| The Very, Very Basics
of
Photoshop (3.25 MB PDF) includes: |
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- For real newbies! (others, too!)
- Basics
of the Layers palette
- Painting
on a layer
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- Some
selection methods
- Basic
exposure modification
- Layer
masking
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| Photoshop Techniques (2.25 MB PDF) includes: |
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- How
to straighten your photos
- Cropping
made simple
- Selectively
lightening and darkening areas of you photos
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- Making
areas disappear and reappear!
- Blurring
foreground & background
- Saving
for Web
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| The
Stuff I Left Out -More
Photoshop tips (2.6 MB PDF) includes: |
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- Who
your friends are
- Shortcuts
I use a lot
- Keyboard
shortcuts made easy
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- Let
Actions do the boring stuff
- Fixing
perspective distortion
- "Why
won't this work?"
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| Masking
Made Simple and
Select>Color Range! (6.5 MB PDF) includes: |
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- Making
parts of a layer "disappear"
- Masking
an adjustment layer
- Selecting
using Color Range
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- Working
with transparent objects
- Painting
on a mask
- "Dedicating"
an adjustment layer
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Adjustment Layers for a Selection (2.5
MB PDF) includes:
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- Requested by Robin Brickey
for one of her students.
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- Your selection creates
a mask on your layer!
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| Creating
Cast Shadows for
isolated subjects (5.4 MB PDF) includes: |
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- Perspective
shadows
- Making
it more subtle
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- Using
an existing shadow
- Enhancing
the shadow
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From my article in the
November/December 2006 Photozine
A
Cloning Tip (192KB PDF) includes: |
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- Making
distracting things disappear
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- Continuing
the lines in the background
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Written
at the request of Landis Major on the Photozo:
Adobe Camera Raw (3MB PDF) includes: |
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- Using the other third of the twelve bits your camera is capturing
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- Recovering highlight areas you thought were too overexposed
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| Combining Exposures (5
MB PDF) includes: |
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- A way to capture extremes of
lighting in your photo
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- Demonstrated in Camera Raw,
but can be two exposures.
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| Snowflake Generator (3-page PDF) includes: |
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- An Action and a psd combine to enable you to make snowflakes
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- An infinite number of six-sided snowflake crystals
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Photographing & Photoshopping Transparent & Reflective Objects
Presented to the North Bay Adobe User Group February 22, 2010 (438 KB PDF) includes: |
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- Eliminating distracting reflections
- Creating reflections which describe
- Lighting the object appropriately
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- Making the image look plausible
- Masking
to reveal a background
- Distortions through clear fluid
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Written
at the request of Robin Brickey on the Photozo:
ImageReady Rollovers (1.8
MB
PDF) for versions prior to CS3 - includes: |
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- Creating rollover links for your
web site
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- ImageReady: The "other side" of Photoshop
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From my article in the January/February 2009 Photozine
Creating Animations in Photoshop (1.24 MB PDF) includes: |
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- Create animations for your web site
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- Attract your viewer's eye with motion
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| Repetitive Task Escapes (118KB PDF) includes: |
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- Let your computer do the boring stuff
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- Assign complex tasks to a single key
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| Create your own Calendar Printable Perpetual Calendar kit includes: |
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- Templates for each month of every
year for the rest of your life!
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With an index of which calendar to use in which year.
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| Making Mini License Plates for the Kids includes: |
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- Finding and using the official font
- Even for unusual names!
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- Creating the emboss
- Laminating the project with holes
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Making Larger Signs Than Your Printer Thinks It Can
(PDF) includes: |
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- Using Photoshop to create large images
- Changing Canvas Size
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- Printing your sign in sections
- Putting your sign together.
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| Making a replacement jigsaw puzzle piece (1 MB PDF) includes: |
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- Using your computer and a printer/scanner
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- You can do this with Photoshop
or with GIMP
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| Making Custom Pop-Up Cards (6 MB
PDF) includes: |
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- Using Photoshop or GIMP
to
add graphics and photos
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- Engineering your pop-up
- Adding a whole new dimension to cards!
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| Get
the Most out of Your Digital Camera (2
MB
PDF) includes: |
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- How
to choose a digital camera
- What's
a megapixel?
- Exposure
options... you decide!
- Deep
or shallow depth of field
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- Shutterspeed
choice
- Picture
taking tips
- Composition
tips
- Easy
professional portrait lighting
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Izzy Learned to be a Photographer - and you can, too
Look over the shoulder of an 11-year old as she learns to operate a DSLR
(8MB
PDF) includes: |
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- The basics of photographic exposure
- Balancing f-stop and shutter speed
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- When it's OK to disagree with the camera
- Photography is an art and you're the artist
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| Balancing the Exposure Triangle (jpeg) includes: |
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- A single page chart of the three exposure basics
- What these 3 exposure variables do
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Photographing Art
for submission to publications and the web (2.51MB
PDF) includes: |
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- Avoiding reflections in flat art
- Preventing motion blur
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- Lighting for 2-D and 3-D art
- Showing your art as it really is
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| Portrait Lighting - a VERY short explanation (174KB PDF) includes: |
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- Showing texture and the depth
of your subject's features
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| A quick note about Quick Release Plates (110KB PDF) includes: |
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- Simplifying your workflow
- Speeding up your process
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- Allowing you to concentrate
on creativity
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| My Eye in the Sky - a higher perspective (772KB PDF) includes: |
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- For places drones aren't permitted
- Ways of triggering your camera remotely
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- Using an iPod as a remote viewfinder
- Creating an ad hoc network
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PocketWizard™ asked to use this tutorial for their customers:
Using a Ray Flash with a PocketWizard™ MiniTT1 (379KB PDF) includes: |
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- Two terrific lighting accessories which
seem to be physically incompatible
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- A workaround using two other
commercially available accessories.
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| Enable Your Jib To Do More (for filmmaking - 24 minute video) includes: |
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- Over 42,000 people have watched this.
- Setting up your jib boom efficiently
- Remote steering of the fluid head
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- DIY wired follow focus
- Building a dolly and track
- LOTS of performance tips
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| Building a Dolly & Track (for filmmaking 2 MB PDF) includes: |
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- Building the wheel "trucks"
- Aligning the trucks
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- Securing the stand to the dolly
- Making a variable-length track
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A video tutorial
Build Your Own Teleprompter (Six minute video) includes: |
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- Free software to download
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- Simple, inexpensive construction
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(Not a tutorial, just a technical thought)
An iGlobe for home or school (115 KB PDF) includes: |
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- This is just a product that's been
bouncing around in my mind.
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- It would be a fun learning tool for schools,
home, or anywhere.
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| Making a huge US map puzzle with your Cricut (4 pg. PDF) includes: |
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- .png files for cutting either 12"x12" card stock or letter-size
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- Files for four different colors so neighboring states are different colors
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| Relative sizes of the earth, moon, etc. (1 pg. PDF) includes: |
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- Using everyday objects to imagine
the scale of satellite orbits
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- Getting a feel for the relative distances of the International Space Station, etc
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| Relative sizes of the planets of the solar system (5 pg. PDF) includes: |
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- Continues from the previous article (above), using the same scale.
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- Includes a transparent scale overlay to put on a map of your own area.
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Notice these articles and tutorials are marked with Photoshop, Photography, Video Production, Cricut, and/or Planet Earth icons indicating their topics.
