January 8th, 2010 by admin

We had three excellent presentations this month!

Don Foerster gave a very entertaining and extremely useful demonstration showing how to use Advanced Blending options to quickly combine two layers (not in Elements). Here are 2 links to tutorials regarding this topic. The first is a video from Creative Sweet TV. Although there’s a little too much banter at the beginning and end, it’s very useful.

The second link is to a written tutorial which demonstrates the use of blending options for masking.
USING BLEND IF SLIDERS FOR MASKING (more advanced)

Chick Gerston showed how to replace a sky and get more realistic results. His presentation was from Mark Galer’s CS3 tutorial from a few years ago. The use of Clipping Masks was key to the best results. Great job, Chick!

Mark Galer Realistic Sky Replacement tutorial

Pat Beckly showed the slideshow improvements in Lightroom 3 beta. Here’s a link to AdobeTV videos.

Julieanne Kost -- Lightroom 3 beta

Finally, Marianne Jensen continued her quest to extol the virtues of having a blog. Besides being a way to share your work with others, she pointed out the use of a blog as a marketing tool. Here’s a link that sums up many of the advantages.

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