video tutorials

Blow Up 2: Overview

Watch this video to find out how Blow Up 2 can take care of all your image resizing needs.

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Blow Up 2: Getting Started with the Settings Tab

Before you run Blow Up 2 for the first time, watch this video to see how the factory settings can handle common tasks.

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Blow Up 2: Getting Started with the Controls Tab

Before you run Blow Up 2 for the first time, watch this video to see how to manually set the output size, sharpening, and move the crop area.

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Image Doctor 2: Skin Softener

Jim shows how to smooth red bumpy skin using the Skin Softener filter in Image Doctor. To see some before/after examples of Image Doctor results, go here. [size: 17.88mb]

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Image Doctor 2: Smart Fill

Here Jim removes unwanted objects from an otherwise nice shot. To see some before/after examples of Image Doctor results, go here. [size: 7.33mb]

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Exposure 2: Overview

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Exposure 2: Velvia

Jim uses the Fuji Velvia 50 setting in Exposure to give some extra punch to the moss in this photo. You can see more Exposure examples here. [size: 9.93mb]

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Xenofex 2: Little Fluffy Clouds

Jim hates white skies! Here he shows how to fake a blue sky using the Little Fluffy Clouds filter in Xenofex 2. You can see more Xenofex examples here. [size: 19.57mb]

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Exposure 2

• See how the built-in Fuji Velvia setting enhances a macro shot of a flower.
• Convert from color to black & white (includes three new settings).
• Download an assortment of extra funky settings
• Download a bunch of new settings that look like film negatives.
• Download a setting used by Francis Hills in his Studio Photography article.

Snap Art

• The author of Snap Art, Tom Welsh, shows how to get much better results with the Pencil Sketch and Pen & Ink filters.
• Tom Welsh gives advice on printing the works of art you've made with Snap Art. He wrote the product, so listen up!
• Tom Welsh shows how to quickly make portraits that are abstract in the background and detailed in the face.
• Download a bunch of new settings. Most of these show extra detail because they use small brush sizes.
• Jim White shows how to get the thick paint look with the Impasto filter. He starts with a nice shot of a fern.
• Our friend Taran Morgan shows how to soften the Impasto filter.

Blow Up

• Start Blow Up (or any filter) with a single key

Image Doctor 2

• Here is a video of the Smart Fill filter made by Allen Rockwell for the Digital Photography podcast.
• The author of Image Doctor, Tom Welsh, shows how to touch up skin with the Skin Softener filter. Check this out before you use this filter!
• Download and install these Photoshop actions to make some shortcut keys. This makes cleaning up a lot of little scratches less tedious.

Xenofex 2

• Jim White shows how to make a blown out white sky look more natural using the Little Fluffy Clouds filter.
• See how to make a poster look like it's old and peeling.

All three of the Eye Candy 5 products
(Impact, Nature, and Textures)

• You can save your own settings in any of the three Eye Candy 5 products.
• Here is how to e-mail settings to your friends. This works in all three of the Eye Candy 5 products.

Eye Candy 5 Impact

• Make pretty glass buttons, kind of like the Aqua interface.
• Turn a logo into slick chrome.
• Turn another logo into chrome. It's an alien license plate!
• Use chrome with an orange reflection map on text.
• Make 3-D gears with the Star, Extrude, and Brushed Metal filters.
• Add motion trails to sports photos.
• Download some extra settings for Eye Candy 5 Impact.
• Use multiple lights with the Bevel filter.
• Creepy Green Halloween Text
• Cut out text in a photo using the Shadow filter to add depth.

Eye Candy 5 Nature

• Add sparkles to text with the Squint filter.

Eye Candy 5 Textures

• Download more settings for the filters in Eye Candy 5 Textures.
• Use the Animal Fur filter to make cool patterns in the Reptile Skin filter.
• Here is a stylized painterly effect you can get with the Swirl filter.
• You can make seamlessly repeating tiles with most of the filters in Textures.