Cari Jansen

CS5 Recertification Exams Passed

Cari Jansen — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:42:15 +0000

Happy to announce that I have today successfully completed my required CS5 Recertifications for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Spending the last 6 1/2-days locked in the house (with the airconditioning on, as we’ve been having a heat-wave in Perth) and studying hard… It’s amazing how many new little things you pick up when you really try and learn the...read more →

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 – Masks, Adjustment layers, Channels

Cari Jansen — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:46:59 +0000

The recording of the “Level playing field” Adobe eSeminar I presented two weeks ago on Photoshop CS5′s is now available online: http://bit.ly/9mvat Note that this is a seminar in the ‘Beginners’-corner, so a great one to watch if you are new to working with masks and want to learn about non-destructive editing in Photoshop. Believe me… no pixels were harmed in...read more →

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Channels, Masks and Adjustment Layers…

Cari Jansen — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:17:02 +0000

Channels, Masks, Adjustment Layers… Photoshop CS5 rocks when it comes to using these features in conjunction with each other. Did you know you could use color channel information in Photoshop as the basis for a mask, that will control where a particular color adjustment might be applied? All without harming any pixels whatsoever in the original image? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkHdLpVUNNM

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Straightening images in Photoshop CS5

Cari Jansen — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:16:52 +0000

We've all got them... those holiday shots where the ocean seems to be running of the edge of the image, where the horizon is no longer horizontal. With Photoshop CS5 we can straighten out those images faster then ever before. In the following video let's take a look at how we can use the Crop tool, Ruler tool, Arbitrary rotation, Content Aware fill and the magical Straighten button to fix our crooked horizons.

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Better Photoshop Techniques adds Augmented Reality…

Cari Jansen — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:49:09 +0000

To celebrate the arrival of Photoshop CS5, Better Photoshop Techniques magazine, created an exclusive augmented reality back cover for Issue 22. It’s cool really… Navigate to the Better Photoshop Techniques web-site, take your edition of the magazine, click the special viewer pop-up window, hold out your back-cover and smile for the camera! Augmented Reality (AR) combines the physical and interactive...read more →

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Where’s my scratch disk?

Cari Jansen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:14:02 +0000

If you are an old time Photoshop user, you may remember that in past versions of Photoshop we had access to preferences setting that enabled us to select one or more drives as Scratch disk for Photoshop. Photoshop uses this Scratch Disk space as Viritual Memory. Preferably the drive allocated wouldn’t be the same drive as the drive that contains...read more →

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Catching up on some blog-post reading

Cari Jansen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:47:59 +0000

Spent the morning reading blogs and watching some youtube videos, and wanted to share a few great ones with you guys ‘n girls. Fall of Autumn‘s Alan Lastufka is the producer of the following video on Letterpress. Letter Press From job case, leading, quads, coppers & brasses, guide pins, chase & furniture to inking and printing. Deconvolution sharpening in Photoshop...read more →

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The Quick Refine Soft-Edge Mask Tip

Cari Jansen — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:47:38 +0000

Digitip 091 – Photoshop CS4 – Refining your Mask… Modified: 13 September 2009 – Added “Note”. Super quick tip. A practical example. I’ve been writing Technical Documentation the past weeks, and am processing an awful lot of screenshots. Sometimes they are kind of big and I really only want to focus on one part, but would love to see a...read more →

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The deke Pod

Cari Jansen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:38:03 +0000

O’Reilly digital media, today announced the release of a new video series with Deke McCleland the “deke Pod“. In this 101 Photoshop Tips in Five Minutes, Deke generates the online video equivalent of a book full of short & rich tips. An absolute must for the keen Photoshop user. Deke’s a smart man! Web-reference: deke Pod (2008, O’Reilly Media Inc.)

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Masked Text

Cari Jansen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:06:18 +0000

Digitip 065 – Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3 This tip is Part 3 of a three-part tip and generates the masked text. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork is created and Part 2 outlines how to apply Live Trace and maintain colour editing ability. I’m adding my standard “Bogus” text. Select Text and Background (shift-click each with Selection Tool, or...read more →

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Tracing the Trace Graphic

Cari Jansen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:05:56 +0000

Digitip 064 – Adobe Illustrator CS3 This tip is Part 2 of a three-part tip. Part 1 describes how the Photoshop artwork that is placed into the Illustrator file was created and Part 3 will create the Text Effect that will give our finished result. We’re ready to place the previously created Photoshop graphic in Illustrator now. But let’s create...read more →

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Preparing the Trace Graphic

Cari Jansen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:04:28 +0000

Digitip 063 – Adobe Photoshop CS3 A month or so ago I demoed a masking technique that works well with text in Illustrator during an Adobe eSeminar I delivered. At the time I promised to write this technique up as a digitip, however, an extremely busy workschedule meant I’d not yet gotten around to posting the tip. But a promise...read more →

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Faded dotted pattern

Cari Jansen — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:20:32 +0000

Digitip 054 – Adobe Illustrator CS2 This tip succeeds the previous tip, and show cases how the dotted patterns created earlier can be faded, whilst retaining their vector and spot colours. Spotted dots The dotted patterns created in tip 53, can also be spot colours, by ensuring that the colour of the circular component that forms part of the pattern...read more →

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Photoshop CS3 beta

Cari Jansen — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:39:33 +0000

I guess by now you’ve heard… yep, Adobe, for the first time in history has released a Photoshop beta release publicly. How can you get this public beta release? Well hop on to Adobe Labs and enter your current Photoshop CS2, or Creative Suite CS2 serial number… You’ll then get your CS3 beta release serial number, can download and install...read more →

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Replacing Vector Smart Objects

Cari Jansen — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:20:41 +0000

Digitip 052 – Adobe Photoshop CS2 This is part 3 in a 3 part tutorial on Vector Smart Objects. Previous tutorial: Part 2 Replacing the content So, if we edit an individual smart object, that has been copied, all related objects are also updated after the edited object has been saved… So what happens when instead of editing we select...read more →

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