Photoshop CC’s New Smart Sharpen
Photoshop CC offers new improved with reduced haloing and noise.
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Photoshop CC offers new improved with reduced haloing and noise.
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Layer Styles
Blending channels is a powerful color adjustment strategy that can handle even the biggest challenges. It takes information from one channel and combines it with information from another. It’s great for repairing clipping in one or even two but not three channels. Rather than simply enhancing existing tonal values, blending channels reshapes one channel’s tonal structure with another’s. Consequently, in most cases, blending channels calls for a substitution of information by percentage, not a wholesale replacement of the deficient channel. You usually blend channels from different versions of the same image because blending channels from different compositions produces a highly altered effect.
Blending channels is complex. It often produces additional unintended color effects that may require further correction, such as shifts in hue that aren’t uniform across the tonal scale. Blending channels is neither the simplest nor the most direct path to color adjustment, but in certain situations (files that are exceptionally problematic), it may be the best path. The resulting benefits can be dramatic.
There are several ways to blend channels: Channel Mixer, Apply Image, Calculations and the most robust using channels as layers.
How do you do it? Duplicate a layer. Double click on the layer to activate Layer Styles (rasterize copies of Smart Objects to get this). Then check the channel you want to use, select a Blend Mode (typically Darken or Lighten and sometimes Multiply or Screen), adjust the Opacity, and use the Blend If sliders to constrain the effect or alternately a mask.
Read all the details on Digital Photo Pro.
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Terry White shows you the new features in Photoshop CC: sharpening images with Smart Sharpen, making small pictures bigger with upsampling, and fixing camera shake with shake reduction.
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Dan Steinhardt and Tony Corbell discuss their black and white workflows from input to output.
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Terry White shares his favorite five new features in Photoshop CC.
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Russell Brown demonstrates his favorite five new features in Photoshop CC.
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Julianne Kost details her favorite five new features in Photoshop CC.
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Terry White demonstrates how to get started with Adobe Creative Cloud outlining 10 Things Beginners Want To Know How To Do.
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Zorana Gee demonstrates new deblurring technology in Adiobe Photoshop.
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Lightroom 5 Beta is now available! Download it here.
Useful LR5 resources are posted by Adobe, NAPP, and Photoshop Café.
Here’s a list of and links to those resources.
Photoshop.com
LR5 Advanced Healing Brush
LR5 Radial Filter
LR5 Upright
LR5 – Terry White’s Top 5 Features
NAPP Lightroom 5 Launch Center
LR5 Smart Filters
LR5 Cloning Healing
LR5 Spot
LR5 The Radial
LR5 Upright
LR5 Book Changes
LR5 Slideshow
LR5 Tips
Plus, check out this free NAPP PDF and Lightroom eMagazine.
Photoshop Café Lightroom 5 Training Center
LR5 Colin Smith’s Top 10 New Features
LR5 Advanced Healing Brush
LR5 Radial Filter
LR5 Upright Image Correction
LR5 Video Slideshows
Using LR5 is a great way to get familiar with the latest new features. Remember, this free early beta version will expire after the final release. It does not upgrade previous versions. Many changes made with LR5 will not be backwardly compatible. (Word has it that there are issues with Drobo systems, so if you use one exercise caution.)
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