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Today finds me on the beautiful and unexpectedly sunny east coast of Ireland. More specifically, Northern Ireland. Today's agenda: leave Belfast (such a great city!), explore the Giant's Causeway, take in a dram or two at the Bushmills Distillery, and lay my head down in Derry. In other words, I'll already have a buzz going by the time many of you roll out of bed and read this.

Just as no turkey will be harmed in the execution of my vacation, none will be harmed in the viewing of my video. In fact, rather than masticating a turkey, you'll be making one, using nothing more than Photoshop and a primitive tracing of your own hand.

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This week's video is the first of a two-parter, the second of which, "Assembling a seamless Pattern Brush," is available exclusively to members of the lynda.com Online Training Library. I mention this because today's movie ends as a bit of a cliff hanger. that is to say, this free movie shows you how to create all the elements required to make a seamless pattern. But you might as well know up front: To understand how to turn those elements into an actual functioning Pattern Brush, you'll have to be a paying member of lynda.com.

Hey, even a kind and generous teacher like me has to turn the occasional buck. Here's the official description from lynda.com: Read more » 

If you use Photoshop, I imagine you probably know all about the amazing healing brush, which lets you clone one area of an image (called the source) onto another area and seamlessly merge the results. (Or, at least, that's the idea. Some results are more seamless than others.) But do you know about the healing brush's partner in crime, the Clone Source panel? It lets you set the position of the source as well as scale it. Better yet, you can flip and rotate the source.

In this week's free video, I show you how to flip and rotate the source to heal a good eye onto a bad one. If you've never seen this trick, you're in for an eye-opening surprise.

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In my final Photoshop CS5 Top 5 video, I show you Photoshop CS5’s most ambitious innovation, the new painting tools. You have the bristle brushes, which simulate real-world traditional art brushes, down to the quantity and stiffness of the hairs. And you have the mixer brush, which lets you mix your paint with a base photograph as if the photo were rendered in wet oils.

Today's graphic is rendered using Photoshop CS5's one new blend mode, Divide. And though I don't document Divide in this particular video, I assure you, these next 17 minutes and 36 seconds are going to divide your socks off. Read more »