The link to the Variations dialog box resides at the bottom of Photoshop's Adjustments drop-down menu. Maybe you've never ventured that far down the list to try it. But you might after seeing how easy it is to use. Variations is a helpful color correction tool that presents you with visual options and allows you to preview the results in realtime. In this video, Deke McClelland shows you how perform simple color correction quickly using this handy Photoshop tool.

This movie clip is from Deke's instructional DVD that's included with his best-selling book Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-on-One, a straightforward, step-by-step user's guide to Photoshop and the new features of CS2.

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Deke McClelland is a popular lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and the larger realm of computer graphics and design. He has hosted the interactive "Video Workshop" CD that shipped with Photoshop Versions 7, CS, and CS2, as well as hundreds of hours of tutorial-style video training for industry leaders lynda.com and Total Training. In addition to his video work, Deke has written 84 books translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in print. One of the most award-winning writers in the technology market, Deke received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book in 1989. Since then, he has garnered more than 20 honors, including seven independent citations from the Computer Press Association. In 2002, he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

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