Red Green Color Blindness and Retouching

December 2, 2011 by John Ross

Question:
I am red/green color blind. In your opinion is this really going to handicap my restoring ability? Maybe I should work with black/white only?

Photoshop Tutorial – Duplicate Image

September 13, 2011 by John Ross

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.

RAW vs. JPEG | Digital Fundamental Basic Tutorial

July 28, 2011 by John Ross

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.

Photoshop Tutorial – Advanced Cropping an Image

July 10, 2011 by John Ross

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

July 8, 2011 by John Ross

Adobe Photoshop Tutorial - Spotting Images

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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.

Quality Adobe Photoshop CC Tutorials

June 17, 2011 by John Ross

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

June 17, 2011 by John Ross

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.

Photoshop Tutorial – CS5 Preference Settings

May 30, 2011 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - CS5 Preference Settings

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Running Time: 15 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial goes through the preferences panel, and points out the most important settings that need changing. There is also a healthy dose of sarcasm, and bitter spite for all the unnecessary clutter that Adobe has introduced over the years. I am not saying that this is the most informative Photoshop Tutorial I have ever made, but the masochists in the audience will love it. Fans of "You Suck at Photoshop" will feel right at home.

Photoshop Tutorial – Vibrance vs. Saturation

May 27, 2011 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Vibrance vs. Saturation

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Running Time: 4 minutes

This Adobe Photoshop Tutorial is on the difference between editing images with Vibrance and Saturation. At the core, Saturation affects ALL colors, and Vibrance affects the WEAKEST colors.