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5 Second Eye Enhancement
Here’s a super-simple technique for enhancing the most important bits of any portrait: the eyes. Continue Reading »
Pick a New Picker
Put some spice into your Photoshop life and pick an alternate color picker! Did you know you could do that?
Weathered Words
Make your text look like it’s been around the block… or two! Call it weathered, grungy, or distressed, or what have you Continue Reading »
Quick Frame Effects
Here’s a couple of super quick frame effects to add a little burst of creativity to otherwise mundane photos. Continue Reading »
Colorizing a Grayscale Image
Adding color to a grayscale image is a neat little effect you see all over the place. Continue Reading »
Easy Partial Color, Pt. 1
As with most things in Photoshop, there are a thousand ways to do the same thing. Continue Reading »
Placing Text Behind an Object
Have you ever wanted to float a piece of text behind a portion of an image? Continue Reading »
Selecting Frizzy Hair
Does the thought of isolating (also referred to as “knocking out”) a person in a photo with big hair fill you with dread? Never fear for the Extract filter is here! Continue Reading »
Photos within Type, Part 2: Grungy Type
Continuing on with the Photos within Type tutorial series, here’s another fun effect to create: grungy type. Continue Reading »
Photos within Type, Part 1
Ever wonder how designers are able to place an image inside text? Continue Reading »
Photoshop Tutorials
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Wild West Grunge
Corey shows you how to recreate this rugged, weathered look using a couple of filters, blending modes, and layer masks.
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Wall of Text
Use a clipping group to place an image inside of a background of text, with another layer of text placed in front to create depth.
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Natural Brushes
In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it’s own custom brush.
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Custom Coins
In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter.
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. - Natural Brushes
In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it's own custom brush.
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Creative Contrast in Photoshop CS3
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some interesting techniques for improving contrast using the Shadow/Highlight command, empty adjustment layers, blend modes, and the Blend If sliders in the Layer Style dialog. -
Enhanced Workflow in Lightroom 1.1
In this article, we'll focus on techniques that will strengthen your workflow skills and simultaneously reveal some of the new features in Lightroom 1.1. -
Handlin’ Photoshop and Illustrator Content in Flash
we’ll take a look at how things work across Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash-specifically, some features and techniques for getting rasterized Photoshop content and vector Illustrator content into your Flash movies. -
Understanding Channels in Photoshop CS3
Photographer Chris Alvanas wants to go over Channels, because understanding what they are and what they do is key to understanding what their potential is.
Removing Those Typographically Incorrect Spaces
If you’re trying to set type that looks typographically correct in Photoshop, there’s an old habit you’ll have to break, and that’s the curse of putting two spaces at the end of every sentence. This is a holdover from people who at one time used traditional typewriters, where adding two spaces was necessary, but in typesetting that’s a huge no-no. About 70% of the text I copy-and-paste from text files that people give me has two spaces, but I use this Photoshop tip to fix the problem in just seconds. First, go under the Edit menu and choose Find and Replace Text. In the Find field, press the Spacebar twice (entering two spaces), then in Change To, press the Spacebar just once. Click Change All, and every time Photoshop finds two spaces at the end of a sentence, it will replace it with just one, making you typographically correct.
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