Photoshop CS3 Tips and Tricks for Digital Photographers

Photoshop CS3 Tips and Tricks for Digital Photographers

Photoshop CS3 to enhance our digital photographs. One of the most powerful features of Photoshop is the ability to take digital images directly from the camera in order to create a virtual photolab environment. Gone are the days of the darkroom, the chemicals and the processing time. We now have the power to re-create powerful digital images right at our fingertips using Photoshop's arsenal of state of the art tools. We will take a look at everything from organizing our photos in Adobe Bridge, image adjustments in camera raw, curves, sharpening, and filter applications to name just a few.

1 - Special Effects Using the Marquee Tool
The marquee tool can be used to quickly and easily add some pop to your digital photos. In this video, we will take a look at several techiques and effects we can use to accomplish this.

2 - Color Modifications with Masks and Brushes
In this video, you will learn how to quickly and easily modify the color in a defined area of your photo using layer masks, adjustment layers and the brush tool.

3 - Working with Levels
Levels adjustments is a powerful tool for enhancing your digital photos when used in conjunction with adjustment layers. In this video, you will learn how to apply this technique like the pros.

4 - Painting Within Layer Masks
Painting with layer masks allows us virtually unlimited control within our digital photographs because it is non destructive editing. We can easily fix mistakes and or come back at any time to make further edits. This video will demonstrate just one of the many techiques for creative editing to your photos.

5 - Upsizing Your Digital Photos
Here's a little known technique for sizing your photos up dramatically with almost no visible loss of quality. We will also learn how to use our Actions pallet to automate and speed up our workflow.

6 - The Patch Tool
With Photoshop CS3's new Patch Tool, we now have another option for repairing skin blemishes in our digital photographs. This tutorial will walk you through the basics for easily acheiving that smoother skin look.

7 - The Extreme 3D Popout Effect
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to literally pop our selected subject out of the photograph into the foreground to give our photo that 3D effect. This particular technique will also give us the opportunity to use Photoshop's CS3's brand new Quick Selection tool.

8 - Color Correction and Depth of Field
Here's a quick and easy technique for basic color color correction on the fly and a great way to achieve that "Depth of Field Focus" without the need for a high dollar camera and lens.

9 - Adjustment Layers for Black and White
We'll take a look at an alternative technique for creating those high contrast black and white photo conversions. This technique will hone your skills with PS3's adjustment layers.

10 - Highlights, Midtones and Shadows
We will take a look at a slightly more advanced technique for dramatically improving your photographs using Highlights, Midtones and Shadows. You will be surprized at the amount of control you will have in regards to cleaning up those slightly washed out looking photos using these three features in conjunction with adjustment layers.

11 - Working With Smart Objects
This tutorial will walk us through the basics of using Smart Objects. We will use this powerful new tool in Photoshop CS3 to create a composite sheet for printing multiple digital photos on a single document.

12 - Floating Borders
Here's a great trick for creating a floating border from within your digital photograph. This technique will also be great practice for desaturating, selecting, and linking layers.

13 - Color Cast Removal
We will take a look at a great technique for romoving those unwanted color casts from your digital photos using a blur technique and adjustment layers. You will have your digital photos color corrected in a snap!

14 - Adjusting JPEGS and TIFFS in Camera Raw
Not having an expensive digital SLR camera is no excuse for ignoring Photoshop's powerful Camera Raw adjustment options. In this tutorial, we will take a look at how we can open our "Point and Shoot" camera images from within this powerful new tool to create stunning photos.

15 - Black and White Conversion With Camera Raw
This tutorial will demonstrate yet another technique for converting your color photographs to black and white using Photoshop's powerful new Camera Raw tools.

16 - LAB sharpening
Here's two alternative techiques for sharpening your photos using LAB conversion and targeting the lightness channel, instead of your color channels. These techniques can help prevent color shift while sharpening, and as you will see in our second technique, magically bring the colors back to your photo.

17 - Photos and Shapes
Here's a little Photoshop trickery to convert your digital photos using shapes and layer styles. This is a handy technique for spicing up your website or creating custom cards for special events and occasions.

Digital Photo Magic with Photoshop CS3

Digital Photo Magic with Photoshop CS3

There are so many features packed into PS CS3 that we simply can't cover them all in a single series. We'll take advantage of these tutorials to dive into some brand new techniques as well as covering multiple and more advanced options in regards to some of the techniques we learned in the previous series "Photoshop CS3 Tips and Tricks for Digital Photographers".

1 - Color Cast Removal and Photo Filters (Running Time - 9:23)
In this tutorial we're going to talk about an optional color cast removal technique and the Photo Filter option in CS3, as well as painting with Layer Masks to control the filters applied.

2 - Take it to the Bridge (Running Time - 13:29)
This episode will take a much more in depth look at the features available to you from within Adobe Bridge. Bundled inside Photoshop CS3, Bridge offers up powerful tools for organizing your digital photographs.

3 - Layer Comps (Running Time - 10:09)
Layer Comps is a great tool for saving and viewing mofified states of your images as you apply filters and effects on seperate layers. We'll also take a look at converting our Layer Comps to Scripts in order to view all of these image states in one single file.

4 - Photomerge (Running Time - 7:28)
Photoshop CS3 makes it easier than ever to create beautiful panoramas. We will learn how to quickly and easily seam our images together. We will then use a tricky keyboard shortcut to take a snapshot and make adjustments to our finished product.

5 - Batch Rename (Running Time - 5:53)
Quite often your camera will assign a code name for the file name of your digital photo. This file name is usually associated with the make of the camera and can be very confusing when trying to organize your photos.In this tutorial, we are going to take a look at renaming your digital photo files with Adobe Bridge's Batch Rename.

6 - Grayscale Calculations (Running Time - 5:51)
Grayscale Calculations is a mostly overlooked feature in Photoshop CS3. In this tutorial, we are going to take a look at how we can use this tool to create better black and white conversions with channel blending.

7 - Flash Web Gallery From Bridge (Running Time - 9:12)
In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to build Flash based Web Photo Galleries directly from Adobe Bridge. We will also look at copyright protecting our images as we build our gallery.

8 - Blur Filters (Running Time - 6:48)
Photoshop's CS3 Blur Filters are great for simulating motion and depth of field. In this tutorial, we will take a look at applying both these techniques to spice up our digital photos.

9 - Picture Package (Running Time - 4:39)
The Picture Package feature, bundled in Photoshop CS3, offers up lots of great options for printing multiple images onto one sheet of photo paper. This is a great time and money saver when printing images in larger quantities.

10 - Luminosity Adjustments (Running Time - 6:26)
In this episode, we will learn a great techique for adjusting only the luminous areas of your photograph. This is a great technique for making those sunset or fall colors photographs really pop out.

11 - Gallery Prints (Running Time - 5:53)
Ever thought about displaying your prints? Here is a quick and easy technique for creating that professional gallery print with Photoshop CS3.

12 - Camera Raw Settings(Running Time - 5:29)
We are going to jump back into Adobe Bridge for this tutorial and take a look at a great trick for applying Camera Raw settings to multiple images at once.

13 - Contact Sheets (Running Time - 10:14)
Contact sheets are a great way to display mutiple photographs on one sheet of photopaper. This is an essential technique when clients need to quickly and easily review all of the images you are presenting from your shoots, other than from the computer.

14 - Basic Curves Adjustments (Running Time - 8:26)
Photoshop has made some big improvements in the way the Curves Dialog Box looks and functions in Photoshop CS3. In this tutorial, we will take a look at these new features and how we can utilize them to greatly improve our digital photographs.

15 - Cross Processing with Curves (Running Time - 4:29)
We will take a look at one of the great new presets bundled into the Curves Dialog Box in Photoshop CS3. Cross Processing is a very effective technique for acheiving that high impact tech look that appears in so many contemporary magazine publications.

16 - True Grit (Running Time - 7:20)
One of the current hot new techniques in Photoshop is that gritty grunge look. In this turorial, we will learn how to create that look using filters, blend modes, and noise.

17 - Dramatic Photo Effects (Running Time - 8:47)
In this tutorial, you will learn a more in depth techique for creating that artistic edge with your digital photos. This techique will create that more dramatic edgy look to spice up those everyday photographs.