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Antique Photo
Video Length:
5 minutes 07 seconds
This training video will show you how to load and apply the Antique Photo effect to add a unique warm antique look to your images. You will be shown how to adjust the colors, dreamy appearance, contrast and opacity of the effect. You will also learn how to brush away the effect using the eraser tool so that you reveal a percentage of the original image through the effect.
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Antique Photo - Showing Colors Through
An additional training example
This example will show you how easy it is to merge the colors from the original image in with the Antique Photo effect. You will be shown how to selectively bring the colors through the effect using the eraser tool set with a lower opacity.
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Antique Photo & Black and White
An additional training example
This example will show you how to convert a color image into a black and white image with unique tonal values that help the Antique Photo effect provide outstanding results. With just a few simple steps the image is transformed from a color photo to a realistic looking antique photo.
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Black and White
Video Length:
6 minutes 33 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply the Black and White filter to convert color photos into a tonal rich black and white image. You will learn how to use the different conversion filters, brightness, contrast, sharpness and opacity controls. You will also learn how to brush off the effect so that you reveal color through the black and white image.
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Black and White Portraits
An additional training example
This example shows how the Black and White filter works when converting images that contain people. You will see how the conversion process works for each filter model and how in most cases the Green Filter provides the best overall results for skin tones. |
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Blue Sky
Video Length:
1 minutes 09 seconds
This training video will show you how to enhance and enrich landscape photos to improve on the sky colors. Using Blue Sky you can add a gradient horizon color to improve or change the existing sky colors. |
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Color Bleach
Video Length:
2 minutes 05 seconds
This training video will show you how to bleach away colors in your image to reduce saturation and tonal depth. You will be shown how to selectively remove the effect from portions of the image using the gradient path, ellipse and eraser tools. |
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Color Contrast
Video Length:
3 minutes 33 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Color Contrast filter to improve outside shots that have a haze or distance fade. You will learn how to adjust the settings to improve the colors and to remove the haze. |
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Color Contrast - Ideal Colors
An additional training example
This example shows how the Color Contrast filter can improve the existing colors and tonal contrasts across a scene. The example shows how both the blue and green sea colors, and the red rock colors are improved. |
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Color Mixer
Video Length:
2 minutes 03 seconds
This training video will show you how to change the color values of a channel by mixing in the values of a different channel. You will be shown how the Red, Green and Blue channels are mixed to form new color values in the image. |
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Cool
Video Length:
1 minutes 42 seconds
This training video will show you how to cool the colors in an image. The example in this video takes a photo with warm colors introduced by the morning sun and reduces them using this filter. You will be shown how to remove parts of the filter from the image by using the gradient path tool. |
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Cool - Improving Skin Tones
An additional training example
This training video will show you how effective the Cool filter can be at removing cast colors and over saturated warmth from shots with people. In the example you will see how the Cool filter balances out the colors in the image automatically. |
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Dark Contrast
Video Length:
2 minutes 36 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply the Dark Contrast filter to give the image a darker set of tonal values. |
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Dark Contrast - Brush On
An additional training example
This example will show you how to selectively add the effect to an outdoor photo. The example shows how to darken the contrast of an image to get more tonal depth. Additional tonal depth helps give images a realistic look and prevents them from looking flat. |
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Darken Color
Video Length:
3 minutes 49 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Darken Color filter to enrich an image that has flat color values. Many images taken with a digital camera or that are scanned into a computer may lack the darker values needed to have rich colors. The Darken Color filter shows you how to correct for this problem. |
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Darken Color - Indoor Still Photo
An additional training example
This example shows how Darken Color can be used to improve the tonal and color depth of a flower taken indoors with a digital camera. The Darken Color filter is brushed on to both enhance the flower petals and to darken the colors on the right side to of the image to bring focus to the subject. |
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Darken Color - Fading Colors
An additional training example
This example shows how Darken Color can be used to darken and enrich the areas of the image closer to the camera while leaving the farther away areas alone. This gives the image a greater sense of distance and perspective. |
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Deepen Tones
Video Length:
3 minutes 48 seconds
This training video will show you how to brush on the Deepen Tones filter to enhance the tonal and highlight areas on an image. Both the brush tool and the gradient path tool are used to control the areas where the effect is applied to the image. |
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Deepen Tones - Indoor Highlights
An additional training example
This example shows how the Deepen Tones filter can improve images that have flat tonal difference. By expanding the midtone and darker tonal areas and increasing the highlight values, the filter improves the depth of the shot. The ellipse and brush tool are used to create this example. |
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Enriched Black
Video Length:
4 minutes 19 seconds
This training video will show you how to improve an image by increasing the black values found in the photo. By enriching the black tones you can simulate an evening or early morning shot, fade areas of the image into darkness and create a sense of drama. |
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Enriched Black - An evening scene
An additional training example
This example shows the Enriched Black effect enhancing an outdoor photo. Using the gradient path tool the area around the subject is shielded from the effect, while other areas of the image are darkened and enriched. |
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Enriched Black - Fading to Black
An additional training example
This example shows the Enriched Black effect fading the background portions of the image to black. As the subject has lighter colors and the background is darker, by pushing the effect settings to their maximum amount the background is faded out. The eraser tool is used in this example to bring back parts of the subject. |
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Gradient Tinting
Video Length:
5 minutes 28 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Gradient Tinting filter to change and enhance the skyline on this landscape shot. With Gradient Tinting you can simulate having used a polarization or UV filter. You can also change the tinting of the shot affecting the temperature of the light. This simulates taking the shot at different times of the day. This training video will show you how to load and save presets you can use again on different shots. |
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Gradient Tinting - Black and White Photos
An additional training example
This example shows how the Gradient Tinting filter can merge colors onto the darker toned values of a black and white image. It is possible to start with a color image and convert the image to black and white using the Black and White filter, after which, you would apply the Gradient Tinting filter. |
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Green Foliage
Video Length:
3 minutes 37 seconds
This training video will show you how to enhance the green values found in an image. In the example image used for this video the green grass is enhanced to make it have a greater vibrancy, brightness and saturation.
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Green Foliage - Gradient Path
Video Length: 3 minutes 37 seconds
This example shows how the Green Foliage filter can be applied with the Gradient Path tool and the Brush tool to selectively enhance the image.
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Hand Tinting Photos
Video Length: 5 minutes 24 seconds
This training video will show you how to take a color image and apply the Hand Tint filter to it. Using this effect you are able to selectively apply a traditional styled hand tint to selective areas of your image. This training video will show you how to brush on and off colors, load and save color swatches and apply the effect to the areas you want using tonal range settings.
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Hard Posterize
Video Length: 2 minutes 43 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply the Hard Posterize filter to give an image an artistic set of color values.
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Hard Posterize - Lighter Tone Image
An additional training example
This example shows how the Hard Posterize effect looks when applied to an image with lighter tones and vibrant sets of color. You are shown how to erase parts of the effect from areas of your image where you don't want it applied.
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Harden Details
Video Length: 3 minutes 30 seconds
This training video will show you how to enhance and darken the tonal values in an image while maintaining the light to mid-tone values.
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Harden Details and Restore Details
An additional training example
This example shows how you can use Restore Details to lighten areas of an image and then use the Harden Details filter to add sharp contrasting tones to the image.
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HSB Adjust
Video Length: 6 minutes 01 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply multiple HSB effects together to change the hue, saturation and brightness of the image using the Brush On mode. The results of the effect are applied to just the areas of the image defined by the Gradient Path tool.
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HSB Adjust - Brushing on changes
An additional training example
This example shows you how to brush on the effect with subtle changes in hue and saturation being applied to just the petals of the flower.
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Image Brush
Video Length: 5 minutes 18 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Image Brush to reveal the original image through multiple effect layers. You will see how changing the order of the Image Brush in the layer stack changes how the image brush works.
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Image Brush - Revealing Back
An additional training example
This example will show you how the Image Brush can reveal a partially opaque version of the original image through effects that drop out the tonal values of the image. The original image that is partially brought through the effect can serve to fill in areas that are dropped out by the effect. The end result provides an artistic look for images.
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Levels
Video Length: 2 minutes 23 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Levels effect to change the highlight, midtone and darker areas of an image. By using a standard histogram based control, you can easily adjust the tonal levels displayed for your image.
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Levels - Gradient Path
An additional training example
This example will show you how to apply the Levels filter and then remove it from part of the image using the Gradient Path tool while in the Global mode. When in the Global Mode the Gradient Path tool works as an eraser to remove the effect from the image.
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Multiply Darks
Video Length: 2 minutes 00 seconds
This training video will show you how Multiply Darks is used to darken existing dark tones in an image while respecting the lighter and mid-tone values.
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Multiply Darks - Erasing Dark Areas
An additional training example
This example shows how Multiply Darks can be used to darken an image and with the eraser tool, remove areas of the effect to ensure details in important areas are maintained.
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Over Exposed
Video Length: 4 minutes 05 seconds
This training video will show you how to change the exposure values for defined regions of your image. You will be shown how each of the controls work and how to adjust the settings before and after the brush strokes are applied. You will also learn how to combine the Under Exposed effect to create a greater visual contrast between the foreground and background elements in your image.
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Restore Details
Video Length: 3 minutes 26 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Restore Details effect to bring back lost details in an image. You will also be shown how you can use the Multiply Darks effect in combination with the Restore Details to enrich the tonal values in the darker areas of the image.
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Restore Details - Clone Layer Technique
An additional training example
This example shows how to brush on the effect to selectively restore the details to the areas you want, while leaving other areas of your image unchanged. This example shows you how to clone the layer once you have brushed on the effect so that the results are compounded by the new cloned layer.
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RGB Adjust
Video Length: 1 minutes 46 seconds
This training video will show you how to adjust the colors in an image, while restricting the value changes to the shadow, midtone and highlight areas.
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Saturate Colors
Video Length: 3 minutes 43 seconds
This training video will show you how to selectively brush on saturated colors derived from the original image. Using this technique, you can improve areas of your image to bring out their natural colors or add in a mixture of new colors.
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Sepia
Video Length: 3 minutes 45 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply the sepia effect to a color image. You will be shown how to set the sepia colors, clone the layer and change the clone color. You will then be shown how to erase portions of the cloned effect layer so that you reveal the original sepia layer and image under it.
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Sepia - Using Black
An additional training video
This example will show how a black color may be loaded up as the sepia color to darken the tones of the image. Next, the sepia layer is cloned to overlay the original image and the original sepia layer. This adds more sepia color and can allow you to blend multiple sepia tints on an image.
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Soft Posterize
Video Length: 2 minutes 16 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply the Soft Posterize effect using the opacity and tonal depth controls.
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Soft Posterize - Ellipse Control
An additional training example
This example will show how to apply the Soft Posterize effect with the ellipse tool.
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Soft Saturation
Video Length: 2 minutes 16 seconds
This training video will show you how to brush on the Soft Saturation effect so that you enrich the colors on the desired areas of the image, while shielding the areas outside the brush strokes.
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Soft Saturation - Outdoor Photo
An additional training example
This example shows you how Soft Saturation can improve an outdoor photo where the colors in the image appear flat. By using Soft Saturation the colors become alive and full of vibrancy.
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Soften Details
Video Length: 2 minutes 45 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply the Soften Details filter to your image. You will learn how to increase the contrast, vibrancy, softness and saturation of the image, as well as adjust the brightness values to achieve a soft diffused effect.
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Soften Details - Bringing Back Detail
An additional training example
This example shows you how to bring back areas of the image that may be blown out by increased contrast settings.
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Tonal Contrast
Video Length: 3 minutes 47 seconds
This training video will show you how to improve an image's contrast and tonal values by using the Tonal Contrast filter. This video illustrates how you may selectively brush on the filter to enhance just the areas you want to change, while shielding those areas that you don't want changed by the effect.
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Tonal Contrast - Brushing on Contrast
An additional training example
This example shows you how to apply the Tonal Contrast filter to vibrant colors in order to improve the contrast values. Using the Brush On mode you can enhance areas of an image like hair, facial features and other details on a selective basis.
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Tonal Detail
Video Length: 4 minutes 15 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply the Tonal Detail effect to darken and enrich the shadow tones in an image.
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Tonal Detail - Erasing Dark Areas
An additional training example
This example shows you how to use the eraser to remove darkened areas so that you can create more tonal depth and contrast in your image.
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Tonal Sharpen
Video Length: 4 minutes 40 seconds
This training video will show you how to sharpen your images using the Tonal Sharpen effect. By watching this video you will learn how to restrict the sharpness to changing only the darker, lighter or midtone values in the image. You will also learn how to selectively brush on sharpness values using a semi-opaque brush so that you sharpen just the areas you need.
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Tonal Sharpen - Sharpening Midtones
An additional training example
This training video will show you how to sharpen your images using the Tonal Sharpen effect. By watching this video you will learn how to restrict the sharpness to changing only the darker, lighter or midtone values in the image. You will also learn how to selectively brush on sharpness values using a semi-opaque brush so that you sharpen just the areas you need.
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Tonal Smooth
Video Length: 2 minutes 07 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Tonal Smooth filter and how this effect changes a color image.
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Tonal Smooth - Greyscale Images
An additional training example
This example shows how the Tonal Smooth effect changes a grayscale image by blending the lighter and midtone values and smoothing them together.
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Tonal Soften
Video Length: 2 minutes 51 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Tonal Soften filter to soften parts of your image based on the tonal values found in the image. You will learn how to restrict the softness to the tonal values you desire and how to erase softness from selective areas using the eraser tool.
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Under Color
Video Length: 6 minutes 04 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the Under Color filter to brush colors under the tonal values in an image. You will learn how to load and save color swatches, define the active colors and how to restrict the colors to apply just to the darker or lighter tonal ranges.
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Under Exposed
Video Length: 3 minutes 47 seconds
This training video will show you how to simulate changing the exposure values of your image so that they look as if they were taken in low light conditions. This video will show you how to control the different aspects of the effect to achieve the desired look.
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Under Exposed - Twilight Effect
An additional training example
This example shows you how images can be darkened to enhance natural silhouettes. You will be shown how to selectively erase parts of the Under Exposed effect so that you lighten parts of the image by building on the contasting values.
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Vitality
Video Length: 3 minutes 22 seconds
This training video will show you how to improve the color vitality and brightness of your image, by enhancing the natural midtone and highlight areas. You will learn how to add a soft diffused look to the improved colors and how to adjust the strength settings to fit your needs.
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Vitality
Video Length: 3 minutes 22 seconds
This training video will show you how to improve the color vitality and brightness of your image, by enhancing the natural midtone and highlight areas. You will learn how to add a soft diffused look to the improved colors and how to adjust the strength settings to fit your needs.
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Vitality - Enhancing Outdoor Shots
An additional training example
This example will show you how the Vitality filter can be applied to an outdoor photo so that the scene looks rich and vibrant. You will see that unlike a traditional saturation filter, Vitality enhances the colors, brightness and tonal values while giving the image a high-quality result.
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Warm
Video Length: 1 minutes 35 seconds
This training video will show you how to apply the Warm filter to your image so that you reduce the cooler color temperatures your image may contain.
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Warm - Changing Sky Temperatures
An additional training example
This example shows you how the Warm filter can be used to change the color temperature of the sky. By appying the Warm filter you can reduce the blue casts and replace them with a warmer cast of colors.
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Washed Out
Video Length: 1 minutes 41 seconds
This training video will show you how to wash and fade out colors in an image to create an artistic effect. You will learn how to setup the effect in the Global mode and then switch to the Brush On mode to selectively apply the filter to the parts of the image you want it applied to.
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Correction Layers
Video Length: 2 minutes 18 seconds
This training video will show you how to create a Correction Layer and stack it under or over effect layers on the layers palette.
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Edit Menu
Video Length: 1 minutes 53 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the commands available under the Edit Menu. Specifically, you will learn how to use the Undo and Redo commands.
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File Menu
Video Length: 2 minutes 08 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the commands available under the File Menu. Specifically, you will learn how to use the Open, Save, Load a Mask and Exit commands.
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Layer Presets
Video Length: 1 minutes 41 seconds
This training video will show you how to save, load and append presets. You also will learn how to use the Layer Presets dialog to manage your presets.
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Photo Layers
Video Length: 3 minutes 03 seconds
This training video will show you how to import an image into your project and place it on a new layer. You will learn how to apply effects to both the Photo Layer and the background image or to just the background layer all by repositioning the Photo Layer on the layer stack. You will learn how to transform, rotate and move the photo to resize and reposition it as desired.
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View Menu
Video Length: 3 minutes 15 seconds
This training video will show you how to use the commands available under the View Menu. Specifically, you will learn how to use the Fit in Window, Browser Dimensions (1:1), Zoom In and Zoom Out commands. You will also learn how to toggle the Zoom tool and the Pan tool.
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