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by David Peters

With the spot healing tool, you simply click on or drag across the flaw you want to remove and it disappears. The retouched area is blended into the surroundings seamlessly - most of the time anyway. It takes a little practice getting a feel for how brush size and healing work together, but most of the time it does an impressive job.

RESOLUTION. The “Auto” resolution button on the right of your Image Size dialog box will resize your image to small, medium and larger sizes. Under “Document Size” in your Image Size box, you’ll see a place to enter the desired resolution. For the Web, normal resolutions will be 72 pixels per inch. For print work, the resolution should be at least 300 ppi. When you increase the resolution, you increase the image size, and may need to resize it, but the resolution will stay the same. COLOR CASTS. Go into your Image > Adjustments menu and try using the automatic presets there: Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Auto Color and/or Variations. This last option is especially fast and flexible, offering fine-tuning for shadows, midtones and highlights as well as saturation.

You can also add new colour stops to an existing gradient by clicking anywhere along the bottom edge of the preview bar. As well as editing colour stops for the gradient to blend between, you can also add different opacity settings to make it fade from solid to transparency. Strike a balance The Gradient Editor automatically places a midpoint between each colour stop to create a smooth linear blend between colours.

Image Adjustments: No doubt you’ll need to tweak things such as levels and colour values on occasion. These shortcuts will take you to the heart of the Image > Adjustments menu - Adjust Levels…….[Ctrl]+[L] - Auto Levels………[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[L] - Auto Contrast…….[Alt]+[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[L] - Auto Color……….[Shift]+[ Ctrl]+[B] - Curves …………..[Ctrl]+[M] - Color Balance…….[Ctrl]+[B] - Hue/Saturation……[Ctrl]+[U] - Desaturate……….[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[U] - Invert…………..[Ctrl]+[I] File Management: Browse, open, close and save your files for a variety of formats, all at the touch of a key or three - New File………….[Ctrl]+[N] - Open File…………[Ctrl]+[O] - Open File Browser….[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[O] - Save……………..[Ctrl]+[S] - Close…………….[Ctrl]+[W] - Save As…………..[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[S] - Save for Web………[Alt]+[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[S] - Undo last action…..[Ctrl]+[Z] - Step Forward………[Shift]+[Control]+[Z] - Step Backward……..[Alt]+[Ctrl]+[Z] - Page Setup………..[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[P] - Print…………….[Alt]+[Ctrl]+[P] - Print with Preview…[Ctrl]+[P] - Print One Copy…….[Alt]+[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[P] - Jump to ImageReady…[Shift]+[Ctrl]+[M]

Photoshop offers blending options unsurpassed in the design industry in your “Layer Style” dialog box, you will first find “General Blending” options, which are often enough for any task. Experiment with the Blend Modes and their opacity to see just how incredibly flexible the normal Blending Options can be. To find your advanced blending options in Photoshop, double-click a layer or click the “Add a Layer Style” icon at the bottom left of your Layers palette, and then choose “Blending Options.” Your “Layer Style” dialog box will appear. At the bottom of the Layer Style box, you will find, under “Advanced Blending,” something called the “Blend If” tool. What is the Photoshop “Blend If” tool, exactly? Blend If is a “smart” blending tool. You can use it to blend images or create a more transparent image with almost infinite precision. This one tool is so flexible and handy it behooves any serios Photoshop designer to learn to use it, and use it well.

Like Adobe Remix, the hosted Photoshop service is set to be free and marketed as an entry-level version of Adobe’s more sophisticated image-editing tools, including Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. Chizen envisions revenue from the Photoshop service coming from online advertising. “That is new (for Adobe). It’s something we are sensitive to because we are watching folks like Google do it in different categories, and we want to make sure that we are there before they are, in areas of our franchises,” Chizen said. Chizen described the introduction of Adobe Remix and the forthcoming hosted Photoshop as part of a larger move toward integrating hosted services into the company’s product mix.

Inside bothe the Levels and the Curves dialog boxes, click “Options” and you will find another important dialog box called “Auto Color Correction Options.” This box allows you to not only correct the photo’s tone and set specific clipping percentages, but you can also set your color values for shadows, midtones and highlights. Experiment inside your Auto Color Correction Options dialog box to enhance monochromatic contrast, enhance per channel contrast, find dark and light colors and snap neutral midtones. Often an image comes out with an overall color cast, which is usually not desirable. To remove a color cast, use your Image > Adjustments > Auto Color functions. Inside the same Imagae menu, you’ll find the Hue/Saturation and Desaturate functions. Use these to enhance colors or fine-tune the saturation of an image by reducing color (desaturating).

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