Adobe Senior Creative Director Russell Brown recently posted this neat demo showing a technique for matching colors in Photoshop without touching a hue or saturation slider. His method uses adjustments in grayscale to individual color channels, comparing a swatch of the color he’s attempting to change directly to the color he’s trying to match. See how he does it in the video above.
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Have you been lusting after a Leica Monochrom but anxiously hoping for its release in a new body finish? Well your long, nightmarish wait is over. Leica has announced that its M Monochrom, first announced in 2012, is now available in a new limited silver chrome ‘color version’. Click through for (not much) more information, or just to take part in the inevitable comments debate about whether chrome and /or black really count as ‘color’ options.
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For artistic reasons, convert an image in a Publisher 2010 document to grayscale, give it a sepia tone, or tint it another color.
If you’ve ever decided that to better blend in with a document design, a picture should be converted to grayscale, sepia tone, or given a different colored tint, you might have thought you needed to perform the operation outside of Microsoft Publisher 2010. Think again – you can alter images in a Publisher 2010 document with just a couple of clicks.
1. First, select the image you wish to modify….
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Quickly create grayscale images and photos with IrfanView.
Grayscale photos often look more dramatic and artistic than color photos, especially when the contrast between light and dark tones is high. Luckily, it’s easy to convert photos and images to grayscale with IrfanView.
1. First, load an image into IrfanView….
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Watch the course at www.lynda.com Photoshop is one of theworld’s most powerful image editors, and it can be daunting to try to use skillfully. Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced, the second part of the popular and comprehensive series, updated for CS5, follows internationally renowned Photoshop guru Deke McClelland as he dives into the workings of Photoshop. He explores such digital-age wonders as the Levels and Curves commands, edge-detection filters, advanced compositing techniques, vector-based text, the Liquify filter, and Camera Raw. Deke also teaches tried-and-true methods for sharpening details, smoothing over wrinkles and imperfections, and enhancing colors without harming the original image.
Part 2 of a 5 Part editing series going through a complete Beauty Retouch covering: Removing blemishes, enhancing eyes, skin retouching, enhancing eyelashes, adding hair highlights, enhancing makeup and extending the neck. Part 2 covers: Skin Tone & Contrast
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