Tag Archives: Photoshop

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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Layer Blending Modes in Photoshop

By faber | Published: November 3, 2010

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. Layers are exactly what they sound like; they add different levels to the canvas in Photoshop.  This allows you to put objects on different levels allowing you to move layers [...]

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Scan multiple photos at once

By faber | Published: September 23, 2010

This quick tutorial will show you a tip for speeding up your scanning and processing workflow if you have lots of individual photos to scan. In the scan software of your choice (MPS supports both Image Capture and VueScan), place as many photos on the scanning bed as you can fit.  Don’t worry about getting [...]

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Understanding Digital Photography from snapshot to print – resize vs. resample.

By faber | Published: September 15, 2010

Digital Photos are made up millions of tiny little squares called pixels.  Every time you take a photo with your digital camera, you are collecting a couple million organized pixels as captured by the sensor behind the lens.  If your camera is a 10 megapixel camera, you are collecting 10 million of these pixels.  If [...]

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Photoshop Effects: Gaussian Blur

By faber | Published: February 2, 2010

This tutorial will go over the basics of adding a Gaussian blur effect to a photo in Adobe Photoshop. Below is a sample photo that we will be applying all of the effects to. Step 1: Duplicate your picture in a new layer: Layer > Duplicate Layer. You can also right click the layer and [...]

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Keep your PNG quality consistent across browsers

By faber | Published: October 27, 2009

From the always helpful swissmiss, a quick tip for keeping PNG file quality consistent between different web browsers.

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  • New MPS West Now Open!

    The new MPS in 006 Bostock is officially open! Come see us in our new location near the Link in the lower level of Bostock.

    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.
    MPS Lab Locations & Hours
    MPS East
    115 Lilly Library
    The MPS in Lilly is open whenever the library is open. Check their site for hours, which can change during holidays and academic breaks.

    MPS West
    006 Bostock
    The MPS in Bostock is open whenever the library is open. Check their site for hours, which can change during holidays and academic breaks.



    Staffed Hours for Both Locations

    Winter, summer, and other break hours will vary, according to student consultant availability. To check consultants' availability, view our Live Schedule.

    Sunday - Thursday: noon to midnight
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