Photoshop Top 40 Countdown with Deke McClelland: #27 - The Crop Tool
Since the first daguerreotype, photographers have cropped their images to hone in on the details that matter most. The crop tool does that, as well as straighten and more. Check it out in this weeks episode of Dekes Photoshop Top 40 Countdown.
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lynda.com | Deke's Techniques #6: Control smoothing with an anti-edge mask
This week, Deke demonstrates how to retouch a stressed image in order to smooth out detail, while controlling the effect with specially crafted mask. If using the High Pass filter and edge masks are old hat for you, watch as Deke turns the whole concept inside-out by using a reverse high-pass eff...
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Photoshop CS4 New Features: Content Aware Scaling (lynda.com)
Watch more at: www.lynda.com Deke McClelland shows you how to convert a horizontal or landscape oriented image and convert it to a vertical image using Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4. Content aware scaling allows you scale the low detail or background information inside of an image while ...
lynda.com | Deke's Techniques #3: Rendering type in gold
Welcome to this week's technique from Deke, in which lynda.com author Deke McClelland shows you how to create gleaming gold from ordinary type. And being the noted Photoshop trainer that he is, Deke manages this alchemical feat in under ten minutes. This is no garish fool's gold, but a lovely sof...
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Photoshop Top 40 #1 - Open and Save
Virtually every Photoshop project starts with Open (how often do you choose New?) and ends with Save. And unlike other apps, Photoshop treats all image formats as native. Open and Save are the alpha and omega of imaging. America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-wi...
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lynda.com | Deke's Techniques #16: Turning a photo into an ink drawing
For this week's free Photoshop technique, lynda.com author Deke McClelland takes an ordinary photo, applies several filters (two of which he claims to never use under any other circumstances), and transforms the photo into an "ink drawing." With the application of Gaussian Blur, Smart Blur, High ...
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- Length: 11:23
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lynda.com series | Deke's Techniques: Tracing an image with path outlines
Watch more at www.lynda.com In this week's free Deke's Techniques movie, Deke McClelland demonstrates how to trace a fairly complex shape in Photoshop without relying heavily on the often unintuitive Pen tool. Being able to select a complex shape—like this week's light bulb—without relying on a c...
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Masking with Photoshop's blunt instruments: Deke's Techiques | lynda.com series
Watch more Deke at www.lynda.com If you're trying to mask a challenging subject, Photoshop certainly has a hoard of sharply honed tools that will allow you to create the most nuanced selection imaginable. But sometimes, you just want to throw some brute Photoshop force at a project so you can get...
Photoshop Top 40 #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 is command central—the place where most of the action in Photoshop happens. Were it not for this one palette, Photoshop as we know it would not exist. America likes its lists, an...
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Photoshop Top 40 #3 - Image Size
The essential Image Size command lets you scale an image on screen or in print. In this week's Photoshop Top 40 Countdown episode, Deke explains resampling and resolution, both of which affect the core quality of digital photographs. America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert...
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lynda.com | Deke's Techniques #9: Building a synthetic starfield from scratch
This week, intrepid Photoshop explorer and lynda.com author Deke McClelland gives you no less than the infinite universe. Actually, this installment of Deke's Techniques shows you how to create your own galaxy view, complete with stars, lens flare, and space gas, all created completely from scrat...
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Photoshop Top 40 #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 single one of them. Learn a few navigational shortcuts and you'll be working at maximum efficiency in no time. America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and ...
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lynda.com preview | Illustrator CS5: editing scanned line art | 2/6
In this exclusive preview of his upcoming lynda.com Illustrator CS5 course, Deke McClelland shares six phases in the creation of a five-by-three-foot pirate flag. In today's post, Deke uses Photoshop to adjust, distort, and otherwise refine an ink drawing into a work of compositional perfection.
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Photoshop Top 40 #5 - The Sharpen Filters
Photoshop doesn't sharpen focus, it sharpens detail using any of three remarkable filters: Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen, and High Pass. Apply them as smart filters, and you're ready for any output scenario. America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-winning author De...
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Photoshop Top 40 #6 - RGB, CMYK, and Lab
Photoshop doesn't just support multiple color spaces, it supports infinite variations on the device-dependent ones. You can open an RGB photo, process it in Lab, and output it to CMYK, with certainty that the conversions will work. America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert a...
Creating Automatically-Inverting Type in Photoshop | Deke's Techniques, a lynda.com series
Watch more at www.lynda.com This Photoshop tutorial is from the series Deke's Techniques presented by lynda.com author Deke McClelland. This specific tutorial describes how to take a layer of text and automatically invert any image or background behind it. The complete Deke's Techniques series of...
Photoshop Top 40 #7 - Undo, History, and Revert
The safety-net trio of Undo, History, and Revert protect the intrepid image editor from unexpected disasters. But they also let you toggle operations, compare before-and-after images, and move back and forth through time. America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-w...
lynda.com | Deke's Techniques #7: Blending textures onto a face
This week's free Photoshop technique from lynda.com instructor Deke McClelland takes an ordinary portrait shot and maps two different textures onto the subject create an exotic effect. The process doesn't require any masks, but rather relies solely on advanced blending techniques.
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Photoshop Top 40 #9 - Levels
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 increase contrast, correct for color cast, and make a bad image good. America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-winning auth...
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Deke McClelland explains how to scan money
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