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Graphic Design / New / Photoshop

Object Selection

November 26, 2019February 26, 2020 - by Heather Lawrenz

In the 2020 updates, Photoshop released the object selection tool. Overall, this tool is user friendly and does an excellent job of making selections even quicker and easier.  As background, …

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Graphic Design / Photography / Photoshop

Cropping Images in Photoshop

July 25, 2019July 25, 2019 - by Heather Lawrenz

Cropping images allows you to size images for specific purpose and resolutions. This step is not necessary to work in InDesign. Table of Contents: 00:25 – Scale impacts effective ppi …

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Graphic Design / Photoshop

Checking your Links Part 2 (Changing Resolution and Color Mode in Photoshop)

July 22, 2019February 26, 2020 - by Heather Lawrenz

How to prepare your images for use in print or digital by jumping from InDesign to Photoshop. Watch part 1 of our video.  Table of Contents: 00:10 – Opening link …

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Graphic Design / Photography / Photoshop

Creating Cutout, Dropout or COB images

July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 - by Heather Lawrenz

There are several ways to create a cob image, begin with creating a good basic selection area, experimenting with some of these tools: Using various selection tools inside Photoshop Table …

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Photography / Photoshop

Photoshop Layers

April 23, 2019 - by Heather Lawrenz

Gaining an understanding of how to manipulate layers in Photoshop is a great early step in creating compositions and building your own designs. Table of Contents: 00:16 – Windows – …

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Photography / Photoshop

Select and Mask : Quick and Accurate Cut Outs

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 - by Heather Lawrenz

Creating a detailed selection area from a photo can be difficult, but using a combination of the select subject and select and mask tools can help you be more detailed. …

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Photography / Photoshop

Photoshop Selections

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 - by Heather Lawrenz

Learning to make precision selections is one of the great skills to master quickly. There are a variety of tools to be used all with specific advantages and use scenarios. …

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New / Photography / Photoshop

Photoshop Updates – Oct. 2018

October 17, 2018November 9, 2018 - by Heather Lawrenz

Adobe released some exciting updates to Photoshop at Max this week. Read about the full set of updates, I am super excited about the new content aware fill workspace. If …

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Graphic Design / InDesign / Photoshop

FAQ: Resolution

January 11, 2016November 13, 2018 - by Heather Lawrenz

Resolution and quality of photos is a frequent concern for many students. This is usually phrased as: Why does my photo look bad? Why is this image fuzzy? Hopefully this …

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Photography / Photoshop

HDR toning

September 21, 2015November 5, 2018 - by Heather Lawrenz

Table of Contents: 00:12 – How to start the HDR process in camera 00:29 – Adjusting exposure after a shoot 00:42 – Selecting multiple photos and loading into HDR pro …

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