Photoshop is only limited by the boundaries of your own creativity. This tutorial is a great example of that. Follow along as we create a colour twirl effect using a few filters and the rectangular marquee tool. Once you know the basics you'll be playing around for hours!
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colour, eraser tool, free, free transform, gradient tool, layer mask, photoshop cs3, rainbow, screen blending mode, Special Effects, video tutorial
Learn how to create a rainbow in Photoshop and blend it into a photograph to give the impression the rainbow was there when the image was captured. This technique uses the gradient tool to add the actual rainbow, and then demonstrates use of the eraser and masks to conceal the rainbow from the foreground elements, before blending the effect into the photograph with some basic, yet always reliable blend modes.
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The colour sampler tool allows a user to exactly measure pixel information and compare it to another instance of the same pixel. Ideal for ensuring the colour adjustment you're applying, for example, isn't secretly flattening out the colours of your best photographs.
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The eyedropper tool in Photoshop allows a user to record and reuse colour values. If you want, for example, to recolour part of an image sky-blue, then simple find an image that has an appropriately coloured sky, sample it with the eyedropper, and reuse the recorded colour values whereever and whenever you need them. In this tutorial I'll show you how it works and provide a few tips and tricks that will make the eyedropper invalueable to your colour matching workflow.
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adjustment layer, beginner's guide to photoshop elements, brightness, colour, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, highlights, hue/saturation comand, layer mask, levels command, midtones, Photographic, photoshop elements 6, saturate, shadows, video tutorial
At first glance, it may seem that we’re revisiting the same things we looked at way back when we explored the Quick Fix mode, but on second glance, we’re correcting the same problems only this time with way more accuracy, detail and control.
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beginner's guide to photoshop elements, brightness, colour, Commands / Tools, contrast, focus, free, hand tool, highlights, hue, midtones, pan, Photographic, photoshop elements 6, quick fix mode, saturation, shadows, sharpen, smart fix, temperature, tint, version sets, zoom, video tutorial
Having covered the theory of the Quick Fix mode in the previous video, it’s time to correct colour, brightness and focus of a real-world digital photograph. Almost all photographs taken on a digital camera require some degree of adjustment to make them look good, and quite simply put, the Quick Fix mode is going to be the fastest and easiest way to get the job done.
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beginner's guide to photoshop elements, brightness, colour, Commands / Tools, focus, free, guided edit mode, hand tool, hue, pan, Photographic, photoshop elements 6, quick fix mode, red eye tool, saturation, sharpen, workspace, zoom, video tutorial
If you’re new to Photoshop Elements then the Quick Fix and Guided Modes are for you! Designed as a gentle introduction to image editing, these modes offer a workspace that walks you through the process of improving digital photos with no more than a few simple movements of the appropriate sliders. Whether you’re correcting for color, dark shadows, bright highlights or a soft focus, these modes are the fastest way to see better looking images.
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brightness, colour, colour blend mode, Commands / Tools, contrast, free, guide to levels, highlights, lab colour mode, levels command, luminance, luminosity blend mode, midtones, photoshop cs3, saturation, shadows, Special Effects, video tutorial
So we know the difference between colour and luminance information, now's the time to look at dividing the two and working on each individually. Whether we're doing that with blend modes or the highly theoretical Lab colour space we're going to be opening our eyes to a whole new universe.
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banding, colour, distortion, fade command, focus, free, guide to sharpening, lab colour mode, luminosity, noise, Photographic, photoshop cs2, sharpen, video tutorial
In this free video tutorial we'll look at how to reduce colour banding, distortion and noise during the sharpening process. To achieve this we've got two options, either use a flat sharpening filter in the RGB colour mode followed by the mysterious fade command or sharpening the lightness channel in Lab. Both techniques are heading in the same direction, so feel free to let me know how they work out for you?
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In this tutorial I'll be looking at the Swatches Palette and how we can use it to save and retrieve colour information inside of photoshop. Swatches isn't a basic necessity in Photoshop, but there's no question of the accuracy to be gained and the time to be saved from employing the usefulness of this palette.
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