PW172 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 1 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

Today we've got another free video tutorial featuring Color Efex Pro 4 from Nik Software. This multi-part tutorial will cover a variety of filters, old and new show and ways to use them creatively to take an image from the original camera RAW to a finished version ready to print.

View all 6 chapters of this free tutorial here

In this first chapter we look at Color Efex Pro 4's integration with Lightroom and examine the user interface before using the Skin Softener filter. This is the first chapter of a multi-part tutorial. Find all the chapters and loads more free video tutorials on Photoshop and Lightroom at www.photowalkthrough.com

PW172 - Tutorial 23 Chapter 1 - Nik Color Efex Pro 4

PW136 - Importing your photos from laptop to desktop using Lightroom

In today's Lightroom video tutorial I show you the best way to take photos from your laptop to your desktop when you've been shooting and editing your pictures on the road. You can keep all your RAW files and the lightroom edits intact and still merge those pictures back into your master Lightroom catalog. Learn how..

Lightroom 3 techniques covered:

• Export folder as catalog
• Export collection as catalog
• Import catalog
• Import a collection
• import from laptop  

PW136 - Importing your photos from laptop to desktop using Lightroom

PW133 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 2 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow

In today's free Photoshop CS5 tutorial we continue making our fashion label by using the quick selection and refine edge tools then add our text using the type tool and give it some shape and texture with layer effects and texture inside a clipping path.

In today's episode:

• Quick Selection Tool
• Refine Edge
• Refine Radius
• Layer mask
• Type tool
• Resizing text
• Layer effects
• Bevel and emboss
• Black and white
• Curves
• Clipping paths
• Blending modes
• Opacity

PW133 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 2 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow

PW132 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 1 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow

Today's show does double duty as both part of our Lightroom 3 review and also the first chapter in a new tutorial. We'll be adding fashion labels to our photographs as a fun way to brand a Lightroom 3 slideshow and I'll show you how the label is made by using new features from Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5. If you want to see what we're aiming for I've uploaded the Lightroom 3 Slideshow to my Flickr.

Covered in this episode:

• Importing photos in Lightroom
• New import dialog in Lightroom 3
• Import presets in Lightroom 3
• Docking folders in Lightroom 3 import dialog
• Lightroom straightening 
• Lightroom cropping
• Lightroom color correction
• Lightroom color enhancement
• Before and after view
• Lightroom export to photoshop
• Lightroom Photoshop round trip
• Photoshop CS5 marquee tool
• Photoshop CS5 content aware fill
• Photoshop CS5 content aware scaling

PW132 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 1 - Slideshow Fashion Labels

PW131 - Lightroom Video Review - Flickr Upload and Import Dialog

On today's Lightroom 3 Video Review show we look at a new feature that is already saving me a lot of time and helping me share more of my photos - the new Flickr upload that is part of the publishing service. Lightroom 3 can now integrate directly with Flickr and keep collections up to date for you - even downloading the comments. We'll also take a look at the new import dialog which boasts an improved and simplfied layout plus a very useful new import presets feature.

PW131 - Lightroom Video Review - Flickr Upload and Import Dialog