Topaz Clean is a Photoshop Plugin

Topaz Clean is a Photoshop Plugin that will help you smooth and add gripping, one-of-a-kind enhancements to your photos. Experience a wide range of effects from highly effective edge sharpening to graceful artistic effects that leave viewers breathless.

» Create many kinds of artistic effects like artistic detail removal and edge stylization
» Take full artistic control over image edges and texture
» Apply high-quality detail manipulation and sharpening
» Clean portraits and skin without losing important detail

• Powerful Stylized Image Cleaning
Take control of the extensive smoothing capabilities of the new Topaz Clean 2 Photoshop plug-in to add gripping one-of-a-kind enhancements to any photo. Experience a wide range of unique effects from highly effective edge sharpening to graceful artistic effects.

• Smooth and Unique Edge Manipulation
Topaz Clean's unique edge detection and smoothing functions give you the ability to create some very interesting effects. Give images unique edge effects that adds an extra punch to the photo. The well-defined lines in this forest photo worked perfectly with Topaz Clean 2 to create a smooth and silky image effect.

• Highly Selective Texture Control
Take highly precise control over the manipulation of texture and detail. Choose the nature of desired texture and let Topaz Clean 2 do the rest. This portrait was done using the 'SkinEven' preset included with Clean 2, which intentionally only removed medium-sized discolorations and blotches while preserving major facial features and tiny but important skin texture.

• Artistic Detail Flattening
Intentional artistic over-application of Topaz Clean 2's innovative smoothing function can create an image that pops right off the page. Clean 2 preserves the contours and overall image integrity while optimally removing the less-desired details. This specific image combined Topaz Clean 2's detail removal function and Topaz Simplify's edge sketch enhancement.

16 Bit Support, PSCS4 Compatible, Smart Filter, Multi-Core Optimized.

OS: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7

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Powerful Retouch/ masking tool Portraiture

 

Portraiture features a powerful masking tool that enables selective smoothening only in the skin tone areas of the image. What makes Portraiture’s masking tool truly unique is its built-in Auto-Mask feature. It helps you quickly discover most of the skin tone range of the image automatically and, if preferred, you can manually fine-tune it to ensure optimal results, providing unmatched precision and productivity.

For finer control, you can specify the smoothening degree for different detail sizes and adjust the sharpness, softness, warmth, brightness and contrast.

Portraiture comes with pre-defined presets for one-click effects and, as with all Imagenomic plug-ins, you can capture your own signature workflow in a custom preset tailored to your specific requirements and photographic portfolio. 

Portraiture is a Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture plugin that eliminates the tedious manual labor of selective masking and pixel-by- pixel treatments to help you achieve excellence in portrait retouching. It intelligently smoothens and removes imperfections while preserving skin texture and other important portrait details such as hair, eyebrows, eyelashes etc.

 DETAIL SMOOTHING
Portraiture smooths and softens an image by removing artifacts while preserving skin texture and other important image details such as hair, eyebrows, eyelashes etc. To achieve the desired result, you can adjust the smoothing degree for different detail sizes - fine, medium and large.

Additionally with the "Portrait Size" parameter Portraiture adjusts the smoothing parameters to achieve the most visually compelling result for different portrait sizes.

SKIN TONES MASK

Portraiture provides a powerful skin tone masking tool with an Auto-Mask feature to allow for fine smoothening control across all skin tones present in the subject image. Auto-Mask recognizes the skin tone range of the image automatically and, accordingly, creates an optimal skin tones mask for that particular image.

Auto-Mask provides an excellent starting point for manually fine-tuning the automatic results, if desired. With many available slider controls and the two Color Picker tools, you can further fine-tune the Auto-Mask results to create the most optimal skin tones mask for your image and for your portfolio requirements.

Auto-mask is also very useful when batch processing. Because it creates the masks automatically based on the image's unique skin tone range, each image will be treated individually during the batch process, thus enabling an efficient workflow technique when choosing to apply detail smoothening only to skin tones for a large number of images.

Additionally, Portraiture allows for outputting only the masked range of the image to enable further adjustments to the skin areas.

ENHANCEMENTS
Portraiture provides several controls to further enhance your portraits. You can adjust the sharpness, warmth, brightness and contrast, as well as soften to produce a glamour effect.
The combination of brightness and contrast controls allow for adjusting the brightness and contrast without over blowing highlights or over darkening the shadows.
The warmth control adjusts the skin color saturation to emulate different skin tones from pale to dark

Portraiture Plug-in (info)

Portraiture Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements
	Requirements: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, 1GB RAM, 100MB HDD, 1280x800 min resolution, Photoshop CS3/CS41/CS51 or Elements 6/7/8
	Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.x/10.6.x (Intel only)2, 1GB RAM, 100MB HDD, 1280x800 min resolution, Photoshop CS3/CS4/CS5 or Elements 6/8 Previous version (v.2.1) for Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 Elements 4/6 Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x Intel/PowerPC can be downloaded here
Portraiture Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
	Requirements: Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7, 1GB RAM, 100MB HDD, 1280x800 min resolution, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
	Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x/10.6.x (Intel only)2, 1GB RAM, 100MB HDD, 1280x800 min resolution, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
Portraiture Plug-in for Apple Aperture
	Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.x/10.6.x (Intel only)2, 2GB RAM, 100MB HDD, 1280x800 min resolution, Aperture 2.1 or Aperture 3 (both 32bit and 64bit modes) Previous version (v.2.1) for Aperture 2.1.x Mac OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x Intel/PowerPC can be downloaded here

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How to Removing noise and grain from digital photographs

Noise Ninja is the most effective and productive solution for removing noise and grain from digital photographs and scanned film images. It is a must-have tool for anyone shooting in low-light or fast-action situations -- including news, sports, wedding, and event coverage -- where high ISO photography is required and the resulting noise compromises the image.

Noise Ninja often yields a two-stop improvement in effective image quality, while preserving important image detail. In addition, it can produce cleaner, smoother enlargements from low-ISO images. 

Noise Ninja plug-in for Photoshop

The plug-in version of Noise Ninja works as a convenient filter directly from within Photoshop, and it can be used in Photoshop actions. We strongly recommend this version if your workflow includes Photoshop, because it eliminates the need to shuttle intermediate files between Photoshop and Noise Ninja. Click on the appropriate link for download and installation instructions:

For Windows PC (XP, Vista, Windows7)
• All Photoshop Versions Except CS4 64-bit
• Photoshop CS4 64-bit (not CS4 32-bit)
• All Elements Versions

For Intel Mac (all OS X versions)
• Photoshop CS3/CS4  or Elements 6/7/8
• Photoshop 7/CS/CS2 or Elements 3/4/5

For PowerPC Mac or Rosetta (all OS X versions)
• Photoshop CS3/CS4  or Elements 6/7/8
• Photoshop 7/CS/CS2 or Elements 3/4/5

Noise Ninja plug-in for Aperture

If you use Apple's Aperture image editor, this version allows you to use Noise Ninja as a plug-in, without leaving the Aperture environment. Click here for download and installation instructions.

Noise Ninja standalone application

The standalone version of Noise Ninja reads and displays TIFF and JPEG images, filters them, and writes the result as a TIFF or JPEG. It includes a batch processor that can automatically process an entire directory of images. It can be used as an external editor for applications like Adobe Lightroom, and it includes a Sidekick mode that can process images from Lightroom without user interaction. Click on the appropriate link for download and installation instructions:

• Standalone on Microsoft Windows
• Standalone on Mac OS X
• Standalone on Linux x86
  
  

Camera and scanner profiles

Click here for a list of noise profiles for specific camera and scanner models. It is easy to create your own profiles; see the User Guide for details.

Profiling chart

The profiling chart allows you to build your own profiles. Profiling is easy and only takes a few minutes -- see the documentation for instructions. Click here to download the profiling chart as a JPEG file.

See Video Tutorials Now.

Look here for Noise Ninja videos to help you get started and get the most out of Noise Ninja.

Noise Profiles
Look here for noise profiles for your camera or scanner. It is easy to create your own profiles; see the User Guide for details.

CD-ROM versions of the software
You can order CD-ROM with the latest software on it (both pre-release and official release) on the Purchase page.

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Saving on lighting equipment Photomatix

› Saving on lighting equipment No need to acquire expensive lighting equipment -and carry it- when you shoot high contrast scenes. Just enable the Auto Exposure Bracketing feature of your camera, and let Photomatix merge your photos into an image with extended dynamic range. › Great pictures on cloudy days Shadowless hazy sunlight or an overcast sky usually results in dull-looking photographs. The tone mapping tool of Photomatix can turn them into great-looking images. Check this image as example. › Saving time in post-processing Photomatix Pro is designed for productivity -- automatic blending, unlimited stacking, easy comparison of results and batch processing save hours of masking and layers work in image editing programs. › Well exposed panoramas A panoramic scene is almost always a high contrast scene -- you can't limit your view to areas with the same brightness when shooting a 360° panorama. By taking views under several exposures and processing them in Photomatix Pro, you can create a panorama that will show details in both the dark and bright areas of the scene. Photomatix Pro offers both exposure fusion (also knows as exposure blending) and HDR tone mapping.

View samples in the User Gallery Get started with introduction video tutorial Download a free trial version Pass: sytry

http://hotfile.com/dl/57564789/f28c57d/photomatrix_pro_v3.2.6.Final.rar.html

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HOW TO BLEND TWO PHOTOS TOGETHER WITH A LAYER MASK

You can create very dramatic effects using a layer mask to blend one photograph into another. For example, you can blend a photograph of a wedding couple into a photo of the bride’s bouquet. You can

also create comical effects with this technique if, for example, you blend a photo of a potato with a photo of a person lying on a couch. You can start by blending with a gradient on the mask and touch it up with a brush or simply brush on the mask. As you paint with black on a white layer mask, the top image becomes visible. If you paint away too much, simply reverse the colors and paint with white.

This technique is especially effective using a pen tablet. By setting the painting brush to respond to pen pressure, you can easily control how much of the image you reveal with each brush stroke.

Step1. With the two photographs you want to blend open, click the Move tool.
Step2. Click and drag the photo you want to blend on top of thephoto you want for the base.Optionally, you can click anddrag the top image layer to adjust the position on the base image if necessary.
Note: If the images are the same size and resolution, the top image will hide the base image.

Step3. Click here to set the default colors so that the Foreground color is black.

Step4. Click the Layer Mask button.
* A white layer mask appears inthe Layers palette.
Step5. Click the Gradient tool and selecta gradient style from the Options bar.
Step6. Click the layer mask to select it.
Step7. Click and drag in the image to apply the gradient to the mask.
Note: You may need to click and drag several times to get the effect that you want.

The two images blend together.

Step8. Click the Brush tool.
Step9. Select a large soft-edge brush from the Brush drop-down palette.
Step10. Paint in the image using black to touch upthe mask and revealmore of the background photo.

Step11.Click here to reverse the foreground and background colors.
Step12. Paint with white to fill in areas where you have painted away too much of the base image.
The white paint strokes bring some edge details of the base image back, making
the top image appear to blend into the base image.

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How To Create a simple logo in photoshop

Designing or creating a logo can sometime be extremely stressful if you let it get to you. When it comes to the creation of logo’s many designers like to sketch them out then bring them into illustrator and finish the job. Well We’re going to do things a bit different today. I know there are many designers out there wondering how they can create a logo in photoshop. Today we’re going to be using are creative minds and create a simple and fast logo in photoshop. No Sketching, enjoy.

Step 1.Create a new document 1000px x 72px. Background color:#0096ff.

Step 2.Select the blur brush tool color:#61beff and create a circle blur above our background layer. You should have glow look if done correctly.

Step3.Select the type tool size:200px, Text:Airstream, color:#ffffff, and create the word Eclipse. Then go to Window>>Character and change to settings below.

Step4.Duplicate the text layer and change the color to #000000. Then move text downward left to give it that eclipse look.

Step5.Now this is where the neatness comes in or shall I say the great effect of out logo. Select the black text layer and change the color from black to #61beff. Text should now blend in with background.

Step6.Select the type tool size:30px, Text:Airstream, color:#fff, and create the word Solar. Then add the word to the top upper left of the Eclipse text.

Step7.Select the rounded rectangle tool color:#fffff and create a circle.

Duplicate the layer and change the circle color to #61beff. Move it down leftward. Click image below to enlarge!

You are now done! I know this tutorial was quite simple but you should have an basic understanding of how creating a logo.

Beyond This tutorial
If you would like there are many things you could do with this logo or any logo you create. I just change the backgrounds and dropped the shadow on some but there were a ton of other things I could of done with this. So be creative and don’t just settle for your first idea.

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HOW TO COLORIZE A BLACK-AND-WHITE IN PHOTOSHOP

COLORIZE A BLACK-AND-WHITE photo with AKVIS Coloriage

You can add color to a grayscale or Black white photo in Photoshop using adjustment layers, masks, and brushes; however, the Coloriage plug-in from AKVIS makes colorizing a black-and-white photograph quick and automatic. You can even use Coloriage to replace the colors in a color image. You can quickly add color to

a variety of images from antique photos to hand-drawn sketches and cartoons and still maintain a very natural look.
You can colorize an image with Coloriage by clicking different colors from the Colors palette or Library and painting the colors over the areas with loose brush strokes. When you press the green forward button, the software determines the borders of the various colored areas and applies the color based on the grayscale values.Your image must be in RGB mode. Click Image and Mode from the menu and click RGB. Then select AKVIS Coloriage from the Photoshop filters. You can select the colors from the Colors palette or use the Color Library
for difficult colors such as skin, hair, and lips. You can find Coloriagealong with other AKVIS filters at http://akvis.com./

Step1. Click and drag the background layer over the New Layer button to duplicate it.

Step2. Click Filter.

Step3. Click AKVIS.

Step4. Click Coloriage. 

The Coloriage dialog box appears, displaying your image at 100% in the Preview window.

Step5. Click here and drag to reduce or enlarge your preview.

Step6. Click here to select the first color, depending on the area.

Step7. Click here and drag to select the Pencil tool size to draw in the image.

Step8. Click and drag to draw in the image with the first color.

Step9. Repeat steps 6 to 8 to set all the colors to be used.
Step10. Click the Eraser tool.
Steo11.Click and drag to correct any stray marks.
Step12.Click the Run button to see a preliminary colorization.

*AKVIS determines the blends, and the colorized image appears in the After tab.
Step13. Click the Before tab and repeat steps 6 to 11 to change any colors as needed.
Step14. Click the Run button again to view the corrections.
Step15. Click the Apply button. The final colorization is applied to the image.


Note: If the colors are too vibrant in the Background copy layer, lower the opacity of the layer slightly.

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How to Changing the background with cpac imaging pro

How to change the background
Step1. In the Adjustments menu, click Change Background.
Step2. If it is one tone background, choose the Magic Wand tool and click on the background areas.

The program will select the background of the same tone, or you can adjust the Magic Wand slider to select areas that have close tone. To select more areas, hold down the Shift key, while clicking on other areas of the background to make selection.

Stap3. Select the Hair Selection tool. Paint over the hair edge adjacent to the background area, as well as the loose strands that you want to keep in the photo. The painted areas will be highlighted in red.

If there are green areas that are not parts of the hair line, use the Selection Eraser tool to rub out the green areas.
Next step is to extract the portrait from the background. The areas that are highlighted in red are the hair line that will not be extracted. The green areas represents the portrait edges. The blue areas are the body/clothing parts that will not be extracted. Other areas that are not highlighted will be extracted.
Check if there is any other area that you want to make adjustment, then click the Extract button on the right setting bar. The program will extract the background automatically. You can change the Hair, and Edge settings if there is still some background left or the extracted areas go beyond the hair line. After adjusting the settings, click Extract again.

Step4. Click Go to Change Background Step on the right setting bar, the Select Background dialog box will appear.

Choose the desired background category and an background image, then click Select. The program will add the selected background to the picture.

Stpe5. You can make furthur adjustment to the portrait edge by using the Edge and Hair setting sliders. High values result in eliminating more hair areas, then click the Extract button again.

From the above sample, the low Hair value results in less hair area eliminated.
Step6. You can use the following tools to make over the incomplete areas:
History Brush is used to go back to the original state by applying the brush over the desired areas.
Eraser tool is used to rub out the portrait area from the background.
Cut tool is used to remove the selected portrait area
Blend with Background Brushis used to paint colors over the portrait edges and background.
Free Transform is used to change the position and size of the background.


You can also use the manu on the right to edit the background.

They are:
Chnage Background to choose a new background.
Levels to adjust light levels for the background or the portrait.
Hue/Saturation to adjust tone, change hue, or increase and decrease the saturation levels of the background.
Blur Background to make the background look softer.


Step7. Click OK to confirm background change.
Step8. In case it is difficult to disguise between the portrait area and the background area, you can manually write the foreground border line.

Using Selection Line tool, click on one side to start and left click to form a line along shirt and hair edge. For shirt, click on exact points while you can just roughly point on the hair. Right click at the other side of the picture to stop the borderlining.

Use the Hair Selection tool to draw along the hair line.

Next, use the Fill Selection tool to click in the portrait area.

Click the Extract button to change the background.

When complete,you can continue by going back to start at step 4.

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How to Remove RED EYE

You can remove the red-eye effect from all photographs, whether they are scanned from film or prints or start out as digital files. Photoshop CS3 includes a Red Eye tool that makes the process very easy.

By default, Photoshop’s Red Eye tool uses a large brush and makes the areas around the pupil black.You can change the default settings in the Options bar to fit the size of your subject’s eyes. Changing the red areas to a dark gray color rather than black makes your subject look more natural and enables you to change the eye color later if needed.

Step1. With the image open, drag the Background layer over the New Layer icon to duplicate it.

Step2. Click the Zoom tool and zoom into enlarge the red eyes.
Step3. Click and hold the Spot Healing Brush tool to reveal its other tool options.
Step4. Click the Red Eye tool.The Options bar changes to show the options for the Red Eyetool.

Step5. Double-click here and type 15.
Step6. Make sure that the Darken Amount data field is set to 50.
Step7. Click in the red area of one eye.

Photoshop replaces the red with a neutral gray.
Step8. Click in the red area ofthe other eye. Photoshop again replaces the red with aneutral gray.
Step9. Click the Zoom tool.

The Options bar changes.
Step10. Click Fit Screen.Photoshop zooms out, so you can see the
entire image and the more natural-looking eye color.

Did You Know?

Pressing J selects the Spot Healing

Brush tool. Press Shift as you press J

again three times to select the Red

Eyetool. With the tool selected, press

Return (Enter), and the first data

fieldin the Options bar is highlighted.

Type your settings and press Tab to

highlight the next data field.

Try This!

You can select all the tools even

fasterusing a one-letter keyboard

shortcut. Click Photoshop (Edit) ➔

Preferences ➔ General. Deselect the

Use Shift Key for Tool Switch check

box in the Options section of the

dialog box. Click OK. When you press

the letter corresponding to a tool,

youcycle through all the tools hidden

below the first one.

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How to Creat Keyboard Sortcut in Photoshop CS

Photoshop includes keyboard shortcuts for a variety of tasks. You can work more efficiently if you use shortcuts for the tools that you use most often. Many of the tools in the toolbox 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.

You can easily create your own custom keyboard shortcuts to fit your workflow. You can even change the ones that Photoshop has already assigned to something that you can remember better.

Step1. Click Edit

Step2.Click Keyboard Shortcuts.

Step3.Click here nd selct Application Menus.

Step4.Click the Filter( select your choice that you want creat shortcut) expand arrow.

The Filter are listed along with any existing keyboard sortcuts.

Step5.Scroll down to the filter to which you want to add shortcut.

Step6.Click the filter.

The filter is highlighted, and an empty data field appears under the Shortcut column.

Step7.Press  (Ctrl) and type your shortcut binthe data field.
Note: A shortcut must contain either (Ctrl) or an F key in the name.
Step8 Click Accept.
The Photoshop Defaults set is modified toinclude your shortcut.
Step9. Click OK to finish adding your custom keyboard shortcut.

Did You Know?

The Keyboard Shortcuts

andMenus dialog box is

found under both the Edit

menu and the Window ➔

Workspace menu. You can

also access the Keyboard

Shortcuts and Menus dialog

box by using a keyboard

shortcut — Ô+Shift+

Option+K (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+K).

Try This!

You can save a list of the

default Photoshop keyboard

shortcuts or your customized

shortcuts. Click Summarize

inthe Keyboard Shortcuts

and Menus dialog box and

save the file as Photoshop

Defaults.htm. Open the

fileand print the list for

reference.

More Options!

Click the Shortcuts For arrow

to select Palette Menus or

Tools. Then click the expand

arrow next to the palette

name or tool and type your

shortcut. You can even save a

keyboard shortcut set with a

custom workspace!

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