Category Archives: Photoshop

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Using the Healing Tools in Photoshop CS6

By Chris Dieguez | Published: November 9, 2012

Every photographer has a couple of photos that are almost perfect—all except for a few dust spots, or a smudge on the lens, or perhaps a single object that’s in the wrong place. In Photoshop, there are couple of ways to correct those errors. The easiest way is using the healing tools. These tools use [...]

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Making Mobile Phone Shots More Professional Using Photoshop

By teh13@duke.edu | Published: November 6, 2012
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That Random Moment We’ve all had those random moments in life where we see a great moment at a party or walking down the street and we pull out our phone to a take a quick shot before the chance escapes us. We don’t have time to set up lighting, fix hair or position our [...]

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How to Effectively Use Drop Shadows in Photoshop

By Richard Cao | Published: October 26, 2012

So you’re making a flyer for an upcoming event held by your student organization. You know the basics of Photoshop, but you feel like the flyers you’re making don’t stand out enough amongst the hundreds of other flyers on any given bulletin board. To make matters even worse, this flyer needs to be ready in [...]

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Better Contrast with Unsharp Mask in Photoshop

By faber | Published: April 14, 2012

Written by Joel Wanek Photoshop is an amazing and sometimes overwhelming program.  There often seem to be multiple paths we can take to reach the same desired result.  No one way is right or wrong but its good to have a variety of options.  Here’s an alternative to using the Brightness/Contrast adjustment tool that will [...]

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Three Uses for Masks in Photoshop

By faber | Published: October 18, 2011

Some useful things you can do with masks is brighten/darken a certain part of an image (for example, someone’s face), fade the edges of an image, and place an image within text. A layer mask allows you to control the visibility of a layer. You can use a layer mask to selectively show a part [...]

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Quickly Adding Life to a Dull Photo: Levels, Curves, & Vibrance

By faber | Published: May 5, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Alikiah Barclay – for more help with this topic, visit Alikiah at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Often photographs come out just a bit washed out. Especially when your camera is nothing fancy, some photos with great potential may simply seem dull.  However, resurrecting these [...]

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Vector-style in Photoshop

By faber | Published: May 2, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Jaewoo Lee – for more help with this topic, visit Jae at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. Vector art is a style of art that is created using shapes, objects, and lines that are composed from paths and points.  It is different from regular graphic [...]

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Content Aware Fill in Photoshop CS5

By faber | Published: February 13, 2011

Written by MPS Consultant Andrew Wood – for more help with this topic, visit Andrew at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. One of the most exciting features new to Photoshop CS5 is Content Aware. Before its existence, a skilled user in Photoshop would be able to reproduce its effects [...]

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Using Photoshop Threshold to Separate Colors for Screenprint

By faber | Published: January 31, 2011

This semester, I’m taking a digital printmaking class, so I may have a couple of tutorials on here that are specifically related to topics surrounding screenprinting or preparing digital images for print.  Here’s the first one… When you are preparing an image for screenprinting, you have to separate out the various colors in order to [...]

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Stitching a Panorama in Photoshop CS5

By faber | Published: November 16, 2010

Written by MPS Consultant Nick Sarnoff – for more help with this topic, visit Nick at the MPS during his scheduled hours, visible on our Live Schedule. In this tutorial we will show you how to quickly create a seamless panorama image by stitching several photos together using the Photomerge tool in Photoshop CS5 which is available [...]

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    The Old Chem branch of the Multimedia Project Studio is now permanently closed.

  • What is the MPS?

    The Multimedia Project Studios are a series of high-end computer labs located at Duke University. We feature cutting edge equipment and industry standard software and are staffed by a corps of student Multimedia Consultants who are available to help you out with your project on a one-on-one basis, but are not able to do production work on your behalf.
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