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CS6 Oil Paint Filter

Posted by davro - April 13, 2012 - Photoshop videos
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One of the new filters to be found in CS6 is Oil Paint which is a brilliant way to give an image a painterly look. In this video we take a look at an image that was soft in the wrong place but rather than rejecting it we can give the picture a new lease [...]

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Murcia Lightroom & Elememnts

Posted by davro - April 5, 2012 - Lightroom, Photoshop Elements
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This picture was taken in Murcia, Spain showing the main square and cathedral. Taken at the wide end of the lens 18mm and slightly titling upwards has resulted in converging verticals. In these videos we first take a look at correcting the exposure and lens profiles in Lightroom4.   Using Elements we take a look at the lighting and tones before [...]

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Grunge border part 2

Posted by davro - April 4, 2012 - Photoshop videos
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After the Wheel video where we looked at creating a grunge style border I received a few questions. One was about moving and adjusting the selection and the other about ways of saving the border so that it can be used on other images. In this video we take a further look at working with selections before [...]

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CS6 Workspace colours, Adjustment layers

Posted by davro - March 30, 2012 - Photoshop videos
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CS6

Quick look at CS6 Beta Setting the Workspace colours and a rather nifty new Adjustment layers in Photoshop CS6 The image created used Camera Raw and Adjustment Layers in CS6, full video to follow on release of CS6   Image after ACR CS6  

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The wheel

Posted by davro - March 28, 2012 - Photoshop videos
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In this video we start by correcting the image in Camera raw – straightening, cropping and adjusting the White Balance.  Then in Photoshop we look at a great way to add a grungy style border to our images.     It looks different every time you use it and can even be used on different images by saving it as [...]

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Glossy Black and White

Posted by davro - March 6, 2012 - Photoshop videos
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I was using the High Pass method to sharpen an image at a resent talk when I was told of a brilliant way it could be used to produce a Glossy Black and White. The results were are amazing and you can add tones to the image. It works with many different styles of pictures and is easy to follow in all version [...]

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