Photography

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)

Design Effects

Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos. Continue Reading »

May 23rd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (49)

Wild West Grunge

Corey shows you how to recreate this rugged, weathered look using a couple of filters, blending modes, and layer masks. Continue Reading »

May 13th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (23)

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. Continue Reading »

April 11th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (35)

Dramatic Color Effects

How to jazz up your photos with dramatic color effects. Continue Reading »

February 8th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (10)

Photo to Drawing

Corey shows you how to create a drawing from a photo and blend the two. Continue Reading »

January 18th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (14)

Remove Noise

Corey shows a quick and easy way to remove noise from your photographs. Continue Reading »

January 4th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Photography, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (11)

5 Second Eye Enhancement

Here’s a super-simple technique for enhancing the most important bits of any portrait: the eyes. Continue Reading »

November 16th, 2006 | Lesa Snider | Correction, Photography, Tutorials | Comments (6)

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 »

June 20th, 2006 | Lesa Snider | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (2)

Photoshop CS includes the Crop and Straighten Photos feature. It enables you to scan a number of images at once and automatically separate that single scan into individual image files. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Adobe’s “Digital Negative” File Format

Adobe Systems, Inc. is on a crusade. The company wants to unify the concept of the “Raw” file format. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Explaining “Image Resolution” and View > Print Size

Clear your mind. Clear your head. Here’s a different way to consider the term “image resolution.” Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (3)

Resizing In Camera Raw

Photoshop’s Camera Raw includes a pop-up menu named Size that let’s you change the number of pixels in an image. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Rescuing Underexposed Images with Camera RAW

There are many, many reasons to love Photoshop CS’s Camera RAW plug-in. Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

Camera RAW Color Spaces

“Why do my RAW images look so much worse in Photoshop than they do in the Camera RAW preview window?” Continue Reading »

June 20th, 2006 | Pete Bauer | Photography, Tutorials | Comments (0)

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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.