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Masking with Color Range and QuickMask | Photoshop Tutorial

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Photoshop Tutorial - Masking Simplified

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 18 minutes

Properly masking out an image in Adobe Photoshop is often done using one of the simple selection tools like Magic Wand or Lasso. This is simply the wrong approach. You should be using Color Range and the QuickMask.

In this video for beginners, I will slowly explain how to use both these tools to make simple and complex selections. This video is also an introductory lead-in to my 2 hour Photoshop Masking Tutorial. That extended video covers many expanded topics that cover the range from Beginner, Intermediate, to Advanced.

 
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Photoshop CS6 Preferences Overview

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Photoshop Tutorial - CS6 Preferences Overview

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 10 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop CS6 tutorial goes through the preferences panel, and points out the most important settings that need your attention. Largely, it is an informative video designed to help ensure you understand basic settings of Photoshop CS6.

 
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Color Spaces & Color Profiles – RGB, CMYK, sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto

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Digital Fundamentals - Color Models and Color Spaces

Difference Between sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto - RGB and CMYK

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 12 minutes

This is a Digital Fundamentals Tutorial that focuses on the basic differences between sRGB, Adobe RGB, ProPhoto color profiles and RGB and CMYK color models. This video is only 12 minutes, and gives a quick overview on how each color space is designed to be used. It also gives a demonstration of how the image color can shift on different priced monitors.

I also have another video on this whole Color Model, Color Space, and Color Profile topic. This can all get very confusing. Not that it needs to be, it's just that even the people teaching it don't know what they are saying. This just opens up a level of cross information, and does not help anybody.

 
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Corel AfterShot Pro Review

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Corel AfterShot Pro Review

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 11 minutes

I want to start this review by saying that this product took me by surprise. I was expecting something that was mediocre, and I instantly fell in love with all the powerful features build right into the software. You may be thinking that I am just trying to pitch Corel AfterShot Pro to you, but I am quite serious, I genuinely love this program, and I would use it in my own studio as well. Sadly, I had already spent $600 on a competitor's solution.

Corel AfterShot Pro competantly joins together Image Cataloging Software, with a RAW Processor. This means you can keep track of thousands of images (I have over 20,000 myself), and make quick Color Correction edits without the need for any other software. Everything I could think that I wanted to do, was built right into the software. Check out the video,  
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Duplicate Image | Photoshop Basic Tutorial

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Photoshop Tutorial - Duplicate Image

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Running Time: 2 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial quickly shows how to Duplicate image. Why would you want to Duplicate an image? Well, maybe you need to make an image greyscale, but still need to keep the original. Or maybe you want to create a new variant. Who knows. This is just a simple Photoshop 101 How To video.

 
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Imagenomic Portraiture Review

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Imagenomic Portraiture Review

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 15 minutes

WARNING: This video is very old. Please go to the updated versions here:

4 Minute Quick Imagenomic Portraiture Tutorial

12 Minute Extended Imagenomic Portraiture Tutorial

 

This is a video Imagenomic Portraiture Review. It will also work as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture. It will work with 8-bit and 16-bit images, in the RGB color space. It is also available for Macintosh and PC.

You can use the Imagenomic Portraiture Coupon Code "ARTOFRETOUCH" for 20% off this, and any other product you purchase from the Imagenomic Website.

 
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Transform Tools | Photoshop Basic Tutorial

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Photoshop Tutorial - CS5 Transform Tools

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 5 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop CS5 tutorial goes over basic and intermediate uses for the Transform Tools. This is quick and covers the general usage of Free Transform, Scale, Distort, Warp, Rotate, Skew and Perspective. Additional Transform tools are Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical.

 
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RAW vs. JPEG | Digital Fundamental Basic Tutorial

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Photoshop Tutorial - Difference Between RAW and JPG Images

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 12 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial covers the difference between using a RAW file format, and a JPG, or JPEG, file format. If you know the difference, you can easily skip this video. There are no secret surprises or revelations here. However, if you do not know the strengths and weaknesses of each, then by all means, watch and learn.

This Photoshop Tutorial is an overview of the RAW file format. No real detail is covered. Rather, this is a dip your feet in, and see why it is the choice of professional retouchers and photographers.

 
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Advanced Cropping an Image | Photoshop Tutorial

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Photoshop Tutorial - Advanced Cropping an Image

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Running Time: 8 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial goes over advanced Cropping an image. Please do NOT dismiss this video because the topic is basic information for beginners. This video is NOT for beginners. Back in Adobe Photoshop CS4, they added many new features to the Crop Tool. Like most people, I just ignored all the changes. The most important change was the difference between Delete and Hide options. If you have never used the Hide option, then you need to watch this video, as it will change the way you crop images. I also cover several other tricks that you likely did not know about.

Please Note: In CS6, they split the Crop tool, into two seprate tools. The basic function remains the same, but since no one knew the one Crop tool did all  
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Spotting Images | Photoshop Basic Tutorial

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Spotting Images

This video is available Free for Everyone.
Running Time: 5 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial describes what spotting images means, and how to do it. In short, spotting simply means that you are going to remove any extra dust spots, or other very quick dirt removal. While it usually means dust from the camera lens, it could also mean quickly removing any other sort of blemishes from the picture, like lint on clothing or freckles. Again, the real key is that it is quick, and usually takes less than 10 minutes, and less than 5 minutes is even better.

Ideally, this would be the very first thing done to an image, before any other sort of retouching is done. All you need to do is create a new layer, select one of the cloning tools, and begin removing anything that doesn't belong. Spotting Images should be done for every picture you start working on.

 
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