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Photoshop Tutorial – Adjustment Layers

August 25, 2013 by John Ross

Photoshop Tutorial - Adjustment Layers

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Running Time: 6 minutes

In this digital world we live in, you see the ubiquitous JPEG everywhere—practically all images you can find online are in this format. Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG pictures are compressed images that have the .jpg file extension. Basically, JPEGs or JPGs compress images in order to make their file sizes smaller.

The most annoying thing about sending files and pictures online or via email, is to find that your file attachments are too big; and we wouldn’t want that now, would we? Waiting all that time trying to send over files only to have them rejected due to file size…JPGs solve that issue by reducing image file sizes so that they don’t take up too much space, be it in your hard drive or USB or in your camera.

Photoshop Tutorial – CS6 Preferences Overview

November 12, 2012 by John Ross

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.

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.

Photoshop Tutorial – CS5 Transform Tools

August 16, 2011 by John Ross

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.

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

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.

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

This video is available Free for Everyone.
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.

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