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Photoshop vs Photoshop Elements: Which One Is Right for You?

If you're in the market for an image editing software, chances are you're choosing between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Both are excellent software for manipulating digital photographs and images. In this article, I'll discuss some of the ways the two software are different. Hopefully, after reading this, you can make an informed decision. Keep in mind Adobe's intentions when you consider each one. In their website, Adobe says that Photoshop CS4 (the latest version) is ideal for "professional photographers, serious amateur photographers, graphic designers, web designers." Unfortunately, Adobe doesn't tell us whom Photoshop Elements is ideal for. It does say you can "get creative," "enhance your photos," "share and protect all your memories" with Elements. This hints at a more consumer-level (rather than professional) user who manages images for personal use. With this in mind, Photoshop and Photoshop Element...

Photoshop CS3 Red Eye Tutorial

The following tutorial will explain how you can take scan photos and digital images and reduce or remove the red eye that may occur when taking pictures. Currently, new cameras and even cheaper ones have technology that already reduce or remove red eye that may case red eye. If you follow the short tutorial below you should be able to remove any harmful red eye within your old or new pictures. 1. Open up Adobe Photoshop CS3 2. Click and hold the bandage icon on the left side of the screen and select the option (Red Eye Tool) that slides out as an extra feature. 3. With the Photoshop Red Eye Tool you get the ability to select the area that you want the red eye tool to look for a circle object that represents the eye. 4. Once you release the area that the eye will be in the program will instantly cover the pupil with a darker color. From close up it may look a little weird but from the original zoom distance it looks good. 5. Now you will do the same for the other eye 6. Now...

Adding Sunlight Through The Trees

In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to add beams of sunlight through trees, which is not only a great way to make an image look more interesting, it's also a lot easier to do than you might think, as we'll see. We'll even finish things off by making the sunbeams appear to be shining on the ground after they pass through the trees, which adds more realism to the final effect. Step 1: Find The Color Channel With The Highest Contrast Free Adobe Photoshop tutorials, Photoshop tutorials and photo shop tutorials on photo effects and Photoshop effects. With our image open in Photoshop, the first thing we need to do is find out which of our three color channels (Red, Green and Blue) contains the highest amount of contrast. To do that, switch over to your Channels palette, which by default is grouped in beside your Layers palette. You'll see the "Red", "Green" and "Blue" channels listed, which combine to c...

Learn Photoshop In Just 2 Hours...

If you're new to Photoshop and looking for the easiest way to really get to grips with this exciting software (which can often be very frustrating and overwhelming for newbies)... then I strongly recommend you take a look at Photoshop expert David Peter's fantastic video tutorials. There's just 2 hours worth of instantly accessible online video tutorials, which are designed to get the newbie user as competent as possible as fast as possible. David claims anyone can master the basics of Adobe Photoshop in just a couple of hours if they follow his video tutorials. And I agree (and when you check out the website you'll see feedback from a LOT of people who have tried them are are delighted with the results). What I like most about his video learning system is the fact that you never need to look at a boring manual again. It's the next best thing to having a personal coach! click here