Photoshop Tutorials
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PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 1
This tutorial will show you how to find the lightest and darkest parts of your image and how to set them as the white point and the black point. This technique is useful for correcting colour casts in an image and also for extending the tonal range in a low contrast image.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 2
This tutorial will show you how to selectively apply filter effects to an image.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 3
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF DODGING AND BURNING
Dodging and burning should make an image lighter or darker
In this tutorial I show that the dodge and burn tools don't do this, they actually make the image whiter or blacker.
I will then show you how to dodge and burn to make the image lighter or darker, which is the way it should be done.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 4 (IMPROVED VERSION)
AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD OF SHARPENING
This method of sharpening is done using the HIGH PASS FILTER and doesn't give the obvious haloes that unsharp mask does.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 5
HOW TO LEVEL HORIZONS
We have all taken images where the horizon is tilted.
This tutorial shows you how to correct them with ease.


PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 6
HOW TO DIFFUSE THE BLACK TONES.
This tutorial will show you how to simulate the Darkroom technique of Enlarger Diffision on negatives, by selectively blurring the black tones in your image.
This technique can be used to enhance your Infra-Red images.

NEW MODIFIED TUTORIAL (Improved control of tones)
PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 7
The DEREK DOAR METHOD of Converting a colour image to B&W
This tutorial will show you how to convert your colour images to Black & White using RGB Channel mixer and then to modify the tones within the image.
This method will give you control over the whole tonal range of your image.


PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 8
A SIMPLE WAY TO TONE A BLACK & WHITE IMAGE.
This tutorial will show you how you can quickly tone a B&W image.
An Adjustment layer is used for this so that you can re-visit the image and change the toning any time you wish.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 9
HOW TO SPLIT-TONE A BLACK & WHITE IMAGE.
This tutorial will show you how you can split-tone a B&W image.
Two Adjustment layers are used for this so that you can re-visit the image and change the split-toning any time you wish.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 10
CREATING A DIGITAL NEUTRAL DENSITY FILTER EFFECT.
This tutorial will show you how apply a graduated neutral density effect on an image where you should have used a graduated neutral density filter to correct the exposure for the sky at the time of taking the image.

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 11
HOW TO APPLY A READY MADE BORDER TO AN IMAGE,
This tutorial will show you how apply a ready made border to your image. (Numerous magazines give some of these borders away freely)

PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 12
HOW TO SIMPLY TONE A B&W IMAGE USING LAYER BLENDING.
This tutorial will show you how tone your image using one extra layer and a blending mode.

NEW TUTORIAL
PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL 14
HOW TO USE MULTIPLE LEVELS ADJUSTMENT LAYERS,
TO LIGHTEN, DARKEN OR ADJUST THE CONTRAST OF AN IMAGE.
This method involves the creation of 3 separate LEVELS Adjustment layers. One layer to, darken the image, one layer to lighten the image and one layer to adjust the contrast of the image. "The use of the layer mask that comes with the adjustment layer allows you to select which parts of the image you want to adjust. You can see the effect of the adjustment as you go along"


PHOTOSHOP ARTICLE 1
A COMPARISON OF METHODS USED TO CONVERT COLOUR IMAGES TO B&W.
This tutorial will show you some of the different methods that are used to convert colour images to Black & White and shows the advantages and disadvantages of each method.



PHOTOSHOP ARTICLE 2

Adobe RGB (1998) vs ProPhoto RGB by Derek Doar

For some years now, since the Digital Photography revolution began, photographers have been recommended to use Adobe RGB (1998) as their working color space.
Photographic technology has moved forward at an alarming rate and given us better cameras, monitors, printers and software.

Is it now the time to change to ProPhoto RGB?


PHOTOSHOP SHORTCUTS

This website lists Photoshop shortcuts
for Adobe Photoshop 5 to Adobe Photoshop CS4
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