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Using Photoshop Selections for Color and Tone Adjustments

Great image color and tone adjustments start with a great selection.  Learn how to do this quickly and easily. Follow along with these photos (provided for educational use only). Starter image Ending Image Watch and Learn Using selections for color and tone adjustments from Photoshop Selections: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Quick Tip: Open Almost Any Image in Adobe Camera Raw

Want to open almost any image in Camera Raw? It turns out that you can! You can, in fact, open TIFF and JPEG files using the Camera Raw plug-in. Here’s how… In Photoshop, choose File > Browse in Bridge to switch to Adobe Bridge. Select the desired files. Choose select File > Open

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Photographer of the Day: Bernd Weller

Category: Street Photographer: Bernd Weller “Tuned Out” The color that Bernd is able to capture here is astonishing — the mural on the brick just really stands out. But the reason I picked this photograph is more about the composition. The subject takes up a small portion of the photograph,

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Photographer of the Day: Nic Taylor

Category: Sports Photographer: Nic Taylor “Dropping Bombs!” When sports and portraiture meet, it’s often a really dynamic result. Nic’s photograph highlights the emotion and energy of boxing by having the boxer punch a boxing bag. The dust and sweat that releases as he hits the bag, coupled with the boxer’s

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Quick Tip: Stop Dumbing Down Your Raw Files

Working with Raw Files in Photoshop? One of the major benefits of shooting raw is an increased bit depth.  If you don’t make these two change to your Photoshop Raw workflow, you are just destroying the quality of your raw photos. Step 1: Open a raw image. Step 2: At the bottom

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At Photoshop World? Come See Us

Are you in Orlando this week for Photoshop World? The Photofocus team is here and would love to chat or have a drink.  You can catch up with several team members including: Vanelli Levi Sim Kevin Ames Jason Hahn Rich Harrington Scott Bourne Where to find us? Meet Our Editor

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Photographer of the Day: Plane Sight Images

Category: Outdoors Photographer: Plane Sight Images “Untitled” A perfect study of lines and texture, and ideally suited to B&W. The receding line of the fence into the distance carries the eye to the horizon, and the windblown texture in the sand brings it full circle to the fore. The darker sky

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Portrait Tips: Zoom To Remove Background Problems

Zooming in, using a longer focal length to make a picture, makes your subject look bigger and closer. But you should remember that when you zoom in on your subject, you zoom in on the whole world. That means that the background becomes closer, too. Your whole field of view

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