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Create perfectly mounted prints at home

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Michael Topham, 01 March 2010 09:59

When you print an image you’re proud of, you want to present it professionally, the best way you can. With a few general tools and a special mount cutter, Michael Topham runs through what it takes to turn a huge piece of mount board into a perfectly cut window mount for your prints. Once this has been done the print will ...

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Create perfectly mounted prints at home

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Michael Topham, 01 March 2010 09:59

When you print an image you’re proud of, you want to present it professionally, the best way you can. With a few general tools and a special mount cutter, Michael Topham runs through what it takes to turn a huge piece of mount board into a perfectly cut window mount for your prints. Once this has been done the print will ...

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Improve your Cloning by using Selections

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Michael Topham, 29 January 2010 12:49

If you sometimes find it a struggle to clone tricky areas when working in Photoshop, it may be because you’re using the wrong cloning tool or an incorrect brush size. To get around the most troublesome areas in your images, it’s best to use the cloning tools in combination with Selections. In this Photoanswers video, Michael Topham explains how Selections ...

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Downloading and Installing ICC Profiles

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Michael Topham, 20 January 2010 16:45

Printing at home has some real advantages; it’s quick, easy and you can get results in a fraction of the time it would take to send them to a professional printing company. Before you commit to the final print button, though, it’s a good idea to select the ICC profile for the paper that you’re using – especially if you ...

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Create the Sunburst effect in Photoshop

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Michael Topham, 05 January 2010 15:49

When you’re shooting towards the sun, you can achieve some fantastic sunburst effects. The easiest way of capturing the sunburst effect in-camera is by using a narrow aperture, but in certain circumstances you’ll need to use faster shutter speeds to capture action so choose a larger aperture and forego the sunburst effect. In this tutorial Michael Topham shows you how ...

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Understanding the Free Transform Command

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Michael Topham, 01 December 2009 18:52

There are two ways of transforming your shots. You can either go to Edit > Transform and choose from one of the six commands on offer, or alternatively, you can go to Edit > Free Transform. The advantage of using the latter is that it lets you control the Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort and Perspective commands all at the time ...

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Learn about Photoshop's valuable Black & White Filter

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Michael Topham, 12 November 2009 16:03

If you’re a Photoshop user and enjoy turning your shots to mono it’s important that you use the specialist Black and White Filter. It gives you much more control of the tones in your images and can help give your black & white shots the extra impact that they deserve. You can learn about all aspects of Black and White ...

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Learn Photoshop’s Batch Command

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Michael Topham, 21 October 2009 14:37

Photoshop’s Batch command is an excellent feature to use when you want to apply an Action to a number of files or images. It can save a huge amount of time repeating the same old imaging tasks, and it’s a command that’s well worth learning how to use. In this video Michael Topham shows you how the Batch command can ...

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8

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Michael Topham, 28 September 2009 14:33

Adobe has recently launched Photoshop Elements 8 but before you consider upgrading your previous version – or rush straight out to buy it – make sure you check out this Photoanswers video which shows you some of our favorite new features in this latest software. The video begins by taking a look at the all-new adjustment previews inside the Quick ...

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Five invaluable keyboard shortcuts

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Michael Topham, 10 September 2009 16:18

If you want to become a fast and efficient Elements and Photoshop user, it’s a good idea to use the keyboard shortcuts that are on offer. Most shortcuts can be found beside the different commands from the menu bar or you can hover the mouse over different tools and it’ll show you the shortcut in brackets. In this week’s Photoanswers ...

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Learn the Split-RAW technique

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Michael Topham, 21 August 2009 10:17

Have you ever taken a RAW file that has a correctly exposed foreground but an over-exposed sky or background? To get round this problem you could have used an ND filter at the point of capture, but if you’ve only taken one shot of the scene it’s easy to overcome the problem providing you’ve shot in RAW format. Splitting a ...

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