10 Things Photoshop Beginners Want to Know How to Do Terry White is an Adobe Photoshop expert and in this video he answers the 10 things that Photoshop (particularly for Photoshop CC) beginners want to know how to do including: How to touch up a photo; how to make people look betterLayers and adjustment layers; what are they and how to use themWorking with layer masksHow to crop a photoAdjusting the exposure and using the Adobe Camera Raw filterRemoving something from an imageMove or copy objects in a photoHow to put a person from one photo onto a new background (or putting two photos together)How to add textSaving photos and saving formats that are shareable It’s a bit of a long one but some really good tips in here that I’m sure you’ll find helpful if you’re new to Photoshop. He also mentioned grabbing a Wacom tablet to use for your editing instead of a mouse. I use one in Lightroom as well and it is much better and more precise and doesn’t leave you with a cramped hand after working on images for hours.
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An Introduction to Photoshop Compositing for Beginners - Digital Photography School by Sarah Hipwell What is compositing? Simply, it means to combine two or more images to make a single picture. As a photographer, I’m constantly coming up with different concepts that I feel might make a good photo. To produce a composite image in Photoshop, you need to isolate the subjects from the background of your various source photos. But for this tutorial, I’m going to use the pen tool to create a path which I then save this as an alpha channel selection. I have highlighted three key features: Selection. Here’s the method: The Pen Tool – With the Pen Tool selected in the toolbar, choose a starting point on the photo, click and drag around the area to be selected. I took the photo above for a concept shot titled ‘Recycled toilet paper’. I made my selection using the pen tool to isolate the toilet rolls and clothesline. Holding down the Alt/Ctrl key enables you to move anchor points and direction lines and again make any edits to your lines and curves.
Adobe Camera Raw: the secret to using it for just about everything In our latest Raw Tuesday post we unlock the secrets of Adobe Camera Raw and show you how you can use Photoshop’s raw editor for just about all of your photo editing needs. At first glance the Camera Raw editor may seem fairly basic, a place perhaps to make a few quick tweaks before opening your files into Photoshop. But delve a little deeper and you’ll find that Adobe’s powerful raw plug-in has much to offer. Many features can be found in the panels to the right of the interface, but there are also plenty more that may not be so obvious. In this tutorial we’ll take a tour of the Camera Raw interface and uncover a host of tips and tricks used by the pros, from setting camera profiles and using the Tone Curve to tweaking preferences, making selective adjustments and cropping for print. If you’re a Lightroom user, you’ll find these tips equally useful, as the tools in Lightroom’s Develop module are virtually identical. How to use Adobe Camera Raw for just about everything: steps 1-6
Introduction to the Photoshop Toolbar (Part 1) In this article (Part 1 of 3) I will give you a quick introduction to the Photoshop CS5 toolbar. The toolbar is a floating panel normally placed at the left of the screen. View Other Articles in This Series Resources In case your workspace looks different choose Window > Workspace > Essentials. Similar tools on the toolbar panel are grouped but only one icon is shown. All tools groups have shortcuts assigned to them. Now let’s see what each tool does. Move Tool It is used for moving pixels on the screen. Rectangular Marquee, Elliptical Marquee, Single Row Marquee Tool and Single Column Marquee Tool Shortcut – M. The Rectangular Marquee Tool is used for making rectangular selections and the Elliptical Marquee tool is used for making elliptical selections. These little shortcuts for adding, subtracting and intersecting with existing selections apply to almost all selection tools so I won’t be repeating them anymore. Lasso Tool, Polygonal Lasso Tool and Magnetic Lasso Tool Shortcut-W. Shortcut – I.
10 Must-Have Photoshop Plugins That Are Free If you’re looking for new and creative ways to edit or enhance your images, plugins can make your Photoshop workflow go so much smoother. Whether you want to add some noise or create some stunning color effects, we’ve got a fantastic list for you – and all completely free! 1. virtualPhotographer by optikVerve Labs For those who haven’t grasped all the nooks and crannies of Photoshop yet, or simply don’t want to spend hours tweaking an image, virtualPhotographer is a simple plugin that has over 200 presets for you to apply to your images. There is also a very nifty split-screen preview function that allows you to see the before-and-after of your edit. 2. This incredible plugin works with Photoshop to process and save PNG files much faster, and also saves them in a smaller size. 3. If you haven’t mastered the idea behind curves yet, this plugin has eight common presets to select from, allowing you to choose which one compliments your photo the best. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 .
BBC Space – Explore the planets, black holes, stars and more Downloads & Literature - RICOH Imaging The Pentax RAW codec for Windows Vista and Windows 7 (32 bit) runs behind the scenes, allowing Windows' own image viewers such as Photo Gallery to recognize and display Pentax RAW files (.PEF) from Pentax digital SLR cameras. Please note, this CODEC software will not operate under the 64 bit environments of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Click the download link below, and save the download file to your computer's hard drive. For example, saving the download file to your desktop will allow you find it easily once the download is complete. Date: November, 2009 Copyright: Hoya Corporation Reproduction: All rights reserved All product and company names shown here are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies WINDOWS VISTA/7 32 BIT RAW CODEC (8.59 MB) Download PENTAX DIGITAL CAMERA UTILITY UPDATE v4.40 Downloads are available for Windows (7, Vista, XP SP3) and MacOS-X (10.4.11, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7). Version 4.41 * Contents of [Version 4.11 to Version 4.35] will be also updated
Astro Bob | Celestial happenings you can see from your own backyard Workflow Editor's Note: One of the most frequent requests by both beginners, and even experienced digital darkroom workers, is for detailed step-by-step instructions on how to perform various basic tasks in Photoshop. Many also want to have a complete workflow, from digital camera or scan right through to print. This tutorial provides both. It is neither gospel nor the only way to accomplish the various tasks. Some approaches will be found to be overkill for many users, while experienced users may prefer alternate techniques. Finally, if you are a newcomer to Photoshop you might prefer to begin with my Photoshop primer — Instant Photoshop — before diving into this tutorial. Michael These instructions apply to Photoshop 6 and Photoshop 7. Article Index Article and Illustrations by: Fred Scholtz © 2002 Fred Scholtz 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6. 1.7. 1.8. This histogram clearly shows work to be done. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 3.8. 3.9. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 5. 5.1.
The Beginning of the Universe and the Limit of Knowledge “Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.” -Alan Guth So you finally understand it. Image credit: original source unknown. The farther back we go, the closer together everything was, the higher in temperature (and shorter in wavelength) all the radiation was, and — of course — the younger the Universe was. Image credit: Ned Wright (possibly Will Kinney, too), via At some point, it was hot enough that neutral atoms couldn’t even form; as soon as an electron would find an atomic nucleus, a high-enough-energy photon would come along and ionize the atom’s constituents. Image credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. But not indefinitely; we can only go back a finite amount of time in the past, and that’s because what we consider “our Universe” didn’t begin from a singularity 13.8 billion years ago, but began when the previous stage — cosmic inflation — came to an end.
Partha's Place Time Machines and Event Horizons » Undivided Looking I've written a pop-article about Time Machines and Event Horizons, which has appeared on the Scientific American blog Critical Opalescence. George Musser, my host, is an editor at Scientific American, and kindly gave me this opportunity to talk about some of my ideas in my article, The Generalized Second Law implies a Quantum Singularity Theorem. If you have any questions about the physics in the article, please feel free to leave comments on this post here. (Questions left on the Scientific American website will be answered in the comments to this post, if anywhere.) I am a postdoctoral researcher studying quantum gravity and black hole thermodynamics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.