Adobe Photoshop Articles

Availability

By Staphani B. | 3/11/2013 9:33 AM CST |

Earlier this year I started tutoring Graphic Design, Drawing, and Painting on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have a lovely student who is excelling in her work as an artist both in Drawing and Photoshop. After the end of the 3rd quarter, we will be going into Painting with Acrylics, Gauche, and Oil Paints if there is time.

Because I am a full time student at UALR and only have one car to share with my spouse, I have a bit of a strict schedule.

So I will have my availability up for those of you seeking a tutor in any area of Graphic Design, Drawing, and Painting.

These times are for physical (face-to-face)...

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Mathematics and Photography

By William L. | 3/2/2013 12:30 PM CST |

Adobe Photoshop

The left brain is logical, organized, and generally believed to be the domain of science. When math is considered to be "science" along with biology and physics, therein lies a flaw. Though elementary math may seem to be part of the science world, advanced math which I studied in college is better handled by the right brain. This is the brain of imagination, art, and emotion. My enjoyment of photography using Adobe Photoshop is no surprise to me as it provides for a creative outlet with a definite pedigree of mathematics. Algorithms of math in Photoshop generating my artistic results is a match...

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Photoshop or Lightroom?

By David W. | 2/26/2013 7:14 AM CST |

Adobe Photoshop

Recently I've been finding that many of my students who purchase both Lightroom and Photoshop end up discovering that Lightroom is all they need. With a comfortable learning curve and easy to comprehend basics, Lightroom provides digital beginners (and advanced photographers as well) the perfect opportunity for "developing" digital photos: exposure compensation, color correction, cropping, basic retouching and spotting, creative effects and gradients, rescaling for email and the web and, of course, printing and much more. Lightroom is also an image library that allows you to keep your digital...

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White Balance and White Point- Do you know what the difference is?

By Michael C. | 2/25/2013 12:29 PM CST |

Adobe Photoshop

One of the most important things I try and teach students is the difference between white point and white balance. Most believe if you grab your eye dropper and hit the area you believe should be white and click the mouse you will have established your white balance. What you have really done is establish a white point. While the colors might appear to be more "on target and corrected" you actually just through quite a bit of information away. By clicking on what you believe to be white, you have actually created a "white point" A white point is where there is no information at all in the...

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Not just an Art Teacher

By Amanda O. | 9/2/2012 3:12 PM CST |

Who is Amanda O.? Just another art teacher in Philadelphia? I am indeed an art teacher in the Philadelphia School District, but am so much more than that. While some students have the misconception that teachers just hatch from an egg as is, we know that's not true. I have many parts to me, as I am sure you have to you. I am a world traveler, who loves exploring new places, but also loves home more than anywhere. I also truly love helping others. During the summers of 2004 and 2005 I was able to combine these two passions by volunteering for a Christian service group called Project Serve. Our...

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Online Tutoring

By Jonell W. | 6/8/2012 3:13 PM CST |

I am willing to provide online tutoring to anyone interested. It's convenient and effective.

Contact me today for details!

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Removing the Backgound ... not as easy at it may seem.

By Ian S. | 12/7/2011 8:55 PM CST |

I sometimes get requests to tutor in a particular design software where the goal is actually assistance toward a specific task as opposed to general education of that software. More often than not, this task has something to do with using Photoshop to remove a background or to cut someone out of a picture and place him in front of the Eiffel Tower.

The truth of the matter is that the task of removing a background or copying a person from one photograph into another may seem simpler to do than meets the eye. Certainly this seems a reasonable assumption because we see it done all the time or,...

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How to be an Effective Tutor Student.

By Ian S. | 10/10/2011 1:41 PM CST |

Being tutored is an effective way to learn almost any subject. Whether it is to replace formal classroom learning or supplement the same, it allows you to obtain some learning that meets your individual goals and needs. A request to be tutored shows me that the student has some level of commitment to growth and education - even if it is being required by some other authority.

The areas in which I tutor center around Graphic Design software such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Students have come to me from various backgrounds, some with basic knowledge but wish to get a handle of some...

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Planning on taking a computer course?

By Leo T. | 8/16/2011 10:52 AM CST |

A few weeks ago I was talking with a woman who had just taken a Photoshop Elements course. The instructor was a graphics design artist who had an impressive portfolio of work that seemed to indicate he was highly qualified to teach this course.

She completed the course and showed me what she had actually accomplished after many weeks of struggling with this very powerful application. It was a rather nice piece of work - combining elements of one photograph merged with another to simulate a completely new photo.

Unfortunately, not only was she unable to duplicate this feat after taking the course,...

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Easy Button Match Color Tool in Photoshop for repairs and creativity

By Bill G. | 7/29/2011 10:47 AM CST |

Adobe Photoshop

We are always looking for that Easy Button in Photoshop where you just click and magic happens. Well the only Easy Button I have ever found was at Staples for $5.99.

There are some things that do work in the Auto Mode with one of them being the Match Color Tool. This is found under Image>Adjustment>Match Color (near the the bottom of the list).

Here is how it works, have a couple of images open, one to correct and one to match it with. Select the soon to be corrected image and go to Match Color. In the bottom section is a box for Image Statistics. Here is where you will pick the Source (the...

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