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Contents

Columns

Departments

October/November 2005

www.photoshopuser.com

8 About Photoshop User Magazine

70 Production Clinic

Adobe Creative Suite 2 provides even more ways to

bring Illustrator images into Photoshop. Here’s a guide

for you to take advantage of the options.—Taz Tally

Features

Columns

10 From the Editor

14 Contributing Writers

20 Down & Dirty Tricks

In this issue, we show you how to make a “Double Expo-

sure” product shot, a “Dell-Like Logo,” and a “Watery Road

Relection.”—Scott Kelby and Felix Nelson

72 Mastering Photoshop with Video

Let’s look at the Script Events Manager in CS2 to see

how it can help us complete a project faster and without

missed steps in the worklow.—Glen Stephens

16 Photoshop News

17 NAPP Member News

50 Photoshop Mastery

After you’ve installed Photoshop CS2, change your

Preferences and a few other settings so that Photoshop

runs smoothly.—Ben Willmore

74 Digital Photographer’s Notebook

If you have to shoot a photograph in dim lighting, there

are some rules to follow when you use Photoshop CS2’s

Merge to HDR.—Kevin Ames

80 From the Help Desk

90 Photoshop Book Reviews

92 Photoshop Design Showcase

52 Creative Point of View

“Film is dead—or is it?” Katrin says we should save those

old photos and then she shows how compelling and

beautiful old ilm can be.—Katrin Eismann

76 Classic Photoshop Effects

Here’s a traditional method to make that “burnt-in

edges” look. We’ve also thrown in a couple of twists to

make it easy.—Dave Cross

94 Photoshop Q&A

54 Makeready

If there’s a big difference in color and contrast between

an object and its background, making a mask is easy. If

the difference is in color only, use LAB.—Dan Margulis

Reviews

98 Photoshop Beginners’ Tips

Some CS2 time-saving tips for you to try: synchronize

color settings, batch process, document presets, and

image processor.—Colin Smith

84 nik Sharpener Pro 2

85 Mercury Elite-AL Pro

85 EXILIM EX-Z750

86 Eye Candy 5: Impact

86 SilverFast DCPro Studio

87 Dell Precision 380

88 Picasa Photo Organizer

89 Canon PIXMA MP760

58 Deke Space

New to CS2 is the Vanishing Point ilter, which lets you edit

an image in perspective. In this issue, we show you how to

draw grids.—Deke McClelland

114 Photoshop Quick Tips

Want to create a striped gradient or apply Free

Transform to one or more layers? Here’s how, with ive

shortcuts thrown in as well.—Sherry London

34 Photoshop and the Digital Shooter

We asked four respected photographers to tell us what

cameras and accessories they use and to pass along

advice to Photoshop users about purchasing the right

digital camera and equipment.—Jim DiVitale, George

Lepp, Todd Morrison, and B. Moose Peterson

60 Photoshop for Educators

Levels is not only a favorite photo-correction tool; it’s also

a useful teaching tool to help students understand the

important role of contrast in a photograph.—Jan Kabili

62 Beginners’ Workshop

How can you not love something that can save you time,

help you be more consistent, and potentially avoid prob-

lems? We’re talking about tool presets.—Dave Cross

44 Print with Preview

While many basic functions are the same, Print with

Preview has undergone signiicant changes in Photo-

shop CS2 with several new options.—Andrew Rodney

Cover photography

courtesy of

Jim DiVitale

66 Digital Camera Workshop

Digital photographers either love RAW iles or they don’t

really get it. Well for the irst group, there’s a new tool in

CS2 for them to use: Merge to HDR.—Jim DiVitale

48 Measurement 4 Success

Want to improve your worklow but don’t know how?

Here’s one solution.—Reed Hoffmann

But Wait—There’s More: Wherever you see the

symbol at the end of an article, it means there’s additional

material for NAPP members at www.photoshopuser.com.

68 The WOW! Factor

This is an example of how Don Jolley paints with Corel

Painter but uses Photoshop at the beginning and end of

the project.—Linnea Dayton and Cristen Gillespie

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N AT I O N A L A S S O C I AT I O N O F

From the Editor

A few words from our E.I.C.…

perfect job for me because I love sharing new Photoshop techniques and faster ways to do things. I love

writing tutorials, making videos, and teaching live seminars—it’s a blast, and I can’t think of a job I’d like

more. But there’s much more to NAPP than just tutorials and tips. That’s why ive years ago, I asked my “big”

brother Jef Kelby to help where we really needed help, and that was “everything else.”

In the early days of NAPP, we surveyed our members to ind out what they wanted from our associa-

tion. I igured that Photoshop education would be #1 on their list—but I was wrong. Overwhelmingly,

discounts were the #1 thing that the surveyed members wanted: discounts on software, hardware, plug-

ins—discounts on everything. So, Jef’s irst order of business was to negotiate a bunch of discounts for our

members. It took Jef hundreds of calls, emails, and a knack for getting people to work together but within

weeks, member discounts started pouring in and they haven’t stopped since. Now, thanks to Jef’s eforts,

NAPP members get discounts on not only hardware and software, but also on everything from hotel rooms

to rental cars; overnight shipping to ofset printing; magazine subscriptions to stock photos; and just about

everything in between.

Besides negotiating discounts, Jef became the NAPP presence at tradeshows and events where he got

feedback and ideas from members irsthand. He took their input and ran with it, bringing group healthcare

options to our members as well as initiating the NAPP scholarship program and many other programs to help

achieve our goal: to continually raise the value of NAPP, without ever raising the annual membership dues.

Well, after radically transforming our association and providing more of what our members want, Jef is on

to a bold new adventure. He wants to play golf…all the time, every day—golf, golf, golf. He’s decided to retire

and move back to where we were raised, where there’s a preponderance of (you guessed it) golf courses.

In addition to everything Jef has done for NAPP, he’s also an amazing (and incredibly fun) brother, and not

having him in the oice is going to take a lot of getting used to for me. Fortunately, NAPP members will have

an easier transition, as Jef is handing the reins to the perfect man for the job: Larry Becker.

If you’ve ever attended a Photoshop World keynote or Midnight Madness session, you already know

Larry and his creative energy. For those who don’t know Larry (the writer, trainer, photographer, and

entrepreneur), he’s been doing contract work with us for some time and we’ve been trying to get him to

join our team full-time. Now, with Jef’s retirement, Larry’s coming on board as the new NAPP Executive

Director and we couldn’t be more excited. You’ll be hearing from Larry in the magazine, in the Newswire ,

and of course at Photoshop World, but in the meantime, join me in welcoming this man of many talents

to our team (lbecker@photoshopuser.com).

Okay, that’s what’s happening in the home oice. Here in the magazine, our feature story takes an insider’s

look at the tools that four of the industry’s leading digital photographers use and most importantly, why they

use them. So make sure you check it out, starting on page 34.

As we go to press, we’re heading out to Photoshop World Boston and I’m delighted to announce that

we already have record-breaking registrations for our East Coast conference and we’ve broken the record

set earlier this year in Las Vegas for the number of exhibitors. If you didn’t make it to Boston, I hope you’ll

join us for Photoshop World at the Miami Beach Convention Center, March 22–24, 2006, where once again

we’ll bring together the world’s top Photoshop instructors to share with you their latest tips, techniques,

and coolest tricks.

“…there’s much

more to NAPP

than just tutorials

and tips.”

All my best,

010

Scott Kelby

Editor-in-Chief

The New Face of the NAPP

Changing of the Guard: a new NAPP Executive Director

I n my job as President of the NAPP, I focus on pretty much one area: the education side of things. This is the

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