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Easy, Efficient Image Effects with Lightroom Presets
How-Tos: Written by Helen Bradley on August 25, 2011
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom presets can give you all kinds of images effects, from subtle to surreal, with one click. Learn how to make your own and where to download free presets online.
So You Think You Know Photoshop?
How-Tos: Written by Terri Stone on August 8, 2011
The new features in Photoshop CS5 have obscure--but handy--uses you probably haven't explored. Get the most out of your investment: Learn how to unearth these hidden gems.
Create Custom Photo Layouts in Lightroom 3
How-Tos: Written by Helen Bradley on June 9, 2011
Harness the new print options in Adobe Lightroom 3 for creating your own layouts, with customized background colors, borders, identity plates, watermarks, and more. Then output your photo layouts to print or to electronic files.
Histograms Are the Best Photography Tool You Already Own: Part 1
How-Tos: Written by Ben Long on May 9, 2011
Whether you're shooting photos or editing them in software, understanding the histogram will help you produce better images. Here's your guide to decoding the messages in this powerful tool.
Lighting Tips for Shooting HD Video with SLR Cameras
How-Tos: Written by Photoflex Lighting School on March 30, 2011
Many of today's digital SLR cameras also capture HD video. If you're in the early stages of exploring this new medium, you may have only flashes, which won't work for lighting video. This how-to includes examples of the kinds of lights you need and how to set them up.
Turn Your iPhone Images Into Art
How-Tos: Written by Sara Frances on March 7, 2011
Cell phone photography is so ubiquitous that it's easy to dismiss, yet with the help of a creative approach and a few apps, cell phone photos can be at home on gallery walls. Read on for advice on subject matter and camera handling, the best apps, post-app processing workflow, and printing suggestions.
Sharpen Focus with Photoshop's Auto-Blend
How-Tos: Written by Russell Brown on February 17, 2011
Learn how to easily merge the areas of sharpest focus from several stacked images into one final composite using Photoshop CS4 or CS5.
Photography 101: Creating The Silhouetted Shot
How-Tos: Written by Photoflex Lighting School on October 27, 2010
You've probably seen photos of an object that appears to be in a white room surrounded by light. Because it's such a clean look, it's easy to use in a variety of print and Web projects. Here's how to create a natural-looking silhouetted shot using simple, inexpensive lighting tools and a little digital editing.
Creative Edge Photoshop Resource Center
How-Tos: Written on August 12, 2010
Creative Edge is an on-demand collection of thousands of digital videos and books. They are giving you, the CreativePro.com visitor, exclusive access to select articles from these Photoshop-related books and videos.
Fix Mistakes In Photoshop
How-Tos: Written by Deke McClelland on April 5, 2010
There's no Undo in life, but there is in Photoshop. There's also Revert and the ever-useful History panel. All three, especially the History panel, can go a long way toward fixing anything you regret doing in Photoshop. Here's how to use their full powers.
Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress
How-Tos: Written by Jay J. Nelson on November 5, 2009
This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.
Creating Sharp Images: The Big Picture
How-Tos: Written by Conrad Chavez on June 18, 2009
To get sharper photos, you just apply the right sharpening settings in Photoshop and you’re done, right? Not quite. To create consistently sharp pictures, pay attention to important factors at every step of your photographic workflow -- especially steps that affect image contrast.
Five Lightroom 2 How-Tos
How-Tos: Written by Jeremy Schultz on November 13, 2008
New tools in Lightroom 2 make it easy to mimic graduated filters; brush in broad and fine adjustments; customize picture packages; create Collections; and even give a photo a watercolor look.
Easy Video Editing in Photoshop. Yes, Photoshop.
How-Tos: Written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion on November 5, 2008
No need for a dedicated video application. You can apply adjustment layers and filters to video without leaving Photoshop Extended CS3 or CS4.
HerGeekness Says: Convert Any File Part II
How-Tos: Written by Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion on August 18, 2008
In case of file-conversion emergency, start with a PDF!
Sidewalk Serendipity
How-Tos: Written by Mason Resnick on May 19, 2008
Street photography hones your vision, improves your technical skills, and heightens your reflexes. Plus, it's free and legal!
Photoshop Smart Objects Mean Never Having to Say You're Sorry
How-Tos: Written by Andrew Shalat on November 9, 2007
How many times have you made an edit or applied a filter in Photoshop, only to realize later that your "improvement" destroyed pixels you needed? After you read this how-to, you'll never be in that pickle again.
Get Better Output with Photoshop's Automate and Scripts Menus
How-Tos: Written by Ben Long on October 31, 2007
Learn how to automatically output multiple copies of an image in different formats (resizing along the way); print one page with multiple versions of an image; and create diptychs and triptychs.
View Source: Create Advanced Online Galleries
How-Tos: Written by Dave Sawyer McFarland on October 29, 2007
Do you need an online portfolio or just want to post photos from your kid's birthday party? The free Lightbox2 adds sophisticated JavaScript functionality you can customize. The best part? You don't have to do a lick of programming.
Lightroom How-To: Intelligent Importing
How-Tos: Written by Julieanne Kost on June 15, 2007
Lightroom helps you organize, edit, and output images. To get even more out of the app, try customizing the process from the very beginning -- when you import your shots.
