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Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #1: Painting Tools

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST

In today's installment of Photoshop CS5 Top 5, Deke demonstrates Photoshop's bristle brushes, which simulate traditional paint brushes—the kind your local art-supply store sells—and its new Mixer brush, which lets you give a photo a painterly look. Along the way, Deke passes along a tip for customizing Photoshop's interface—one of those little chores that can save so much time, but that so few of us do.

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #2: Puppet Warp

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST

In this installment of Photoshop CS5 Top 5, Deke McClelland explores a feature he calls fun to use, funny to watch, and extremely powerful. Take a fifteen-minute tour of the Puppet Warp feature, then head over to check out all of our Adobe CS5 training to explore new courses and tutorials covering Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Flash, Premiere, and more.

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #3: Refine Edge

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST

Refining selections and creating masks are unglamorous but utterly essential Photoshop techniques—you've got to master both in order to perform tricky compositing tasks, such as extracting a person from an image and then adding a different background.

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #4: High-dynamic range photography

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST

Whether you want to be subtle or brash, the greatly improved HDR features in Photoshop CS5 are worth a close look. They're the subject of today's Photoshop CS5 Top 5 movie. Watch as Deke McClelland walks you through Photoshop CS5's HDR toning and HDR Pro features.

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #5: Common Sense Enhancements

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST

In this first episode of Photoshop CS5 Top 5 on lynda.com, Deke McClelland introduces us to the common sense enhancements, tweaks, and fixes in latest version of Adobe Photoshop. Learn about the new Straighten button, the Content Aware Fill tool, and more.

Photoshop Feature #1: Open and Save

Tue, 11 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST

Virtually every Photoshop project starts with Open (how often do you choose New?) and ends with Save. And unlike other apps, Photoshop treats all image formats as native. Open and Save are the alpha and omega of imaging.

Photoshop Feature #2: The Layers Palette

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST

Home to at least eight of the features Deke has mentioned so far in the Photoshop Top 40 Countdown, the Layers palette is command central—the place where most of the action in Photoshop happens. Were it not for this one palette, Photoshop as we know it would not exist.

Photoshop Feature #3: Image Size

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST

The essential Image Size command lets you scale an image on screen or in print. Here's your chance to understand resampling and resolution, both of which affect the core quality of your digital photographs.

Photoshop Feature #4: Navigation

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST

Photoshop lets you modify your view of an image using a variety of tools, commands, and options. But you don’t need a single one of them. Learn a few shortcuts and you’ll be working at maximum efficiency in no time.

Photoshop Feature #5: The Sharpen Filters

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST

Photoshop doesn’t sharpen focus, it sharpens detail. Using any of three remarkable filters, Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen, and High Pass. Apply them as smart filters, and you’re ready for any output scenario.

Photoshop Feature #6: RGB, CMYK, and Lab

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST

Photoshop doesn’t just support multiple color spaces, it supports infinite variations on the device-dependent ones. You can open an RGB photo, process it in Lab, and output it to CMYK, with certainty that the conversions will work.

Photoshop Feature #7: Undo, History, and Revert

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST

The safety-net trio of Undo, History, and Revert protect the intrepid image editor from unexpected disasters. But they also let you toggle operations, compare before-and-after images, and move back and forth through time.

Photoshop Feature #8: The Eyedropper

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST

TThe ubiquitous eyedropper is simple in purpose and easy to use. But imagine a world without it, where you had to dial in every one of the 16.8 million+ colors manually. The eyedropper is Photoshop’s color ambassador.

Photoshop Feature #9: Levels

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST

The Levels command, and its cohort the histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The upshot is that you can increase contrast, correct for color cast, and make a bad image good.

Photoshop Feature #10: Color Settings

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST

The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Suite. While admittedly techy, it ensures that what you see is what everyone else sees as well.

Photoshop Feature #11: Opacity Mode and Blend Modes

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST

Changing the Opacity is like mixing a cocktail with, say, 30% active layer and 70% all layers below. Assigning a blend mode is like shining a light or casting a shadow: The active layer infuses those behind it with life.

Photoshop Feature #12: Camera Raw

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST

Camera Raw is an independent application that lets you develop your raw photographs and exploit every byte of the vast information captured by your digital SLR. Not just powerful, it is a force unto itself.

Photoshop Feature #13: File Info

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST

Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author (you!), a copyright, and a Web site. No image should go out without a visit to File Info.

Photoshop Feature #14: Gaussian Blur

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST

Gaussian Blur is a filter that blurs an image. But its also the math behind the Feather command, drop shadows, and everything that is soft in Photoshop. Watch this video and learn why GB is so important.

Photoshop Feature #15: Alpha Channels

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST

Much can be said of masking: Masking is the art of using the image to select itself. Masking lets you apply the entire weight of Photoshop to the task of editing a selection. And masking, thy name is alpha channel.

Photoshop Feature #16: Adjustment Layers

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST

An adjustment layer is an independent layer of color adjustment that can edit any time you like. Plus it affects all layers below it, consumes very little space in memory, and affords the opportunity for selective edits.

Photoshop Feature #17: Layer Effects

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST

Yes, layer effects let you make drop shadows. But they also let you create credible compositions, render simple layers in dimension, and add ambient lighting. I cannot imagine working in Photoshop without them.

Photoshop Feature #18: Smart Objects

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST

Smart objects aren't all that smart. And they aren't objects. What they are is envelopes. The kind that hold things. And keep them safe. So that everything you do protects the image from harm. This is Photoshop at its best.

Photoshop Feature #19: Luminance Blending

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST

Buried deep inside the Layer Style dialog box are two slider bars, This Layer and Underlying Layer, that let you blend pixels according to their brightness. Despite their prosaic names, these sliders rank among the most powerful features in all of Photoshop.

Photoshop Feature #20: Free Transform

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST

As powerful as Photoshop is, there is little about the program that is obvious. Case in point: How do you rotate a layer? Right-click on it and select Rotate? Choose Rotate from the Layer menu? Click on the Rotate tool? The answer is no, no, and no. Fortunately, there's the Free Transform command, which rotates the active layer and much, much more.

Photoshop Feature #21: The Gradient Tool

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

Every app offers a gradient tool. But Photoshops is special. Not only can you paint a soft transition from black to white. But you can soften the transition from one image to another. The gradient tool fades, swipes, and more.

Photoshop Feature #21: The Gradient Tool

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

Photoshop Feature #22: The Healing Brush

Tue, 16 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

Be they pits, pock marks, or pimples, we all suffer blemishes that we wish we didnt. Or so we would were it not for Photoshops healing brush. This amazing tool grafts good skin onto bad--and heals the seams in between.

Photoshop Feature #23: Color Range

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

If you use the magic wand tool, stop what youre doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image as easily as the wand. But with more flexibility and much better results.

Photoshop Feature #24: Curves

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

Where luminance-correction is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. This one command lets you rein in highlights, open up shadows, and reveal all points in between. Curves takes a bud of an image and makes it blossom.

Photoshop Feature #25: Selection Calculations

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST

You may know that you can add to a selection by pressing the Shift key. But you can likewise press keys to subtract and find an intersection. Better yet, these tricks apply to layers, channels, and paths. They're a power users dream.

Photoshop Feature #26: Dodge and Burn

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST

Photoshop offers two tools that paint with luminance: The dodge tool paints in brightness, the burn tool paints in darkness. Crazy useful, and they've gotten so much better in Photoshop CS4.

Photoshop Feature #27: The Crop Tool

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST

Since the first daguerreotype, photographers have cropped their images to hone in on the details that matter most. The crop tool does that, as well as straighten and more. Check it out.

Photoshop Feature #28: Hue/ Saturation

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST

Hue/Saturation not only spins colors and intensity values, it lets you modify one color independently of all others. And it does so in such a credible way, you would never know it was there. Perfection.

Photoshop Feature #29: Liquify

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST

The Liquify filter lets you paint in distortions, so you can perform digital nips and tucks. You can slim people down, edit their posture, and make them look their absolute best. See how in this video.

Photoshop Feature #30: Actions

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST

The Actions palette lets you record your work so you never have to do it again. Plus, you can build up complex visual effects and share them with others, as Deke demonstrates in this jaw-dropping video.

Photoshop Feature #31: The Brush Tool

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST

The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It's not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as this video demonstrates.

Photoshop Feature #32: The Pen Tool

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST

Many folks select images in Photoshop with the likes of the Quick Select and Magic Wand tools. Highly automated, but these tools rarely work accurately. Experts use the Pen tool. Using the Pen tool is an art form worth learning, because it always works.

Photoshop Feature #33: Calculations

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST

One of the oldest, most abstruse, downright incomprehensible commands in Photoshop, Calculations lets you merge two channels to create a new alpha channel. Learn it: It's the backbone of masking.

Photoshop Feature #34: Save for Web and Devices

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:00:00 EST

If you're creating Web graphics, then there's no substitute for Save for Web and Devices. It disposes of non-essential data, reduces file sizes to their absolute minimum, and converts the image to sRGB, the color space of the people.

Photoshop Feature #35: Refine Edge

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:00:00 EST

Photoshop offers lots of tools for automating selections, but two stand out from the pack: The first, Refine Edge, lets you modify your selection using five different parameters and preview the results in five different ways.

Photoshop Feature #36: Black and White

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:00:00 EST

In the digital age, we shoot full-color photographs. Which is a good thing, because it means we can distill the perfect black-and-white shot in Photoshop.

Photoshop Feature #37: Fill Functions

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:00:00 EST

Many of Photoshop's best features can only be accessed from the keyboard. Like, how would you know Alt+Backspace (or Option-Delete) fills with black? Watch. It gets better.

Photoshop Feature #38: Vector Type

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:00:00 EST

Type in Photoshop is forever editable and super-smooth. Deke shows how it works by assembling a high-res, pro-quality magazine cover in one short video.

Photoshop Feature #39: Layer Comps

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:00:00 EST

Layer comps let you assemble multiple image variations or even independent pieces of artwork inside a single Adobe Photoshop file. The Layer Comps palette gives you the freedom to explore.

Photoshop Feature #40: Reset and Purge

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:00:00 EST

Deke gets things started with a pair of options that can clean out Photoshops plumbing when things get clogged up: Reset and purge.

Introduction

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:00:00 EST

America likes its lists, and here's another one. Imaging expert and award-winning author Deke McClelland presents his list of the top 40 features in Photoshop—beginning with #40 and working his way up to #1—one weekly video at a time. Some are tools, others are commands, still others are conceptual. All are invaluable. Learn these 40 features and you'll know Photoshop.

dekePod 018: Photoshop and the Andy Warhol Silkscreen Effect

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST

Have you ever wanted to create an authentic looking Andy Warhol silkscreen? One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Warhol was known for his avant-garde paintings and screenprintings. Remember Warhol's garishly colored celebrity images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, or Mao Zedong? In the studio he called The Factory, Warhol took an assembly-line approach to his high-contrast, silkscreens and produced art as a mass consumable, like a t-shirt or a pack of gum. Its not surprising that his art is still popular today, and there are lots of one-click Warhol solutions. But if you want the real thing, join Deke McClelland in the final episode of this dekePod series, as he dissects Warhols process, and shows you how to use Photoshop to render your favorite portrait in bona-fide Warhol magnificence.

dekePod 017: Photoshop and the Visual Communications Makeover

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

Signs are our friends. They help us observe the rules when we actually need to know the rules. We dont all speak English, and tourism is a huge industry, so signs need to be language-independent. Which is why a vocabulary of immediately identifiable symbols is essential to every working artist and designer. So if symbols are so important, why are most such an indecipherable mess? Computer icons! Laundry instructions! Or Dekes favorite: What you shouldnt throw into an airplane toilet! Learn what works and what doesnt in this laugh-out-loud episode of dekePod.

dekePod 016: Photoshopping the Great Masters

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 EST

They say you cant be too rich or too thin. So how about getting rich by making others thin? Plenty of experienced retouchers make small but enviable fortunes shaving body fat off already lithe models. But rather than showing you a present-day example--honestly, how many underfed waifs do we need to see made skinnier?--Deke takes us back to a time when ideas of beauty were very different: the High Renaissance. In those times of mean circumstances and manual labor, body fat was a thing to be envied. How best to take a well-fed model rendered by the likes of Raphael and make her look like a modern work of art?

dekePod 015: Photoshop and the Lost Undersea Channel

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST

Underwater photos can lack Red Channel information--where coral, clown fish and our skin tones live. Fortunately, Deke knows how to summon Red from the watery depths and make your photos come alive. Watch this dekePod and create underwater images that will satisfy your inner Jacques Cousteau.

dekePod 014: Photoshop vs. Adobe BridgeBeware the Cache, the Cache Must Die!

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST

If you use Photoshop, then you probably browse your images with Adobes Bridge, which shows you thumbnails of your files. Good news: The Bridge lets you preview images without going to the trouble of opening them. Bad news: Those previews result in large cache files that eat up your hard drive. Worse yet, they permit others to track what youve been looking at. Even if youve long since destroyed the original file, the thumbnail persists! Learn how to protect yourselfand maybe even save your job.

dekePod Episode 013: The Mating Habits of the Pen Tool

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EST

Adobe's landmark pen tool defined an industry. But to the uninitiated, its reliance on anchor points and control handles makes it as approachable as first-year algebra. Until you see it's nothing more than a mating ritual: The points are boys and the handles are girls. Once you get that, it all falls into place.

dekePod Episode 012: The Droplet Song (A Love Song to a Lost Feature in Photoshop)

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST

How best to encourage people to use an obscure but super-useful Photoshop feature? Rhyme, rhythm, and romance. Hence a music video that will make all your automation dreams come true. Give Deke five minutes of your time and hell set your world on fire.

dekePod Episode 011: Giving It Up for the Family

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Creative professionals are routinely roped into frivolous art projects for their families. You don't want to spend much time on them because who wants to do more of what you already do all day? But you don't want to do a lousy job because your cred's at stake. Oh and because, sure, you care about your family. In this episode of dekePod, Deke shows you how to create a spectacular birthday party invitation, with little effort, using a combination of found art and Photoshop.

dekePod Episode 010: The Instant Liquid Diet

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

Ah, the holiday season, a time of expansion. Great physical expansion. Fatty, high-calories food is everywhere you turn. And so we grow. But not this year. In some distant future, when you review Thanksgiving 2008 in your photo album, youll look back on it as the first of many years that you actually lost weight. "Thank you dekePod," you'll say. Because in this episode, Deke teaches you how to transform fat into fit using the Liquify commandand with smooth, stretch mark-free results.

dekePod Episode 009: '60s Space Siren

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

If youve seen an episode of the original Star Trek, youre no doubt familiar with the shows main character, Captain Kirk, and his eternal blurry-eyed fascination with women. Every time he came in sight of a love interest, she appeared to him in diffused focus. In this episode of dekePod, Deke shows how you can achieve a nearly identical effect in Photoshop with such flattering results that you yourself could win the captains affections.

dekePod Episode 008: The Masks Palette

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

Photoshop CS4 has been out one week. Hardly enough time for any of us to embrace it, let alone place our faith in it. And yet faith is precisely what one of the program's most highly touted features, The Masks palette, requires of you. Everything about it is promising; little about it makes sense. The palette that makes masks also wears one. In this special Halloween episode, we unmask the Masks palette. Will it be a bag of treats? Or a bundle of tricks? You'll find out, in dekePod.

dekePod Episode 007: Faking an HDR Portrait

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EST

Think nothing can scare you? Enter dekePod, that thing that is not even slightly scary and yet, be honest, gives you the heebie jeebies. In this episode, Deke investigates how to simulate an extreme-detail HDR portrait -- which would otherwise require you to shoot multiple exposures of a person locked down in a body brace -- using flimflam and forgery. And a shrunken skull. These are the depths of scariness we go to. Here at dekePod.

dekePod Episode 006: Photoshop CS4, Buy or Die

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST

September 23 marks the announcement of Adobe's Creative Suite 4. And that means a new version of the company's flagship image editor, Photoshop. Coming just 18 months after its predecessor, is Photoshop CS4 any good? Enter dekePod, Deke McClelland's irreverent and uncensored video series. Day and date with Adobe's announcement, Deke provides a third-party, impartial, and highly opinionated review of the new software. Titled "Photoshop CS4: Buy or Die," this episode promises to show you all facets of the programcomplete with commentarywithout interrupting your busy day. In just five minutes, you'll know whether you want to upgrade or not. Either you buy or it dies, it's as simple as that.

dekePod Episode 005: Spirographs on Steroids

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EST

In this episode, Deke makes the startling claim that Illustrator, a complex piece of software that costs hundreds of dollars, is better than an $8 Spirograph. Using nothing but half an ellipse and a few live, editable effects, Deke shows you how to construct something truly extraordinary. "Trust me on this one. Artist, non-artist, proficient with Illustrator, never even heard of the program -- I don't care if you live in Antarctica, you have no access to electricity, you haven't seen sunlight in 45 days -- oh my God, what are you, a penguin? -- you're gonna wanna watch this!"

dekePod Episode 004: Stretching a Photo in Illustrator

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Have you ever wanted to stretch a photo's background but leave the foreground unchanged? Or turn a horizontal photo into a vertical one without making a mess of it? You can't do it in Photoshop CS3, but you can in its companion program, Adobe Illustrator. Deke shows you how in a way that'll make you so happy, you'll think you're on drugs. And wait till you see the new look! Deke is dreamy.

dekePod Episode 003: Don't Fear the Lab Mode

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Color models like RGB and CMYK are frightening enough on their own. But the fact that there's one called CIEL*a*b* D50 (or just Lab), and Photoshop actually encourages you to use it, is terrifying. But Deke says not to worry. RGB and CMYK are for machines. The Lab mode is for you.

dekePod Episode 002: Stealth 'Shop, The Virgin Histogram

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST

Imagine yourself walking down a lovely San Francisco street, whistling a merry tune, only to be confronted by the sudden appearance of a menacing robot packing a shockingly massive and entirely unnecessary... ray gun, of sorts. What would you do? If you were Deke, you'd snap a picture and correct its colors. And not in any standard way, either, but in a way that permits you to apply radical color adjustments while leaving a virgin-like histogram in your wake.

dekePod Episode 001: Metadata Forensics, What a Crock

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EST

We all know digital photos can be modified. So much so that, at least in the popular lexicon, Photoshop is synonymous with turning fact into fiction. But at least one facet of a digital photo, a variety of metadata called EXIF, is supposed to be secure. EXIF records when and how an image was captured, and if credible, might actually be judged admissible in a court of law. But not if Deke has anything to say about it. To hear Deke tell the story, metadata forensics is pure baloney. Learn how to cook your own EXIF in this episode of dekePod.

dekePod Pilot #2: 101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Deke McClelland) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST

If you've ever read a computer magazine, you know the idea behind "101 Tips." When's the last time one lone guy tried to capture 101 tips in video? In just 5 minutes of video? Set to music? This is the realm of dekePod, the once-every-other-weekly series from Deke McClelland. It's bold, it's brash, it's ridiculous. It's a podcast with serious issues. Enjoy.

dekePod Pilot #1: How to Scan Money in Photoshop

webmaster@oreillynet.com (Derrick Story) — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 EST

Deke McClelland introduces dekePod, his new video podcast devoted to computer graphics, digital imaging, and anything else that happens to spill out of his head. Lasting a mere 5 minutes (short enough to watch three times in a single coffee break), the pilot episode shows you how to scan and open money in Adobe Photoshop. I interviewed Deke to find out what's going on inside dekePod. I think you'll enjoy what he has to say.

dekePod

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #1: Painting Tools

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #2: Puppet Warp

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #3: Refine Edge

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #4: High-dynamic range photography

Photoshop CS5 Top 5 Tip #5: Common Sense Enhancements

Photoshop Feature #1: Open and Save

Photoshop Feature #2: The Layers Palette

Photoshop Feature #3: Image Size

Photoshop Feature #4: Navigation

Photoshop Feature #5: The Sharpen Filters

Photoshop Feature #6: RGB, CMYK, and Lab

Photoshop Feature #7: Undo, History, and Revert

Photoshop Feature #8: The Eyedropper

Photoshop Feature #9: Levels

Photoshop Feature #10: Color Settings

Photoshop Feature #11: Opacity Mode and Blend Modes

Photoshop Feature #12: Camera Raw

Photoshop Feature #13: File Info

Photoshop Feature #14: Gaussian Blur

Photoshop Feature #15: Alpha Channels

Photoshop Feature #16: Adjustment Layers

Photoshop Feature #17: Layer Effects

Photoshop Feature #18: Smart Objects

Photoshop Feature #19: Luminance Blending

Photoshop Feature #20: Free Transform

Photoshop Feature #21: The Gradient Tool

Photoshop Feature #21: The Gradient Tool

Photoshop Feature #22: The Healing Brush

Photoshop Feature #23: Color Range

Photoshop Feature #24: Curves

Photoshop Feature #25: Selection Calculations

Photoshop Feature #26: Dodge and Burn

Photoshop Feature #27: The Crop Tool

Photoshop Feature #28: Hue/ Saturation

Photoshop Feature #29: Liquify

Photoshop Feature #30: Actions

Photoshop Feature #31: The Brush Tool

Photoshop Feature #32: The Pen Tool

Photoshop Feature #33: Calculations

Photoshop Feature #34: Save for Web and Devices

Photoshop Feature #35: Refine Edge

Photoshop Feature #36: Black and White

Photoshop Feature #37: Fill Functions

Photoshop Feature #38: Vector Type

Photoshop Feature #39: Layer Comps

Photoshop Feature #40: Reset and Purge

Introduction

dekePod 018: Photoshop and the Andy Warhol Silkscreen Effect

dekePod 017: Photoshop and the Visual Communications Makeover

dekePod 016: Photoshopping the Great Masters

dekePod 015: Photoshop and the Lost Undersea Channel

dekePod 014: Photoshop vs. Adobe BridgeBeware the Cache, the Cache Must Die!

dekePod Episode 013: The Mating Habits of the Pen Tool

dekePod Episode 012: The Droplet Song (A Love Song to a Lost Feature in Photoshop)

dekePod Episode 011: Giving It Up for the Family

dekePod Episode 010: The Instant Liquid Diet

dekePod Episode 009: '60s Space Siren

dekePod Episode 008: The Masks Palette

dekePod Episode 007: Faking an HDR Portrait

dekePod Episode 006: Photoshop CS4, Buy or Die

dekePod Episode 005: Spirographs on Steroids

dekePod Episode 004: Stretching a Photo in Illustrator

dekePod Episode 003: Don't Fear the Lab Mode

dekePod Episode 002: Stealth 'Shop, The Virgin Histogram

dekePod Episode 001: Metadata Forensics, What a Crock

dekePod Pilot #2: 101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes

dekePod Pilot #1: How to Scan Money in Photoshop

dekePod 014: Photoshop vs. Adobe BridgeBeware the Cache, the Cache Must Die!