Videos

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 (40)

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 (21)

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 (16)

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 (27)

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 (21)

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 (43)

Stage Lights

Learn how to make these smoky stage lights by creating a gradient selection in quick mask mode Continue Reading »

May 30th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (39)

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 (46)

Space Background

Corey replicates the Planet Photoshop background by demonstrating how to create the star field and the nebulous clouds. Continue Reading »

May 20th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (40)

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 (22)

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. Continue Reading »

May 2nd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (26)

Natural Brushes

In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it’s own custom brush. Continue Reading »

April 25th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (10)

Custom Coins

In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter. Continue Reading »

April 18th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tools, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (22)

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 (32)

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Photoshop Tutorials

Lighting Effects

Corey jazzed up this photo by making a custom brush and applying an outer glow layer style to create the repeating patterns
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.
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.
Sci-Fi Text Effect

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

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.
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.

Blend Tool Revisited
Corey's tutorial is about using Illustrator's blend tool to create some really interesting design effects.
HD Video in Flash Professional CS3
Flash CS3 Professional offers users a quick way to get HD content onto their web pages.
Managing Bookmarks in Acrobat
Rearrange and organize your bookmarks, as well as force the bookmarks panel open when someone opens the PDF.
Smokey Type Effect in After Effects
Type animation is one of the most wonderful functions to play with in After Effects, especially since version 6 introduced actual text character animation control.

Will More RAM Make Photoshop Run Faster?

Problem: You added more RAM to your system and assigned more RAM to Photoshop, but it doesn’t seem to run any faster. Reason: Adding RAM doesn’t always make Photoshop run faster. It only works if you didn’t have enough RAM to begin with. Adding RAM will only help to make your computer run as fast as it can, but it won’t make your 800-MHz computer run at 801 MHz. For example, if you work on Web images and the average image you work on is 3 MB, you only need about 15 or 20 MB assigned to Photoshop to have it run at full speed. If you’ve got that, and add another 256 MB of RAM, Photoshop won’t run any faster, because Photoshop only needs that 15 or 20 MB that you already had. Freaky. To check your RAM usage, go under the Photoshop menu, under Preferences, and choose Memory & Image Cache (on a Windows PC, Preferences are under the Edit menu).