Photoshop
CS6 includes a freshly introduced 3D tools engine that draws on the
capabilities of graphics card to perform robustly. In this tutorial, you
will learn how you can use this new 3D engine to combine 3D sources and
harmonize other light sources, textures and use with 2D photographs.
The Crop tool hasn’t really improved since Photoshop CS, but in
Photoshop CS6, it comes with major changes. This step-by-step guide
demonstrates how to use this tool, which has received a modern overhaul.
Adobe has enhanced Photoshop’s Layers panel, considering the feedback
from users and adding the options popular in other applications like
After Effects. For example, it allows changing the blending mode, fill
and opacity of different layers simultaneously. Just select the
respective layers prior making changes and it is done.
Adobe didn’t put Illustrator in Photoshop, but with some new powerful
vector tools, designers can now design and shape graphic elements more
easily and quickly.
Adobe introduced Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6, which has features
that allow us to use amazing techniques to control depth of field and
achieve bokeh effects. For photographers, focal length, subject distance
and aperture are the key elements to identify in-focus and blurred
parts of a photograph. Most often, due to some technical limitations, it
becomes hard to create an intended effect. In that situation, these
freshly introduced tools become useful. In this tutorial, you will learn
about three filters; Field Blur, Iris Blur and Tilt-Shift, which mainly
constitute the Blur Gallery.
Adobe has spruced up Photoshop CS6 with new features, which enable us
to add brush strokes and different helpful tools. This tutorial teaches
about the creative ways, which are possible with this new feature.
Cropping is a powerful tool, which can make a big difference in the
look of any image. Crop Tool in Photoshop CS6 includes lots of major
enhancements to make it work even better. This tutorial focuses on the
new features introduced in the Crop Tool and helps us learning how to
use it more productively.
Photoshop CS6 introduces a brilliant and simple Brush Panel, which
features lots of new options. In this tutorial, you learn about using
Live Pen Tilt Preview, Brush Projection, the Erodible Tip and Airbrush
brushes and how to achieve quick and creative results with these tools.
If you are something like me, you’ll need Filters, which are robust
tools in Photoshop CS6, to quickly create effects on the photographs.
Oil Paint filter in Photoshop CS6 offers everything that you might need
to give a photograph a painted look. In this tutorial, you will learn
how to use this new filter on your images.
Special effects can make a big difference to videos. Many think that
learning Adobe Premiere or After Effects is quite tough and painstaking.
Now, in Photoshop CS6, we have a new addition of a video timeline
panel, which enables us to add effects to the video clips right in
Photoshop.
One of the most state-of-the-art tools in Photoshop CS6 is a content
aware tool, Content Aware Move. Content Aware Move enables us to mark
pixels and drag the selection to some other part of a photograph without
using layers or masks. Photoshop CS6 clears the previous selection and
shifts the pixels to the new position. In this lesson you will learn how
to use this new tool in your work.
When Adobe first introduced Content Aware in Photoshop CS5, many
called this tool “magical” and extremely tough. But today, as we have
worked for more than two years practicing it, for many it has become an
indispensable tool in their design work. In Photoshop CS6, you will see a
new addition, the Content Aware feature in the Patch Tool. In this
tutorial, you learn how to play with this new feature to get better
results.
Top-notch designers usually work with PSD files comprising of dozens
and, sometimes, hundreds of layers. Earlier versions of Photoshop were
not able to manage a large number of layers, but in Photoshop CS6 Adobe
has included a few new tools for designers that they were dying to get
their hands on. Follow this tutorial, step by step, to learn how this
new Layer Panel and advance features can do for you in your designing
process.
Adobe Photoshop CS6 offers an impressive new Adaptive Wide Angle
Filter. The concept of this new tool is to enable us to straighten
curves and lines in photographs captured by a fisheye or wide-angle
lens. This tutorial will take you through a process of using this new
filter effectively; a nice feature for photographers.
Managing and working with a lot of text was a hassle in the previous
versions of Photoshop. For many, making global changes to text was a bit
daunting and time-consuming. Photoshop CS6 comes with new Paragraph and
Character style panels, which allow intuitive techniques to work with
our text and this tutorial is all about it.
Have you ever wanted to quickly select skin tones in a photograph?
Photoshop team introduced a new Skin Aware technology in Photoshop CS6
in the Skin Tones options. This tutorial helps learning this new
feature.
You may be familiar with Photoshop’s manipulation features, but the
new additions in Patch Tool makes retouching and re-composition
unbelievably easy and quick. Now, you have access to the features like
adaptation settings and content aware, which are taught in this
tutorial.
Adobe has not tried to put Illustrator’s tools in the Photoshop CS6,
but it has introduced a new Vector Shape Layers feature that will stop
many from switching to AI, when they need to create elements containing
flat graphics. Whether you need quick and simple results or precise
drawing functionalities, this new vector shape layers will soon become
an indispensable tool in your arsenal.
Photoshop team added incredibly useful and smart Tilt-shift Blur
functionality that designers can use along with a saturation boost
function for simulating miniature model photography. This tutorial takes
us through the process of adding this effect to our photographs.
Lesa Snider discusses the new scripted patterns in Photoshop CS6 with a few intuitive techniques to apply this new function.
I’m sure you’ll admire the new Content-Aware Move tool. The
capabilities of this tool enable selecting elements and placing them at
some other area. Photoshop will re-blend the selected element into
whatever section of the photograph you place it to.
Though Photoshop always had a number of blur filters, they never
truly fascinated the photographers. Now, whether you are a seasoned or
fresh photographer, you’ll be stormed by the three incredibly useful and
new filters, what photographers always demanded: Field Blur, Iris Blur,
and Tilt-Shift.
Field Blur empowers us with unique ways to create blur effect on our
image. In this Photo Retouch tutorial, you’ll see, Field Blur bestows us
an extensive control over the effect as we don’t just apply same
blurring on the entire photo, but rather, we can set and tweak the blur
in any selected section.
This lesson takes us through the process of using Iris Blur, which is
a second of the new blur filters introduced in the Blur Gallery of
Photoshop CS6. Besides having all the capabilities of the Field Blur,
Iris Blur has some other ways to precisely manage the techniques and
areas the blurring effect is used.
You will find two new inclusions to Color Range – Skin Tones and
Detect Faces. While working with photographs of people, Skin Tones
enables you to select the skin tones of the people. Photoshop selects
skin tones, and if Color Range select tones of other parts of an image,
there is a feature of Detect Faces checkbox to tackle it.
For photographers of all levels, pros and novices, taking snaps in
RAW is essential to get high-quality results. This tutorial takes us
through all the important features in Camera RAW 7.0, which
photographers will need the most.
I have picked this tutorial to show you how simple is to get black
and white photos with ACR 7 as well as working with the HSL/Grayscale
panel and the Targeted Adjustment Tool.
Since the introduction of Camera RAW, there have been lots of
enhancements in every new version of Photoshop. It continued and now,
for photographers working with RAW images, Camera Raw has been upgraded
to version 7. Learn about new enhancements in this tutorial.
In this tutorial, you will see how the Adaptive Wide Angle filter in
Photoshop CS6 enables us to create a distortion-free vertical panorama
and fine-tune the stitched image.
In Photoshop CS6, Adaptive Wide Filter is a powerful tool for the
photographers, which enables to quickly achieve effects on the images,
when there is a less space.
There are lots of impressive new tools in Photoshop CS6, which are
added in a free beta version, like Type Styles. The addition of Type
Styles makes it easy and quicker to define text styles, just as seen in
InDesign; it works same for both paragraphs and characters.
In this tutorial lesson, a poppy photograph is used to show some
secret techniques of applying the oil paint filter in order to achieve
the desired results.
You have been familiar with the built-in filter, which was used to
give painting effects to the photographs, but those were not so
attractive. Adobe has released new Oil Paint Filter in Photoshop CS6,
which is worth-using.
This lesson covers many of the new 3D features and workflows
introduced in CS6, which are the best and the designers will probably
use the most. In this tutorial, you will practice spelling the word
Bicubic in capital letters shaped buildings.
Lighting Effects filter has got a few new and enhanced features which are great to achieve different types of lighting effects.
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