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How do I convert jpeg image transparent background

How do I convert jpeg image transparent background

Updated: We still get a lot of requests for converting the jpeg image transparent background, so we have revisited the popular tutorial today. Several requests have also come in for Photoshop CS6 to develop an even better way of transfering images with white backgrounds into transparent images. Right now, the only options are to bring down the opacity ...

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How to create a Twitter background using Photoshop

Photoshop Twitter Backgrounds

So how do you create a Twitter background using Photoshop Cs5 or any other CS2 or above products? Twitter has recently released a new version of itself andd many of the old backgrounds are now finding it hard to fit in the new Twitter layout. How can you make a background that is future proof using photoshop? Easy! Today this ...

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Brush Size Tips

Brush Size Tips

Photoshop Brush Size Tips updated article- seems like the Brush size is still an issue for many, so we have updated this article and added some further tips. There are more than a few ways to change the brush sizes in photoshop. Tip1 - Standard change using the bracket keys [ & ] Many applications that use a brush ...

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Comic Book Effect with Photoshop

Comic Book t with Photoshop

How can you take a normal photo and convert it to a comic book look. UPDATED AUG 2011 We have had this requested on more than one occassion. So there are two stages to the process. One you need to make it look like it was printed in the retro comic book way using filters. Then we will add ...

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20 Tips to Increase Workflow

20 Tips to Increase Workflow

20 Tips to Increase Workflow in CS5 LAYERS 1. Select Similar layers Here's a quick way to select multiple layers of the same kind—meaning multiple shape layers, type layers, or adjustment layers. Just click on one of the layers, and then from the Select menu, choose Similar Layers. 2. Applying a Layer Style to a Layer Group You can apply ...

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Old brush gone – have a disappearing CS5 brush

Disappearing CS5 brush solution

One of the issues I had when I upgraded to cs5 photoshop was my brush cursor looked incomplete, well I have a solution. When you upgrade you expect the User Interface to improve, but this seemed a real backwards way to work.   I have the answer, so read on! I hunted around the web to see if others ...

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How to sample colour outside adobe photoshop cs5

Eyedropper

Today's tip is sampling colour from outside photoshop cs5 Using the eyedropper tool in Photoshop. We all know you can use the eyedropper tool to sample a color within Photoshop but you can also sample a color outside Photoshop. Select the eyedropper tool and hold down your left mouse button and you can sample a color from any ...

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How to recover unsaved Photoshop work

How to recover unsaved Photoshop work

Have you ever closed Photoshop and in a trigger happy fashion clicked the dialogue box saying no to saving the current PSD, then suddenly sunk as you realised that the files you had spent several hours working on is now lost forever? You didn't actually save it! Is it possible to recover the unsaved file? Can you ...

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5 Favourite Photoshop CS5 Tutorials

Letters pressed like Adobe CS5

1. Letters pressed like Adobe CS5 A few months back we had the tutorial that took a look at the Letterpress technique. It is a form of embossing that has recently caught on in the web design world. As it's popularity grows this technique is becoming a sort after tutorial, thus we decided to put this at ...

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10 Mind Blowing Retro Photoshop Actions

Classic People Vintage action for photoshop

We caught up with Skooldays.com a nostalgic web site that provides all sorts of memories and vintage photos of toys from yesteryear. What photoshop actions would they find handy they wanted to move a modern shot into the retro, vintage or even grudge look required to authenticate any digital photo for their web site? Of course ...

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