- Decide which ones to copy over
- Convert to DNG
- Rename them
- Copy them into a folder on your machine
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This week I’m gonna REALLY explain the Pen Tool, plus show the difference between vector-based tools and pixel-based tools. I feel that my previous post, “Basic Photoshop Tools”, didn’t really do the job in explaining vectors and the Pen Tool. Further, a portion of what I said regarding converting from a Path to a Selection was simply WRONG! If you got confused in that particular area this screencast will clear it all up, plus you’ll have a much beter understanding of how vectors work in Photoshop.
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Here is a Photoshop tutorial that covers lots of stuff……all of it pretty easy and if you’re relatively new to Photoshop you’ll get a lot out of this.
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