Getting the Most Out of Adobe CS5 Like Hoover the term Photoshop has entered our natural language to describe a particular action rather than just the product itself. For a commercial product to become verbalised it has to be an absolute leader and thought of as a standard within its field, which is why it [...]
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How to Quickly Remove a Background With Adobe Photoshop CS5
By Bjorn on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 | 2 Comments
The most common method to remove a background from an image involves a process called “masking,” in which certain portions of the image are manually outlined by the user. If you are not technologically advanced, or do not have a steady hand, this can be a very frustrating task. Luckily, for simple images, there exists [...]
Read More...Colorizing Black and White Images in Photoshop
A guide to adding color to your black and white images A focal trait of Photoshop is the program’s inherent readiness to achieve a desired result in numerous ways. Colorizing and re-colorizing of black and white images are robust aspects of image editing for which the software gives you a massive set of tools and [...]
Read More...Photoshop Creeping to iPad
By Bjorn on Friday, May 20th, 2011 | 2 Comments
[ad]Photoshop over the years has become the number one program for users who work in computer imaging. For years people have been using the program to clean up photos, add effects and create work from scratch. The combination of the iPad and its touch screen has gotten people excited about the future of the program. [...]
Read More...Top 10 iPhone/iPad Apps for Photographers
[ad]iPhone and ipad have become some of the most popular tools for photographers. iPhone can now take some splendid photographs, and as you get 5MP camera these days in iPhone, we can say that the photographing capacity of iPhone is as good as the mid-range digital cameras. But it is the iPhone/iPad apps that perk [...]
Read More...Using Smart Filters in Photoshop
The introduction of Smart Filters is a significant milestone in the history of Adobe Photoshop, as this built in architecture gives you flexibility and freedom you simply could not achieve and enjoy in earlier versions of the software. The Smart Filter architecture is an additive/subtractive chain system composed of any Filters of your choice, yet [...]
Read More...Basic Web Design by PSD Slicing
By Bjorn on Monday, January 17th, 2011 | 3 Comments
[ad]As the internet is used increasingly often, the need for talented web designers increases. There are many aspiring graphic artists who want to create their own websites, but don’t have the coding skill required for web development. They work mainly with Adobe tools, such as Illustrator and In Design, which are industry standard web design [...]
Read More...Photoshop Actions – Speed Up Your Workflow
By Bjorn on Sunday, November 28th, 2010 | 3 Comments
Applying the same sequence of commands on your images may grow tedious after a while, especially when you are working with sets composed of hundreds of files. Photoshop has a very useful functionality that lets you create, record, and recall command sequences, executed automatically on any number of designated images. This tutorial will explain how [...]
Read More...Images and SEO (seo for photographers)
By Bjorn on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 | 10 Comments
Search engine optimization is one of your most valuable tools in marketing. Whether you’re selling a product like an iphone or a service such as accounting, SEO will deliver the traffic you need to be successful. One way to increase traffic to your photography website is with images. People may not have the time to [...]
Read More...Color Correction with Adjustment Layers in Photoshop
By Bjorn on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010 | 4 Comments
There are many factors that will influence the color range and the overall appeal of a photograph. Pictures shot during broad daylight usually will reveal paler colors. Photoshop has great tools to emphasize the color, hue and saturation values of a photograph, giving you the chance to save out copies of dramatically different results. The [...]
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