Photoshop is Adobe Systems' software for image manipulation and photo editing.
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How to get a miniature effect on pictures without special equipment?
I was browsing Behance and came upon these pictures:
http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Little-Things/402879
I was wondering how he got this miniature style effect?
I'm guessing a Gaussian Blur on a ...
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Any good tutorials for learning how to post-process images?
I don't really know where to start with post-processing my images. I normally just straighten, crop and sharpen. Do people know of any good resources on the internet for getting a grip with Photoshop ...
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What are the key photography-related features from Photoshop that are missing in GIMP?
I am on a tight budget and chose to use GIMP for editing since it is free.
What important photographic post-processing features am I missing from Photoshop?
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What's the difference between saturation and vibrance in Lightroom?
Both options affect colors in a similar way, but I can't figure out the difference.
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How to do the ghost mannequin effect?
I'm looking into taking some product photography and I would like to get the ghost mannequin effect, but I can't find any proper documentation.
Something a bit like this:
Can you please give a ...
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What should I consider for buying a photo editing computer?
What things should I consider for buying a photo editing computer? Specifically, here's a few of my needs:
I will install Adobe Lightroom, and Adobe Creative Suite. I'd like to make sure all of ...
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What is the Orton Effect and how can I apply it to digital photographs?
I have heard of a photographic effect known as the 'Orton Effect'.
Can anyone tell me what the effect is, what its history is and how I would create it in both film and on my digital SLR?
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How do I correct white balance in JPEG images?
A friend of mine accidentally shot a load of photos with the white-balance on his camera set to "Tungsten". Is there an easy way to correct the resultant colour cast with Photoshop?
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What is a “Slanted S” in a curves layer?
I am trying to do a Photoshop tutorial, seems easy, but I can't understand one phrase: `First, I add a curves layer and create a slanted S. What does slanted S mean? Maybe I should "write" S in curves ...
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Is there an equivalent to Adobe's “Vibrance” in Gimp?
See: What's the difference between saturation and vibrance in Lightroom?
In a nutshell, Adobe's Vibrance is a "smart" color adjustment that increases saturation selectively, leaving skin tones ...
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How do I achieve a vintage photo effect in Photoshop?
How can I achieve this vintage color tone in Photoshop?
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Questions to ask when using a professional printing service
I do lots of landscape photography. A friend of mine wants one of my photographs printed; I've never done this before! All of my photos are post-processed in Photoshop, and I only generate JPEG's for ...
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How do I make a bottle image transparent?
I've taken some stock photography of lots of clear bottles, and now want to remove the background (which is white-ish, because at a pinch I could leave it...) so that the bottle becomes transparent ...
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How do I remove random people from my photos?
I'm very excited about the new Scalado Remove App for Android/iPhone. Let's say you're taking a picture of your friend in front of a landmark with several people walking by. The app allows you to ...
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What kind of color treatment is applied to these Sean Flanigan photos?
Sean Flanigan is probably one of my favorite photographers. His photos has an extremely unique feel to them, at least to me they are unique. Whenever I try to describe his photos, words fail me. I ...
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How to clear edges from a lasso cropped object in Photoshop CS6?
I've cropped this picture with the lasso tool:
What's my next move about this? Do I do this manually by removing pixel by pixel or are there some quicker solutions for this task?
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What benefit does Lightroom 3 offer over Photoshop + Bridge?
I've been happily using Photoshop and Bridge to manage and edit my digital photos. I'm aware that Lightroom 3 was recently released, and decided to take a look at it, since Lightroom has been widely ...
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How does Photoshop/Lightroom get the Colour temperature of a Raw image?
I captured a Raw image using my Canon 450D. When imported this RAW(CR2) file into Lightroom and Photoshop CS5, it showed the Temperature as 4900 and White Balance setting - "As shot". When I checked ...
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How do I get Adobe Camera RAW to read the the in-camera settings from Nikon raw .NEF files?
I dislike the losing of camera settings when I shoot in raw (.NEF) in nikon. The colors become dimmed and the camera noise reduction is removed , so the the photos look very noisy compared with ...
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How do I return to Camera RAW window after opening an image?
I tend to open a bunch of RAW files at the same time and move through them using the preview to find the image I want to work on. When I click on "Open Image" (perhaps after adjusting white balance ...
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How can I get the best quality prints from an iPhone photo?
I have a photo on my iPhone that I'd like to print, but the quality is poor. Is there anything I can do so that I can print it?
I have Photoshop CS5.
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How can I fix an out-of-focus blurred photo in Photoshop?
How can I fix this picture? Somebody else took this picture and well he wasn't able to do it very well, and it's blurred.
I have photoshop
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How can I make HDR images without the cartoon look?
I am processing some photos intended to show HDR and I mainly want to bring out all the tones of a scene, which is why I took three bracketed shots to begin with.
But pushing the detail pretty ...
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Lightroom vs. Elements vs. Photoshop: Side-by-side comparison?
I'm a bit overwhelmed by the available options in regards to the three major photo editing apps from Adobe.
Does anyone know of an article or site that lists the features of Lightroom, PS Elements, ...
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What are the alternatives to Photoshop? Is Gimp a good option?
It seems that Photoshop is the dominant software in that space, however I am a hobbyist photographer and Photoshop is not cheap. Is there anything else that compares and that does not have such a high ...
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What Photoshop plugins are must haves?
When you as a photographer edit your photos in Photoshop (after some processing using Camera Raw or Lightroom) are there any Plug-ins/Actions/etc. (free or paid) that are must haves for you as a ...
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HDR Beginners Help : Photoshop CS5
I am just leaning HDR in Photoshop CS5, can anyone recommend some good tutorials?
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How does Photoshop CS6's deblur feature work?
This video shows a sneak peek of a new Photoshop feature for Creative Suite 6, called 'deblur', which is able to take a blurry image and make it sharper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxjiQoTp864
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Identifying Post-processing technique
Due to some ambiguity, this might not make the best question, but I was curious if anyone with more experience could help identify the processing taking place in the examples below:
Example 1
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Post-processing to remove background reflections on bald heads
I've done a series of chroma key shots of some co-workers for our website and generally everything came out great, except one of our guys is bald and, well, the green is reflecting onto his head. So, ...
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Is there an easy way to convert all my photos from .NEF to .JPG for upload to Facebook?
I'm using the Adobe CS5 suite and trying to upload all of my pictures to Facebook... and .NEF files are too large to upload, any suggestions?
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Why does darkening skies in Photoshop cause banding, and how can I avoid it?
I am pretty new to Photoshop (I have Elements 10). When I darken highlights I find that the sky ends up in bands. I have read advice that says to reduce the effect of this by using either blur or ...
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What is it called when you put a sequence of photos together to show an event?
I just been taking photos of a demolition of a building and I am trying to remember what the technique is called when you go in Photoshop and put a sequence of photos together to show the event.
What ...
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Why doesn't editing photos from Lightroom in Photoshop post-Lighroom adjustments work right?
Mac, Lightroom 4.0, Photoshop CS5.1
So I import a photo from my camera using Lighroom (CR2 from EOS 5D Mk II)
Do some Lightroom adjustments to edit the image (Done here to display the obvious ...
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Is it possible to re-focus (recover) an intentionally blurred image?
I have an image which I have modified through Picasa ( using Soft Focus - essentially I am making the faces blurred ).
Question is : If I upload that photo to Facebook, and a user downloads it from ...
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Fixing the brightness level in a panoramic photo
I've created a panormamic photograph from 4 separate shots using AutoStitch. The panorama came out fine, except that the left side of the image is brighter than the right side:
What's the best way ...
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'Save for Web' in Photoshop Makes Photo Darker?
I received a batch of images from a photographer and I wanted to reduce the dimensions of a couple, so I opened them up in Photoshop. They looked fine - the color was good, but when I went to save for ...
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Can I stop Lightroom from creating a TIFF file when exporting to Photoshop?
My wife does some photography on the side for a hobby. She uses Lightroom for most of her editing and she also uses the "Edit In Photoshop" option as well. I have no idea why she has to go to PS, ...
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Does “Proof Color” with “Monitor RGB” option in PS ensure that I see TRUE colors?
I seem to misunderstand color management based on comments in my previous question. Or I incorrectly asked me question so people give me wrong answers.
Therefore I want to clarify my understanding of ...
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How does one create a Diptych or Triptych with angled/non straight lines between the photos?
How can I create a Diptych/Triptych or any collage for that matter with the individual photographs not in a regular rectangular shape. An example may be say 2 photos intersecting at the diagonal. ...
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Which color settings to chose in Photoshop and Aperture with an Epson SPR2880 printer
My workflow consists of importing photos into Apple Aperture, where I do most of my editing. Sometimes, I edit the photo in Photoshop. Aperture can automatically create a .psd file based on my edited ...
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How to recreate Instagram Lux effect in Photoshop [duplicate]
I am just wondering if anyone knows how to recreate the instagram lux effect with photoshop,
here is an example of before and after of the lux effect
Before Lux
After Lux
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How do I check for slightly off white colour on an IPS monitor?
Hey everyone I recently took some shot of a model wearing my products against a white roll of paper. They turned out great but of course I had to do adjustments. Anyways the issue I'm having is the ...
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Are Gimp's “color space” blend modes the same as those in Photoshop?
The Wikipedia article on Blend Modes describes three of them in particular like this:
Photoshop’s hue, saturation, color, and luminosity blend modes are based on a color space with dimensions that ...
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What are some good online forums for discussing photographic editing?
What are some good forums for talking about editing photos in Photoshop or GIMP? Where do you talk about such things?
EDIT: Other than here, of course.
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How can I achive this soft-curved effect in photoshop? [duplicate]
I once used some Android application to add some effect on one of my photos. I forgot the app name and I never found it. Can I achieve this effect using Photoshop?
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How can I make PhotoMerge work with very dark sections?
Recently, I've been experimenting with stitching together images using Photoshop CS4's PhotoMerge feature. It has always work well except for my most recent attempt. This one was at night (which is ...
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How to reproduce Instagram Lo-Fi filter in Photoshop?
I used the Instagram Lo-Fi filter a lot and wonder how I can reproduce the effect in Photoshop...
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How can I maintain photo color consistency across computer monitors?
When saving photos for the web from within Photoshop I run into issue where my colors are not consistent between monitors. While I understand there will be some difference between monitors there are ...
