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- Photoshop Natural Looking Colored Pencils - the best way to color a black and white ink drawing in photoshop and make it look like it was done with color pencils...
- Creating a "Light Sabre" in Photoshop - ... inspired by the Star Wars movies...
- Photoshop Blends Color to Grayscale - What is the quickest way to achieve this? Multiple layers? Layer masks?...
- Hiding the transparency grid - detailed art is sometimes obscured by the transparency pattern... how to cure in Photoshop...
- Replacing Color in Photoshop CS2 - ... replace color while maintaining texture and shading...
- Losing Selections, Saving Selections - ... Nothing's more frustrating than losing a complicated selection... here's what to do...
- Seeing web images from Photoshop - How can I see what web graphics will look like...
- Quickmask feathering - QuickMask for Feathering only a portion of the selection...
- How to get started in Photoshop - I need to set up ads... and don't know where to start...
- Solid Black to a Color in Photoshop - How can I change the solid black to another specified color...
- Automating Crop Straighten - gang-scan photos then automatically straighten...
- Color tint spoils black and white print
- Help printing Contact Sheets
- Help printing variable data
- Help, soft selection is killing me
- Help print to specific color spectrums
- Where is RAW plug-in?
- Wrap image around a sphere?
- Replace color with White?
- Help using Slice Image
- Help create Photo Logo frame
- Banding in Gradients
- Where is the colorize button?
- Colorizing Black and White in Elements
- Newton Rings Woes
- Fixing Backlighted Photos
- Stitching panoramic photos
- How to Unlock Background
- How do you print the grid?
- PS Won't Select Pixels
- Wraping Text Around Sphere
- HELP create Distressed Type
- HELP Blend Image, Background
- HELP Place Text on Photo
- No Results for Stroke Path
- Pencil Sketch colorizing
- TIF images lose sharpness
- Help merge photos: fading one photo to another
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- Prints look muddy Screen doesn't match prints... paper affects density of inks...
- How to get better scans Removing margins, extracting type
- Bitmap to Vector? Line art and stencils from a bitmap? Tough question.
- Cropping for DVD TV Inventing background where there is none?
- Screen printing to 6 colors very different from regular litho printing. You'll need...
- Clear backgrounds for Illustrator Transparency for Illustrator and Quark
- Color Replace Problems I can't get the replace color brush to work correctly.
- Reflections on Water - easy... give it a flip and a ripple...
- Photoshop File on Network Drive ... refuses to open
- Double Tools in the Tool Box Oh no! Corrupted...
- Step and Repeat Business Cards Get them all on a single sheet...
- Warp, Wrap an image... wrapping an image around a surface...
- Match color from another photo - Before combining two photos, how to get them to match color values
- Getting the Ansel Adams Look - Is it a color photo? You'll need the channel mixer or levels
- Cloning Tool Stopped Working - I am having problems with the cloning tool on photoshop 7
- Scaling to match another image size - Scaling to an exact target size is tricky... and should never enlarge!
- Resetting Dialogs in Photoshop - if Photoshop seems to be misbehaving
- PS 7 rejects Scanner - hello? where did my scanner go???
- Color Photo from Black and White - to and from black and white tips and tricks
- Help removing white backgrounds - How do I get rid of the White background in my forum sig?
- How to pick up an exact color... - How do you select an exact color to match?
- How to fix a corrupted file - Crashing during a "SAVE" is not a pretty picture
- Hot spots too bright - Flash flare and hot spots can cause problems. Here's one way to solve the problem...
- Photoshop picks only black or white - When I go to pick my colour, it will only be Black-white
- Replacing Body Parts - How do you match the color in photos before swapping faces...
- Multiple Scan Assembly - How do you assemble multiple parts of an oversized scan?
- Photoshop Elements for Sepiatone - Give a photo the "old fashioned" look with sepia toning
- Lost scanner contact - Photoshop can't find my scanner!
- How to restrict the file to just TWO colors? - Trying to build a 2-color ad
- Clone Stamp Problems in CS - Here the Clone Stamp Tool seems to have a life of its own, and doesn't catch new samples...
- How do you create an artistic border? - Creating artistic borders
- How to achieve Black/White with Color Detail - How to achieve Black/White with Color Detail
- How to select Hair - The 1,000th person has asked how to select hair
- How do you merge pictures and text? - trying to merge 2 pictures and text
- Photoshop Text Runarounds? - How do I create text runarounds in Photoshop CS
- Sizing Images for Print in Elements - This reader wants help sizing images to gang print onto single photo paper sheets...
- Copying Saving from Disk to Disk - Problems cutting and editing images from disk to disk
- How to fix a corrupted file - Crashing during a "SAVE" is not a pretty picture
- Optimizing graphics for the Web - Can you direct me to a tutuorial on how to optimize photos I wish to publish on my website?
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