Lunacore Photoshop Blog

Dirk Paessler explains how to use Photoshop’s polar coordinates filter to turn panoramas into pieces of art:

Is time again for the guys of PhotoshopTV, Scott Kelby, Dave Cross and Larry Becker to share some new stuff with us in the 40th episode of their popular show;

- A tutorial on making a realistic film style contact sheet
- A multitude of little known camera RAW tips
- Restore a faded photograph with Adjustment Layers

To-do list

- Visit John Paul Caponigro
- Check out the huge Nikon user community at Nikonians
- Take a break at ratemydrawings.com

Photoshop Guys Scott Kelby, Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski share the following subjects in the 38th episode of Photoshop TV:

- Change the impact of a two-model photo by duplicating, resizing and blurring
- How to customize the Web Photo Gallery in Adobe Bridge to use your own logo
- Creating an effect in camera RAW and applying your finishing touches in Photoshop
- A sneak peak from behind the scenes of Adobe Live! in Amsterdam

To-Do List:
- Take a look at Photo Kit Color 2.0 from Pixel Genius
- Grab a tutorial for every software application you can think of at Pixel2Life.com
- Check out the Digital Landscape Workshop series at digitallandscape.org

FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility that can be very useful for all Photoshop users on the Microsoft Windows platform.

In previous versions of Photoshop for Windows it was possible to capture a single window by using the key combination Alt+PrintScreen, which would copy the result to the clipboard.

Photoshop allows you to create a new document based on the content of the clipboard by selecting in the menu File / New. Photoshop then automatically adjusts the height and width according to the size of the screen capture that was placed on to the clipboard. In the document itself it’s then just a matter of pasting the content of the clipboard (Edit / Paste or Ctrl+V) inside the current document.

Photoshop CS2 however doesn’t allow to capture a single window; the key combination Alt+PrintScreen will copy the complete screen instead. The only way to copy a window in Photoshop is to use a special screen capture utility like FastStone Capture.

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In the 36th episode of Photoshop TV special guest Felix Nelson joins Matt Kloskowski.

Subjects

- how to make a realistic, watery reflection of a building, using transform and the warp filter
- Part 2 of Matt’s trip to Bert Monroy’s digs. Take a look at how Bert manages his workflow
- How to create a flock of birds using a custom brush
- Retouching tip for making a model’s nose appear smaller

To-do list

- Check out Terry White’s Creative Suite Podcast at creativesuitepodcast.com
- Grab some great tutorials from Dr. Photoshop at dr-photoshop.com
- Get the monthly creative newsletter from Jay Nelson at design-tools.com

In the the 35th episode of Photoshop TV, Scott Kelby, Matt Kloskowski and Dave Cross present the following subjects;

- a tutorial for turning a photo into an illustration using the pen tool
- a technique for changing an object’s background while keeping natural shadows
- how to make a realistic studio background for your photo’s model using channels
- how to order Kodak Prints with Bridge and Photoshop Services
- a tip for presenting and selling your photos online using Bridge and PhotoManager
- interview with Bert Monroy

Another round for the photoshop guys Scott Kelby, Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski in this 34th episode of Photoshop TV.

So what do they have in store for us this time?

- A different method to make fluffy clouds
- Using Bridge with the Iron Mountain photo backup service from Photoshop Services
- Tutorial for photographers to correct dark edges using Lens Correction (download)
- How to straighten up a crooked photo

- New contest and previous winner

Special reports:
- Scott at Adobe Live in Stockholm
- Part 2 of Matt’s visit with the folks at Adobe Systems Incorporated

This Week’s To-Do List:
- Layers magazine InDesign Advantage Center
- competitions at PhotoshopContest.com
- Stay up to date at VersionTracker.com

If you save an image in Photoshop, flatten it and save it by accident, then you’ll notice that the regular undo command Ctrl + Z (Command + Z on the Mac) doesn’t have any effect.
Luckily there is a different solution to undo the mistake, which is to use Alt + Ctrl + Z (Option + Command + Z on the Mac) instead, also known as Step Backward.

The free Fourier Transform plug-in (only for Windows) has been designed to make filtering in the frequency domain available for free.

It uses one of the fastest implementations of the Discrete Fourier Transform and has many applications, such as:

- Separating or removing periodical patterns.
- Analyzing and enhancing certain periodical patterns.

The plug-in is developed mainly for B&W images but also works well with some color images after using this little Lunacore trick:

- open image that needs to be fixed
- duplicate image (image/duplicate)
- apply FT filter to the original image
- drag/drop the duplicate with the mouse (while holding down the shift key) to the current document
- use filter/noise/median to blur this color image until pattern disappears
- set blending mode of this layer to color

In this episode of Photoshop TV:

- how to make a realistic depth-of-field effect
- how to create a stunning chrome effect
- how to correct a series faded photographs with adjustment layers
- tip on video actions for creating DVD slide shows from your images
- tip for using Bridge and Photoshop Services to create an awesome picture book
- how to use the DLO HomeDock to watch Photoshop TV on your television
- an interview with some of Adobe’s top creative people
- Photoshop Soup 2 Nuts Digital Imaging Conference mentioned
- New contest and prize winner of previous contest.

To do list:

- Check out the digital workflow seminars now scheduled at D-65.com
- Scott Kelby’s new Photoshop for Digital Photographers online course at Photoshop Training
- Get the new class schedule for Photoshop World Las Vegas