Helen Bradley
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| Adobe Photoshop - Creating Diptychs and Triptychs (19 Minutes) Posted Jan 21, 2011 |
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: Download, Create and Use Develop Presets (16 minutes) Posted Dec 13, 2010 |
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Create attractive triptych designs in Photoshop
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Learn all about Adobe Lightroom Presets
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| Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: Develop Module (20 Minutes) Posted Nov 19, 2010 |
Photoshop: Preferences and Workspaces (17 minutes) Posted Nov 9, 2010 |
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Put the finishing touches to your images within Adobe Lightroom
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Customize Photoshop to suit your workflow
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| Photoshop Add-ins: Working with Pixel Bender (18 minutes) Posted Oct 14, 2010 |
Photoshop Tool Tips: Working with Masks (18 minutes) Posted Sep 30, 2010 |
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Enhance your images with eye-bending effects
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Time-saving tips on using masks in Photoshop.
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| Photoshop - Creating Graphic Background Effects (21:25) Posted Sep 24, 2010 |
Photoshop - Replicating Vintage Camera Styles (21 minutes) Posted Sep 8, 2010 |
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Helen Bradley creates visually arresting background images using vibrant spiral patterns, sunbursts, and painted shapes
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Take your images retro with techniques that evoke the look of classic
film
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| Photoshop - Overlaying Images with Textures (19 minutes) Posted Aug 19, 2010 |
Photoshop - Multiple Prints with Picture Package (13:54) Posted Aug 10, 2010 |
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Add appeal to your images with sophisticated texturing techniques
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Simplify image layouts using the free Picture Package plugin for
Photoshop
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| Photoshop: Placing Designs on Products (18:43) Posted Jul 15, 2010 |
Photoshop - Quick & Easy Backgrounds (19:35) Posted Jun 21, 2010 |
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Place flat designs believably onto 3D products.
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Simple techniques for creating memorable backgrounds in Photoshop
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| Photoshop: Working with Layer Styles (24:24) Posted Jun 4, 2010 |
DIY Photoshop: Panels with Configurator (25:17) Posted May 19, 2010 |
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Time-saving Photoshop techniques using layer styles
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Use Adobe's free Configurator plugin to make and run custom panels
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| Photoshop: Fixing Perspective Issues (27:11) Posted May 4, 2010 |
Photoshop: Sharpening Techniques (21:27) Posted Apr 16, 2010 |
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How to fix warped perspectives in Photoshop
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There's more than one way to sharpen an image in Photoshop
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| Photoshop: HDR on a Shoestring (16:04) Posted Apr 6, 2010 |
Photoshop: Creative Adjustments in Camera RAW (22:42) Posted Mar 17, 2010 |
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Generate HDR images from a single exposure
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Apply crucial fixes to images right in Camera
Raw
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| Photoshop: Creative Fixes with Dodge, Burn, and Masks (18:40) Posted Feb 24, 2010 |
DIY Photo Frames (21:27) Posted Feb 12, 2010 |
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These Photoshop techniques use dodging, burning, and masks together
to make images pop
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Nothing becomes a photo like a simple, edgy, or elegant frame
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| Photoshop: Hold Your Own Photo (14:11) Posted Jan 22, 2010 |
Photoshop: From Ho-hum to Wow! (26:09) Posted Jan 21, 2010 |
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Polaroid nostalgia is in full swing, and this photo-collage technique
in Photoshop makes use of the instant-film craze.
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You can use Photoshop to bring out the magic of photos that are
muddy, soft, or blandly composed
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| All About Photoshop Brushes (42:12) Posted Jan 7, 2010 |
Photoshop - From Color to B&W and Back (29:16) Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
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This tutorial teaches you all the techniques you need to enhance your work with Photoshop brushes.
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This tutorial shows you not just one or two, but seven quick and
useful ways to convert color images to grayscale (or black and white).
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| Lightroom for Designers (42:10) Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Photoshop - Create Patterns That Repeat (46:04) Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
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If you deal with groups of images on a regular basis, Adobe Lightroom
may save you a lot of tedious shuffling between programs
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| Fixing Photos - Techniques You Should Know (46:23) Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Photomerge and HDR Techniques in Photoshop (30:55) Posted Aug 17, 2009 |
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Expert photo editor Helen Bradley demonstrates some common fixes for landscape and streetscape photos: removing sensor dust and graffiti, replacing a lackluster sky, erasing unwanted people without...
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Instructor Helen Bradley supplies a battery of tips on capturing image sequences for HDR and processing them using Photoshop as well as Photomatix Pro, a recommended downloadable application. Helen...
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| 5 Photoshop Masking Techniques (27:05) Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
5 Photoshop Tools for Color Changing (26:40) Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
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Columnist and photo specialist Helen Bradley shares five of her favorite image enhancement techniques incorporating masks (plus a bonus for good measure). These include punching type from an image,...
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Every color change you perform in Photoshop is a unique challenge. Instructor Helen Bradley shows how to use a variety of features to make especially tricky changes, including transforming a pink...
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| Blend Modes in Photoshop: 5 Quick Techniques (33:53) Posted May 19, 2009 |
Photoshop Collage Techniques (33:03) Posted May 1, 2009 |
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With blend modes in Photoshop, you can boost the color and contrast of a flat image, add spot lighting to an image, apply color-protecting fixes, perform non-destructive dodging and burning, and...
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In this tutorial, Helen Bradley chooses and merges images from various sources to create a visually coherent banner ad. In doing so, she demonstrates a variety of Photoshop techniques that bring...
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| 5 Photoshop Tools You Didn't Know Existed (33:34) Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Mastering History and Layer Comps in Photoshop (38:17) Posted Mar 4, 2009 |
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How can you convincingly turn daylight into sunset using Photoshop? How can you cut text out of an image and maintain editability? How do you knock out the background of an image and get a...
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Helen Bradley explains how to use and why you need Photoshop's history palette and layer comps. She also sheds light on how snapshots can work alongside histories, linear vs. non-linear history...
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| Automate Designs Using Photoshop Data Sets (31:22) Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Practical & Creative Uses for Photoshop's Pen Tool (31:22) Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
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Photoshop's Data Sets feature can save you hours of tedious work by automatically inserting sets of variables into a design template, and exporting each variation as a separate file. Helen Bradley...
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Photoshop's pen tool is an often-neglected feature, but multitasking designers will find it very useful, as instructor Helen Bradley demonstrates in this tutorial. She explains how to use the pen...
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| All About Actions in Photoshop (35:00) Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
Repeat & Align: Spacing Tips & Techniques in Photoshop (33:58) Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
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Photoshop actions allow you to run a set of automated tasks on a file or group of files. By incorporating actions intelligently into your workflow, you can spend much less time on tedious,...
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In this tutorial, Helen Bradley supplies tips for using the Repeat & Align tools in Photoshop. You'll discover quick ways of aligning images relative both to a grid and to one another as well as...
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| Photoshop Time-Savers: Leveraging Smart Objects (27:26) Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
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The use of smart objects in Photoshop allows the designer special freedoms such as the ability to edit filters at any stage of your workflow and the ability to resize multiple times without a...
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