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Article :: Stitching a Panorama in Adobe Photoshop CS4
With Adobe Photoshop you can stitch images together in a panorama. This excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book shows the process of creating two photographic souvenirs by combining images.

Article :: Applying a Gradient to a Layer in Adobe Photoshop CS4
You can apply a color gradient to all or part of a layer. In this excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book, you'll apply a gradient to a layer to make it more colorful.

Article :: Replacing Colors in an Image in Adobe Photoshop CS4
In this excerpt from Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book, you learn how to use the Replace Color dialog box to adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness components of your selection.

Article :: Choosing Photographic Subjects for Creative Composites in Photoshop CS4
What makes great composite imagery? You need more than just the right tools. Dan Moughamian and Scott Valentine provide some real world advice for designers and artists who want to create killer composits in Photoshop CS4.

Article :: What’s it Going to Take to Run Photoshop CS4? A Real World Guide to the Hardware You’ll Need
Adobe Photoshop is about as rich a program as you'll ever encounter. But no quantity of tips, tricks, and workarounds can compensate for hardware that's inadequate for the task, or a poorly configured system. Conrad Chavez and David Blatner look at building an environment in which Photoshop CS4—and you —can excel.

Article :: Applying Basic Color Corrections in Lightroom 2
Lightroom 2 offers some handy features that allow you to adjust image color in a variety of ways. In this exercise, the Adobe Creative Team demonstrates two of the most important color corrections for any photographer: adjusting whites and tonal ranges, and improving brightness/contrast ratios.

Article :: How to Create a Novelty Slideshow Template in Lightroom 2
Photo slideshows don't have to be a yawn. Martin Evening shares a technique he devised for creating a slideshow template in Lightroom 2 with an "old-fashioned TV" look for a series of black-and-white shots. You can apply this trick in zillions of different ways to suit your own slideshows.

Article :: Enhance Your Images with Lightroom 2's New Adjustment Brush
The Adjustment Brush tool is the best new feature in Lightroom 2. Until now, Lightroom was limited to making adjustments to the entire image or to specific areas of tone or color. With this new tool, adjustments are nondestructive (they can be undone at any point), and the file size doesn't increase as you make adjustments. Chris Orwig shares some great techniques on how to use this killer new tool in your workflow.

Article :: Open Lightroom Photos as Smart Objects in Photoshop
Martin Evening wanted to merge a couple of images, while still being able to edit their Lightroom Develop settings from Photoshop. He found the solution in the Smart Objects feature as he explains here.

Article :: Reviewing and Organizing Images in Lightroom 2
Lightroom 2 delivers numerous tools to make finding and organizing your files intuitive and enjoyable. The Adobe Creative Team shows how you can view an impromptu slideshow, create collections, and compare images side by side, so you can make the best use of your image library as it continues to grow.

Article :: Using the Clarity Slider in Lightroom
The Clarity slider in Lightroom 1.1 has an enthusiastic proponent in Martin Evening. Here he shows how photos can benefit from this contrast-enhancing feature.

Article :: Quick Metadata Preset Edits for Lightroom 1.1
Martin Evening likes the way that Lightroom 1.1 handles metadata presets—a great feature for storing metadata information that you apply frequently, such as copyright info, ratings, and captions.

Article :: Saving and Reading Metadata in Lightroom
Lightroom 1.1 has metadata options that clarify the whole "What happens to my changes?" issue. Martin Evening points out the relevant features and explains how to use these settings to advantage.

Article :: How to Edit Metadata and Target Photos in Lightroom
Often you'll want to edit the metadata for a bunch of images at once. But sometimes you'd like to be able to skim along through a selection and tweak the metadata for individual photos as you go. Martin Evening shows how to use a Lightroom 1.1 feature to edit metadata for individual images within a selection.

Article :: Making Sense of Metadata Settings in Lightroom
Metadata catalog settings in Lightroom can be very confusing. Martin Evening helps us wades through the murk by clarifying what some of the important settings do.

Article :: How To Back Up And Keep Your Lightroom Images Safe
Accidents happen. So do viruses. Are you prepared? Martin Evening gives a brief review of the backup options in Lightroom to help you (hopefully) prevent or at least recover from trouble.

Article :: Using Lightroom's HSL / Color / Grayscale Panel
Need to make some fine-tuned color adjustments in Lightroom? Martin Evening shows the way with tips for using the HSL / Color / Grayscale panel.

Article :: Correcting an Underexposed Image in Lightroom
Everyone overexposes an occasional photo. You might do it deliberately, in order to convey a certain mood, but more often than not it's an accident and you won't like the result. Martin Evening shows how to use Lightroom to fix those images on which you got a little carried away.

Article :: Smarter Image Editing in Lightroom
Lightroom is simpler to use than Photoshop, says Martin Evening, and without compromising the quality of color processing in any way. In this article, he points out some special Lightroom features for smarter editing of digital images.

Article :: Find Photos Fast With Advanced Searches in Lightroom
Drowning in photos? Martin Evening shows how to use Lightroom's advanced search options to find the right pictures when you need them.

Article :: Lightroom Tips & Tricks: It's All About the View
Photographers look at the world from a different perspective: the eye of the camera. Try these techniques from Chris Orwig for improving, speeding up, and applying favorite views to your photos in Lightroom.

Article :: Make Images Easy to Find With Lightroom’s Quick Collections
Tired of losing your Lightroom selections? Martin Evening suggests saving your selection as a quick collection, which Lightroom remembers even after you close the program.

Article :: Photoshop CS3 Navigation Tips
In this excerpt from Real World Adobe Photoshop CS3, David Blatner, Conrad Chavez, and Bruce Fraser focus on magnification tricks and how to "zoom your zooming."

Article :: Getting the Best Grayscales in Photoshop CS3
Trusted instructor Ben Willmore shares his techniques for optimizing grayscale images in Photoshop CS3.

Article :: Martin Evening On Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
In the second half of this two-part interview, Martin Evening offers advice to users and gives a sneak peak of the second edition of his best-selling book The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers. In part one, Martin discusses his work and the role Lightroom plays in it.

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