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Deke's Techniques 088: Masking with Photoshop's Blunt Instruments
Today I show you how to muscle your way through a mask, and a complex one at that. All it takes is a few blunt tools, lots of brute force, and perseverance.
Deke's Techniques 084: Drawing Rays of Light in Photoshop
This week, I build further on my completely fabricated but no less green energy project, adding an unnatural but sustainable starburst glow around a lightbulb.
Deke's Techniques 082: Tracing an Image with Path Outlines
Forget the Pen tool. Selecting a complex object without relying on the Byzantine manipulation of anchor points and control handles is a handy way to trace stuff in Photoshop.
Deke's Techniques 074: Preparing an HDR Zombie in "The Lab"
This week, I show you how to begin turning the near-dead living into the absolute living dead. It starts with a faux-HDR technique that favors Photoshop's Lab Mode.
Deke's Techniques 025: Correcting Red-eye like a pro
This week, I show you how to make red pupils black, the right way. To which you might respond, really, red-eye?! But trust me, it's a great technique.
Deke’s Techniques 010: Smoothing Skin Texture with an Anti-Edge Mask
This week's movie says goodbye to text effects and hello to photography techniques. Specifically, I show you a quick method for smoothing over skin details in a portrait shot.
The Self-Made Mask
Photoshop CS5 Top 5: Refining Your Masks
Photoshop CS5
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Photoshop Top 40, Feature #16: Adjustment Layers
An adjustment layer is an independent layer of color adjustment that you can edit any time you like. Plus it affects all layers below it, consumes very little space in memory, and affords the opportunity for selective edits.
Photoshop Top 40, Feature #31: The Brush Tool
The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It's not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as this video demonstrates.