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You’ll be amazed how much faster you can fine tune your images with the new Adjustments and Masks Panel in Photoshop CS4. Julieanne Kost shows you how.

Sharpen the detail inside an image. Use the Smart Sharpen filter to exaggerate the difference between light and dark pixels and create a sharp edge. By Deke McClelland

January 18, 2009

When the National Portrait Gallery announced last week that it was acquiring Shepard Fairey's iconic image of Barack Obama, it marked a curious development for the Los Angeles-based artist, previously known for his ubiquitous Andre the Giant stickers, as well as high-style agitprop poster art.

Fairey's been around for a long time, but he's always operated below the mainstream radar; his work has adorned album covers and alternative weeklies, and it has been plastered on walls and billboar