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• TIP: A very useful colour adjustment tip
  by Alan Rodmell

  I am currently working through my third CS3 tutorial and I picking up a ton of useful tips for my photographic workflow. I just HAD to s…

  I am currently working through my third CS3 tutorial and I picking up a ton of useful tips for my photographic workflow. I just HAD to share this one with you. Regarding Hue/Saturation. When you overdo this on an adjustment layer in your photos your detail is lost and it looks really blocky. Sometimes you just can’t get the saturation adjustments you need. Here’s how its done – Thank you to Chris Orwig for this one. 1) Open you image and convert it to LAB colour using: Image – Mode – Lab Colour 2) Create a curves adjustment layer 3) In the Curves dialog box ALT-click the grid to get a more detailed display 4) Go to the a – channel 5) Pull the black slider on the bottom of the grid into the right just one grid line (in this example although you can play!) 6) Pull the white slider opposite into the left by the same one grid line 7) Switch to the b channel and repeat. 8) Check out your image. This method actually increases saturation in tones you couldn’t even see that you had. Its excellent for autumn leaves or rivers and waterfalls. 9) When your done exit Curves dialog and convert your image back to RGB (select to Flatten in the pop up prompt) 10) Your all done. This is by far the best tip I’ve discovered so far. I tried it out of interest on a shot from this afternoon and it brought out lovely greens in Autumn leaves and a lovely hazy blue on water and waterfalls. Try it – I think you will like it! :D

• A Tip for You - Smart Sharpening in Photoshop
  by Alan Rodmell

  I have just learned a really useful little tip for Sharpening images in Photoshop which I thought I should share with you all. Until n…

  I have just learned a really useful little tip for Sharpening images in Photoshop which I thought I should share with you all. Until now when I sharpened an image in CS3 with Smart Sharpen I used to sharpen and then leave it at that. As you may well know over sharpening can produce exaggerated noise and produce “halo” effects on your edges which look plain nasty. Here’s a few useful tips to help you improve the quality of your sharpening. – Always sharpen to a NEW LAYER (Merge all to new layer using SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+E on PC’s) – I always convert this layer to a smart object to allow me to modify any applied filter effects. – Always change the blend mode on this layer to LUMINOSITY. This massively reduces the halo effects on your sharpened image. (Try over-sharpening an image and then changing the blend mode to luminosity just to see this in action) – Follow these guidelines for smart sharpening for the best results For STANDARD SHARPENING – Amount 100, Radius <=2 / For SOFT IMAGES – Amount 140, Radius <=1 / For PORTRAITS – Amount <=5 Try these guidelines out and see what you think.

• Photoshop CS3 (and CS2) Brushes
  by bchrisdesigns

  I just wanted to share some really cool brush resources for those of you interested in adding some plugins to your Photoshop software. I…

  I just wanted to share some really cool brush resources for those of you interested in adding some plugins to your Photoshop software. I have used some of them and they rock! All are freeware and some cite that you must give a link back to them in order to use them. The following is a comprehensive list of ALL of the websites where I have downloaded brushes from. Any of my pieces that feature a brush from one of these sets will be linked back to this journal for proper crediting. Brush gurus: 50ml Brushes Seishido Pixel Chick Damned in Black Dubtastic Juuichi Aquired-taste Photoshopsupport.com’s Brush Page I hope you all find these as useful as I have! If you need help installing these, check out my Photoshop Tip #1: Where to get brushes? journal entry. These are my pieces which use any of the above dingbats/fonts (will add as I create more):

• Photoshop
  by Debbie Black

  ok, just got my copy of CS2 (yes i know CS3 is in existance now but I’m still excited!). Basically, I was always a believer in leaving a …

  ok, just got my copy of CS2 (yes i know CS3 is in existance now but I’m still excited!). Basically, I was always a believer in leaving a photo “as-is” as being the best option but, what can i say – sometimes they need a little bit “extra”. That leads me to my next thought… I have no idea what I’m doing with this program! It looks really impressive and, I can see from some of the work on here it works as well as it looks… but where shall I start?! Wish me luck peoples, any of your words of wisdom will be greatly appreciated! / Happy 2008! / Debz x

• thanks petshop
  by susan davies

  thanks to petshop CS2 and the great meach, steve and che for featuring my photo shes such a scruff but adorable, it made camping in al…

  thanks to petshop CS2 and the great meach, steve and che for featuring my photo shes such a scruff but adorable, it made camping in all that rain worthwhile.

• Photoshop Tip #1: Where to get brushes?
  by bchrisdesigns

  Okay, so you’ve seen some amazing work online and wondered where the artist got all those astounding background effects or how they did t…

  Okay, so you’ve seen some amazing work online and wondered where the artist got all those astounding background effects or how they did that cool layered effect. Well, as surprising as it may sound, some of those effects were done using a very common Photoshop preset: Brushes. You may be asking yourself, don’t I already have brushes installed with my Photoshop CS3 (or CS2) software? Well, yes, you do. But those are the basics. There are a ton of awesome people out there in internet land who are making additional brushes (and other plugins) for you to use with your software. These plugins are very easy to download and install. I will try to give you a short rundown of what to expect when installing these brushes. For more information as to how to use them or for more detailed installation information or installation for a MAC OS, please consult the very wonderful Photoshopsupport.com, a very neat index of everything Photoshop! (Please note: The following instructions are very, very simplistic because I wanted even the novice Photoshop user to be able to use these tools. I know there are a bunch of different ways to do these things (even some that are easier), but I wanted to put it in basic terms without all the fancy language and extra steps because I remember how it was when I first started teaching myself to use the Adobe programs. Plus, this is not intended to be a full fledged tutorial.) The first step is to download some really cool brushes from an online provider. Some brush sets you will have to pay for, others are free with some restrictions, and others are completely free. Make sure you read the website’s policy before you use them. You can view my Photoshop CS3 (and CS2) Brushes journal entry to visit the websites where I have downloaded most of my brushes from. Most of them have free areas or are completely free and all you have to do is link back to them. Once you have chosen the brush set to download, simply download it to your computer. Because the files are normally saved in a Zip file, I start off by downloading the file to my Desktop first and then moving them over after (this is to avoid confusion). However, if you feel comfortable unzipping them right into the proper file, then by all means go-ahead-with-your-bad-self! After you have downloaded the Zip file to your Desktop, you will need a program (such as WinRAR, which is what I use) to unzip the file. At this point, you may be asking where you unzip the file to? Well, inside the Zip file may be a read me (.txt) file and other junk (which may be of interest to you) and there should also be a brush (.abr) file, which is the one you want to unzip. You can unzip the brush file onto your Desktop and then move it over manually, or you can unzip it to the Photoshop directory itself. Regardless of which method yo use, your ultimate goal is to get that .abr brush file into a specific folder in your Photoshop program’s file. For brushes, the file you will want to place your .abr brush files into is the “Brush” file within the “Presets” file. So, how do you get there? Open your My Computer and find the drive which has the folder “Program FIles”. Now, open “Program Files” and then find the folder labeled “Adobe”. Next, open the “Adobe” folder and you will see ALL of the Adobe programs, which are installed on your system. Locate the “Adobe Photoshop CS3” (or CS2) folder and open it. Find the “Presets” folder and open it. Finally, you will see a folder called “Brushes”. Open it. You can now see ALL of the brushes that are installed to use with your Photoshop program. This “Brushes” folder is where you want to place all of your downloaded .abr brush files. So, the quick breakdown to find the “Brushes” folder is: Program Files >>> Adobe >>> Adobe Photoshop CS3 (or CS2) >>> Presets >>> Brushes Once you have unzipped the files or drag-and-dropped them into this file folder, you can close the folders. You will also need to re-start your Photoshop program in order for the brushes to be finalized and installed and ready for use (sometimes, you have to re-start your computer as well). After you have re-booted your software, open a blank file and click on the “Brush Tool” or simply press its keyboard shortcut ( B ) to activate it. Now, right click anywhere on the page and your brush palette should appear (this is where you control the brush size/hardness, etc.) and in the upper right hand corner you should see a little black triangle with a circle around it. Click on that little triangle/circle icon and…. whaaaaa-la! Your newly installed brushes are there just waiting for you to experiment with them! All you have to do is click on a preset and it will ask you if you would like to load those brushes. Click “Ok” and they will appear in your brush palette waiting to be used and abused! So, go have fun with your new brushes and get creative! The last step, of course, is to add your comments below! Add your brush tips (pun intended) below so that we can all learn from each other! Cheers!

• From Good to Great (hopefully) using Photoshop CS2 Basics
  by Nikki Trexel

  By Nikki Trexel I was in North Carolina’s Outer Banks for ten days, a summer paradise …

  By Nikki Trexel I was in North Carolina’s Outer Banks for ten days, a summer paradise for one Midwestern girl who’s never been to the ocean. Many photos were captured, such as A Sandy Stairway to Heaven, and the ocean was lapping at our ankles and The Shadows Ascend. But this, one of the first taken at the beach, immediately stuck out to me as having potential: And so you can compare them side by side, here’s the final product. / / The first thing I did when I opened the photo was crop a little extra space off the bottom and left-hand side. This gives the photo a more balanced composition. The sand shouldn’t be the first thing the eye lands on. I also rotated it one or two degrees counter-clockwise to even out the horizon line (Image>Rotate Canvas>Arbitrary). These are very important steps and I recommend doing them first. (And if I hadn’t been trying to keep up polite conversation with the person showing me around, I might have even gotten it right when I took the photo.) Then I had a play in Curves (Ctrl+M or Image>Adjustments>Curves). This is a very powerful tool which, used appropriately and subtly, can create more “pop” and intensity in a bland photo. It can take a while to get the hang of, but for me, the best results are often obtained by creating two or three “pins” and dragging the line so it creates a kind of subtle S-curve like this: / / Here’s roughly how Curves works: the line represents darker tones towards the bottom and left, and lighter ones towards the top and right. So, for example, if you drag the top part of the line down, it’ll make the highlights darker; and if you drag it upwards, your bright spots will be ever brighter. Be very careful, though, not to blow out any highlights or over-darken the dark spaces. It’s easy to get carried away with the Curves tool and make your photo look pretty ridiculous. Next, I used the Replace Color tool (Image>Adjustments>Replace Color) to make my chairs a little brighter without oversaturating the blue sky. Here, you just use the dropper to select which color you’d like to alter, and make sure the “Fuzziness” slider on the Replace Color window is increased as much as possible without starting to apply to stuff you don’t want it to. Here it’s simple because there is only one pink and one green area in my photo. All I did was “grab” each color with the dropper, and slightly increase the saturation. (It might be a bug in my version of Photoshop, but you might have to close out the window, then open it again to start working on a new color.) Again, this is something you have to get the hang of, but after a while it becomes second nature. I also cloned out one or two swimmers in the distant water. Not much more than a dot or two of cloning was necessary – they were only large enough to be spots in my lovely blue water. The last, and most important thing, I did with this image was – I guess it’s pretty obvious – give it a nice sky. I kind of liked the simplicity of the plain blue sky in the original, but I wanted the image to be special. I was lucky enough to have a similar photo of the clouds, taken on the same beach but on another day. I chose it because the size, depth and lighting were mostly correct already. I had to slightly alter the color to make it match the “feel” of the original photo. Here is my new sky in its primitive form. My original sky is also a very simple one to replace. The only thing sticking into the sky area is my duo of beach chairs. (If it had been a more complicated horizon, I would have probably opted for a smooth blue sky.) My chosen method for this simple replacement was simply to Clone the new sky overtop of the other old one. (There are more complex and useful ways utilizing Layers but there is really no need for that now. Plus, I don’t know how to use those ways.) This method won’t work every time, so you’ll need to size up your options to see how you’re going to create your masterpiece. If the sky to be replaced is very simple, with not a lot of complications like trees or people or other things in front of it, then you are golden. Lastly, I did a little bit of final tweaking to the entire image to make everything feel right. That included a bit of dodging and burning in my clouds, a slight saturation increase overall, and a couple of tiny clone jobs to get rid of a few blades of grass apparently growing out of the ocean (courtesy of the foreground of my new sky). You’ll have to work with this on your own photo and see what looks best. Every photo is different, and every path from good to great is totally unique. Here is my final product again, which took me a little less than a half-hour from start to finish. / Rhapsody in Blue Thanks so much for reading!

• Life without Photoshop
  by RoughDiamond

  I was thinking yesterday as worked my job… quite a few photos didn’t work but I thought … meh … I’ve got PS … How would I feel…

  I was thinking yesterday as worked my job… quite a few photos didn’t work but I thought … meh … I’ve got PS … How would I feel and how would it be if I and you and all of us didn’t have the luxury of PS and other manipulating programs. If we had to ‘live’ with the shot as it was with no chance of ever getting another go. I did that several times yesterday. Shots too dark.. too overexposed, too fast, too slow … it’s ok I thought ..l have PS … I wonder … am I a real photographer or a photomanipulator?

• CS3 versus CS2
  by AlexMac

  Hi Guys an Gals, Just wondering if anyone can help me, ...I am very new to the world of photoshop – usually use psp8 & 9 now, I am a stud…

  Hi Guys an Gals, Just wondering if anyone can help me, ...I am very new to the world of photoshop – usually use psp8 & 9 now, I am a student and am having to use CS3, can anyone tell me if there is any huge differences in CS3 and CS2? I have a chance to purchace this programme with students pricing and lets just say, I save well over $600, so is it worth it getting CS3? i know the savings alone make me pretty happy, Thankyou in advance for your help…Alex :0)

• Photoshop & Internet, Here I Come!
  by Ann Rodriquez

  Great news! I will be stepping out of the stone age in October when my husband and I get internet at home! No longer will I need to mak…

  Great news! I will be stepping out of the stone age in October when my husband and I get internet at home! No longer will I need to make time during my lunch breaks or after work to do my ‘bubbling.’ : ) I’m excited to be able to get more involved, or at least, be able to keep up! The other good news is that I’ll be getting Photoshop CS2 tonight! I’ve been praying that God would provide me with a recent version of Photoshop for an affordable price. I know that photography is something that He’s placed in my heart, and He’s given me a passion for it. I’ve been praying and believing for Him to provide a way for me to work on pictures at home, and to expand my photography business. In the past week, I have made huge steps forward, including designing and ordering business cards, purchasing a domain, and acquiring several jobs. It seems God is confirming to me that He wants to bless me and cause me to move forward in this passion that He’s placed in my heart. All that said, yesterday morning the name of one of my friends that I talk to now and then came to mind, and I felt I should e-mail her and ask if she knew of anyone wanting to sell a recent version of Photoshop at a reasonable price. It turns out that just two days before, she had been frustrated that she and her husband had two PS licenses (she says it’s a long story, lol), and was trying, to no avail, to figure out how they could get rid of one and upgrade with the other. Lo and behold…along I came! God is so good. He is truly a God that loves to give good gifts to His children, as the Bible says. It makes me wonder how many answers to my prayers I miss because I’m just not paying attention! Oh…and did I mention the other awesome thing? They’re only asking $100 for it! Ahh, I’ll be able to edit at home soon! Yipee! : ) ...doing the happy dance… : )

• featured!
  by Courtney Goddard

  I always miss seeing it when my work is featured! However, i came into work this morning (after a great weekend of the great outdoors and…

  I always miss seeing it when my work is featured! However, i came into work this morning (after a great weekend of the great outdoors and dirtbiking! :)) to see that two of my works have been featured! “Chili” was featured in the Petshop CS2 group and “Untitled” (the sunset/bird/orange pic) was featured in the new Landscap/Seascape group! / Thanks guys!! :)

• Thanks to Petshop CS2!!
  by Mel Spittall

  A big thanks to Petshop CS2 for featuring Baby girl #2….Many, many thanks! very, very stoaked! :-) ...

  A big thanks to Petshop CS2 for featuring Baby girl #2….Many, many thanks! very, very stoaked! :-)

• Need some info about PhotoShop CS2 vs CS3
  by Sandra Chung

  Is it worth the price to upgrade from my old CS2 to CS3? Is there anything new and useful about it, or is it just user interface just dre…

  Is it worth the price to upgrade from my old CS2 to CS3? Is there anything new and useful about it, or is it just user interface just dressed up a bit more? Or are there real advantages to hauling my old version up to the newer. I am a firm believer of “If’n it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”.

• Featured in Petshop cs2
  by BarbaraWilliams

  I did not realize that My photo Mia had been featured in this group, until just now. thank you so much for selecting her photo. My apolog…

  I did not realize that My photo Mia had been featured in this group, until just now. thank you so much for selecting her photo. My apologies for my late response. I am very honored to have been selected!!!!!

• Got some reading to do
  by Sandra Chung

  My book arrived. Photoshop CS2 and Digital Photography for dummies. I do have the manual for camera, and have tried to make use of the Ph…

  My book arrived. Photoshop CS2 and Digital Photography for dummies. I do have the manual for camera, and have tried to make use of the Photoshop tools and instructions, but sometimes, the tech language gets a bit … useless. Considering my computer and tech background, this might seem like a funny statement, but hey, even technogeeks get tired of it. So, dusting off my reading glasses, and settling down for some good reading.

• Featured in Petshop CS2!
  by Randi Bailey

  Thanks so much to the moderators of Petshop CS2 for featuring my work “The tiger within!” I am new to this gallery site and I really app…

  Thanks so much to the moderators of Petshop CS2 for featuring my work “The tiger within!” I am new to this gallery site and I really appreciate the encouragement. Especially tonight when here in Florida we are on edge about an approaching hurricane. Thanks again so much. The featured cat was a neighbor’s who was unbelievably friendly but who made my cat nervous. I would give him the option of visiting but he would take one look at my cat’s face and back out!