Helpful Tips for Beginners

Helpful Tips for Beginners
In this tutorial we’ll list 10 really useful techniques and shortcuts for Photoshop beginners. Th …

Viewing Image Information in Photoshop

Viewing Image Information
In this tutorial we’re going to show you some quick and easy ways to find out information about your im …

Using the Photoshop Type Tool

Using the Photoshop 5 Type Tool
This tutorial explores the features and uses of Photoshop 5.5′s type tool. Photoshop 6 uses a dif …

Introduction to Layers

Introduction to Layers
This beginner’s tutorial explains the concept of layers in Photoshop. Layers are a very powerful tool for …

Easy Multicoloring

All you need is a picture you want to multi-color already made (usually I’d have a full sig done before multicoloring, but for no …

Creating Path-Based Objects in Photoshop

For this example, we’re going to create a simple window frame–just six rectangles–and we’re going to start by u …

Shadow/Highlight inside Photoshop CS part 1

The Shadow/Highlight function, I’m told, comes to use via the same engineering team that developed the Healing Bush tool that deb …

Shadow/Highlight inside Photoshop CS part 2

 With the Highlight value, the same rules apply, so there’s no need to go into those. The next parameter down, Color Correct …

Automating Image Mergers in Photoshop CS2

Creating the actionIn order to create our action, we’re simply going to do everything we did in the previous installment in this …

Create Photoshop Montage

Using Photomerge to create photo montages
If you are using Photoshop CS2, chances are you didn’t realize there was a handy featur …

Basic Pattern Usage

 Create a new transparent document…With these settings:You should have something like this:Maximize the small window, and put th …

Text tools in Adobe Photoshop

If you’re anything like me, you don’t like the default text of Adobe Photoshop. You like a lot of space between your text a …

Feel the Color Burn

Again, let’s start with the Photoshop description of Color Burn: Color Burn: Looks at the color information in each channel and d …

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The Magic Eraser Technique

The Magic Eraser tool (hold down the Eraser icon in the toolbar to access it) allows you to erase pixels th …

Color Dodge Blend Mode

You may have caught on by now that Photoshop has “opposite” blend modes: Darken vs. Lighten, Multiply vs. Screen, and Color or Line …

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The Background Eraser Technique

The Background Eraser Tool (again, hold down the Eraser tool to access this option) is meant to be use …

Vivid Light Blending Mode

Photoshop’s describes Vivid Light blending mode as combining the effects of Color Dodge and Color Burn modes like this: Vivid Lig …

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The Extract Technique
As with the Background Eraser technique, it’s a smart idea to set the source for the History Brush early in …

Hue Blending Mode in Photoshop

The Hue Blend mode is pretty straightforward: Hue Mode: Creates a result color with the luminance and saturation of the base color and …

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The Quick Mask Technique
If you’ve never used Quick Mask mode in Photoshop, you’re missing out on a huge time-saver! Quick …