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My-Photoshop Video Tutorials
Each of the videos on this page should be taken in order if you are new to Photoshop - and believe me, if you're skilled in Photoshop, these are not the tutorials for you. We take the viewpoint of a complete beginner and give a step-by-step guide through the Photoshop world in these videos. These are in flash, so you should not need anything special (most web browsers have flash support added in) to view them.
Resizing Images & Saving for the Web
There really is a right and a wrong way to resize images - do it the wrong way, and you'll end up with something that has become deformed and ... well, ugly. This video tutorial walks you through some basics of Photoshop and focuses on resizing images properly, as well as how to save images for quick download on the Internet.
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Adding Borders & Adjusting Color Modes
Color modes can be really, really confusing. They don't have to be. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to quickly adjust color modes and understand why they might need adjusted, as well as how to easily add borders to your images for a nice touch.
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Stroking Text & Saving PSDs
PSDs are the default Photoshop document, and are really useful if you're creating images that you might want to change later. In addition to that basic knowledge, this video walks you through the steps required to stroke your text (add a nice, tight border) using layer effects
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The Luminous Technique & Blend Modes
What I call the "luminous technique" others have called dreamy photo and surreal photo. Whatever you want to call it, this effect is absolutely stunning when done right and only takes a couple of steps to do. While we're at this technique, we're also going to learn a bit about blend modes - ways of making your layers look ... well, different.
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Color Effects & Desaturating an Image
This video shows how to desaturate an image (change it to grayscale) without losing any depth, and then how to apply color effects to your image.
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Resizing for a Canvas & Selective Color Replacement
Another very quick and effective way of resizing your images, this time focusing on making an image fit into a canvas that must be an exact size, without distorting it. Sound complicated? It's not - it takes about 3 steps to complete. And because that's so easy, we're going to look a little bit more at color effects and how to replace colors.
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