Tutorials

Scale Effects

Now this is something that still seems to stump people in Photoshop when it come to Layer Styles. Continue Reading »

October 10th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tools, Tutorials | Comments (2)

Energize That Photo

Learn how to add excitement and energy to your photo in just a few simple steps. Continue Reading »

October 5th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (13)

Design Elements from Photos

Here is a cool way to use parts of you photos as abstract design elements. Continue Reading »

September 28th, 2008 | Web Editor | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (16)

Vector Mask

Corey shows you how to use a vector mask to pull objects from their background. Continue Reading »

September 21st, 2008 | Corey Barker | Tools, Tutorials | Comments (11)

Fire Brushes

After creating a brush pattern from a stock image of a horse, Corey applies a layer style consisting of outer and inner glows Continue Reading »

September 12th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tools, Tutorials | Comments (46)

Lighting Effects

Corey jazzed up this photo by making a custom brush and applying an outer glow layer style to create the repeating patterns Continue Reading »

August 25th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (34)

Pin-up Effect

Using a mixture of filters and blending modes, Corey takes a stock photo and transforms it into an old, classic 1950’s pin-up poster. Continue Reading »

August 15th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials | Comments (32)

Embossed Glass Logo

Instead of using a displacement map, here’s another method for taking a custom file and distorting it to match a background image. Continue Reading »

August 8th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials | Comments (18)

Sci-Fi Text Effect

Corey stumbled upon this effect while experimenting with the smudge tool and its finger painting feature. Start off by Continue Reading »

August 1st, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (45)

Blending and Type Tips

In this design, Corey had set out to blend a large body of text with a silhouetted shape. After some experimenting Continue Reading »

July 29th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (15)

Crumpled Paper

This crumpled paper effect starts with designing a piece of notebook paper and then applying a displacement map Continue Reading »

July 16th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (23)

Pirate Text

The steps for creating this pirate text effect start with converting a text layer into paths in order to reshape Continue Reading »

July 3rd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (17)

Background Animation

In this tutorial, Corey creates an animated background using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. Continue Reading »

June 27th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (29)

Logo Design

Corey recreates a video game logo by building a grid background and circular target using the define pattern Continue Reading »

June 13th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (22)

Stylized Comic Book Effect

Using this effect, you can transform anyone into a comic book character with a halftone, saturated look. Continue Reading »

June 6th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (44)

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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.

Scale Effects

Now this is something that still seems to stump people in Photoshop when it come to Layer Styles.
Energize That Photo

Learn how to add excitement and energy to your photo in just a few simple steps.
Design Elements from Photos

Here is a cool way to use parts of you photos as abstract design elements.
Vector Mask

Corey shows you how to use a vector mask to pull objects from their background.

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.