June 18 Workshop: Photoshop Foundations

You’ve got digital photos. You’ve heard how people can “Photoshop” their photos to make them look better. You’d like to do that too, but you have no idea where to start. This workshop is for you! Whether you are an amateur photographer looking to pump up that perfect shot, or just an average Joe trying to clean up the snapshots of your family vacation, you can use some basic Photoshop knowledge.

Advanced Photoshop Issue 71

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Be sure to watch for my tutorial on page 56 that shows a creative way of using CS5's new Puppet Warp tool to create something that should be familiar to regular readers of this site:

And don't miss my Helpdesk contribution on page 70 where I deal with these questions:

- How to add a depth of field type of background fade to landscape images.

- Simulate an infrared effect and then fade it out across an image.

- Create a Beyond Borders type of ghosted portrait image.

Photoshop Creative Issue 62

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Be sure to pick up a copy of Photoshop Creative issue 62. and check out my Smudge Painting Masterclass on page 32. It shows how to use the smudge tool to easily turn a photograph into a painting. No painting experience required! The same technique was used on the cover artwork as well.

Advanced Photoshop Issue 70

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Be sure to pick up a copy of Advanced Photoshop issue 70. My helpdesk contribution starts on page 70. But for a real treat, check out the cd where you can find my video tutorial on creating real 3D text in CS5's new Repousse feature.

Last night I attended a demo of CS5 in Dc with Adobe's Digital Image Evangelist, Julieanne Kost. What's a Digital Image Evangelist? It's a Julianne Kost. At least that's the best answer I could come up with. (Which still beats about 90% of the answers we got from LOST!)

Tutorial: The Exploding Puzzle Globe Part I

Welcome to the great Exploding Puzzle Globe 3 part tutorial series. This is where we’ll take an ordinary planet, apply a jigsaw, add an energy explosion and get a cool effect:

You’ll see that this cool effect can be produced fairly easily with the creative application of several commonly over-looked features in Photoshop. What appears to be a time consuming, intensive drawing task can be greatly streamlined. And hey, you can use the saved hours to come up with silly pun filled adjectives to describe it: “Earth Shattering” or “Ground Breaking” or “World Rocking” just to name a few.

Tutorial: The Exploding Puzzle Globe Part II

Welcome to the great Exploding Puzzle Globe 3 part tutorial series. This is where we’ll take an ordinary planet, apply a jigsaw, add an energy explosion and get a cool effect:

This is the second part. Which follows the first part but comes before the third part. In fact it sits right between those two. It is in fact the very second part. Clear? I hope so. Let's get moving, we've got  puzzle globes to explode!

Tutorial: The Exploding Puzzle Globe Part III

Welcome to the great Exploding Puzzle Globe 3 part tutorial series. This is where we’ll take an ordinary planet, apply a jigsaw, add an energy explosion and get a cool effect:

Hey Guys! Welcome back. Having fun with your Planet Puzzles? Feel like going all Vogon-like and blowing the thing up? Then grab your coffee and follow me.