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Fringeing in Elements

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Anonymous, 18 August 2010 15:25

Fringeing, or Chromatic aberration occurs with some zoom lenses. It happens because the red, green and blue light that makes up a colour image has slightly different wavelengths, and this means the different colours focus at different distances. Correcting the optics within a lens to account for this is fairly straight forward in fixed focal length (prime) lenses, but it’s ...

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Fringeing in Elements

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Anonymous, 18 August 2010 15:25

Fringeing, or Chromatic aberration occurs with some zoom lenses. It happens because the red, green and blue light that makes up a colour image has slightly different wavelengths, and this means the different colours focus at different distances. Correcting the optics within a lens to account for this is fairly straight forward in fixed focal length (prime) lenses, but it’s ...

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Photoshop CS5 - Content-Aware Fill

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Anonymous, 28 April 2010 17:19

It won’t be long before boxed copies of Photoshop CS5 start hitting the UK shelves and for those running CS2 or later, (CS3 or CS4), it’s likely to present a tempting upgrade for £187. There are plenty of new tools and features to get excited about, both in Camera RAW and Photoshop itself, however there’s one tool that seems to ...

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Refine Edge

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Anonymous, 31 July 2009 11:32

Refine Edge can be found in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 and provides a sophisticated way of improving the quality of selection edges. It also allows you to view a selection against different backgrounds to make the adjustments easier to see. Five sliders control inside Refine Edge Radius Slider: Increase the Radius to create a more exact selection boundary in areas ...

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Extract Filter

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Anonymous, 31 March 2009 17:09

The Extra Filter can be found in all versions of Photoshop,except CS4 and provides a sophisticated way to isolate foreground objects and erase backgrounds on a layer. It can be used to work around wispy or indefinable edges with the minimum amount of work. To access the Extract Filter, go to Filter in the Menu bar and it’s the third ...

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Pen Tool

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Anonymous, 31 March 2009 17:05

If you want to cut out a specific object or subject in a photograph, or fancy creating an ultra fine selection, Photoshop’s Pen Tool is one of the most precise tools to use. The Pen Tool can be found in the toolbox and the keyboard shortcut is the letter P. Before you start it’s important to set up the tool ...

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Paths

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Anonymous, 31 March 2009 16:59

Paths are created when using Photoshop’s Pen Tool. They are very simply vector-based line drawings that can be stretched and shaped around any subject with the use of Anchor points. Anchor points appear on screen as small grey squares and if you’re looking to make a Path around a specific subject, it’s these anchor points that should be positioned around ...

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Adobe Camera Raw

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Anonymous, 22 January 2009 14:41

The Adobe Camera Raw is a piece of software that’s included as a plug-in with Adobe Photoshop and gives the user the ability to import and work with Camera Raw Files. To process images using the Camera Raw, select the files you wish to import in Bridge, choosing File from the Menu bar, selecting Open In Camera Raw. Equally dragging ...

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Feathering

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Anonymous, 22 January 2009 14:34

Feathering is a handy feature that’s used within image editing programmes and its purpose is to blur edges by building a transition boundary between a selection and it’s surrounding pixels. This gives an effect whereby the edges of a selection are much softer and less harsh than they were previously. Feathering can be used in combination with the Marquee, Polygonal ...

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20 Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

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Anonymous, 13 August 2008 09:05

Here are 20 Photoshop shortcuts to seriously speed up your workflow. Working through Photoshop menus can be awkward and time consuming, especially if you can't remember exactly where something is. Keyboard shortcuts offer a fasttrack to some of the most common features of the software. At first, shortcuts themselves take a little getting used to, but once you've got a few ...

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