Friday March 22 2013
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101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes

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There are those who wil tell you the Deke is Numero Uno, Top Of The Heap, Best Of The Best. OK, Deke will tell you in this video. Don't think you can do 100 tips in 5 mnutes. As Deke says, "Do the math." Thats about 3 seconds per tip.

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ACR 5.2 Snapshots and Targeted Adjustment Tool

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Adobe Camera Raw 5.2 two new tools: Snapshots and the Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT). Derrick Story has produced a video tutorial that shows you how to use these new tools. His video begins by showing you a saved history of image edits for a photo adjusted in ACR. Snapshots make this easy in ACR. They work petty much the same way the do in Adobe Lightroom 2. Then Derrick makes a series of tone and color adjustments with Targeted Adjustment Tool, which gives ACR users the ability to make localized changes to photos.

Add An Energetic Look

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Corey Barker gives Planet Photoshop visitors an energetic demonstration of how to add some extra energy and excitement to their photographs.

Adjust Shadows and Highlights in Lightroom

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Watch Matt Kloskowski's short video tutorial to learn how to adjust the highlights and shadows in an pjhotograph without losing critical detail. Adobe Lightroom invludes a couple of tools that let you know how highlight and shadow adjustments will affect your photographs. Matt's video covers the Histogram and clipping warnings.

Adjusting Blackpoint Slider in Lightroom

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The Blacks slider plays an important role in optimizing the contrast of your photos. Martin Evening has produced a video tutorial that demonstrates how much to safely clip the blacks when working with different types of images. He also discusses how the black clipping point set in Lightroom relates to the black clipping point of the print output process.

Adjusting Brightness & Contrast

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Deke McClelland has prodiced a video that demonstrates how to adjust contrast and brightness using Photoshop CS4 adjustment layers.

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Adjustment Brush Tip Extravaganza

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Matt Kloskowski sat down to write a quick post about all the little Lightroom shortcuts and tips that he knows about the Adjustment Brush. There were so many, he created a video, instead. There are around a dozen useful tips and shortcuts.

Adobe Beginner Classes: Fun with Layer Styles

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Never heard of Layer Styles? Is the Layer Style palette overwhelming. Dave Radeke has a brief tutorial for Adobe TV that explains the mysteries of Photoshop Layer Styles.

Adobe Bridge Carousel View

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The Carousel view is a new feature of Adobe Bridge CS4. Matt Kloskowski gives viewers a quick (under 90 seconds) introduction.

Adobe Photoshop Elements: Using Quick Fix Mode

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Lynda.com has made a brief Photoshop Elements tutorial available that demonstrates how to use some of the new tools for quick fixes. Interesting topic, but the quality of the video is disappointing. Lynda.com decided to share a small downsampled video that was extremely soft. If you're going to share a free teaser video to attract business, it sould be better quality.