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Creating Blocks with the Adobe Photoshop Extrude Filter
As you know, Adobe Photoshop is awesome for “fixing” your pictures — getting rid of blemishes, removing that tree you didn’t notice when you snapped the shutter but now looks like it’s growing out of...
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Creating a PDF from a Web Page in Acrobat XI
With the holiday season upon us, I’d like to take this moment to give thanks for…. Adobe Acrobat! Just think of how much better life is with PDF files: They are completely portable between platforms...
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Applying Targeted Adjustments in HDR Efex Pro
I love the “wow” factor of high dynamic range images, but even just thinking about the process of creating them usually stresses me out. Well, thanks to Tim Grey’s new course Nik HDR Efex Pro 2.0...
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Fun with Photoshop Filters: The Sketch Effect
I love playing around with the intersection between reality and fantasy, and Photoshop filters offer a great way to do that with your images. I reviewed Tim Grey’s fabulous course Photoshop Creative...
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Refining Masks in Photoshop
When you want to make your next avatar, it will be easier than ever to put your head on a supermodel’s body using Photoshop CS6, thanks to Tim Grey’s new course Creating Composites in Photoshop. In...
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Creating 3D Objects from 2D Shapes with 3ds Max
As the holiday season draws to a close, I’ve been thinking over how the holidays now are different than they were when I was growing up. For one, computer-generated 3D graphics play such a large part...
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Brightening Dark Spots with Photoshop
I love looking at photographs of foreign places. Perhaps it’s because I rarely go anywhere, so other people’s travel photographs are like windows into an exciting and different world for me. A great...
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Putting an Image Inside Text Using Photoshop
When I was a kid I loved to play around with words and fonts. I would write the same word several times using a different creative style for each: big blocky letters with a bold marker, then delicate...
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Creating a Picture Password with Windows 8
My husband is an IT professional and got to try out Windows 8 before it was officially released. I noticed immediately that something was different with his computer — it had all these colorful and...
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Crop Tool Refinements in Photoshop CS6 Creative Cloud
Today I was doing some editing in Photoshop for my daughter’s school yearbook. I spent a bit of time optimizing images, but mostly I did lots and lots of cropping, and I found myself frustrated at...
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