Tutorials by John Woods
John Woods is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop 7.0. He created these tutorials to help some people internally at Kodak, and has made them freely available to the Photoshop community here.
Photoshop CS Tutorials
Quickfire
Background
Create a fire background using native filters in Photoshop CS. [PDF
1,140 KB]
Rusty
Background
Build a Rusty Background from scratch In Photoshop CS. This background is used
in the "Rusty Bones Tavern Sign" tutorial below. [PDF
833 KB]
Rusty
Bones Tavern Sign in Photoshop CS
This is an in-depth exercise to learn how to use layer masks to show and hide
layers, and also how to apply textures to files to achieve that professional
Photoshop look to images and graphic elements. [PDF
7,288 KB]
Quick
Parchment in Photoshop CS
Create a parchment texture in Photoshop CS using filters, layer masks, and layer
styles. [PDF 1,904
KB]
Photoshop CS File Browser
The Fie Browser in PSCS consists of a Navigation palette (Folders), an Image
Preview (Thumbnails), Metadata (image information) and Keywords (file descriptor).
The File Browser allows you to sort, manage and organize your images. This tutorial
is an introduction to the file browser in Photoshop CS. [PDF
2,644 KB]
Camera
Raw Plugin
With the introduction of Photoshop CS (version 8) Adobe included their Camera
Raw Plugin module as part of the Photoshop package. This module takes the raw
data from a digital camera and allows you to correct the raw image before sending
the image to Photoshop. This tutorial is an introduction to the camera RAW plugin
in Photoshop CS. [PDF
4,877 KB]
Photoshop
CS Photo Filters
Explore the new photo filters in Photoshop CS. [PDF
1,950 KB]
Shadow
and Highlight Filtering in Photoshop CS
Bring out the details and dark shadow areas using the new highlight shadow feature
of Photoshop CS and the history brush. [PDF
1,781 KB] Right click to save the practice image: [Highlight_Shadows.jpg]
Photoshop
CS Fill Flash
Enhance an image using the Healing Brush, Curves, Photo Filters, and the Shadow/Highlight
filter. [PDF 3,374
KB] Right click to save the practice image: [OriginalFillFlash.jpg
More PDF Tutorials
by John Woods
Page 1 (CS)
Page 2 (7.0)
Page 3 (Elements/6.0)
Page 4 (6.0)
Page 5 (6.0/5.5)
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