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Photoshop Vector Shapes
Last week, Alexandro Colorado emailed me asking why Photoshop creates a mask when making shapes with the shape tool. I told him that I would explain the reason why the best I could. Continue Reading »
Using Quick Masks
Quick masks are a handy little Photoshop- feature that many people don’t even know about. Continue Reading »
Creating A Mask Over Multiple Layers
A layer mask is great for creating masks for a single layer. Continue Reading »
The Power of Hue and Saturation Adjustment
I have been using the Hue and Saturation Adjustment tools that Photoshop provides for a long time. Continue Reading »
Strange Brushes
Photoshop uses pixels to display graphics. Bits of light and darkness that make a map of the image. Continue Reading »
Your Pen Tool
If you are new to Photoshop, you hate the pen tool. If you have been using Photoshop for awhile, you love it. Why is this? Well, let me show you a few tips that might help you fall in love with your pen tool. Continue Reading »
Cloning Stamp Magic
If you do any Photoshop work at all, you’ll know how often clients ask you to do the impossible. Can you get rid of those leaves in the background? Continue Reading »
Colorizing Photographs
You know sometimes you just don’t want that photo you took to be a plain, old snapshot. Continue Reading »
Color Theory 101, Part 4
So we have been talking about color right? Big deal, who cares? Well you do, if you want to present effective graphics. Continue Reading »
Color Theory 101, Part 3
Ok, so we have now talked about colors that are similar. Now let’s talk about colors that are disimilar. Continue Reading »
Color Theory 101, Part 2
Last week we began talking about color theory and we discussed analogous color. Let’s talk about this more. Continue Reading »
Color Theory 101, Part 1
You may never think about color when you design. You may just think what looks good is what is good. Continue Reading »
What Color Depth to use for the Web
I have always struggled with what color palette to use when working for the web. Continue Reading »
Perspective Text
Let’s say you want to create some text that looks as though it is disappearing off into the distance. If you notice, you cannot transform text with perspective transform function. Continue Reading »
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Photoshop Tutorials
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Crumpled Paper
This crumpled paper effect starts with designing a piece of notebook paper and then applying a displacement map
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Pirate Text
The steps for creating this pirate text effect start with converting a text layer into paths in order to reshape
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Background Animation
In this tutorial, Corey creates an animated background using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended.
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Logo Design
Corey recreates a video game logo by building a grid background and circular target using the define pattern
Text Shape Layers
Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.
Borders Under a Minute
Create really cool borders in under a minute to use on virtually any one of your photos or even video for that matter.
Custom Coins
In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter.
Design Effects
Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos.
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Create Stunning Black-and-White Images in Lightroom
There are many reasons why I thoroughly enjoy using Lightroom, and near the top of my list is creating black-and-white images. -
Design Makeover
Our designers help a publisher cook up a more professional brochure -
Flash Buttons with Action Script 3
In this tutorial, RC covers how to create buttons that call to urls using Action Script 3. -
Turn Down the Noise in Photoshop CS3
In this tutorial we’ll take a look at various techniques for dealing with noise.
Once You’re In CMYK Mode, Stay There
You’ve read some techniques in this chapter that require you to be in either RGB mode or Lab Color mode; however, if for any reason your image is already in CMYK mode, do not (I repeat, do not) convert to RGB or Lab mode for any reason. Once you’ve converted to CMYK mode, the data loss from the conversion has already occurred, and switching back to RGB mode won’t bring back those lost colors. What’s worse is, if you switch from CMYK to RGB (or Lab), when you convert back to CMYK mode, you’ll go through another CMYK conversion and damage your image even more. The moral of this story is-once you’re in CMYK mode, stay there.
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