March 2011

Removing freckles

Want to remove freckles from your image? Here is the quickest method to do so in Photoshop. After opening your file, change the image mode to CMYK mode and choose the channel layer in which freckles are more visible. Like in example below, freckles were most visible in yellow channel layer. Copy that channel layer and change the image mode back to RGB mode. Now, paste it on the new layer above the existing layer in the layer palette. Inverse the image mode, select overlay / soft overlay blending option and decrease the opacity level to around 30 – 40%. You will notice that the freckles disappear and you see a fair skin in the image. Now, to remove the

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Recover the detail of the image

Direct images from camera misses the detail of the image in it. In Photoshop CS5, we can recover back those details of the image using the HDR Toning feature. This feature allows the user to apply HDR like tone mapping to single image. Steps to follow are pretty simple: After opening image in Photoshop, go to Image > Adjustment> HDR Toning. You can see the preview of the change in the image already when the dialog box appears. As per the requirement, glow, tone and detail, color and toning curves & histogram can be adjusted. Edge Glow helps to regain bright areas settings. The radius value sets the size of the bright areas and the strength sets the distance required

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Easy technique to recolor products in Photoshop

With the help of Recolor Tool in Photoshop, we can change the color of the product images to any color of the user’s choice in just a few clicks. All one needs to do is open file in Photoshop and go to Image > Adjustment > Replace Color. In the replace color palette, user can select the colors of part of the image with the help of the eye dropper tool. Add to sample, eye dropper tool helps the user to select more than one color at a time. Once the user has selected all the required colors of the image, now s/he can now adjust the value of the color to the desired one through the adjusting the hue,

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