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Automating Your Actions
By ron dyar on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 :: 45 Views ::

So now that you've made an action (see here for the creation of an action) or discovered one that is really useful, you'll undoubtedly want to run it on a whole folder of images. Batch processing files can be done a few different ways. You can use the Image Processor or Dr. Brown's 1-2-3 Process which have been covered in previous articles, or you ...

Build a Simple Photoshop Action
By ron dyar on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 :: 48 Views ::

Do you have a cool formula for black and white conversions, or maybe sepia? The real question is, are you sick of going through the steps to make your favorite black and whites or sepias every time you open a new image? How about making it into an action that will perform all those steps with the push of a button? Making an action is easier tha...

A little Thing Called Anti-Aliasing
By ron dyar on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 :: 51 Views ::

Have you ever received a print from a lab which contained text and found that your image looked great but the text looked jagged and terrible? You were pretty sure the resolution was correct (since the image looked fine), and on screen everything looked OK. So what happened to the text? Chances are you neglected to apply a function known as anti-al...

The 5 Step Vignette in Photoshop
By ron dyar on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 :: 59 Views ::

As per request, here is a quick vignette tutorial. Step 1: Duplicate your background layer. A quick and easy way of doing this is by pressing CTRL + J (Command + J on a Mac). Step 2: Set the Blend Mode of the duplicated layer to Multiply. Step 3: Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool and draw a selection about a quarter ...

Patch Tool Perfection!
By ron dyar on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 :: 48 Views ::

Perhaps one of the most useful upgrades from Photoshop 6.5 to 7 (for those of you who actually remember the good ol' days of PS 6) was the Patch tool. At least from a retouching standpoint. No longer would retouched faces look like something out of a Stephen King novel. What the patch tool improved on was the ability to blend the textures and shadi...

Color Settings in CS3
By ron dyar on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 :: 49 Views ::

For those of you who bring your images to a lab for printing, you've probably run into the problem of not having your images saved in sRGB..

Adobe 98 or sRGB - a simple explanation
By ron dyar on Sunday, January 27, 2008 :: 209 Views ::

Have you heard about Adobe 98? sRGB? both of these are Color Spaces - basically a way of describing colors that a given device (monitor, printer, camera) can display or capture. These are not the only two color spaces, just the two most popular in photography. Think of a color space as a cereal bowl - some bowls are larger than others