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Protecting your digital images from unauthorised usage Part 1

Protecting your hard work from unauthorised usage is of great importance to digital artists and photographers and there is many ways to effectively make your images viewable for approval, but almost unusable for anything else!



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Creating your own custom brushes

Creating your own brushes in Photoshop is simpler than you might think, and once you have created them they can always remain in your Photoshop arsenal ready to use at any time, ready to share with your fellow designers!



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Creating a low resolution image the quick way

When you have a very large layered file open and you want to save out a flattened file it can take a while, especially when you are working in a DTP/layout application (outside InDesign). Endless tweaks to the position of layers can add up to a long time waiting for files to save. This is also a great trick for producing low res approval images for clients.



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Sharpening seemingly unusable blurred images

There are times when an image is beyond rescue with Unsharp Mask, when its so out of focus it is bordering on creative, but your client insists that you use it!



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Aligning and distributing layers and elements easily

There are a number of times you need to align elements in a layered Photoshop document. Obviously this can be done manually with guides dropped into the document, but this is time consuming… And unnecessary!




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