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Free Stock Photos | Stockvault.net - Free Photos - Free Images FotoFinnaren.se - Hem Ufunk.net - Gadgets japonais et Arts insolites 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.

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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.

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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.

Five Photoshop Tools to Take Your Images from Good to Great Seascape image – Before and After image editing We hear it all the time, “That photo has been Photoshopped”. Sometimes it sounds like the photo has caught a disease or that Photoshop is some undesirable effect that has been added to the image. Photoshop is the KEY to making your good images look spectacular. Yes, I said “good” images. NOTE: the examples in this article simply show you how to make the adjustments on a separate layer. 1. This tool will be used to get more detail in the shadow areas of your image. Open your image in Photoshop and go to: IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > SHADOW AND HIGHLIGHTS. Finding the Shadow and Highlights tool The tool will pop up and you will see this (as shown below), if you don’t see all these sliders, click “more options” to expand the box. Making adjustments to the Shadows in the image The best way to work with the tool is to slide the Amount slider under the Shadows box to about one third across (33%). 2. 3. You will want make small adjustments here too. 4. 5.

BBC Space – Explore the planets, black holes, stars and more Astro Bob | Celestial happenings you can see from your own backyard 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. The Big Bang tells us that the Universe was hotter, denser, and expanding at a faster rate in the past. 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. Image credit: Ned Wright. Inflation is a period of time where the Universe was expanding exponentially. Image credit: Cosmic Inflation by Don Dixon.

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. Before that, I read Great Books at St.

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