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Selecting Desaturate from the Image Adjustments menu also tends to flatten the contrast. By changing the mode of the file to grayscale discards pixel data and gives you an image that appears flat and has a small tonal range. Make a quick change using an adjustment layer instead and never alter any of the original image pixels. Using a Gradient Map, we effectively map the range of tones in an image to the foreground and background colors. Changing the layer blend mode adjusts the gray tones.

Ready to get your feet wet with the basics of Photoshop? Here’s where you get familiar with the Photoshop environment — the desktop, menus, and panels. We also introduce the key tools and explain what each one does.

Whether you retouch photographs, design brochures, or paint from scratch, you will use the Brush tools many times and in many ways. Selecting the Brush tool from the toolbox opens a variety of brushes in the drop-down menu on the Options bar.

Unraveling the mysteries of Photoshop Tool Bar and it’s resident icons.They are not as scary as they look!

Many of the tools in Photoshop already have keyboard shortcuts assigned. Still, you may find yourself going to the menu to select an item, such as the Gaussian Blur filter, so often that a personalized keyboard shortcut is very useful and a huge timesaver.

The Gradient tool helps you blend multiple colors as you fill an area in an image. You can use the Gradient tool in many ways, such as by itself to fill text with soft gradations of color, to fill backgrounds with a gradient, or in combination with layers and masks.

Performing repeated steps is boring and time-consuming. That is why Adobe created actions and the Actions palette.

In this tutorial, we’re going to create an Plastic Text effect using layer styles one of the coolest features of Adobe Photoshop CS4, with layer styles we can create all sorts of effects glass, plastic, ice, water, metal, and many more so without loosing anymore time let’s get started.

In this tutorial we are going to create a Silhouette for a custom design from photographs.

In this tutorial we are going to create a painted effect look by overlaying an image distorted with a Displacement Map.The Displace filter is one of several Photoshop filters that require the use of a displacement map, which works like a texture map, placing the image over a grid that creates a textured look.