Getting Behind It: Deke and the Photoshop Curves Command

Deke's Techniques 097: Creating Type that Inverts Anything Behind It

Create text, in Photoshop, that provides absolute and unambiguous contrast with everything in the composite image behind it. Automatically.

Deke's Techniques 095: Turning a Photo Into Line Art

This week, Deke shows how to turn an ordinary portrait into a line drawing. If nature didn't endow you with the ability to draw, Photoshop is the way to go.

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Deke's Techniques 021: Creating a High Key High Contrast Effect in Photoshop

This week I show you how to turn an untreated studio photograph into a high key, high contrast image with ultra-black shadows but nary a clipped highlight.

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

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.

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