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The Seven Wonders of Photoshop CS5 / DPE Podcast June 1, 2010

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

As I am sure the vast majority of you know, Adobe recently released their newest version of their creative suite including Photoshop CS5. This new version of photoshop brings an unprecedented number of new and “magical” features. Juan and Rick talk about their favorite 7 new features which we have dubbed “The Seven Wonders of [...]

A Cool Use of Photoshop’s Transform Feature

By Rick Sammon

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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A Cool Use of Photoshop’s Transform Feature

Photograph © Rick Sammon. All Rights Reserved. Early one morning while exploring a remote region of The Royal Kingdom of Bhutan, I spotted this scene next to a school: students and their teaching saying a morning prayer before class. I wanted to get the shot and I wanted to get everything in the scene in focus, so [...]

Forget Photoshop, Launch Lightroom!

By Jeremy Pollack

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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“What software should I get first?” is a common question to aspiring photographers, especially when first getting into using DSLR cameras. Or more commonly, “Should I get Photoshop CS4 or Photoshop Elements to start out?” With the term Photoshopped entering the vernacular, it is not surprising that most people think about it first when starting [...]

NAPP Launches the CS Learning Center

By Juan Pons

Monday, April 12, 2010

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The National Association of Photoshop Professionals today at 11am EST (precisely timed with the release of CS5 by Adobe), will launch their Adobe Photoshop CS5 Learning Center. NAPP claims this to be their “largest and most comprehensive learning center and first-day training initiative in our history”. When it opens, the Photoshop CS5 Learning Center will feature: 16 Videos [...]

It’s Adobe CS5 Day!

By Juan Pons

Monday, April 12, 2010

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In case you have not heard (hard to believe), today at precisely 11am EST, Adobe launches their next version of their ever so popular, and some would say essential, Creative Suite, bringing it to CS5. Watch the unveiling live over at the CS5 Launch site For us photographers, the most significant part of the Creative Suite is [...]

Photoshop Technique: High Pass Contrast

By John Paul Caponigro

Friday, April 9, 2010

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Achieving adequate midtone contrast can make or break an image. While Curves offers the ultimate precision for fine tuning contrast, it treats all image areas equally – smooth areas, textured areas, and contours. Using High Pass contrast you can target contrast to affect contours more than other image areas – to a lesser degree, texture [...]

Targeted Color Adjustments in Lightroom

By Rob Knight

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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One of the things I have always liked about Lightroom is it’s simplicity. With just a few tips, most people can be up & running organizing and developing photos in no time. Another thing I enjoy about Lightroom is finding uses for the adjustment tools that are not necessarily obvious at first glance. Here are [...]

Expanded Depth of Field

By Hal Schmitt

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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Depth of field (DOF,) or the area of your image acceptably in focus, is a great tool for photographers. Through our selection of aperture, focal length, and focal distance (this is a very complicated subject so we will limit to these three variables) we can control the DOF for all of our images. [...]

DPE Coverage of Photoshop World

By Juan Pons

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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As you may have noticed on the DPE Twitter feed, a bunch of the DPE gang will be attending Photoshop World in Orlando Florida. In case you are not familiar with Photoshop World, here is how they describe it themselves: “Photoshop World is the ONLY Photoshop and digital photography conference designed to put you at the [...]

Photomerge in Photoshop

By William Neill

Friday, March 19, 2010

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PhotoMerge in Photoshop offers many creative options for photographers. Below are examples of recent images of mine using PhotoMerge. I’ll discuss my approach for each image, and hopefully you will get some ideas for your own photography. Several years ago, I found myself in nearby Yosemite Valley after a snowstorm. The fresh snow [...]