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The Photoshop curves tool is perhaps the most powerful and flexible image transformation, yet it may also be one of the most intimidating. Since photographers effectively paint with light, curves is central to their practice because it affects light’s two primary influences: tones and contrast. Tonal curves are also what give different film types their unique character, so understanding how they work allows one to mimic any film– without ever having to retake the photograph.

Using Photoshop Curves.

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25 New Ways To Use RSS

25 things you must know before buying digital camera

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This is a Japanese video on YouTube demonstrating how to put on a BandAid so that it stays on all day long.

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Learn how to make your own Panographies

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Huge resource of drawing tips and lessons: drawspace.com

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How To: Deploying Suckerfish Dropdown Menus

Photoblocks are simply sectioned photographs mounted onto linoleum blocks. The resulting object is puzzle-like and can be displayed on a table, wall or shipped in a box to a friend.

Check out the Tutorial from Photojojo

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Converting a photo to black and white
LAB color conversion

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How to Remove a Ring That’s Stuck on a Finger

Red posted another simple photoshop tutorial

How often have you wondered what could be done with all the excess fluff you’ve been combing out of your dog? Making dog hair into yarn is fun and easy… Turning your pet’s hair into something beautiful is surprisingly easy. First, you turn the hair into yarn through the age-old process of hand spinning. Hand spinning is fun, and you can learn to do it yourself. With some simple tools and a bit of practice, you can soon be wearing something you have made from your pet’s hair.

Spinning Hair Tutorial

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Max Kiesler :: Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials

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What is this guide for? To teach you how to use the correct image formats for the correct situation. I am personally fed up of seeing people use gif for photos, jpeg for Windows screencaps, and other totally inappropriate image format uses. So I made this guide in an attempt to explain how and when to use what formats. Yes, this does require a fair bit of reading and understanding, so if you aren’t going to be bothered close your browser now and save my bandwidth.

When and how to use internet image formats

Some tools don’t get enough attention, this tool might be one of them. You could compare it somehow with the Healing Brush, although there is a difference. This tool works like a regular paint brush, it manipulates the color on your image while the underlying texture stays unaffected. Because of this, you can apply a color change in a more precision way.

Photoshop Color Replacement Tool Tutorial, by veerle!