Practical_Photoshop_-_November_2015_

http://www.digitalcameraworld.com Issue 56 November 2015 LEARN PHOTOSHOP CC & LIGHTROOM THE EASY WAY! AMAZING PHOTOSHOP TRIC ...

James Paterson, Editor t [email protected] HIGHLIGHTS: WHAT’S INSIDE... http://www.digitalcameraworld.com Make the li ...

BOTCHED LIGHTROOM IMPORT UPDATE Surprise changes to Lightroom’s Import system in the 6.2 update trigger a wave of criticism from ...

has meant several features have been removed – including the ‘Move’ and ‘Eject card after import’ options – while other familiar ...

A celebration of the little tricks, quirks and hidden features in Photoshop that make us smile... IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS... This ...

THE ‘STEP AND REPEAT’ TRICK There’s a speedy shortcut that lets you repeat a transformation and duplicate a layer all at once... ...

03  REVERSE THE STACK Each copy will go in front of the last, so to make the pattern to recede like this we need to reverse the ...

THE ‘TWISTY EXTRUSION’ TRICK Bend, twist and taper 3D extrusions to add variety to letters 01  EXTRUDE SOME TYPE Use the Type to ...

THE ‘SHARE PSDS WITH ANYONE’ TRICK With a Creative Cloud account, you can share PSDs so that anyone can view the layers – even i ...

THE ‘RAPID RETRO’ TIP Get the instagram look with a nifty blend mode trick using Exclusion BEFORE DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT FILES HER ...

01  ADD A BLUE COLOUR To give your image a speedy retro treatment, irst click the Create Adjustment Layer icon in the Layers Pan ...

THE ‘DROP SHADOW MOD’ TRICK You can modify drop shadow layer eects to create a down-and-dirty shadow for any object... 02  CREA ...

THE ‘BLEND IF’ TRICK Blend If lets you combine layers based on their brightness, giving you complete control over which tones ar ...

01  MAKE A CIRCULAR GRADIENT Start this project by making a new layer in a new document, then grab the Elliptical Marquee tool a ...

THE ‘CHANNELS SELECTION’ TRICK We can use channels to make a quick selection, which makes complex cutouts a cinch to do... BEFOR ...

01  COPY A CHANNEL Go to the Channels Panel (Window Channels) and click through the channels to ind the one that gives the best ...

THE ‘RECORDED RETOUCH’ TRICK If sensor marks plague a whole batch of photos, there’s no need to freak out – a little- known Acti ...

By default the number of History States is set to 20, but you can increase this (max 1,000) via (Mac) Photoshop>Preferences & ...

While zoomed in to part of an image, hold down H then click and hold the mouse button down to swoop out to full screen – a bird’ ...

It’s surprising how often we ind we need to zero in on the center of a document, but there’s no simple way to do it – unless you ...