Jun Miranda

Complete Guide to Photoshop CS5 New Features (Last Part)–
What’s New
The new features in CS5 include Automatic lens correction, Straigthen Image tool, “Neutral Density filter” tool, HDR Toning,  Additive grain, Truer Edge selection, Color decontamination, Content-Aware Fill and  Content-Aware Option of the Healing Brush, Puppet Warp, Mixer Brush,  Bristle Tips, and the Mini Bridge panel.
11.  Mixer [...]

Complete Guide to Photoshop CS5New Features (Part 2)–
What’s New
The new features in CS5 include Automatic lens correction, Straigthen Image tool, “Neutral Density filter” tool, HDR Toning,  Additive grain, Truer Edge selection, Color decontamination, Content-Aware Fill and  Content-Aware Option of the Healing Brush, Puppet Warp, Mixer Brush,  Bristle Tips, and the Mini Bridge panel.
7.  Color Decontamination
In [...]

Complete Guide to Photoshop CS5 New Features (First Part)–
As expected, the new version of Photoshop was released this year and, I must say with a bang. Just when you think Adobe will be hard put to come up with additions to what is already an exceedingly fantastic editing software, they still manage to squeeze in [...]

Localized Editing in LR2–
Applying more than one type of adjustment at a time
Click the Show Effect Sliders switch to drag sliders for each effect and to apply more than one type of adjustment at a time (Image 31).
Adjustment Brush Tool
To use it, select the tool in the tool strip (or press K). In the tool’s [...]

Localized Editing in LR2 (Part III)–

 
The Graduated Filter tool is the first of two local adjustment tools in the tool strip (Image 22). It works very much like the graduated filter that popularized by Cokin but it is more flexible and its use is expandable. For example, you can use it to change the exposure, [...]

Localized Editing in LR2 (Part II)–
 

Straighten Tool and the Angle Slider
If you want to straighten, for example, the horizon in a landscape or a building, choose any of these methods:
a.  Using the Rotate icon. When you click the Crop Overlay tool, an outline appears around the photo with adjustments handles. If you move the pointer [...]

Localized Editing in LR2–
 
 
When Adobe introduced the Adjustment Brush and the Graduated Filter tools in Lightroom 2.0 (LR), it set the program miles apart from its major competitor and several steps closer to Photoshop. These two tools  allow partial or selective adjustments of your photos which were not possible in the first version of LR. [...]