Photoshop 7.0 Tutorial – Tips And Tricks To Get Creative With Your Images

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Photoshop 7.0 Tutorial – Tips And Tricks To Get Creative With Your Images

Cutting and painting can only go so far. If that’s all you wanted to do with your photos, you shouldn’t have bothered purchasing Adobe Photoshop 7.0. This software is very powerful, and it would be such a waste if you don’t allow your knowledge and skills to grow with it.

If it’s your first time to use any Photoshop software, you might as well start with the best.

The Pixelate Function
Look for the Filter section in the tool menu situated on top of your screen. There are various options under the Filter category, and you can start playing with images with the pixelate function. The pixelate function allows you to modify images and turn them into different artistic styles. Remember when your art appreciation class required you to do a mosaic all by yourself and with your own two hands? It was hard work, wasn’t it? Now imagine being able to do that with any photo or image saved in your computer with just one click! And yes, you can do that just by clicking on pixelate and mosaic next.

Other artistic styles included under pixelate are crystallize, fragment, facet, color halftone, pointillize, and mezzotint.

How to Get Rid of Blemishes
Are you afraid of having your photos taken in close range because you don’t want to make your blemishes – acne, scars, and so forth – too visible? If that’s your only problem, Photoshop 7.0 can certainly eliminate such worries. There are various ways to accomplish that, but the easiest and basic strategy – which is where you should start as well – you could use is the blur function.

The blur function is still under the Filter category. Select the area that you wish to fade away into oblivion and then start clicking the blur function. Keep clicking blur or pressing Ctrl F until the area’s properly invisible. If the area’s too big, blurring the area would be definitely noticeable. But if they’re as small as dots on your face, rest assured that you could later on enjoy a blemish-free face from hereon forward in all your images.

The Importance of Layers
You hear about how important layering is in various aspects. Layering is important when applying fragrance to your skin or when you’re wearing clothes for fashion, winter, and sports. But layering is important in enhancing images as well, and you could learn how and why through Photoshop 7.0.

Now, in the previous version of Photoshop, using the Layer opacity affects all the layers you have in your image. Changing or modifying the effects of Layer opacity is slightly complicated however…until the arrival of the Fill opacity of Photoshop 7.0, that is. With the Fill opacity, only the layer you specified will be affected when you make certain changes.

Why the Magic Wand is Magical Indeed
Let’s say that you have a photo of — Barney the purple dinosaur in a garden background. Now, you want to get only the outline of Barney and nothing else. In the old days, you’d have to painstakingly cut it part by part. But in Photoshop 7.0, all you have to do is click the outline of Barney with the magic wand and voila! Mission accomplished. If it can’t be done in one click, you could just add everything to a selection until you complete Barney’s image.

Practice, practice, practice is all you need to do to master Photoshop 7.0. Good luck!

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SEO Software Secret to Using Images to Achieve Better Organic Rankings

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SEO Software Secret to Using Images to Achieve Better Organic Rankings

Many people build web sites that chase visitors away. The following tips will help you avoid the mistakes that make a web site less than effective. What guidelines should you follow to optimize your website to drive more traffic? Have you ever seen a site and you are just feeling uncomfortable reading the materials? Is something flashing in your eyes constantly? Follow these examples and start optimizing your website!

Music
Music is a huge turn-off to many people, especially if they are browsing from a work computer. Often when visitors reach a site that has music, they move on immediately. It may not be to their taste, may be too loud, or could just be inappropriate. If you must have music on the site, give the visitor the option to turn it on and off. Read More..

Giant Sized Text
Tiny grey print is hard to read, especially for those past a certain age. However, very large text looks amateur and can also be hard to read. Browsers now make it easy for visitors to increase the size of text on a site if it’s too small for them to read. For font color, usually dark grey or black is best unless the background is dark.

Black Background
Black backgrounds may look cool, but are hard to read. Consider your audience; for music and art sites black might be a good choice. However, as a commercial site owner, you don’t want anything about your site to be difficult.

Gigantic and Un-optimized Photos
It’s a good idea have photos above the fold, but make them a reasonable size. They should also be in some sort of orderly formation – big photos helter-skelter across a site are distracting. Photos should be optimized so they load quickly. Even small photos should be optimized… it all adds up, and visitors leave a slow loading site. If you don’t have a program that will do it for you, do a Google search – there are online photo optimizers that will do it for you.

Frames
Web sites with frames don’t index well. Depending upon how they’re set up, the search engines most likely will not see the most important part of your site – it will be a big blank space. Frames are old-school anyway. There are much better ways to build a web site.

All Flash Pages
Make an all Flash page and the search engine sees absolutely nothing. If you’re already famous, or a brand name, you can get away with it; otherwise you’ve got to have visible (to the search engines) content. This is what the spider sees when a full flash site is crawled:

[ NOTHING ]

Google AdSense
Why would you send your visitors away from your site? Unless your site is designed to sell from affiliate ads and AdSense, keep the visitors on your site and sell them your own products.

Long Pages
Site visitors don’t like to scroll a lot. Your most important content/photos should be above the fold, and a little scrolling after that is okay. But if you have a great deal of content it should be on separate pages. This is a good opportunity to utilize SEO, too, since you can optimize for more keywords and will have more pages for the search engines to spider.

Kay Frenzer is an SEO Strategist, with years of experience in helping clients’ sites reach the first page of Google for top tier keyword phrases. Read her blog at SEODiva.net. Want to learn more about SEO? Sign up for the SEO Diva Newsletter and get monthly tips and advice.

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