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“Hand-drawn” Circle
When preparing a tutorial, a screenshot for a book or magazine article, or an illustration for a technical document, it’s not uncommon to identify a critical area with a circle or a square. Continue Reading »
Editing a Drop Shadow
Sometimes a drop shadow needs to fall on only part of the layer or layers below. Continue Reading »
Creating and Duplicating a Layer Mask
It sounds easy, doesn’t it? Duplicate one layer’s layer mask on another layer. It is easy but only if you know the technique. A layer mask is a channel that determines the visibility of the content of that particular layer. Continue Reading »
Red Eye Reduction with Photoshop CS2
There are almost as many ways to minimize red eye using Photoshop as there are people using Photoshop. Continue Reading »
Layer “Interlacing” - Weaving Layer Content
Sometimes you need to make it appear that the content of one layer appears both in front of and behind another layer. Continue Reading »
A New Painterly Effect
There are lots of ways to make a photograph look like a painting. Here’s another one that simulates painted strokes by blurring dark areas of the image and sharpening lighter areas. Continue Reading »
Extending the Sky
More often than not, a digital photograph isn’t shaped to fit your picture frame. Most digital images have an aspect ratio of 3:2, while common picture frames are 5:4 (4×5″ and 8×10″) or 7:5 (5×7″). Continue Reading »
“Pipe” Background
An interesting background effect, suitable perhaps for a Web interface or layering for a “Eurocollage” image, can be created by separating elements of a black-white-black gradient to individual layers, then using reversed bevels. Continue Reading »
Create Water Effect
Fill a swimming pool with water in seconds! Well, create the appearance of a swimming pool filled with water in Photoshop in just four steps. Continue Reading »
Rainy Days Are Here Again
The mode of an image can be completely changed by adding rain. Whether a driving storm or a few drips, it takes just a few steps to produce perfect precipitation. Continue Reading »
Quick and Fun Backgrounds
Using a gradient and the Render> Difference Clouds filter, we can quickly create a number of different types of backgrounds. Continue Reading »
Warhol-esque 4-color
Photoshop makes it easy to create a single image that contains different versions of the same original. In this example, we’ll borrow a page from Andy Warhol and create four different monotone versions of a photograph, combined into a single image. Continue Reading »
From Brunette to Blond
Changing hair color is often simply a matter of adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. However, when the hair needs substantial lightening, such as when converting from brunette to blond, the Selective Color command may be more effective. Continue Reading »
Square to Round: Easy Spheres
It’s simple to convert a square picture to a round picture by simply making a circular selection and adding a mask. Continue Reading »
Copying Between Images of Different Size
It’s happened to most of us at one time or another. We drag a layer from the layers palette to the window of another image to copy it and –surprise!– it’s WAY too big. Here’s a way to make sure that doesn’t happen again. Continue Reading »
Photoshop Tutorials
Design Effects
Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos.
Stylized Comic Book Effect
Using this effect, you can transform anyone into a comic book character with a halftone, saturated look.
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.
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Halftone Smudge Brush
Here is an unusual way of using the Smudge tool to generate interesting halftone streaks.
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Scale Effects
Now this is something that still seems to stump people in Photoshop when it come to Layer Styles.
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Energize That Photo
Learn how to add excitement and energy to your photo in just a few simple steps.
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Design Elements from Photos
Here is a cool way to use parts of you photos as abstract design elements.
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Acrobat 9 PDF Security
In this tutorial, learn about applying and removing security options in Acrobat 9 -
Flash Video the Easy Way, Pt. 3
Tom Green demonstrates how to embed a Flash document into a Dreamweaver document and play it on a browser using the Insert>Flash Video menu in Dreamweaver. -
Premiere Pro CS4 Nest Command
In this video, Franklin McMahon uses Premiere Pro CS4 to create a nested sequence and then overlay it over a backdrop. -
Roundtrip Logo From Illustrator to Photoshop
Dave Cross creates some grungy text using graphics with a texture image.
Imageready’s Supercharged Eyedropper
In previous versions of Photoshop, you could only use the Eyedropper tool to sample a color from other open images in Photoshop, but for some reason, ImageReady had a supercharged Eyedropper. If you clicked the mouse button within your image and held it down, you could leave your image window and sample colors from, well… just about anything—including your computer desktop or any other open application. Freaky! Fortunately, Adobe finally added this same power to Photoshop’s Eyedropper tool.
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