Resources

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.
Natural Brushes

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

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

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.
Custom Coins
In this tutorial Corey creates a realistic-looking coin effect using the channels palette and the lighting effects filter.
Natural Brushes
In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it's own custom brush.

Animated Zoom Blur in Flash CS3
In this tutorial, we’ll combine Flash CS3 with Photoshop CS3 to create a similar zoom-blur effect on a photo.
Black and White Toning in Photoshop CS3
In this tutorial I describe color toning of a black and white image using tools available within Photoshop CS3
Enhanced Workflow in Lightroom 1.1
In this article, we'll focus on techniques that will strengthen your workflow skills and simultaneously reveal some of the new features in Lightroom 1.1.
When HTML Goes Bad
This column focuses on how to edit (and clean up) HTML code, which is a useful skill even if you don’t use Photoshop

Making The Spell Checker Obey Your Commands

Photoshop’s spell checker isn’t just window dressing; it has a very robust spell-checking function, akin to Adobe InDesign’s own spell checker, but if you understand how it works, you can save yourself some time and frustration. Basically, if you highlight some text on a layer, it checks just the highlighted text, so if you highlight one word, it just checks that one word (even if there are dozens of words in your paragraph). If you choose to spell check but don’t have anything highlighted, it checks your entire document, regardless of how many Type layers you have. It’s also helpful to know that it only checks real Type layers (layers that have a capital “T” as their thumbnail image in the Layers palette), and it cannot spell-check any layers with text that have been rasterized (converted from a Type layer into a regular image layer).