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Tutorials

This is the place for my tips and tutorials on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, Macromedia Fireworks, Freehand and other graphics applications here.

Shoes: Denim thong laced wedges; Schuh 2003. Hosiery: Barely Black shade tights by Pretty Polly. Photography: digital photography with on-camera flash unit, some halogen lighting. Extensive Photoshop adjustment (hue; and lighting balance; film grain and bleaching filtering).

Tutorial: A simple Windows XP Photoshop CS2 scripting tutorial The purpose of scripting in any application, not just Photoshop is to save time involving multiple operations within the application, often applying these operations to multiple files. Put simply scripts are a set of commands that tell (in this case Photoshop) what to do... Click the link for the full free tutorial.

Tip: Adobe Photoshop vs Macromedia Fireworks. Fireworks still has the edge over Photoshop on image optimisation, even in Photoshop's CS2 version. I have Fireworks 4, MX and MX 2004, and even v4's Export Preview (available via the File menu) allows a lot more control and visibility over the image export process. The file compression is more effective too.

Tip: Adobe Premier. Learn the shortcut keys and save ages and lots of very frustrating mouse work.

Shoes: Black punky chain heels; Blu 2005. Hosiery: Barely Black shade stockings by Charnos. Photography: digital photography with on-camera flash unit, multiple slave flashes, some halogen lighting, blue reflector. Some Photoshop adjustment (lighting balance; film grain and bleaching filtering).

Tip: Adobe Photoshop vs Macromedia Fireworks. Fireworks allows you greater control over guides. In Fireworks, drag a guide out and then double click it - you can enter the exact value you want to set the guide to. Photoshop won't let you do this, and I've always found it filddly to position guides precisely.

Tip: Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 has a small icon (yellow fw icon with right pointing arrow) in the top right corner of the work area. This allows fast export of the slected image to a number of Macromedia application formats and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

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Shoes: Denim thong laced wedges; Schuh 2003. Hosiery: Barely Black shade tights by Pretty Polly. Photography: digital photography with on-camera flash unit, some halogen lighting. Extensive Photoshop adjustment (hue; and lighting balance; film grain and bleaching filtering).

Shoes: Black punky chain heels; Blu 2005. Hosiery: Barely Black shade stockings by Charnos. Photography: digital photography with on-camera flash unit, multiple slave flashes, some halogen lighting, blue reflector. Some Photoshop adjustment (lighting balance; film grain and bleaching filtering).

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