Digital Design Cottage:  Video Tutorials & Training in Photoshop

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Online training and tutorials in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Design. Learn at your own pace from a professional instructor of New Media Creative Design.

Photoshop Video Tutorial : Change eye colour using the Colour Replacement Tool

1/30/2007

Hidden underneath the brush tool in the Photoshop toolbox (and often ignored), you will find the Colour Replacement tool. In this video tutorial, we’ll look at how easy and quick it is to replace the green eye colour of a young girl with the blue eye colour of another girl.


How To Change A Person's Eye Colour In Photoshop

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Photoshop Video Tutorial : Speed Up Your Post-Scan Editing

1/15/2007

If you scan in photographs you will often find that they appear slightly crooked when scanned in, or if you scan multiple photographs in one go they will sometimes appear skewed on the scan. In this video tutorial you will see how to use the Automated Crop and Straighten option to very quickly and easily get around these problems.


Speed Up Your Scanned Image Editing With Photoshop And The Autom - The most popular videos are a click away

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Free Photoshop File Download : Reusable Post-It Note

Here's a free Photoshop file for you to download. I made it for a poster I was working on and I think it's a handy file to have around to reuse.

Post It note from www.DigtalDesignCottage.com

You can download a zipped version of the file here.

Let me know if you find it useful.

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Photoshop Quick Tip: Displaying Image Size Information in Photoshop

1/12/2007

Rather than choosing Image > Image Size to open the Image size dialog box, a really quick way to find out Image size information in Photoshop is to press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) and then Click and hold down the mouse button over the file information box at the bottom of the document window.

A little box appears telling you, the width and height of the image (in pixels AND in the currently selected unit of measurement), the number of channels and the image resolution. Rapid!

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Design Inspiration : Michael Elins

1/08/2007

I'm always on the lookout for inspiration for both myself and my class and there is no end of incredible talent out there working in our beloved Photoshop.

Michael Elins is a photographer and illustrator whose work has graced the cover of Rolling Stone magazine numerous times. I first came across his work when I read an excellent tutorial on retouching in Computer Arts magazine a couple of years ago. As well as photographing celebrities he also takes his work into Photoshop where he works some extra magic.

Check out his website at www.michaelelins.com

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Photoshop Video Tutorial : Add more canvas to your image using the crop tool

1/07/2007

Here's a short video tutorial which shows you how to use the Crop tool in Photoshop to ADD more canvas to your image, rather than cropping away.


Add More Canvas To Your Image With The Crop Tool In Photoshop -

This video is also available in a larger size and better quality when you sign up for the Learn and Master Photoshop online course.

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Photoshop Video Tutorial : Use the colour match adjustment

1/01/2007

In this short video tutorial we look at how to apply the look and feel of one photograph to another photograph.



How To Match The Colour Of One Photograph With Another Photograp -

This video lesson and many others are just some of the bonus material that is available to members who susbscribe to the Learn and Master Photoshop online course.

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