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Rick teaches you fun and easy ways to add awesome effects, quick corrections and creative variations to your photographs. Learn to Straighten a Horizon, quick Retouching, Sharpening and Saturation, add a fast action Motion Blur, make Duotones and more!

Lesson 1 : Drab to Fab
Bring Lackluster images to life using Levels and Photoshop CS’s Warming Filter. See how removing seeming minor elements in a scene can improve a photograph.
Lesson 2 : Transform a Landscape
Use the Measure Tool to straighten the horizon line and Curves to dramatically increase the color and contrast of an image.
Lesson 3 : Save the Shot
See how to save an out-of-focus shot by applying filters creatively and learn why fading a filter can open unlimited creative options.
Lesson 4 : Quick Retouching
Learn how to remove dust and scratches with the Dust & Scratches filter. Learn the right way to sharpen and blur selective parts of a picture and why the sharpest shot is not always the one.
Lesson 5 : Seeing and Fixing Light
This full-featured lesson takes you through Curves, Layers, Actions, Erasing, Opacity, Unsharp Mask and Hue Saturation. After this one, you will see and photograph the world differently.
Lesson 6 : Sharpening and Saturation
Selection is key when working in Photoshop CS. Learn how to adjust sharpen and adjust the saturation of individual parts of an image using Layers.
Lesson 7 : Add Fast Action
With a few clicks of your mouse (or taps on your Wacom tablet) learn how to add a sense of fast motion to an image using the Motion Blur filter.
Lesson 8 : Add Subtle Movement
Learn how to create the effect of subtle subject movement using the Motion Blur filter – the same effect you’d get by using slow shutter speeds in-camera.
Lesson 9 : Let’s Go For a Spin
Combine the Radial Blur filter with Layers and selective erasing, and add motion to an image that would take a professional photographer many exposures to get right.
Lesson 10 : Creative Zooming
Professional photographers create a unique effect by zooming during a long exposures when their cameras are set on a tripod. Take the guesswork out of this technique, and have total control.
Lesson 11 : Aging with Actions
The Aged Photo Action is cool, but see what happens when you apply Curves and a vign ette. Also learn about Feathering.
Lesson 12 : Awaken the Artist
See how easy it is to turn a snapshot into an art shot using the Art History Brush.
Lesson 13 : Exploring Duotones
See show Duotones, Tritones and Quadtones offer even more creative possibilities for the artistic photographer. Lean how Curves can take you even further.
Lesson 14 : Creative Variations
See why using Film Grain, Angled Strokes, Hue/Saturation combined with Layer erasing are only the start of the endless variations available in Photoshop CS.