With the release of Photoshop CS5, Bridge is still a separate program, but Adobe has introduced a brand new feature known as Mini Bridge, a new panel in Photoshop that acts sort of like a window between Photoshop and Bridge, allowing us to view and access our images in Bridge without needing to switch to it! With Mini Bridge, we can navigate to the folder that contains the image(s) we need, preview all the images in the folder, and open the ones we want without ever leaving Photoshop! Of course, the word "Mini" in its name is a clue that Mini Bridge was not meant as a replacement for the full version of Bridge. There's many advanced features in Adobe Bridge CS5, like rating and labeling photos and adding them to collections, that are not available to us in Mini Bridge. But for simply locating, previewing and opening images, the new Mini Bridge really shines.


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In this photo effects tutorial, we'll learn how to quickly and easily add rays of sunlight to an image with Photoshop Elements 8! This tutorial is also fully compatible with Photoshop Elements 9.


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In this photo effects tutorial, we'll learn how to easily convert a portrait photo into a pencil sketch with Photoshop. The initial sketch will appear in black and white, but at the end of the tutorial, we'll learn how to colorize it with the photo's original colors! In the next tutorial, we'll learn a slightly different way to convert an image into a sketch, one that's usually better suited for objects or landscape photos.


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By the end of this tutorial, you'll know how to create the entire sketch effect from beginning to end in 60 seconds or less! We'll be using Photoshop CS5 throughout this tutorial but any recent version will work.


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In this tutorial, we'll look at how we can use much of what we've already learned to create fun and interesting repeating patterns from Photoshop's custom shapes! Let's get started!


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In this photo effects tutorial, we'll learn how to quickly and easily add rays of sunlight to an image with Photoshop! We'll be using Photoshop CS5 throughout this tutorial but any recent version will work.


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In this tutorial, we'll learn the basics of making and using simple repeating patterns in Photoshop. We're just going to cover the essential steps here to get things started, but once you understand how repeating patterns work and how easy they are to create, you'll quickly discover on your own that there's virtually no limit to their creative potential in your designs, whether you're building a simple background for a scrapbook or web page or using them as part of a more complex effect. We'll be using Photoshop CS5 here, but the steps apply to any recent version of Photoshop.


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In today's Photoshop tutorial we will take a pattern and learn how to fill it with color, using fairly easy techniques. The result is definitely worth spending a few minutes to complete the work. See for yourself!


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In this tutorial we'll look at another new feature in Photoshop CS5 - Content-Aware Fill. It's no coincidence that both of these new features share similar names, since they do pretty much the same thing. The main difference is in how we use them.


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In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll look at one of the most amazing and time saving photo retouching tools available, the Spot Healing Brush, the first of three image "healing" tools in Photoshop. The Spot Healing Brush was first introduced in Photoshop CS2 and, like the other two healing tools (the standard Healing Brush and the Patch Tool), it's essentially a texture replacement tool, meaning that it tries to create a seamless repair by replacing damaged or unwanted texture from one area in an image with good texture from another area, without changing the problem area's original color or brightness values. What makes the Spot Healing Brush so amazing and fast is that it does this with almost no effort from us!


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