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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 »
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 »
Quick Painting
This week I’ll show you a quick way to turn your photos into a line art drawing. Continue Reading »
Creating A CD in Photoshop
This week we are going to look at how to draw a CD. We will be using the new opacity options on the layer palette. Continue Reading »
Fun With Faces
Even though I’m ‘into’ crazy effects, for a long time I considered the liquify tool to be pretty useless. Some times it just takes awhile for things to sink in. After some work with the tool, I’ve revised that opinion and now love to liquify. 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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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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Vector Mask
Corey shows you how to use a vector mask to pull objects from their background.
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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
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Bookmark Interactivity in Adobe Acrobat
Open links, play sounds, import data, and much more using your Acrobat bookmarks. -
Flash Video the Easy Way
In this three-part video series, Tom Green demonstrates the three ways to get Flash video up on the web using Flash CS3 and Dreamweaver. -
Flash Video the Easy Way, Pt. 2
Tom Green demonstrates how to embed a Flash document into a Dreamweaver document and play it on a browser. -
Mapping Photos to 3D Objects in Illustrator
Here's a tutorial about mapping artwork to 3D objects in Adobe Illustrator CS3.
Getting To The Hexadecimal Code
As you may know, there are hexadecimal codes for the colors used in webpages. Not only does Photoshop know these hexadecimal codes, it can extract them from an image and let you paste them into your HTML code editor. First, press the letter I to switch to the Eyedropper tool, and then hold the Control key (PC: Right-click) and click on a color within your image. A contextual menu will appear where you can choose Copy Color as HTML. Now you can switch to your HTML editor and choose Paste to copy the HTML code into your app.
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