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Photoshop Tricks for Fixing Photos and Creating Cool Graphics

Check out this big collection of Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks. Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are powerful graphics editing programs available for PC or Mac computers. Creating Photoshop graphics is creative and fun once you master the basics. Photoshop is an essential tool for digital photographers and graphic artists; its also useful to anyone who wants to create computer art raster graphics or manipulate photos and clip art. Photoshop Elements is a less-complex version of Photoshop that has features to automate many common graphics editing tasks.

Adobe Photoshop Elements costs less than Photoshop and the software is often distributed as a free bonus when you purchase a digital camera, scanner or graphics tablet. Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have many graphics edting features and at first may seem overwhelming, complex or difficult to learn. Don't despair - with a few tutorials that take you step by step through practice sessions, you'll be able to master the basics of Photoshop and enjoy graphics editing as a creative process instead of a chore.

What photo editing software do you use?

Many digital cameras and scanners come bundled with Photoshop Elements at no extra charge. I have a copy of Photoshop Elements that came with my digital camera. My husband uses Photoshop Elements because its easier to learn than Photoshop, although he's a whiz at AutoCAD so I think he'll one day become a Photoshop expert when he has time to work with the program every day.

Do you use Photoshop Elements, or are you a regular Photoshop user? Or do you use another program?

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Adobe Photoshop Tips and Tricks

Graphics Editing Lessons and Tutorials

This Photoshop graphics tips lens will help you find the best the Adobe Photoshop how-to tips, Photoshop tutorial articles and video lessons, graphics editing plugins and helpful hints for working with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

You'll find links and features to the top Photoshop lenses I've discovered on Squidoo: how to Photoshop lenses created by talented Squidoo experts who use Photoshop or Photoshop elements will show you step by step how they make magic with images and how you can create cool Photoshop effects with your photographs.

If you want to design graphics or create artwork with images and fonts, you can become a digital designer using Photoshop. If you need to make a quick adjustment to a photo, either Photoshop or Elements has the tools you need to apply filters and masks, color correct, sharpen or distort any bitmap image or digital photograph. You'll even learn about other photo editing programs here - less expensive software and graphic editors you can use without downloading or installing software.

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Photoshop Tutorials Online

Outside Squidoo, you can find more Photoshop tips and how to lessons

There are hundreds of sites with how-to information. Here are a few I think are extra special (outside of the excellent Photoshop lenses right here on Squidoo).

PhotoShop Tutorial Video - Instant Weight Loss: Excellent easy to follow tutorial shows how to transform a photo of a chubby lady into a svelte bathing beauty.
Photoshop Tutorials Beyond Squidoo: In-depth Adobe Photoshop tutorials, Adobe Photoshop Elements Tutorials, Photography tutorials created using Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS4 but most can be followed using older versions such as Photoshop CS.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Training Video and PDF Lessons: Official training video and PDF modules from Adobe teach you the concepts and features of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. You need a copy of the software to try out and follow along with these lessons.
Adobe TV Video Lessons: All the video lessons for Photoshop Elements can be found and viewed here. You can also embed these videos in your blog or web site.
23 Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials :: Elite By Design: Photoshop tutorials I’ve found on the web that will help you utilize those resources. I’ve done my best to select a wide variety of tutorials from web graphics, to photo enhancement, to just plain incredible ...
Free Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorial | Copying graphic presets from Illustrator to Photoshop | Layers Magazine: Matt has some helpful hints on how to bring the new preset graphics from Illustrator CS4 and move them into Photoshop.
Stencil Tutorials: Learn How to Make a Stencil From a Photograph: This is a Stencil Tutorial that shows you how to make a Stencil pattern from a Photograph using Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop Tips and Techniques by Russell Brown: View video tutorials for most recent versions of Adobe Photoshop. Download podcasts (and learn to make them yourself). Lots of information for Photoshop users of C2 through the latest version.

Adobe Photoshop Elements

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Make every photo look its best using Photoshop Elements. Its powerful photo editing options take the difficulty out of image editing, letting you easily create photo books, cards, calendars, and other printed gifts and keepsakes.

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Photoshop Elements is a slimmed-down version of Photoshop at a slimmer price - but have no fear, it's got plenty of features that will appeal to most users. This version is lower in cost right now because a newer version is now available.

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Photoshop Elements costs far less than a full version of Photoshop. The software includes all the most popular features of Photoshop, plus little extras that make graphics manipulation and touch-up easier to do with less of a learning curve.

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Photoshop Tasks - What Works for You?

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Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have many uses, from simple resizing or converting images from one format to another to creating fine art in digital format. What is the one task you most commonly use Photoshop to perform?

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How to: Photoshop Special Effects

These are 5 of my favorite Photoshop how-to lenses with tips, tricks and cool special effects you can achieve with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

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Fantasy Photo Techniques Using Photoshop

Create unreal photos and illustrations using Photoshop layers and tools

If you like to play around with photos, add borders, remove color or enhance overall image quality, you'll find Photoshop or Photoshop Elements handy. If you like to get creative or torment your friends and family, Photoshop just may become your favorite computer application. My brother loves to take photos of family members then replace the teeth, nose or hair with others. I find it less than amusing, but he thinks its hysterically funny.

You can combine many different objects in a single Photoshop graphic and control them using layers and masks. Layers, masks and other features make Photoshop a powerful and highly creative artistic tool. You can apply all sorts of effects using filters, textures, transparency and brushes.

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Caption This Wild Image

This must be a Photoshop edited picture ... or is it?

With a few simple keystrokes almost anyone with access to Photoshop can alter an image, often with astonishing results - some humorous, some dramatic, some well - weird. What appropriate caption would you add to this photo image?

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This image is part of a photoshop tennis game, taking place at: www.flickr.com/groups/pstennis/discuss/72157594450507259/

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With Photoshop and many other photo editing programs, you can fix small problems with photos - remove red eyes, adjust lighting, correct colors - quickly and easily.

You might also need to fix big problems on precious heirloom pictures. You can restore photographs that have been damaged by all sorts of blemishes: fading, cracks, tears and chips. You'll need a good digital image of the damage photo to work with - either scan the damaged photo or take a copy-board digital photo of a larger work and then work to fix the problem areas using Photoshop.

The image above shows a digital photo of an original charcoal drawing on bristol board. The artwork had been stored without protection in a hot attic for years, and was stained, yellowed and crumbling to pieces. It's a very old family portrait we needed to preserve before it disintegrated.

Here's the same image after I used Photoshop to restore the picture:

To repair and restore this family portrait image I used my digital camera to photograph the original damaged artwork, then transferred the digital image to my PC and opened it in Photoshop. In Photoshop, I first created a duplicate layer from the original background layer. I used the duplicate layer as my working "canvas." Next I used the clone stamp tool to select and then "paint" on the damaged areas. The clone stamp tool allows you to select an area you want to use as your patch or paint, then you paste it into the area you need to repair.

I used a soft round brush to select the patch paint sample (ALT + click selects the target area to copy from) then painted out the blemishes and stains on the background, clothing areas and edges (click while the clone stamp tool is active and it will paint with the sample area). As I moved around the image I reselected the patch paint samples so they'd match the next area I wanted to fix.

I used the blend tool a bit after I was finished patching and cleaning, then turned off the background, saved a copy of the image as a high quality TIFF file and then ordered a high quality giclee print of the repaired artwork on stretchable art canvas. Our family heirloom charcoal drawing is now safely stored and we display the repaired version as a piece of art.

Photoshop Magic: Slim Down a Beach Body

Using just a few tools you can take pounds off in minutes!

This is a great tutorial that shows how to use a few tools and brushes to improve a photograph. How to do a photo makeover using Photoshop - it's really not hard if you follow these tips. Now if only we could adjust ourselves in real life this easily ...

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Fonts for Photoshop

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Photoshop Tutorials

Feb 13, 2012 @ 9:30 amCreate a Coffee Cake Photo Manipulation ? Tuts+ Pr... from Psdtuts+: In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Stephen Petrany will demonstrate how to take pieces from multiple photos and seamlessly blend them into a "coffee cake" photo manipulation. This tutori...
Feb 12, 2012 @ 4:56 pmAdobe Announces Even More New Features for Photosh... from Psdtuts+: Last weekend, I attended a couple of Photoshop Sneak Peek events that were sponsored by Adobe in New York City. At the event, Photoshop Sr. Product Manager Bryan O?Neil Hughes gave live presentations...
Feb 11, 2012 @ 11:00 amThe Remarkable Photo Manipulations of Jan Oliehoek from Psdtuts+: Jan Oliehoek is a photo manipulator based in The Netherlands who has a talent for combining and manipulating photos in a fun and creative way. Let’s take a look! Handgun Zebra Frog In this i...
Feb 10, 2012 @ 10:00 amIntegrate a 3D Render Into a Macro Photograph Usin... from Psdtuts+: In this tutorial we will explain how to integrate a rendered 3D model into a photograph to create a macro photography effect. Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of...
Feb 9, 2012 @ 11:30 amFreaky and Bizarre Animal Mashups by Human Descent from Psdtuts+: One of the best things about Photoshop is that it allows us to combine more than one photo to create an entirely new image. This can be done with landscapes, people, and even animals. In this article,...
Feb 9, 2012 @ 8:00 amTest Your Photoshop Knowledge #6 from Psdtuts+: We know how much you guys like to test your knowledge of Photoshop so today we are giving you an opportunity to do so with another quiz from Martin Perhiniak. Please take a moment to complete this 10-...
Feb 8, 2012 @ 12:57 pmEasy Dashed and Dotted Lines in Photoshop from Psdtuts+: For the last few weeks, the Photoshop team has been giving us some sneak peeks of the latest version of Photoshop. The latest version of Photoshop is due to be released in the first half of 2012. We h...
Feb 8, 2012 @ 10:00 amCreate a Caricature Painting in Photoshop from Psdtuts+: Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating ev...
Feb 7, 2012 @ 9:00 amRetouch a Bland Model Portrait in Photoshop from Psdtuts+: Sometimes retouching a portrait can be really tricky, specifically when dealing with model portraits. In this tutorial, we will be retouching a particularly difficult shot in which the subject has no...

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Photoshop Alternatives

There are other graphics editing tools you can use ...

If you don't need to use Photoshop frequently or can't afford to purchase a licensed copy, you can find feature-packed graphics editors for less cost. You can also find free graphics editors online.

This list offers suggestions for cost-effective and free graphic editing software alternatives to Photoshop.

FotoFlexer - Free Online Photo Editor: FotoFlexer is a superior choice for editing images online. In addition to a remarkable set of sophisticated tools for editing images, this online photo editor has many of the tools normally found only in more advanced photo manipulation programs. And......it's absolutely FREE.Here you will find a hi
Photoshop Express Photo Editor: Photoshop Express is a web based and free version of Photoshop. Photoshop is the name of a brand though some people think it is a generic term for photo editing.Sure it's a less featured version of the expensive Photoshop software. That said you won't miss many of the exotic features ...
Picnik Photo Editor: If you want a robust tool that does a lot of different editing, then Picnik is your tool. It makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It's fast, easy, and best of all it is a web based tool so you have no software to download.
Alternatives to Photoshop: So you have this amazing photo of your cat. But, it's not quite amazing enough. You want to 'fix it up.' How can you do that?Simple; you need a photo editor. Are there any free ones? Yep.Want to know what they are? Thought so!Exactly what is it that you want to do to your image? Crop it, lighten it,
LOOKING FOR GRAPHIC ART SOFTWARE? READ THIS BEFORE YOU BUY: How to compare good and bad Graphic Art Software? I'll tell you that it is not THAT difficult. Many graphic art software that sell out there is mostly expensive. You have to choose one of them wisely, of course if you are not have strong financial to buy the expensive one.

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Photoshop Bloggers Offer Tips and Tricks

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17 Years Playing with Adobe Photoshop and Still Learning New Tricks

Adobe Photoshop was one of the first graphic editors I learned to use as a designer. I bought my first copy of the software (version 3.0) in the mid-1990s - not long after Photoshop was ported from the Mac to the PC platform. I paid about $1200.00 plus shipping for a bundled offer: Photoshop and Illustrator packaged together.

In those days, CSx didn't exist. Photoshop was sold as a single program or as a bundle with Adobe Illustrator. For my 1200 bucks I got a box with all the software media, plus printed installation manuals and users guides for both programs.

The software distribution media was multiple floppy disks and it took a bit of time and patience to get all the licensed software, fonts, plug-ins and extra goodies that came with Photoshop and Illustrator loaded onto my old 386 PC with its limited disk space and memory.

Today Photoshop and Illustrator are easy to download directly from Adobe with a high speed connection or you can purchase a shrink-wrapped version with your software and documentation complete, all on one shiny DVD. The license is updated and monitored via the Internet from my computer to Adobe central.

I've upgraded my Adobe software licenses several times over the years. I'm running a full copy of CS3 Design Premium on all my computers. This package has everything I need for print or web work: Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, InDesign, Acrobat Pro and other programs I use for print and web design including Dreamweaver and Flash (both acquired by Adobe a few years ago from Macromedia).

And the price for the full version of CS3 Designer? About the same as I paid in 1995 ... for 2 programs.