Photoshop CS3 Tutorials

Photoshop Setup

Color Space | Preferences and Settings | What Size Document? | Why High Resolution Photos? | Enlarging High Resolution Photos

Camera RAW and Other Enhancements

Bring Artwork Into Photoshop | Setting up Layers | Camera RAW | Layer Enhancements | Saving for the Web

Clipping Paths (aka Cutting Things Out)

Using the Pen Tool | Make Selection From Path | Other Uses For Selections

Intro to Photoshop

Function Keys | Changing System Preferences | Downloading Files | Download: Morning Glory | Opening Files (and the advantages of using Bridge) | Customizing Photoshop Preferences (Just the basics — more to follow) | Color Settings | What Percentage is Best for Me? | Zooming In and Out | Navigating Around the Image | Screen Mode Options | Where Did My Panels Go?

Image Enhancement Basics

The Quality of Digital Photos | Download: Morning Glory | The Move Tool | Resizing the Image | Levels Adjustment Layer | Curves Adjustment Layer | This Isn't Really Cheating | Hue and Saturation Adjustment Layer | The Dodge and Burn Layer | Paint Brush Size and Softness | Dodging 101 | Dodging Done Better | A Little Burn | Merge Visible on New Layer | Unsharp Mask | Edit > Fade Unsharp Mask > Luminosity | Comparisons | Saving Strategies | Real Time Replay | Final Words | Download: More Practice Images (Double-Click the zip file after it downloads)

Quick and Dirty Techniques

Download the Starter File for Cropping Basics | More Starter Files 1 and 2 for Compositing and Masking | Blending Modes and More Masking | Another Starter File for The Text Tool in a Hurry | Starter File for The Great Picture that Wasn't | Simple Selections, Deleting, Resizing, and Rotating | Starter File for The Dodge and Burn Layer | Brushes 101 | Selecting a Portion of One Image and Blending with Masks | Straightening and Cropping | "Jumping" Selections to New Layer | Using Adjustment Layers on Just One Layer (or one layer set)

Photoshop Web Gallery

For those of you who didn't learn to use Flash... Watch This | Project Preview | Organization and Automating | Uploading Your Files | Getting It Right

Blur Experiments

IMPORTANT: Watch This First!
Please watch this introductory movie before trying the tutorials
The classroom challenge which started it all | Download: Starter file | Final psd | How it happened
Blurs and Blends | Download: Starter file | Final psd | Quick version | A bit of explanation (and yes, I left out one 5 in the 625 calculation)
Embarcadero Colorscape | Download:Starter file | Final psd | Bringing the image to life (I meant horizontal when I said vertical) | Improved version
Embarcadero Under/Overexposure | Download: Starter file | Final psd | Variations on a theme
Journey to Atlantis | Download:Starter file | Final psd | Another variation
Stairway to Bodie | Download: Starter file | Final psd | Yet another variation with an added touch

Camera Raw 101

Download Linked File As... | Starter Files | Change Default Color Settings | Open in Camera Raw | Enhancing in Camera Raw | Back to Photoshop and Saving Strategies | PNGs and Camera Raw (Save As JPG) | Camera Raw Revisited

Working for Print

Resolution 101 | Paper and Frame Sizes | Custom Framing | Download: Paper and Frame Sizes

A Different Look at the Beach

A Question of Resolution (that will be applicable to your photographs) | Project Preview | Download: Carmel Beach | Opening in Camera Raw and Creating a Smart Object | Straighten and Crop to Size | Working at Correct Percentage and Screen Mode | New Smart Object Via Copy and Enhancing in Camera Raw | Black & White Adjustment Layer and New Merged Layer | Experimenting with Blend Modes | The Power of Layer Comps | Variations and Layer Comps | Setting Up the Print Document | Toggling Between Multiple Open Photoshop Documents | Increasing Canvas Size | Adding Text | Adjusting Tracking and Leading | Vertical Centering Trick and Adding the Trim Line | Adjusting for the Print | Simulating the Frame and a Word About Fonts | The Patch Tool and Gritty Noise

Nitty Gritty Noise on Nitty Gritty Market Street

Project Preview (Includes changes made after the first movie was recorded) | Download: Market Street | Smart Objects, Smart Filters, and Experimentation | Threshold and Blending Modes | Review of Off-Camera Experimentation | The Gradient Tool and the Burn Layer Explained (with a few additional tips and tricks) | Repairing Broken Layer Comps | Utilizing Pre-Made Text | Final Text Adjustments

The Digital Rebel and the 12 x 12 Print

(Made after the Beach and Market Street tutorials but really should come first) Who Can Shoot with the Rebel? | Correction No. 1 | Download: IMG_0013.JPG | Open in Camera Raw and Working with Smart Objects | Enhance in Camera Raw | Revise Edits in Raw | Enhance in Photoshp and Sharpen | Oops! Forgot to Fade | Setting Up the Print

Working with the Grid — Multiple Images on One Poster

Project Preview | Oops! .225, not .3! | Getting Started | Correction on Layers | Selecting, Filling, and Aligning | Continuing the Process | Final Alignment Gotcha | Custom Grids and 3rd Grade Math | How to Crop and Move Onto Grid Without Destroying Your Original Image >> Kinda Improtant!

Scott Kelby's 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop CS3 Buy the Book
Introduction (Required Watching) | Step 1 | Final Result Preview | Step 2 | Step 3 | Step 4 | Step 5 | Step 6 | Step 7 | Saving, Quitting, Relaunching, and the Reason Why | Step 8 | Step 9 | Step 10 | Step 11 | Step 12 | Step 13 | A Word About the Default Color Behavior | Step 14 | Step 15 | Step 16 | Step 17 | Step 18 | Step 19 | Step 20 | Step 21 | Step 22 | Step 23 | Step 24 | Step 25 | Step 26 | Step 27 | Step 28 | Step 29 | Step 30 | Wrap Up

Intro to Levels Part I

Download the Starter File | What Percentage is Best for Me? | Resizing the Image | Changing the Screen Mode | Levels and the Histogram | The Power of Masking (just a first taste) | Merge Visible on a New Layer (Shift-Option-Command-E) | Unsharp Mask (the finishing touch) | A Final Word | Oh, I Almost Forgot... Shadows and Highlights