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• For real newbies! (others, too!)
• Basics of the Layers palette
• Painting on a layer

• Some selection methods
• Basic exposure modification
• Layer masking

• How to straighten your photos
• Cropping made simple
• Selectively lightening and darkening areas of you photos

• Making areas disappear and reappear!
• Blurring foreground & background
• Saving for Web

• Who your friends are
• Shortcuts I use a lot
• Keyboard shortcuts made easy

• Let Actions do the boring stuff
• Fixing perspective distortion
• "Why won't this work?"

• Making parts of a layer "disappear"
• Masking an adjustment layer
• Selecting using Color Range

• Working with transparent objects
• Painting on a mask
• "Dedicating" an adjustment layer

Adjustment Layers for a Selection  (2.5 MB PDF) includes:

• Requested by Robin Brickey
  for one of her students.

• Your selection creates
  a mask on your layer!

• Perspective shadows
• Making it more subtle

• Using an existing shadow
• Enhancing the shadow

• Making distracting things disappear

• Continuing the lines in the background

• Using the other third of the twelve bits your camera is capturing
  

• Recovering highlight areas you thought were too overexposed

• A way to capture extremes of
  lighting in your photo

• Demonstrated in Camera Raw,
  but can be two exposures.

• An Action and a psd combine to enable you to make snowflakes

• An infinite number of six-sided snowflake crystals

• A Photoshop template with
  two sides

• Customizable for both sender
  and recipient

• Eliminating distracting reflections
• Creating reflections which describe
• Lighting the object appropriately

• Making the image look plausible
• Masking to reveal a background
• Distortions through clear fluid

• Creating rollover links for your
  web site

• ImageReady: The "other side" of Photoshop

• Create animations for your web site

• Attract your viewer's eye with motion

• Let your computer do the boring stuff

• Assign complex tasks to a single key

• Templates for each month of every
  year for the rest of your life!
  

• With an index of which calendar to use in which year.
  

• Finding and using the official font
• Even for unusual names!

• Creating the emboss
• Laminating the project with holes
  

• Using Photoshop to create large images
• Changing Canvas Size

• Printing your sign in sections
• Putting your sign together.
  

• Using your computer and a printer/scanner
  

• You can do this with Photoshop
  or with GIMP
  

• Using Photoshop or GIMP
  to add graphics and photos
  

• Engineering your pop-up
• Adding a whole new dimension to cards!
  

• How to choose a digital camera
• What's a megapixel?
• Exposure options... you decide!
• Deep or shallow depth of field

• Shutterspeed choice
• Picture taking tips
• Composition tips
• Easy professional portrait lighting

• The basics of photographic exposure
• Balancing f-stop and shutter speed

• When it's OK to disagree with the camera
• Photography is an art and you're the artist

• A single page chart of the three exposure basics
• What these 3 exposure variables do

• Avoiding reflections in flat art
• Preventing motion blur
  

• Lighting for 2-D and 3-D art
• Showing your art as it really is
  

• Showing texture and the depth
  of your subject's features
  

• Avoiding "flat" light

• Simplifying your workflow
• Speeding up your process
  

• Allowing you to concentrate
  on creativity

• For places drones aren't permitted
• Ways of triggering your camera remotely
  

• Using an iPod as a remote viewfinder
• Creating an ad hoc network

• Two terrific lighting accessories which
  seem to be physically incompatible
  

• A workaround using two other
  commercially available accessories.

• Over 42,000 people have watched this.
• Setting up your jib boom efficiently
• Remote steering of the fluid head

• DIY wired follow focus
• Building a dolly and track
• LOTS of performance tips
  

• Building the wheel "trucks"
• Aligning the trucks

• Securing the stand to the dolly
• Making a variable-length track
  

• Free software to download

• Simple, inexpensive construction

• This is just a product that's been
  bouncing around in my mind.
  

• It would be a fun learning tool for schools,
  home, or anywhere.
  

• .png files for cutting either 12"x12" card stock or letter-size

• Files for four different colors so neighboring states are different colors

• Using everyday objects to imagine
  the scale of satellite orbits

• Getting a feel for the relative distances of the International Space Station, etc

• Continues from the previous article (above), using the same scale.

• Includes a transparent scale overlay to put on a map of your own area.