Customizing the Auto Color Command in Photoshop

Deke customizes Photoshop's Auto Color feature and applies it nondestructively to an underwater photograph.

Levels and Curves: Photoshop's Left and Right Ventricles Pump Luminance

All Pirate Flag Files and Art

Adding Contrast and Color

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Photoshop to distill the base art into three colors: rich black, blood red, and page white.

Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced Goes Live

Martini Hour 062, In Which Colleen Graciously Lets Deke Pick Up Where We Left Off

Martini Hour 058, In Which Colleen Levels Out

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #9: Levels

The Levels command, and its cohort the histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The upshot is that you can increase contrast, correct for color cast, and make a bad image good.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #24: Curves

Where luminance is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. It lets you reign in highlights, open up shadows, and reveal all points in between. Curves takes a bud of an image and makes it blossom.

The Andy Warhol Silkscreen Effect

Want to emulate Andy Warhol's silkscreen effect? Warhol created art as a mass consumable, like a t-shirt or pack of gum. Meaning, he *wanted* you to replicate it. Join Deke as he dissects Warhol's process, digital style.

Don't Fear the Lab Mode

Don't Fear the Lab Mode

Digital cameras are wonderful, but they're ultimately machines. You, on the other hand, are a superior human being. Celebrate your humanity in the Lab mode, where you can take the work of machines and make it way better.