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Tutorial: How to clone yourself when there’s overlapping

LJ — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:38:37 +0000

This is the second part in a 3 part series. In this video I show you how to clone yourself when there is overlapping between pictures. In the next video I will show you how to create an advanced clone scene, so don’t miss that one!

You’re welcome to use the pictures I used to try this yourself. There’s a link to them under the picture.

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Tutorial: How to clone yourself easy

LJ — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:24:31 +0000

This is the first part in a 3 part series. This first part show you how to clone yourself with no overlapping between pictures. The next video will show you how to clone yourself when there is overlapping and the last video will be an advanced video on cloning. You don’t want to miss the advanced one. It’s gonna be a good one!

You’re welcome to use the pictures I used to try this yourself. There’s a link to them under the picture.

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Tutorial: “the Look”

LJ — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:18:27 +0000

Learn how to color adjust, increase contrast, sharpen image and create a vignette to make your picture look like a million bucks.

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Photoshop keyboard shortcuts

LJ — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:57:09 +0000

The smartest thing you can do when working with Photoshop is to learn the essensial shortcuts and maybe a few advanced ones you’re always gonna use. So I’ll give you the most important ones and the ones I use a lot.

Different tools:
V – Move tool
M – Rectangular marquee tool
W – Magic wand
C – Crop tool
B – Brush
E – Eraser
P – Pen tool
T – Text tool
H – Hand tool

How to navigate:
Alt + scrolling on your mouse – zooming
Holding the spacebar down – brings you to the hand tool so you can navigate, when you release you get back to the previous tool
Tab – will take you to the professional userinterface where you dont have any windows up except your picture. If this ever happens and you dont find the way back to all the different tools (that has happened to me a few times hehe) just click Tab.

You’re maybe familiar with Alt + Tab that makes you hop from one windows window to the next one. When you’re inside any software you can use Ctrl + Tab to do the same within the software. Use this to switch between open projects in Photoshop. You can also use this anywhere else for example in your web browser like Google Chrome, Opera or Firefox.

Basic commands:
Ctrl + Z – undo
Ctrl + S – save
Ctrl + J – duplicate to new layer
Ctrl + Shift + N – new layer
Ctrl + I – invert selection
Ctrl + A – select all
Ctrl + H – deselect your selection

Image adjustments commands:
Ctrl + U – hue and saturation
Ctrl + L – levels
Ctrl + M – curves

These are the ones I use a lot. If I need something else I locate it somewhere in Photoshop. These will all speed up your workflow. Find the ones you use a lot and memorize them.

Tutorial: the Mirror Reflection Change

LJ — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:18:59 +0000

This time I show you how to change the mirror reflection in an image. Under the picture you can download the pictures I used if you wanna try this out without taking your own pictures : )

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Tutorial: the Sin City effect

LJ — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:34:28 +0000

Enjoy the first free photoshop video tutorial where you learn how to do the Sin City effect, black & white picture with a colored object, using the pen tool. You also learn to use the burn and dodge tool to create highlights and shadows.