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Please enjoy these complimentary Photoshop tutorials. Each tutorial is excerpted from Mark's Photographer's Photoshop CS3 Companion eBook, which features over 750 pages and 69 inspiring topics designed exclusively for photographers. The Photoshop CS3 Companion is completely printable and compatible with both Macs and PCs. In addition to the eBook, you receive 95 sample images and three extremely useful actions. When you click the link above, you'll see a comprehensive listing of the eBook contents. For those who don't wish to purchase the entire eBook at $39.95, individual chapters are available for $6.95 each.
To view the tutorials below, you must have Adobe Reader version 5 or later. PDF download sizes vary from 1 MB to 3 MBs, so a high-speed connection is recommended, but not essential. Feel free to peruse each tutorial, and if you'd like to print any of them, pay a visit to The Radiant Vista Goodies Store and download your copy today.
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Digital Grafting : When the Patch tool and Clone Stamp don’t rise to the task, it’s time to bring in the heavyweight of retouching techniques—Digital Grafting (sometimes referred to as the "Command-J" method). [ more... ] |
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Correcting Color Casts When a Gray Card or Something Neutral is Not Present : This method uses a pair of unique layers to help locate the most neutral point in the scene—a point too small for your eyes to perceive as neutral. Once this point is located, the process of neutralizing the scene is remarkably simple. [ more... ] |
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Refine Edge Nirvana : Here's an incredibly powerful method for using the Refine Edge dialogue that you may never have encountered. [ more... ] |
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Combining Two Exposures to Extend the Latitude of an Image : When a scene has too much tonal latitude to be captured by one exposure, it's possible to capture two separate exposures and use Photoshop to combine the best tonal values from each. [ more... ] |
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Using Auto-Align to Blend Two Photos : New to CS3, Auto-Align is a tremendously useful feature for blending together the best parts of two (or more) handheld photographs. This tool is particularly useful in medium- to large-group portrait settings where, for instance, in one frame a person blinks, and in the very next frame another person turns their head. [ more... ] |
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Fine Art Color to Black-and-White Conversions : To achieve true dominion over the color to black-and-white universe, you must use more than one Black & White adjustment layer. To do so means employing a wonderful workaround. Intrigued? [ more... ] |
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Giving a Photo the Grunge Treatment : The grunge treatment has the power to give a scene a spectrum of moods—from edgy to magical to ethereal to disturbing. [ more... ] |
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Sharpening Files for Output : There are as many ways to sharpen an image as there are stars in the heavens. In this lesson, I show you one—Unsharp Mask sharpening. [ more... ] |
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