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Recent Photoshop FAQ (Page 2)
- Fading Photos - Use Feathering or Layer Masks to accomplish this task
- Grid Patterns over Photos - Multi colored, grid over art - painstaking process - and no known plug-in
- Pen Tool in Photoshop CS - Why can't you draw an "Open" path using the Pen tool in Photoshop CS? You can, just be careful what kind of pen you use.
- Photoshop and Error 39 - Although this is not a Photoshop problem we answer it anyway
- Automating the Healing Brush - lots and lots of dust spots can spoil a photo. Automating the Healing Brush would seem logical... but it's not
- Burned Holes in Photoshop How do you simulate a burned hole in Photoshop?
- Help recall Filter Settings... Reapplying filter effects, returning to the last filter settings used.
- PS Bevels by hand How to make bevels by hand rather than through layers styles
- PS helps Faded Photo This badly aged and faded photo from 1900 needs two scans not just one.
- Photoshop vs. Elements - Which is better? Photoshop Elements? Which should I buy? We simply got tired of answering this same frequent question -- so, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements expert, Richard Lynch joins us to put this long-running debate to rest: Which is best: Photoshop or Elements??
- Line Drawings from Photoshop - This reader asks how to convert a Photoshop image into a line drawing...
- Making nice looking collage - ... again we refer readers to our Montage tutorial
- Photoshop and Disk errors - Cannot open a Photoshop file because of disk damage.
- Rescue a water-soaked photo - a framed photo gets submerged in water and sticks to the glass... which cracks. Who do you call?
- Washed out prints... - Prints much lighter than screen... color matching the devices is the only answer
- Photoshop Ghosting Borders - Using Photoshop to "ghost" or screen back a portion of a photo
- Spot Color Separations with Photoshop - This reader asks for help producing Spot Color Channels in Photoshop for silk-screen printing.
- Curving Type in Photoshop - Using Photoshop's Warp filter to curve type
- Saving and loading color tables - This reader wants to create a custom colors library. Here's how to edit, save, delete and load color palettes in Photoshop
- Mismatched resolution causes problems - This reader wants to mix resolutions in the same file but not lose pixels. It's a conundrum.
- Up Sampling to Print Posters - This reader needs to print a 24 x 36 print without a large format printer. The answer is tiling.
- Photographing X-Rays - Get high quality images from x-rays, but don't photograph them. Use Photoshop
- Removing Date Stamps from Photos - When the video or digital capture device date stamps an image it presents a little problem. Here's what to do
- Bright background makes Photos look dark... - This is a common problem: you put a photo on a bright background and the photo looks darker. What do you do?
- Making a logo with outlined type tricks - Adding multiple outlines and strokes to type for an outstanding logo. Follow along.
- Selecting colors from a painting - Looking for tips on re-coloring photos using a watercolor painting as the basis for color selection
- Hot spots in photo (Flash Burn) - What do you do when the digital camera flash burns out flesh tones and bright subjects? Here's one solution...
- Anti-aliasing Type in Photoshop - Setting type options for very small Times type in Photoshop
- Reliable scan, monitor and print colors - Getting Consistently precise color between devices is a challenge. Here's where to start.
- Different Pictures in Picture Package - Here's how to put different pictures into the Picturepackage print utility in Photoshop
- Watermarking Photos (Batch) - FAQ: How to use Photoshop 7 and cs Watermarking in Batch mode.
- Making round corner rectangles in Photoshop - Photoshop actually does have an easy way to make round corners, but it takes a vector tool...
- Finding Color Swatch Keys - How to select a swatch color for the background color rather than the foreground color
- Saving Layer Effects for use elsewhere... - How to copy and paste layer effects or groups of effecs from layer to layer
- Adding Fill Flash in Photoshop - Fixing backlighted photos in Photoshop using "fill flash"
- Building Templates - Using Photoshop to build template files with built-in frames for inserting art.
- Clipping Paths, Masks - Importing Photoshop files into Illustrator can be frustrating if you're trying to retain Photoshop's transparency. But it's easy once you know...
- Color Proofing Tips - Matching color can be difficult. For big jobs you need to get it right before it goes to press
- Converting to Vectors - Photoshop may not be the answer for building vector images for screen printing
- Drop Shadows - Drop shadows are easy with the Styles Palette
- Fog an image to white - Photoshop fades out an image for ghostly results... like the promotional poster for the "Beyond Borders" movie
- Mac Preferences Files - Mac OS owners need to be aware of backing up the preferences files
- Mirror images - Photoshop "Flip" commands to mirror an image
- Photoshop and Illustrator When moving files to and from Illustrator to Photoshop and back again, be sure to match color space
- Images shift to red A Photoshop upgrade causes a decided shift in color toward Red.
- Remove Scratches - Using Photoshop to remove scratches from a scanned photo
- Spacebar Broken - Something has gone wrong and the spacebar doesn't work in Photoshop
- Changing Eye Color - Using the Replace Color dialog in Photoshop 7 to change the color of a person's eyes (or anything for that matter)
- Get Rid of White Backgrounds - Photoshop 911 reader wants to get rid of white backgrounds in exported files for PageMaker or Quark XPress
- Help! Lost Transform Handles - This reader (one of many) has lost the Free Transform or layer Move Tool handles... where did they go???
- Line Drawings from Photoshop - This reader asks how to convert a Photoshop image into a line drawing...
- Photoshop Balks on an iBook? - Photoshop 911 Case: "Is my iBook not up to running Photoshop cs under OSX?"
- Photoshop Replace Color (Textiles) - Photoshop 911 Reader asks how to change the colors in fabrics and textiles... we say Replace Color
- Printing Multiple Photos, Single Page - Rather than use Picture Package in Photoshop, this reader needs to print different pictures on the same page
- Removing Grain from Skin Tones - Photoshop 911 reader: "Help! I need to get rid of grain and roughness in skin tones!"
- Retouch skin tones for Newspaper - Photoshop 911 reader asks how to retouch human skin tones for newspaper reproduction
- Simulating Gel Buttons - Photoshop 911 reader asks "How to duplicate the Apple's QuickTime logo" (Gel Buttons?)
- White type for Web Pages - Having problems getting clean white type for web pages from Photoshop? This reader gets the inside tips.
- Aging Photographs - How do you age photographs? Make the old look young, and the young look old? Not what you think...
- Annoying Gray Boxes- Annoying gray boxes seem to pop into the upper left hand corner of Photoshop without warning... here's what you do
- Custom Gradients How do you make custom gradients? First place to start is with existing gradients. Here's how we do it in Photoshop
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