Photoshop Tutorials.. Tips & Tricks..

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www.adigitaldreamer.com has some stuff. I've found books are almost always more user friendly than the internet, but the computer section of every bookstore is a black hole from which nothing returns. That being said, "SAMS TeachYourSelf Adobe Creative Suite" is a really useful source for me. If you just need photoshop, it doesn't go into as much depth as a photoshop-only book does, but it does give a good basis for beginners. The SAMS TeachYourself series is a good one, if you just need books on photoshop, and not the whole creative suite. As far as tips and tricks go, I've got two. 1) Batch scanning. Scanning individual pictures is time consuming. However, you've got all that space on the scanner bed on which to place pictures. You can scan them all at once and photoshop will separate them for you. Put all the photos on the scanner, leaving about an inch or so gap between each one. It doesn't matter if you put them on there crooked, photoshop fixes that. Go to Import-scanner to get the scanner dialog for your particular machine. Scan the whole area at whatever resolution you need to. Close the scanner dialog box. Your scanned image should show up, with all the pictures exactly as you put them on the scanner. It looks like a mess. Go to File-automote-crop and straighten photos. Then watch as photoshop creates a seperate file for each of the photos on the scanner. voila! 2) You can make panoramic images with your camera, regardless of whether it's panoramic or not. Take several photos making sure that they overlap by a good portion (Between 50 and 25%) Save them in the same folder, or open up the images in photoshop. Go to File-automate-photomerge and photoshop will stitch them together for you.