PCM Courseware Blog — Photoshop

We are pleased to announce the latest video course in our Up to Speed series:  Adobe Camera Raw: Up to Speed. This course helps you to get up and running quickly with Adobe’s powerful image editing plug-in. This handy step-by-step class starts from scratch, starting with basic Camera Raw topics and moving on to more advanced features to help you to become more productive more quickly.  In no time at all you’ll be navigating the Camera Raw Interface: adjusting image exposure, clarity, vibrance and saturation; removing haze from images; adjusting shadows and highlights; changing color and adjusting white balance; using handy...

This post is part of the Learning Photoshop series. The Background Eraser Tool, which shares a space on the Tools panel with the Eraser Tool and the Magic Eraser Tool, allows you to remove the background color from an image while retaining the foreground color. The trick to using the Background Eraser Tool is to keep the crosshair that is in the center of your cursor on the background color as you drag and make sure that part of your brush cursor is on the foreground color. You will want to choose a large enough brush size so that you...