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Learning Curves in Photoshop CS2


Steve Caplin

Steve Caplin

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How to Cheat in Photoshop

 

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Created:
04 Oct 2006
User Level:
Advanced
Products:
Photoshop CS2 or later

There are many ways of adjusting images in Adobe® Photoshop® CS2—Levels, Brightness & Contrast, Hue & Saturation, Color Balance. The most powerful of the lot is Curves, which allows you to make both fine and sweeping alterations in a single dialog. In this tutorial, we’ll examine the curves dialog box in Photoshop CS2.

Requirements

To complete this article, you will need the following software:

Adobe Photoshop CS2

About the authors

Steve Caplin lives in London and is a freelance graphic artist specializing in satirical photomontage. He is also a contributing editor to MacUser magazine, and is a beta tester for Adobe software. He also lectures on Photoshop techniques and the ethics of photomontage. He is the author of three other books: How to Cheat in Photoshop, Icon Design and The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration.

 

Excerpted from “How to Cheat in Photoshop” by Steve Caplin © 2005. Used with the permission of Focal Press, a division of Elsevier. To purchase this book, please visit www.focalpress.com.