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Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop for Beginners

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Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop for Beginners

As a beginner with Photoshop, it can be easy to become lost, or otherwise confused on what steps would be best to try next. Should you start with contrast, color, or noise removal? No matter what kind of photo manipulation you’re doing, your basic steps should always be the same:

1. You should start by going to Image - Mode - 16 Bits/Channel. This is debateable, as 8-Bit often works just fine. See my video on this topic, Tonal Range & Bit Depth.
2. Create a new empty layer, and begin Spotting it.
3. To adjust the contrast, use the Levels Palette to give the image dynamic range.
4. With either Variations,  Selective Color Palette or Curves Palette, to make color corrections.
5. By using the Hue and Saturation Palette, you can give the  
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Photoshop Tutorial – CS5 Transform Tools

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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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The Art of Retouching Podcast 003 – Excessive Retouching

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Running Time: 28 minutes

 "I have to tell you that I found it totally inspiring and great! There are so many things in it that I share thoughts and agree with, it was just great listening to you telling the exact same things that are my concerns! So thanks, keep it up! - Erika"

I am so glad that I am stating to find a rhythm for the show, and that it is worth everyone's time. I hope you enjoy the show. It's a long one.

 
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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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The Art of Retouching Podcast 002 – Employee to Freelancer

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Running Time: 15 minutes

I fixed the link problem, for anyone who noticed.

Welcome everyone, to the second episode of The Art of Retouching's audio podcast. I have been taking notes for 2 weeks, and I am so ready to get going on today's show.

 
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Photoshop Tutorial – Advanced Cropping an Image

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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 separate tools. The basic function remains the same, but since no one knew the one Crop tool did all  
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Photoshop Tutorial – Spotting Images

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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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The Art of Retouching Podcast 001 – Adobe Photoshop to Go

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Running Time: 15 minutes

An audio podcast about Adobe Photoshop? Seriously? Yup! Would someone really want to listen to my podcast? Why not? I always have a ton of things to say, this seems to be a better place for most of my random thoughts than the beginning of the tutorials. This way, if your interested on more behind the scenes stuff, then this would be the place to find it.

 
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Quality Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorials

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Quality Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorials

– by R. Rodriguez and John Ross

If you’re a web-site designer, photographer, retoucher, or technical engineer, you are very aware that Adobe Creative Suite CC is out, and you’re itching to see what it can do. You are already excited about all the new features you have heard it has, and want to try them out on your work. The problem is that you have a serious case of information overload.

Photoshop users, like those of you interested in professional retouching and photo enhancement, have found that there are so many video Photoshop CC tutorials out on the web that you don’t know where to begin, or which is best.

I can help you there, but first let me walk you through what Photoshop CC can do, before we talk about choosing Photoshop CC tutorials to watch. Whether you are an experienced video clip editor or a beginning photographer, this product has lots to offer.  
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Photoshop Tutorial – Hue and Saturation Adjustment Palette

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Photoshop Tutorial - Hue and Saturation Adjustment Palette

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Running Time: 8 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial is about the Hue and Saturation Adjustment Palette. In a previous video about the Vibrance Palette, we showed the limitations of the tool. This video expands on what the Hue and Saturation Tool Palette is really capable of.

 
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