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Posts by Cari Jansen

Channels, Masks and Adjustment Layers…

Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorial

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? […]

Removing power lines from a photo with Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorial

Photoshop CS5 introduces us to a very cool new tool, the Content-Aware Spot Healing Brush Tool a true power  tool, that has many different uses. You can use it to get rid of blemishes in an image, such as spot in a persons face, clean-up rubbish or loose leaves that might lay on a lawn in […]

How to fix horizons that are on an angle in Photosho...

Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorial

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.