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Posterizing Images Video Tutorial

By on August 15, 2006 in Effects, Photo Retouching, Photoshop, Tutorials

I guess we are on a roll posting about the latest free video tutorials from Watcandlearnphotoshop. Free however is nice . Their latest free video tutorial show how to posterize an image using Photoshop, a simple but nice tutorial that basically explains how the Poster Edges filter works. Turning your images into illustrations isn’t as [...]

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Black and White Photos – Photoshop Video Tutorial

By on March 25, 2006 in Photo Retouching, Photoshop, Tutorials

Watch and Learn Photoshop has released another one of their free Photoshop video tutorials. This tutorial describes some nice techniques that you can use to turn your photos to black and white using adjustment layers. These techniques work much better than just desaturating or turning your image to Grayscale mode and the final outcome is [...]

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Contrast Mask Photoshop Tutorial

By on January 7, 2006 in Photo Retouching, Photoshop, Tutorials, Uncategorized

Contrast masking is a technique used to correct photos that because of the high dynamic range some of it’s areas appear underexposed while the rest of the image appears overexposed. With this technique we are able to reveal details both from the underexposed areas and the overexposed areas. This technique isn’t something new, traditional photographers [...]

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Dreamy Duotone effect

By on November 19, 2005 in Effects, Photo Retouching, Photoshop, Tutorials

With this tutorial I am going to show you a way to turn a photo into a dreamy duotone image using Adobe Photoshop. 1. Open the image you want to apply this effect. I am going to start with this stock photo.

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Sharpening images using the high pass filter

By on November 10, 2005 in Photo Retouching, Photoshop, Tutorials

Most people when they want to sharpen their images with photoshop they use the USM (Unsharp Mask filter), however there is another powerful photoshop filter that in my opinion does a better job. I am going to start with a closeup of a flower that I took handheld Here is a 100%crop of the picture [...]

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