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    Photo retouching tips from Practical Photoshop

    Photo retouching tips

    | Tutorials | 05/12/2012 15:51pm

    Retouching can be a complicated and involved process that requires numerous tweaks to arrive at a final, satisfactory outcome. If you need to annotate an image with a number of corrections, then the Notes tool can be an invaluable aid…

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    Photography Week magazine

    Get Issue 1 of Photography Week free with Practical Photoshop’s iPad app!

    | News | 24/10/2012 14:00pm

    Get Issue 1 of Photography Week completely free with your Practical Photoshop iPad app! Find out more…

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    Photoshop Plug-ins for black and white conversions: step 3

    Photoshop Plug-ins: why they’re essential for black and white conversions

    | Tutorials | 20/09/2012 11:59am

    Photoshop is fine when you already know what you want to do, but Photoshop plug-ins can give you an instant insight into how your image can look with different effects applied. That’s where Photoshop plug-ins like Tiffen Dfx 3.0 are so valuable, or Nik Color Efex Pro 4.

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    Black Swan style cracked portrait | www.practicalphotoshopmag.com

    Create a cracked portrait in Photoshop using Layer Styles and Filters

    | Tutorials | 28/07/2012 07:00am

    We delve into the world of Photoshop’s Filters and Layer Styles to show that perfection isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be!

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    Create a fisheye effect with Photoshop filter, spherize | www.practicalphotoshopmag.com

    Create the fisheye effect using Photoshop’s Spherize filter

    | Tutorials | 25/07/2012 07:00am

    Learn how to recreate the distortion of a photographer’s fisheye lens by using the Photoshop’s nifty Spherize filter.

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    Win an iPad 3

    Win an iPad 3 and a free 12-month subscription to a photography title!

    | News | 24/07/2012 18:00pm

    Practical Photoshop is running a competition to win an iPad 3 plus a free 12-month subscription to one of four photography titles of your choice! Find out how you can enter…

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    Photoshop challenge | www.practicalphotoshopmag.com

    Photoshop Challenge: Create a digital darkroom inspired image

    | Competitions | 20/07/2012 10:06am

    Each month Practical Photoshop sets you a task to create something in Photoshop. This month’s Challenge is inspired by traditional darkroom techniques. Take a look at the image above for an example of what we’re looking for, and read our five top tips below to help you get started.

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    Create a gritty portrait in Photoshop | www.practicalphotoshopmag.com

    Create a gritty portrait in Photoshop using Dodge and Burn

    | Tutorials | 20/07/2012 07:00am

    Give your subjects a rough and ready makeover and learn to control the Dodge and Burn tools with this excellent non-destructive technique.

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    How to use Refine Edges to perfect selections in Photoshop

    | Tutorials | 13/07/2012 07:00am

    Use the Refine Edge controls to perfect selections and get rid of unwanted bits of background colour.

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    Practical Photoshop announces a winner!

    | News | 12/07/2012 15:00pm

    We are pleased to announce that we have a winner for our Photoshop workshop competition! Phil Blewett is the lucky winner who will be going along to Glyn’s creative compositing Photoshop workshop.

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