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		<title>Photography’s Digital Possibilities &#8211; Special Effects Using Photoshop</title>
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Before you apply any of these special effects, it can be useful to apply a masking on your photo to select which areas you want to change and which you want to keep unchanged. You can easily get a nice soft fade between the effect and no-effect areas. This is called masking and thereâs many [...]


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<p>Before you apply any of these special effects, it can be useful to apply a masking on your photo to select which areas you want to change and which you want to keep unchanged. You can easily get a nice soft fade between the effect and no-effect areas. This is called masking and thereâs many ways of doing it. The one method I almost always use now (it took years before I discovered it) is the âquick mask modeâ. It is very easy to use and usually gives acceptable results.</p>
<p><strong>Quick masking</strong></p>
<p>In Adobe Photoshop find the button called âedit in quick mask modeâ. Itâs located near the bottom of the main tool bar and looks like a circle in a rectangle. Thereâs also a short-cut key: Q. Once in quick mask mode, you can select and deselect areas simply by painting them with white and black respectively, using the standard brush tool. Zoom to 100 or 200 % for best accuracy. You might want to use a soft-edged brush to avoid hard edges. Alternatively, when youâre done, exit the masking mode and go to âSelect &gt; Featherâ and set the feather radius to 5-10 pixels or so. A nice option is that you can set the opacity to anywhere between 0 and 100%, allowing you to apply the effect stronger or weaker in one part of the image that another.</p>
<p><strong>Layer masking</strong></p>
<p>Slightly more complicated, you can add a layer mask. This allows you to apply any effect gradually from any point in your photo. Follow these steps in Photoshop:</p>
<p>1. Select âWindows &gt; Layersâ.</p>
<p>2. Right click on your layer and select âDuplicate layerâ.</p>
<p>3. Click on the little icon in the bottom of the layer box called âAdd layer maskâ.</p>
<p>4. Select the âGradient toolâ on the main tool box.</p>
<p>5. Choose a gradient style from the top âOptionsâ bar (linear, radial etc.).</p>
<p>6. Now click on your image on the point you donât want to change, then drag the mouse away to the point where you want the full effect to take place. The effect will be applied gradually more and more along this line youâve now create.</p>
<p>7. Finally, go back onto your original background layer and apply any effect you want. This will apply the effect in a soft, gradual way. Use opacity to turn the effect down to less than full strength if you want.</p>
<p><strong>Lens-like effects</strong></p>
<p>Using the layer masking described above, you can apply âGaussian blurâ which will make the selected areas appear soft-focused, a bit like if you had used a large-aperture lens. With âCurvesâ you can make your corners darker than the center, replicating the lens effect called vignetting. Technically, vignetting is considered a lens dysfunction, but subjectively it can add an extra feeling to your photo, a kind of frame that will have a âsuckingâ effect, bringing more attention into the centre of your photo. You can also just lower the contrast and/or colour-saturation around your main subject, helping to separate it from the background clutter. Thereâs many other options, be creative!</p>
<p><strong>Soft glow effect</strong></p>
<p>Great for creating a âromanticâ look for portraits. Hereâs what you have to do:</p>
<p>1. Duplicate layer.</p>
<p>2. Apply âGaussian blurâ to the new (top) layer. Make it blurry, but leave a little detail.</p>
<p>3. Play around with the blend modes and opacity till you get what you want:</p>
<p>âDarkenâ or âMultiplyâ blends darkens image details while also softening features and adding a halo. Good for soft, expressive shadows.</p>
<p> âLightenâ or âScreenâ blends lightens the image instead. Nice for adding high key or highlight glows.</p>
<p>âSoft Lightâ and âOverlayâ adds contrast and saturation. Especially useful for landscapes and still life photos.</p>
<p><strong>Black-and-white-ish</strong></p>
<p>A cool metallic black-and-whiteâish look, in my opinion very suitable for documentary work and subdued portraits, is easily obtained by setting the contrast high (curves) and colour saturation low. Do it with Photoshopâs âlayersâ to be able to tweak your exact settings it in place.</p>
<p><strong>Colour grading</strong></p>
<p>You know how some movies have a âspecial lookâ, golden brown, sick yellow-greenish, cool blue etc.? You can get the same effect in your photos if you want. The simple way is to go to âImage &gt; Adjustments &gt; Hue/Saturationâ, click âColourizeâ and use the slide bars to select your preferred grading. If you are going for a well-defined colour, itâs better to use the âEdit &gt; Fillâ function. Simply select the colour you want and set the âBlending modeâ to âColourâ. Either way, itâs good first to duplicate your layer before you start. This will allow you to preserve some of the original colours by turning the colour grading down. Use the âOpacityâ slider in the layer box to do this. If you want a duotone image, simply make 2 duplicate layers and give them different colour gradings. Mix them together, again with the âOpacityâ slider and the different âLayer blending modeâ options in the layer box.</p>
<p>One example: To give your image a warm golden-brown colour tone, first make two duplicate layers. Use âEdit &gt; Fillâ to make the first one brown (#963A12) and the second one yellow (#EDC715). Set opacities to 30 and 60% respectively and select the âMultiplyâ blending mode for the top (yellow) layer. Tweak it in place to get it exactly like you want. Also try adding a soft glow, as described above.</p>
<p><strong>Micro contrast</strong></p>
<p>This is a really neat trick to enhance your contrast and draw out texture details in your photos. You can even use it when your overall contrast is already maxed out, using all tonal ranges from pure black to pure white. The procedure is similar to the normal âUnsharpen Maskâ, but with some special settings. Go to âFilter &gt; Sharpen &gt; Unsharpen Maskâ and set the âAmountâ to around 20-30%, the âRadiusâ to 50-100 pixels and zero on the âThresholdâ. You will get a subtle contrast enhancement that, for some pictures at least, works really well.</p>
<p>Using any of the above mentioned effects can improve your photos and make them really eye-catching. However, learning when to use them and when not to use them is just as important as learning how to use them. When to use special effects in your photos is a matter of personal taste and judgement. Use it, but donât overdo it. Often, less is more.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey,<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Colour photography is now the norm, and is perfect for most situations; however, there are some times when you want the power and simplicity of a black and white photo.</p>
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<p>Black and white photography requires a different set of skills to colour, as the picture is formed purely from areas of light and shade. These days, black and white film is increasingly hard to come by, and unless you’re lucky enough to have a specialist lab near you, you’ll find the sort of machine processing they do at &#8220;one hour&#8221; photo places leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to processing black and white film.</p>
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<p>Many modern digital cameras have a dedicated black and white mode, but mostly they just desaturate the picture and make it look washed out. It often works out better to shoot in colour and convert the picture in Photoshop.</p>
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<p>Of course, the easiest way of making a colour photo black and white in Photoshop is to convert the mode to grayscale (Image &gt; Mode &gt; Grayscale), but this does limit your options if you want to enhance the picture later on.</p>
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<p>In traditional black and white photography, coloured filters are sometimes placed over the lens to create a dramatic contrast. This is done because hues that seem quite different in real life (in colour) can merge into one shade of grey when seen in monochrome. The intensity of the colours are the same, even though the actual colours are different.</p>
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<p>For example, a blue sky with white clouds can appear weak and washed out in a black and white photograph. If you place a red filter over the lens, it will darken the blue sky and make the white clouds stand out more. This is because the red filter blocks the blue colour waves more effectively than it does colours that are nearer to red.</p>
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<p>The great thing about Photoshop is it enables you to experiment and get the effect just right. The method I find works best involves keeping the picture in RGB mode, and adjusting one of the colour channels.</p>
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<p>If you go to the Layers palette, click the Channels tab, then click on (say) the Red channel, you’ll see an image that resembles a red filter over the lens of a camera with black and white film. The darkening of the blue tinted areas will make a moody, sophisticated image. For comparison, click on the Green channel and then the Blue. The results will be surprising &#8212; and very different!</p>
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<p>I like to then fine tune the result by adjusting the Levels. Keep your chosen channel selected, and then go to Image &gt; Adjustments &gt; Levels, and adjust the sliders until you get the desired result. Then be sure to save the picture as a new file to preserve your original.</p>
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<p>Incidentally, if you apply this process to two channels at the same time, you can get some pretty stunning colour effects too!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Siri Stafford, my art director at the time, suggested this stock image for me. She asked me to make the image because she thought my specialty of using Photoshop to create conceptual stock images made me a logical choice for the job. I truly loved the idea; but what the heck would lightning hitting a tree really look like?</p>
<p>I turned to that technological development that has so radically changed the world of commercial photography&#8230;the internet. I simply typed in to Google&#8217;s image search &#8220;lightning and tree&#8221;. In just a few minutes I had found some obviously amateur images…but ones that were nonetheless stunning actual images of lightning hitting trees. Now I had something to work towards.</p>
<p>In my mind I pictured a lonely expanse of land with a single oak tree. A lightning bolt is caught as it hits the tree and illuminates the scene around it. The bolt travels down the trunk of the tree illuminating the leaves both from above and from behind at the same time. The sky is dark from storm clouds gathering at dusk.</p>
<p>Photographing the Oak Tree</p>
<p>There are many oak trees near my home in Marin County just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. I scouted an open space nearby and found an oak tree that suited my needs. I photographed it just before noon with a slight back lighting. At that time I was still using film and captured the image with a Hasselblad medium format camera on Kodak Ektachrome film. Due to the steep slope of the land I couldn’t get the whole tree in the frame, despite my wide-angle lens, unless I turned the camera to a diagonal angle. In the same space I found and photographed an open expanse of land with a foreground of wild oats. From my files I found a photograph of cloudy skies and some distant low mountains—shot in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a dirt road winding through the composition.</p>
<p>Getting a picture of a lightning strike</p>
<p>During a recent winter trip to Ladakh, a region in Kashmir often referred to as &#8220;Little Tibet&#8221; I got my lightning. It was long after dark and I was suffering both from altitude sickness and a case of the flue exacerbated by the extreme cold in my unheated guest room. A flash of light lit up the room and immediate rush of thunder testified to the closeness of the strike. Being as how I had never managed to shoot lightning (rarely do we get lightning in the San Francisco Bay Area), I managed to drag myself out from under the covers and grappled for my camera. With my head spinning from my physical condition I groggily shoved a roll of film in my F100, steadied on the windowsill, open the shutter and waited. Boom! Another flash. I repeated the procedure until I had shot a roll then climbed, shaking, back into my cot. As a stock photographer using Photoshop to composite so many of my images together, I am always on the look out for elements that I will be able to using in my stock composites. That effort finally paid off, I thought, as I scanned two of those lightning shots for this image. I made the scans using my Scanmate 5000 drum scanner and scanning the images at 100 megabytes each.</p>
<p>Using Adobe Photoshop to combine the images into a stock photo</p>
<p>I began assembling the image by using layer masks to paint together the landscape and cloud images. I merged the layers, duplicated the new layer, lightened it up with an adjustment layer of curves, and then used the layer masking to paint in the area to be &#8220;illuminated&#8221; by the lightning. The Tree was selected using the Color Range, magic wand, and lasso tools in conjunction with alpha channels. Making a selection of a tree with thousands of leaves is quite a challenge and in this case required not just the above sequence of operations, but also considerable time going in at 100% magnification and by hand, using the lasso tool, “cleaning up” even more of the tree selection. With the tree selected I copied and pasted it into the background. I duplicated the tree layer twice, darkened one with the curves and lightened the other. I then used layer masking to create the effect of light and dark areas where the lightning would be lighting up the leaves closest to the lightning bolt. Finally, I brought in the lightning bolt itself, pasted it in, and then setting the layer mode to “lighten” only. By setting the mode to “lighten” the pixels in the lightning image that were lighter than the underlying pixels of the rest of the image become the only ones visible…thus there was no need to “strip” the lightning bolt out of it’s dark background (I used the curves to darken the image enough to eliminate all but the lightning bolt itself). I used the liquefy brush to &#8220;fine-tune&#8221; the path of the bolt.</p>
<p>A timeless fine art image or stock photo</p>
<p>In the end I have not just a pretty picture, but a conceptual stock image that can be used to illustrate a number of marketing concepts. The image is exactly the kind of image that I strive to create, dramatic, useful and timeless. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Layers are a powerful feature of Photoshop that allow you to work on one part of an image without disturbing the rest of it. While the concept of layers may seem intimidating at first, once you get the hang of using layers you&#8217;ll wonder how you ever survived without them!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Layers are a powerful feature of Photoshop that allow you to work on one part of an image without disturbing the rest of it. While the concept of layers may seem intimidating at first, once you get the hang of using layers you&#8217;ll wonder how you ever survived without them!</p>
<p>&#13;The transparent parts of any layer, shown by the checkered grid, allow the layers beneath that layer to show through. You can show and hide each layer in an image by clicking on its corresponding eye icon in the Layers palette.</p>
<p>&#13;To organize your layers, you can arrange them into layer groups by going to Layer &gt; New &gt; Group&#8230;. Each layer group displays in the same way as any ungrouped layers on the Layers palette. A layer group is signified by a folder icon. You can collapse or expand layer groups by clicking on the triangle to the left of the folder icon, and nest layer groups within each other by dragging one folder icon into another.</p>
<p>&#13;Here are 10 quick Layer Shortcuts.</p>
<p>&#13;1 &#8211; Rename layers by double-clicking on the layer name.</p>
<p>&#13;2 &#8211; Select a layer by using the keyboard shortcuts Alt-[ and Alt-] (Option-[ and Option-] on a Mac).</p>
<p>&#13;3 &#8211; Merge a layer into the one beneath it by pressing Ctrl- E (Command-E). If you have selected layers, this shortcut<br />&#13;will merge those selected layers together.</p>
<p>&#13;4 &#8211; Change the transparency of a layer by changing its opacity with the Opacity slider, or typing a value into the<br />&#13;Opacity box (which is visible when you have the Selection, Move, or Crop tools selected).</p>
<p>&#13;5 &#8211; Duplicate a selected layer by pressing Ctrl-J (Command-J on a Mac). You can also duplicate a layer by dragging it<br />&#13;while pressing the Alt (Option) key.</p>
<p>&#13;6 &#8211; Select multiple layers by holding down Ctrl (Command on a Mac) and clicking the layer names. This forms a temporary link between the selected layers that allows you to move them as one unit, delete them all, and so on.</p>
<p>&#13;7 &#8211; You can also link layers together. Select layers by clicking on them while holding down Shift or Ctrl (Command<br />&#13;on a Mac).</p>
<p>&#13;8 &#8211; To unlink all the layers, select one of the linked layers and go to Layer &gt; Unlink Layers.</p>
<p>&#13;9 &#8211; To temporarily unlink a layer, hold down Shift and click on its link icon (a red &#8220;X&#8221; will appear over the link icon).</p>
<p>&#13;10 &#8211; Reactivate the link by holding down Shift and clicking the link icon again.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best tool a freelance digital photographer has, besides a digital camera, is photoshop.  Mainly, because it can increase stock photo sales and generate more profit.  It can work just as well if your more into just editing digital photos, or graphic design.  You are still going to need a digital camera, [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best tool a freelance digital photographer has, besides a digital camera, is photoshop.  Mainly, because it can increase stock photo sales and generate more profit.  It can work just as well if your more into just editing digital photos, or graphic design.  You are still going to need a digital camera, but putting more focus on digital editing is really up to you. </p>
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<p>With every coming year the population of graphic designers and photo editors has been increasing. Photo editors, like yourself, are trying to find a freelance income from their work.  This can be hard with competition and location.  So, a lot of those people turn to stock photo sites to start a career or earn extra income.  If you don&#8217;t know what a stock photography site is, the definition is basically a site that provides graphic designers, advertisers, and marketers digital photos for whatever job they need.  The people selling them upload their photos, the photos are bought through a stock photography site like Shutterstock and you earn a commission or a profit.  It can be said that this is mainly a freelance digital photography business but lately that has changed. Actually having photo editing skills will benefit you in the long run and earn you more sales.</p>
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<p>The people that are buying stock photos are graphic designers and photo editors like you.  Which makes it easier for you to understand exactly what a buyer wants. You can utilize this information and make more sales by providing them with the types of digital photos they need for a particular job.  It might not apply as much Photoshop and digital editing as one would want but its a freelance lucrative business that can earn you a pretty decent paycheck. </p>
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<p>You are going to need two things right at the beginning: a digital camera and an internet connection.  Then you can learn how to create your own <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.digitalphotojob.com/stock_photo_portfolio.html">digital stock photography portfolio</a>.  It&#8217;s important that you learn about keywords, uploading, traffic, best photos to sell and the best stock photography sites.  There are some books that helped me, but one source in particular I recommend is a program called Camera Dollars.  Basically, this program will teach you all the technical stuff that is hard for anyone to understand. (the link is on the site).  That is where I learned this information when I was first starting out.  I started out only selling digital photography and in the beginning I was only earning about $100.00 per site every day.  I later started using Photoshop a ton more and increased my profits multiple times.  </p>
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<p>If you are digital editor or graphic designer then I definitely recommend trying to sell your work on places like Shutterstock to see if it&#8217;s right for you.  If your a digital photographer you need to get photoshop for photo upkeep and presentation. If you work hard and spend several hours each week you will earn money fairly quick.  You won&#8217;t need to quit your day job, you just need enough time to take and edit photos.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a common question asked with many Photoshop users: How can I make the hair selection from an image with accuracy? This question mostly asked by Photoshop beginners which usually tend to choose their own photo as the object of their exercise. They started to make selection around the body, and as the selection is [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s a common question asked with many Photoshop users: How can I make the hair selection from an image with accuracy? This question mostly asked by Photoshop beginners which usually tend to choose their own photo as the object of their exercise. They started to make selection around the body, and as the selection is done, they erase the outer parts of the selection so changing the background images would be a lot easier. But the hardest part came when they reach the hair area which usually blended with the background. </p>
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<p>Forcing to close the selection with manual hair-by-hair tracing would almost make the selection result became jagged and the hair look would become unnatural. Some users then apply the fastest way by applying “feather” to smoothen the selection, so there would be a soft transition between the object and the background. This might work in some cases, but sometimes not. The picture gets the bad collage effect that the picture couldn’t balance with the new background, whether it’s blended or contrasted. </p>
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<p>So what is needed to be done to have the perfect hair selection as it would possible to combine with any backgrounds? The answer still gets around the selection techniques, but it’s more than just using tools and how to apply them. You should combine the following items in your preference. </p>
<p><b>Selection tool</b>; undoubtedly there are many tools to do the selection from lasso, magic wand, marquee, and pen tool [if you feel more comfortable to deal with it]. </p>
<p><b>Channel palette</b>; this palette contains information from each of your separated colors based on the active color mode. RGB color mode consists of Red, Green, and Blue channels which usually proofed on screen media, such as monitors or LCD projectors. Otherwise the CMYK color mode is made up from 4 separated channels which are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. This color mode usually applied on printed media such as papers. </p>
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<p>Remember, that every channel provides certain values which represented on a monotone-colored look. By using it, you can make a selection based on certain channel which provides more detail selection range. </p>
<p><b>Layer Blending Modes</b>; this palette applies the behavior of certain layer against the layer below it. Spanning from multiply, lighten, screen, overlay and up to 23 modes you can experience to get various blending effect throughout your image. You can maximize the feature of these blending modes to enhance the quality of your hair selection. </p>
<p><b>Defringe</b>; the final way to enhance your selected image to get blended with the new background. It will automatically remove the tiny edge pixel which usually occurs on every selection. You can have it from the <b>Layer &#8211; Matting</b> menu, and select Defringe. When a dialog box of certain number appears, I usually left it with 1 pixel amount and let them do the best work. </p>
<p><b>So, what’s the step?</b></p>
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<p>The first step is use the selection tool to manually select your image area. But, this I usually do: separate the image between the body and the head. Why is that? Since hair selection is the hardest part, I can easily select the body part and left the head for the main task. By separating the head, it also means that you are working on less area which requires less resource from your machine. </p>
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<p>After separating the head section and put it on a new separated layer, you can start using the help of channel palette. I usually work within the RGB color mode and choose the green channel since it contains the contrast value of an image. The shortcut to load from channel is by holding the Ctrl [Mac: Command] key and clicking on the corresponding channel. You should have a more detailed hair selection by now and erase the outer part of your selection. </p>
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<p>Using the Layer Blending modes is the next step to enhance your selection quality. You can have those blending modes right at the top of your layer palette. I usually choose the screen mode to do the work and the image will automatically blended with the new background. But if try to experiment with another mode, maybe you’ll find a more interesting result. </p>
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<p>The last key is defringing your selection to wipe those white pixels around your selection. I think you have a better result for your hair selection right now. </p>
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<p>And, if you want to make yourself inside a movie poster, maybe you&#8217;ll be interested on my other <a rel="nofollow" href="http://100photoshopquicktips.blogspot.com/2008/01/32-placing-image-inside-text-movie.html">photoshop tips here</a>.</p>
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There is nothing quite so disconcerting as yellowish or gray teeth in your portraits! As an example you get a really good shot of your favorite “model” and when you look at the image in Photoshop you notice her teeth are [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Couple of Simple Steps to Whiten Teeth using Photoshop</p>
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<p><strong>Written by Sharon Beth of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.letmefixyourpictures.com/">www.letmefixyourpictures.com</a></strong></p>
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<p>There is nothing quite so disconcerting as yellowish or gray teeth in your portraits! As an example you get a really good shot of your favorite “model” and when you look at the image in Photoshop you notice her teeth are a muddy white with a yellowish cast. Even if her teeth are less than perfect in real life, you can add extra snap and sparkle to the image by giving her a bright clean smile!</p>
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<p>Open your image in Photoshop CS or Elements. I have made this simple so am not using Layers. Just make a copy of your image to work on.</p>
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<p>   In your Toolbox on the left, choose the Lasso tool. Along the top of the page you will see “feather” – set that to about 10% as it will soften the edge between the lightened teeth and the lips or gums. Now using the Lasso tool select just the teeth. There should be a “marching ants” line around them now. Work on this selection to make sure you are satisfied with it and that it covers all of the teeth, even the ones in the back.</p>
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<p>   Now you have the teeth selected, go to the top toolbar where it says “Image”. There is a pull-down menu. Select  “Adjustments” and then “Brightness/Contrast” from that menu. Use the “Brightness” slider bar to increase the lightness of the teeth to where you think they look natural, and then press “OK”. Check out the overall effect of what you have done to see if it is satisfactory.</p>
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<p>   The next step would be to de-saturate any color cast such as a yellowish or sometimes pinkish tones on the teeth. You should still have the teeth selected. Go to the “Image” tab again, click on “Adjustments” and then “Hue/Saturation”. Take the Saturation slider and move it to the left, de-saturating the color from the teeth to a more neutral gray tone. You can also use the “Hue” slider to get a more pleasing tone to your finished product. Press “OK”</p>
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<p>   A final step would be to go to the Toolbox again on the left and click on the “Dodge” tool. Set it to a soft edged brush at about 10% exposure and click on “Highlights” in the “Range” menu on the top toolbar. Gently whiten the central area of each tooth to make a realistic roundness to each tooth. This can make the teeth look more natural. The teeth are still selected so you go up to “Select” on the top toolbar and then use the “Deselect” from that pull-down menu. This will turn off the selection leaving your adjustment to the teeth still in effect. Save your file!</p>
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<p>This small touch on just the teeth of the subject can make a major difference in the appearance of the subject and she will be much happier with the result!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a common problem. You have captured some adorable photographs of your new baby boy and can’t wait to show them off to your friends and family only to be disappointed, when you look at them on your computer or pick them up from the photo lab, by the terrible red eye.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a common problem. You have captured some adorable photographs of your new baby boy and can’t wait to show them off to your friends and family only to be disappointed, when you look at them on your computer or pick them up from the photo lab, by the terrible red eye.</p>
<p>Your precious child looks like a demon or something from a scary movie. This problem is commonly referred to as &#8220;red eye.&#8221;</p>
<p>Red eye is becoming more and more of a problem and this is partly due to the emergence of digital photo technology. Since digital cameras do not need the same internal mechanics or space for film they are becoming smaller and smaller compared to their film counterparts.</p>
<p>This means that the flash is much closer to the lens. In fact, in most new point and shoot digital cameras the flash is directly above the lens. This is the problem. When the flash is closer to the lens it causes the flash to enter the iris directly and reflect straight back to the camera causing the terrible red eye that has ruined your family pictures.</p>
<p>Most digital cameras have a red eye reduction feature built in which causes a pre flash immediately before the camera exposes the image. This causes the iris to become smaller for the actual picture.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this function rarely completely eliminates red eye from your photographs. Since most point and shoot digital cameras do not have a hot shoe allowing the photographer to add a flash away from the camera the only option for eliminating red eye is to fix it after the fact.</p>
<p>This is where Adobe Photoshop comes in. Photoshop makes it easy to correct even the worst cases of red eye in photographs. Are you concerned that Photoshop is too complicated or difficult to learn? Don’t be. Even someone with no experience at all can quickly and easily learn to fix red eye like a pro using Adobe Photoshop.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expert WordPress is a new blogging system that allows bloggers to save time and get more done after they create a blog. Not only that, but the system is actually a full on blogging suite with your own WordPress theme, plugins, video tutorials and instructions, all packed into one. Expert WordPress was created for the [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Expert WordPress is a new blogging system that allows bloggers to save time and get more done after they create a blog. Not only that, but the system is actually a full on blogging suite with your own WordPress theme, plugins, video tutorials and instructions, all packed into one. Expert WordPress was created for the WordPress community to counteract the limitations and problems they usually face when they want to create a blog.</p>
<p>&#13;The Expert WordPress system takes you by the hand and explains in detail what you need to do and when. Setting up a blog couldn&#8217;t be easier and more straightforward than this. Since WordPress is the number one choice blogging software on the market, most bloggers will eventually migrate to it, even if they first create a blog with one of the dozen of the free blogging tools available on the market.</p>
<p>&#13;You can choose Blogger, TypePad, LiveJournal and even the free option of http://WordPress.com for your blog, but none of them will give you the benefits and choices of the WordPress software that runs on a self hosted domain.</p>
<p>&#13;Self hosted WordPress blogs are by far the best blogs for search engine optimization, great placement and the ability to monetize them in many possible ways. Smart Internet marketers have recognized this fact a long time ago and wouldn&#8217;t ever go back to whatever they used prior to hosting their own WordPress blog.</p>
<p>&#13;Some features that really make the WordPress software stand apart from the others is the versatility of it. There are just so many options in which we can build WordPress blogs and with a bit of coding knowledge in HTML and PHP, anybody can actually design their own WordPress theme.</p>
<p>&#13;There are plugins, widgets and many other pieces of coding than can be integrated into WordPress. Best of all, nothing is set in stone. If you ever wanted to change the look of your WordPress blog you can do so easy with a few changes in the stylesheet.</p>
<p>&#13;To make the process of starting out to create a blog, by moving to your own self hosted WordPress blog a lot easier, Expert WordPress has been designed for you.</p>
<p>&#13;It is the system if you are sick of trying to lean code or spend hours finding the right plugins. The creators of the software have actually built in the required plugins to help you with your search engine rankings. All you need to do is activate them with a few clicks. This will not only save you a lot of time, but you won&#8217;t have to worry whether the plugins you use are the right ones.</p>
<p>&#13;Another benefit of using Expert WordPress opposed to doing it yourself is the fact that is comes with its own support forum. Should you ever get stuck you won&#8217;t need to purchase expensive eBooks or even search for answers online. You&#8217;ll have your very own help support community right at hand.</p>
<p>&#13;It&#8217;s up to you whether you want to create a blog the traditional way, or use Expert WordPress and fast track your blogging experience to something more pleasant. Either way, WordPress is the software to choose for sure.</p>
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