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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In this video tutorial we'll look at a great non-destructive way to sharpen an image using the High Pass Filter. We'll also examine the best view size to get an accurate preview of the image you're working with.
(UPDATE - Since Photoshop CS4, Adobe uses a more accurate interpolation method to preview images, meaning that you can now work at any view ratio and know that you're seeing a smooth and true version of your image).
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Sometimes sharpening a whole image can solve one problem but create another, in this video tutorial we'll look at building an edge mask and using it to sharpen a selected area.
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In this tutorial we'll be looking at how to fix small amounts of motion blur in an image using the Emboss Filter and a couple of really helpful blend modes. Removing motion blur is also possible using the Smart Sharpen filter, but here's a tried and tested technique that was around even before Smart Sharpening had a name!
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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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For years we've been using the same old filters inside of Photoshop, then with the release of Photoshop CS2, we finally get a new sharpening filter - and the word on the street is that it was worth the wait! In this tutorial we'll be looking at the new controls available to help make our sharpening experience as trouble-free as possible!
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It's a little known fact that most digital photographs need some sort of sharpening to have them looking perfectly focused. In this tutorial I'll be looking at how Photoshop produces the sharpening effect, as well as how the Sharpen, Sharpen Edges, Sharpen More and the Unsharp Mask filters work.
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