Russell Brown demonstrates an essential Photoshop technique how to combine two photographs using a gradient mask.
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You can learn Photoshop CS5’s new features from top pros in free videos.
Here’s a list of links to many of the top Photoshop CS5 videos.
New Features – Richard Harrington
Common Sense Enhancements – Deke McClelland
New Blend Modes – Divide & Subtract – Calvin Hollywood
Improved Selection & Masking – 4 Top Pros
Masking Basics & Masking Magic – Russell Brown
Mask Panel & Refine Edge – Lee Varis
HDR – 4 Top Pros
Photoshop CS5 HDR Special Effects – Jan Kabili
Improved Brush Engine – Russell Brown
Painting – Julianne Kost
Brush Tips – Colin Smith
Repousse 3D – Colin Smith / Russell Brown
Puppet Warp – Colin Smith / Deke McClelland
Puppet Warp – Russell Brown
PatchMatch – Dan Goldman
Spot Healing and Fill Tool – Dan Goldman
Content Aware Scaling – Michael Ninness
Content Aware Fill – Russell Brown
Content-Aware Fill – Bryan O’Neil Hughts
Selective Content Aware Scale and Content Aware Fill – Terry White
?Content Aware Fill / Scale / Heal? – Julianne Kost
Photoshop CS5 Bridge and Mini Bridge – Julianne Kost
New Camera Raw Feature – Julianne Kost
Photoretouching in Camera Raw – Russell Brown
Editing Smart Objects With Adobe Camera Raw – Russell Brown
Using Photoshop Stacks To Remove People – Deke McClelland
Making A Movie In Photoshop – Julianne Kost
Advantages of the DNG File Format – Julianne Kost
Helpful Hints For Creating Action in Photoshop – Julianne Kost
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Learn what’s unique about black & white and how to best adjust and print it.
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Learn new ways of seeing and enhancing color.
Use 3 elements of color (Luminosity, Hue, Saturation) to adjust three types of color (Ideal, Ambient, Synthetic) and craft a unique palette that’s right for your authentic vision.
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Learn more in my DVD Photoshop Color Strategies.
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Learn which color tools are essential, exotic, or redundant.
Then master the first two.
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Learn more in my DVD Photoshop Color Tools.
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Uncover the hidden potential in all of your images with the art of selective adjustment.
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Learn more in my DVD Drawing With Light.
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Go beyond the limits of color management? Adopt a proofing workflow.
Here’s a short excerpt from my DVD.
Read more on Color Management here.
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You can view over 30 minutes of online training free on my website.
Watch these excerpts from my R/Evolution DVD series.
6 Simple Steps to Good Color Management
The Art of Proofing
Photoshop Color Tools
Photoshop Color Strategies
Black & White Mastery
Drawing With Light – 21st Century Dodging & Burning
Atmospheric FX
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Fine Art Digital Printing
Fine Art Workflow
Extending Dynamic Range – HDR. Imaging
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Learn more proofing techniques in my Fine Art Digital Printing Workshops.
Photographers are often not introduced to the same color theory painters are. At best, color theory is a matter of identifying complements to produce neutrality or color balance. But there are few strategies presented for conceptualizing color relationships in a photographic curriculum, while there are many for painters. In part, this is because painters could change color relationships so easily. The photographer couldn’t – until Photoshop. Now, the language and concepts of other disciplines becomes very useful to photographers. This video give you a taste.
But, be careful of one thing. Painters define complementary colors based on mixing pigments, which contain impurities. They use Red/Green, Yellow/Purple, Blue/Orange. True optical complements are found in photography (light without impurities). Use Red/Cyan, Green/Magenta, and Blue/Yellow instead. You can find confirmation of this by studying retinal after images. Stare at a color for 20 seconds. Then look to a neutral ground. The color residue you see will be the optical complement of the color you stared at.
Learn more about color in my DVDs.
Learn more about color in my workshop The Power of Color.
The Photoshop Guys at NAPP have put together some great short video tutorials that will help you get up to speed on CS4. Here’s the list.
Scott Kelby
Camera Raw Adjustment Brush
Graduated Filter Tool
Post-Crop Vignette
Corey Barker
3D Improvements
Mask Panel
Dave Cross
Bridge Updates
Content Aware Scaling
Matt Koslowski
Adjustment Panel
Dodge & Burn
On Image Controls
Live Brush Preview
Vibrance Adjustment
RC Concepcion
Dodge, Burn & Sponge
Blend Focus
Flash Panels
Zoom, Toss & Rotate
MultiTouch Gestures
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