Photoshop Basics Tutorials

Multiply Mode in Photoshop

Well, the answer actually depends on the value (lightness/darkness) of the red and green used, when you’re dealing with Multiply …

Photoshop’s Linear Light

The Linear Light blending mode is a combination of Linear Burn and Linear Dodge—but similar to Vivid Light, the combination gives sli …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Saturation Blend Mode in Photoshop

We’re in the home stretch of the Photoshop Blending Modes series (good heavens, that means I have to come up with more topics to …

Color Blend Mode in Photoshop

The Color Blend Mode in Photoshop takes the “grey levels” of the base color and colors them with the blend color: Color Blend Mode: …

Photoshop’s Luminosity Mode

Photoshop says this about the Luminosity Mode: Creates a result color with the hue and saturation of the base color and the luminance o …

Copying Layer Styles in Photoshop

I just learned a new trick!!
I’ll explain my “old way” of doing things first.
Let’s say you have a layer in Photoshop a …

Photoshop Tool Basics

I decided to start at the beginning. The very beginning. For those people who just “picked up” a copy of Photoshop and have …

Halftone custom photoshop shape

This tutorial is going to show you a way to create halftone custom adobe Photoshop shapes. These shapes can be used in many design proj …

Exploiting Filters part 1

Hacking Filters
There are literally thousands of Photoshop filters that you can purchase or download for free from the Internet. The fi …

Exploiting Filters part 2

Placing a Lens Flare PreciselyThe Lens Flare filter lets you simulate flares caused by light sources shining directly into the camera l …

Layer effects

Layer effects was new in Photoshop 5 and makes a lot of third party plugins unnecessary. Here’s a brief overwiev of these effects …

Editing, Transforming, and Retouching Images p ...

Extracting Image Content from Backgrounds
Every day, content is extracted from its background on thousands of workstations around the g …

Using the Toolbar

For the following please refer to the picture above to identify the location of the function on the tool-bar. Marquee Tool The marquee …

Hacking Preferences and Documents part 2

Specifying Default Resolution for New Preset Documents
When you create a new preset for a custom document size in the File>New dialo …

Hacking Preferences and Documents part 3

Comparing Documents for Differences
Sometimes you need to compare two files that might look identical when opened but that you suspect …

Hacking Preferences and Documents part 4

Saving Files
You would think that saving files would be dead easy: Select Save and click OK. If only it were that simple. There are a f …

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