Resources and Knowledge Base
- Actions
- File saves action
- Save for web actions with watermarking
- Random bright styles action
- Rule-of-thirds cropping guide action
- LAB mode black-and-white conversion
- Calibrator Instructions
- Calibrating with an i1Display2
- Spyder5Elite calibration tutorial for Macs & laptops – Part 1-5
- Spyder5Elite calibration tutorial for desktop screens – Parts 1-5
- X-Rite i1Display Pro calibration tutorial: desktop method 2
- X-Rite i1Display Pro calibration tutorial: desktop method 1
- Colour Management
- CMYK or RGB files for press
- Can’t find your soft-proofing ICC profiles
- sRGB Troubleshooter 2: your past files
- sRGB Troubleshooter 1: your present & future files
- Troubleshooter: When your Facebook photos don’t match Photoshop
- Digital Files
- “Invalid JPEG marker” problem
- The PNG delusion
- About resolution
- Let’s cut Facebook some slack!
- The case for re-sampling
- Editing
- Blurring an object in the foreground of a photo
- Shrinking an object in a photo
- Learning to identify casts
- The importance of reviewing your editing adjustments
- Simulating Channel Mixer in Photoshop Elements
- Editing - Backgrounds
- Creating a fake blanket with texture
- Demonstration: Extending a studio floor and backdrop in Photoshop
- Levels (or Curves) eyedropper for changing colours
- Replacing a background behind hair
- Preventing banding in backdrops
- Editing - Fixes
- The “Handyman” method
- Moiré
- Fixing chromatic aberration
- Distortion or perspective correction tutorial [Elements]
- Distortion or perspective correction tutorial [Photoshop]
- Editing - People
- Fixing a crossed eye
- Liquify demonstration (with cloning and dodge & burn)
- Fixing red-eye
- Simple head-swap and face-swap tutorial
- Double chin fix without Liquify
- Layer masks
- The right way to approach adjustment layer masks
- Layer Masks in Photoshop Elements
- Some layer mask tricks
- Lightroom
- Batch adjust timestamps in Lightroom to easily sync files
- The 30 day challenge: Free yourself from Lightroom
- Color space settings for the Lightroom user
- Miscellaneous
- Password security
- CMYK PDF Video (Adobe InDesign and Acrobat)
- The Caps Lock Trap
- Low key and high key photos
- Weddings: A plea to all photographers
- Monitor calibration info
- When your desktop screen’s brightness won’t go low enough
- Before calibrating your monitor
- Windows operating system, and monitor calibration
- Monitor calibration: maintain your professional standards
- The light around your computer
- Photoshop Tools
- Histogram identification test 2: Raw
- Histogram identification test
- Alt/Option key tricks
- What nobody tells you about curves
- Curved box method
- Printing
- CMYK or RGB files for press
- Printing enlargements: How big can you go?
- Cropping and printing: the 8x10 problem
- Preparing a file at the right size for a wrapped canvas
- Preparing files for a wrapped triptych canvas
- Restoration
- Scanning guidelines for old photo restoration
- Reproducible size of old photos
- More channel mixing
- Tips for photographing old photos for restoration
- Sharpening
- High Pass Filter Sharpening
- Understanding Unsharp Mask
- Noise removal and sharpening – the leap of faith
- Sharpening for web
- Technical Help
- How do I retrieve lost or damaged files?
- Photoshop mini-tutorials
- About JPEG file size
- Tip when transferring image files to your computer
- Buying a Mac or a PC
- Techniques
- A black-and-white conversion
- Restoring a damaged photo
- An underexposed image
- A faded photograph
- A glamour makeover
- Templates
- Curved box method
- The storyboard tutorial collection
- Resizing photos in templates (PS & PSE)
- Create your own wall guides
- More about storyboards: intersecting shapes
- Troubleshooting
- Posting photos for critique on focus and noise
- Black boxes and other weird behaviour in Photoshop
- Grabbing a 700 x 700 pixel 100% crop
- Resetting tools
- FAQ: “Help! My Raw files won’t open!”
- Videos
- Video: Clone and Patch Tools
- Liquify demonstration (with cloning and dodge & burn)
- Magic Fairy Dust tutorial
- Video: Batch-saving digital files (Photoshop)
- Video: Batch-saving digital files (Elements)