What To Expect
From These Tablet Tips

Make Your Precious Photographs
Of Your Family And Friends
The Best They Can Be!

The tablet tips on this site are aimed at people who are basic Photoshop users and, in some cases, Photoshop Elements users who are interested in improving the appearance of their digital photographs with their Bamboo.

For experienced Photoshop users the tips will serve to demonstrate how to set your pen within Photoshop under different editing conditions.

What these tablet tips demonstrate is how to easily master the most common, basic things people want to do when working with their images and their Graphire.

Photoshop is and amazing digital imaging program and it can be really intimidating for a budding photo manipulator.

Elements is also a fabulous program for editing your digital images but it is missing some of the more advanced abilities of its big brother.

Working with your images should be a fun and enjoyable experience rather than a struggle and that is what I am presenting in the tips.

The most common areas of interest for most people includes:

• Removing Red Eye ...
• Removing a unwanted element in a photograph (cloning) ...
• Changing the color of an element in their photograph ...
• Converting to Black and White ...
• Lightening or darkening one local area of a photograph (local control)...
• Selecting one part of the image (selections)...

Take a few minutes (or hours) to watch some of these videos. They are wonderful and yo will learn some fabulous techniques!

Digital Cameras

It was not that long ago, really, that any reputable camera store was entirely dedicated to film cameras. When digital cameras were introduced they caught on immediately and this started the steady decline in the popularity of film products.

In my area the most widely recognized dedicated camera chain has one small section for film cameras and most of them are used products looking for a good home.

With a digital camera you can trash the images you don't like and other than the initial cost of your equipment, you can take as many shots as your hard drive will hold.

Now people have the ability to make changes to their images which was not the case with photographs made from a film negative and this has led to the popularity of imaging products like Photoshop and the Wacom Graphire, Bamboo or Intuos.

A Graphire and Photoshop are fabulous tools for making changes to your image - but what do you do if you want to improve the quality of your initial exposure?

Now you can spend hours searching for a site that will help improve your photo ability - or - you can click on the picture or click the following link to to find all of the expert digital photography advice you will ever need!

Digital Photography In Focus

About The Tablet Tips

These tablet tips, the set-up information and the explanation of the brush settings are things I have had a lot of questions about over the years. This is really my attempt to make this information more available to people who want to get the most out of their software and their tablet.

NOTE:
These tablet tips and techniques will work with all versions of Photoshop (7, CS and CS2) but not all version of Photoshop Elements. Elements is a basic version of Photoshop and some of the tools are not included in Elements. If a technique will not work with Elements it will be noted and an alternate technique will be included that will work with Elements.

What about Painter ...?

If you are an aspiring or experienced digital artist and are not using an Intuos Tablet with Corel Painter then - wow! How can anyone draw and paint with a mouse?

Just recently I was talking to two digital artists and both of them said that they could not do what they do without Painter and their Intuos tablet.

I hope you find the tips useful and fun. If you have any problem following the process in any of the tips please let me know via the Contact Page.

I generally show people how to set up and use their tablet so I may be less than thorough making myself understood on a web page.

NOTE:
If you looking for more in-depth Photoshop tutorials you are in the wrong place. The techniques here are aimed at new Wacom Bamboo users who want to get the best out of their tablet.

I did locate a really unique Photoshop site that you may want to visit:

Learn Photoshop in a Day is a well written manual that deals with all aspects of Photoshop - from beginner to advanced subjects. Check out the site to confirm for yourself that this is the training manual you need!

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