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When I think of the perfect sunset photo, my mind immediately fills with lots of warm reds, oranges and yellows as the sun gently sets across the water or beyond the hills. Sunsets are one of the most commonly photographed aspects of nature, and yet photos rarely manage to capture their intense beauty. What was once a sky filled with rich, golden hues often ends up looking cooler, less vivid, and ultimately less interesting.

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Content Aware Scaling with Photoshop CS4 video

from Yanik Chauvin

One of my favorite techniques for removing (i.e. make transparent) dark or light areas of an image is to use the blending sliders available inside the Layer Style dialog box within Photoshop. These blending sliders are easily overlooked in pursuit of the more commonly-used Layer Styles available in this dialog box.

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The Drag And Drop Method To Importing To Adobe Lightroom 2.0.

from Yanik Chauvin

Open your photo in Photoshop and press CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-B to enter the Black and White conversion window. You can also select Image from the main menu and go into Adjustments. Once the window opens, you are given 6 colors that will affect how your photo is converted. There is no fixed rule on what amounts you place in the different colors since it depends on your picture. For the photo that I used as an example, I selected 103% for Red to lighten the man’s face. I lessened the Yellows and Greens to darken the background to make the subject more prominent in the photo.

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from Yanik Chauvin

This Photoshop tutorial by SweetBeat will show you how to design and use your own background brush

Making the brush

-Make a new document 60x37cm and make sure that the foreground and background colours are set to black and white.

- Create three new layers by clicking  3 times on the new layer icon underneath the layers palette.

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