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PhotoshopCAFE Design Challenge 15 Photoshop, the Movie Poster

PhotoshopCAFE Design Challenge 15 This is our 15th annual challenge here at the CAFE. These contests are run to stimulate the design juices and bring a little healthy competition among […]

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Orientation video, new PhotoshopCAFE site features

This video will show you how to quickly use the new features on photoshopCAFE (This site). Find out what;s here and how to find it quickly! All New PhotoshopCAFE website […]

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Learn HDR in Photoshop, Colin’s HDR photography tutorial

This free tutorial explains one of the hottest trends in photography; HDR. High Dynamic Range. Learn how to shoot, merge into 32 bit images, tone-map photos to extend the dynamic range and produce strikingly realistic or surreal looking results. Covers Photoshop CS3-CC.The ultimate HDR guide.

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Frequency Separation retouching tutorial in Photoshop

Frequency Separation allows retouchers to separate the high frequency pixel information from the low frequency pixel information in images and make edits to them separately, in other words you can work on texture and detail independently from colour and tone and vice versa making most day to day retouching so much easier
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Time-lapse photography tutorial in Photoshop

Time-lapse photography is enjoying a spike in popularity. In this tutorial, you will learn what time-lapse is, how to shoot it and how to build a time-lapse video in Photoshop. […]
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Turning on lights in Photoshop tutorial

In this Photoshop tutorial, I’m going to show you how to turn on the lights in a photo. I made this car composite where I shot both the car and the background […]
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How to make a Panorama Photo from a video in Lightroom and Photoshop

Tutorial on how to turn a video into a panoramic photograph in Photoshop and Lightroom. works with any camera, shot with GoPro Hero 3 on DJI Phantom Quadcopter
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How to retouch eyes in photoshop. Ultimate eye retouching tutorial

Learn how to realistically retouch eyes in this photoshop tutorial. Clean up the whites, remove veins, enhance the iris and pupils and even add a catchlight to bring life into the eyes.

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Superman 3D Extruded text Photoshop Tutorial

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s block letter Extrude in Photoshop. This was a request from the forum: “How do you do the 3d looking text like on the Superman logo?” Ask and you shall receive, here it is folks. note: the technical name for “3D looking thing” is extrude.
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Blending photos together Photoshop Layer Masks Tutorial

Collaging – Merging 2 images with a layer mask. This is a very requested technique and will be the first in our series on creating collages and montages. You will learn how to seamlessly blend 2 images together, using the layer masks.

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Wrapping objects with Displacement Maps Photoshop Tutorial

Displacement maps see like such strange and difficult animals until you learn to tame them. In this long overdue tutorial, I will teach you what you need to know about displacement maps in plain English, so that you can take advantage of the stunning effects that can only be created by using these maps.
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How to Tether a camera in Lightroom

In this Lightroom 5 tutorial, you learn how to tether a camera to Lightroom so that the photos go directly into Lightroom and are visible on the the screen as you shoot.
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Drawing Paths with the Pen tool in Photoshop Tutorial

It seems that one of the most requested and under-explained things is using the pen tool in Photoshop. The pen tool is very powerful and accurate. With a little know-how and practice, it will be your ally for the rest of your career. The pen tool creates vector curves and paths. This tutorial shows you how to create paths with the pen tool and provides examples of types of paths you need to know.
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Dodging and Burning in Camera Raw and Photoshop

We look at two methods of dodging and burning. One is with Camera Raw (exactly the same in Lightroom) and the second is a non destructive method for bringing our the details in a photograph. Learn how to contour and add dimension to photographs using these techniques.
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Curves in Photoshop explained Photoshop Tutorial

Here is a beginner to intermediate tutorial on how to use curves in Photoshop. Curves are feared by many, but they don’t need to be. Colin will show you how they work in plain English
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