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Pimp Your Facebook: How To Create An Awesome Timeline Banner

1:15PM February 11, 2012 | Whitson Gordon

Facebook’s new, awesome Timeline feature is rolling out to everyone, and a few early adopters have discovered a neat trick where you cut your profile picture out from your cover photo, for a very cool picture-in-picture effect. Here’s how to do it. More »


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How To Convert A Black Background To White

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4:30PM January 5, 2012 | Angus Kidman

Got an image with a black background and you’d prefer white? While the selection tools in Photoshop and other image editors will easily let you select the background and change it, that’s not enough, since reflections from the background will remain in place and can make the final result look odd. Photoshop expert and tech blogger Helen Bradley walks through how to solve that problem. More »


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Ask LH: How Can I Touch Up My Photos Without Making Them Look Photoshopped?

5:00AM December 28, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Dear Lifehacker, I’ve learned a bunch of great Photoshop tricks but whenever I use that knowledge my images end up looking unrealistic. I don’t want my family to look like an airbrushed perfume ad or my nature photos to look like a unicorn threw up a rainbow all over them. How can I touch up my photos without sacrificing their realism? Thanks, Unintentionally Fake More »


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Photo Police Sniffs Out Photoshopped Images

12:30AM December 21, 2011 | Alan Henry

Mac: We’ve discussed how a keen eye can help you detect if an image has been photoshopped, but if you need an app to help you determine if that photo is a fake, Photo Police is a utility for the Mac that can help. If it does detect that an image has been modified, it will show you what’s been changed so you can get an idea of what the original may have looked like. More »


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Top 10 Photoshop Tricks You Can Do Without Photoshop

3:00AM December 4, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

You can do just about anything to an image with Photoshop, but if you don’t have the cash to shell out, free program the GIMP — available for Windows, Linux, and OS X — can take you pretty far. Here are our favourite Photoshop how-tos that also work in the GIMP. More »


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Create Colouring Book Pages From Photos

10:00AM November 21, 2011 | David Galloway

Instructables user PenfoldPlant gives a great step-by-step guide to turning photos into colouring book pages using Pixlr, a free online imaging webapp. More »


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How To Use Photoshop To Alter Reality As We Know It

4:00AM November 8, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Photoshop is an amazing tool that can take any photo and change it into anything you can imagine. While it can take years of practice to alter reality like a pro, there are a few simple tricks you can employ to reshape the world captured in your photos. Here are five of our favorite techniques and how to use them effectively. More »


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Add Instagram-Like Effects To Your Photos With Free Photoshop Actions

2:30AM July 22, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Do you like the cool, nostalgic styling of Instagram photos? Now you can add those effects to your own pictures in Photoshop with this free set of Photoshop actions. More »


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Layersapp Lets You Take Screenshots As Layered PhotoShop Images

6:00AM June 5, 2011 | Alan Henry

Mac: Taking screenshots is easy, but editing them and removing items you don’t want seen in the final image can be difficult. With Layersapp, you can capture your desktop and all of the open windows and applications on it as layers that are editable in Photoshop. More »


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Adobe Photoshop Touch Apps Let You Fingerpaint On Your iPad

12:45AM May 11, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

iPad: Adobe’s three new Photoshop Touch apps are available for purchase from the App Store. Color Lava, Eazel and Nav interact with Photoshop CS5 on Windows or Mac, enhancing how you can interact with the program. More »