In part eight of our nine part series on preferences in Photoshop Elements we'll look at the guides and grid options. Guides are non-printing lines that can aid tasks such as lining up layers and spacing out text. A grid provides the same variation of assistance but is more uniformed to look like the grids available on graph paper, and are ultimately another way to align objects within your document. Watch the video to see how to get the most out of these features.
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A few weeks ago I stepped down from my position of moderator at photoshopforums.com to focus on other things including writing and recording more tutorials for this site. During my 27 months at PhotoshopForums.com I wrote 13 quick-fire tutorials for the Tutorials and Featured Tips section, some of them, I'm pleased to say, receiving over 5000 views. |
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There are stacks of tutorials on the web that guide you through the process of making signatures and avatars. Most of them focus on the design side of things - how to pull off that effect? How to add this face? How to blend the colours? Considerably fewer detail what I consider to be the technical side of the creation - how to work out the right dimensions? Achieve the right file size? Keep it active and visible on a community? And the mysteries of saving to the right format? In this tutorial I'm going to provide answers to all those technical questions, and others along the way.
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In our seventh video out of nine looking at preferences in Photoshop Elements we tackle units and rulers. Although another one of those technical subjects, the advice given in this video will make sure you are always thinking one step ahead of the game in terms of creating and working with the right sized graphics. The thing is though; it's easy to understand, especially with the right guidance.
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Interlacing is a technique used by video recorders and television sets to ensure a smooth and fluid display on screen. It splits each frame into two sets of fields, an upper field and a lower field. Each field carries half the picture in horizontal rows, which when added together creates one interlaced frame. When viewing these frames in motion they are played too quickly for the eye to pick up any trace of interlacing, however, if you pause the video the effect becomes more prominent, growing even more if you happen to export a frame and view it on a computer screen.
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In our sixth video out of nine looking at preferences in Photoshop Elements we tackle transparency. Home to one of Photoshop's trademark appearances we explore how to change the colour and size of the transparency grid - in other words, we'll change the way Photoshop represents the regions in a composition that are invisible. Sounds weird? Watch the video and you'll know all their is to.
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In this tutorial I’ll not just show you how to create the effect of TV scan lines on your artwork or photographs, I’ll show you how to achieve it in a non-destructive way using layers, patterns and blending modes. Our mission for this project is to take a photograph captured on any camera (below left) and tattoo the interlacing found on many older-style television sets across the world (below right). High definition this isn’t!
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As the first ever world cup kicked off in South Africa last week, 3photoshop.com was celebrating a moment of history too - albeit on a smaller and slightly less physical note, our 100th tutorial!
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In the fifth video of our nine part series on preferences in Photoshop Elements we'll explore the display and cursors tab. Home to options that relate to the crop tool, the eyedropper and the painting brushes, this panel can deliver ways to make the various cursors display larger, smaller, brighter, darker and improve the overall visual and practical experience users have with the software.
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In the fourth video of our nine part series on preferences in Photoshop Elements we'll explore the performance tab. Home to numerous settings that affect the technical abilities of Elements, we'll dive into the details of how they work and the various ways you can ensure Photoshop Elements is working to its optimum by ensuring things such as scratch disks and RAM allocation are set up properly; and that history states and cache levels are working for you rather than against you.
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