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frame_skin.swf

Creating an Antique Framing Effect

Through the use of the Rectangular Marquee and various selection modification techniques, you'll learn to create the appearance of an antique frame around an image. You'll also learn to fill selections and work with the Color Picker.

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stroke_skin.swf

Appending Arrowheads to Curved Lines

Using the Stroke command to turn a freeform selection into a stroke, you'll also work with the Eraser and the Line tools to create the look of a winding dashed line that culminates in an arrowhead. This simple-sounding tutorial will give you lots of ideas for ways to use lines and strokes in your images.

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masking_skin.swf

Masking a Complex Image

Using the individual channels in an image, along with the High Pass filter and Invert command, you'll discover how to create a very detailed mask that accurately follows the exact edge of selected image content.

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saturn_skin.swf

Creating a Ringed Planet

Start your own little solar system with Gradient fills and the Radial Blur, Noise, and Lens Flare filters. You'll also play with Levels, Hue/Saturation, and free transformations, along with various layer styles and blend modes. Using gradients to fill your planet and its rings, you'll learn to create selections, fill them, and then apply styles and filters to achieve a surrealistic cosmos.

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clone_skin.swf

Eliminating Background Elements

With expert use of the Clone Stamp, you'll take distracting elements from the background of a photo, replacing them with more neutral, natural-looking content. You'll never miss what's gone, and neither will anyone else who views your "doctored" photo.

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extract_skin.swf

Working with the Extract Filter

In this tutorial, the Extract filter is used to take content and pull it out of its existing location for use in another image. You'll learn to use Smart Highlighting and the Fill tool within the Extract filter's dialog box, and then you'll see an object placed in a new image, transformed and made to feel at home in its new surroundings.

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man-shad_skin.swf

Creating a Shadow the Old-Fashioned Way

Rather than live with the limitations of the Drop Shadow you can create with layer Blending Options, try this method that uses the creation and manipulation of layers, fills and filters, as well as creative freeform transformations to create the look of a natural-looking, accurate shadow.

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dmaps_skin.swf

Experimenting with Displacement Maps

The use of the Displacement Map filter is demonstrated here, including how to create your own maps and use the maps that come with Photoshop CS3. You'll learn to build "dmaps" with various filters and to save them for use on any image.

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text-paths_skin.swf

Entering Text Along a Path

Type can follow any path you draw, and in this tutorial, you'll learn to create an elliptical path that surrounds the pi symbol and places the actual value of pi around the symbol, along the path. You'll also learn to manipulate the path to control the flow of text around it, and to apply interesting effects within the path itself.

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edge_masking_skin.swf

Working with Edge Masks

Here you'll learn to work with the Unsharp Mask, Find Edges, Maximum, Median, and Gaussian Blur filters in conjunction with an alpha channel to create an edge mask and then convert it to a selection outline.

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heal_skin.swf

Healing with a Pattern

In this tutorial, you'll become a plastic surgeon, painting away the years on a man's face with the Healing Brush, the Add Noise filter, and a pattern you create to simulate youthful skin.

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levels_skin.swf

Correcting Colors with the Levels Command

The Levels command is used again, this time with the Channels palette and the Hue/Saturation dialog box to correct colors in an image.

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cc-filters_skin.swf

Boosting Colors with Filters

This tutorial shows you how to use the Levels command, and to apply filters such as Median, Gaussian Blur, and the Unsharp Mask to improve and brighten colors in your image.

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lighting_skin.swf

Creating a Custom Lighting Effect

As the title implies, you'll learn to create the appearance of light where no natural light existed. Using everything from selection tools to fill tools, from alpha channels to Blur filters and layer styles, you'll create virtual reality and then shed natural-looking light on it, also utilizing the Texturizer and Lighting Effects filters.

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vanishing_point_skin.swf

The New Vanishing Point

Photoshop CS3's Vanishing Point feature is greatly enhanced, and in this tutorial, you'll learn to create multiple planes and to wrap an image around them — in this case, a series of nations' flags, wrapped around majestic monoliths in a stark landscape.