Learning Effects – Part 1

Learning Effects – Part 1

Learning Effects
[Please note: you can not use this tutorial for Elements 2. History states for all effects are concealed.]Before I ge …

Playing With Styles – Part 6

Playing With Styles – Part 6

Last, we’ll go ahead and combine Glass Buttons, with Complex styles and then add a Bevel on top of it all. Shown below is the the …

Using Palettes – Layers

Using Palettes – Layers

The Layers palette is where all the action takes place. From it, you can control the position and the appearance of all the data in you …

Playing With Styles – Part 5

Playing With Styles – Part 5

     Now, let’s try something a little more complicated. We’ll combine some of the Glass Button styles …

Playing With Styles – Part 4

Playing With Styles – Part 4

Clear the last style by clicking the Default Style button, and apply the Copper Tube and Negative styles to get the result shown below. …

Playing With Styles – Part 3

Playing With Styles – Part 3

Clear the last style, by clicking on the Default Style button, and try the Molten Gold style followed by the Brushed Metal style. Again …

Playing With Styles – Part 2

Playing With Styles – Part 2

Click the Layer Style palette tab to bring it to the front. If you can’t find the palette, choose Window Show Layer Styles. If th …

Using Palettes – Color

Using Palettes – Color

The Color palette provides an alternative way of choosing foreground and background colors to the Color Picker (Figure 3-8). In contras …

Using Palettes – Channels

Using Palettes – Channels

The Channels palette acts as a sort of container for the pixels in a layer. Each time you activate a layer; the channels associated wit …

Playing With Styles – Part 1

Playing With Styles – Part 1

     [The Ctrl-J shortcut for duplicating a layer or selection contents to a new layer is disabled in Elements 2. U …

Using Palettes – Brushes

Using Palettes – Brushes

While working in Photoshop, you will be hard put not to use the brush tools in an editing session. Most tasks require some form of pain …

Photoshop Elements Fade In

Photoshop Elements Fade In

     This is a continuation of the Holes tutorial. Though both use the same editing technique, that probably isn …

Holes

Holes

I get email all the time asking how to make one photo show through a hole or shape in another image. You should be able to figure this …

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 – part 4

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 R ...

Assigning Scratch Disks
Photoshop uses a temporary file for storing data and performing computations when there is insufficient RAM. It …

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 – part 3

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 R ...

Reducing Palette Thumbnail Size
Leaving the Preferences dialog for the time being, the palettes also have options that can affect perfo …

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 – part 2

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 R ...

Setting Preferences
Photoshop ships with factory settings, known more popularly as Preferences, sometimes shortened to Prefs, that you …

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 – part 1

Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2 R ...

Disabling Plug-ins
Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. The problem is that you may or may not ne …

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts – Tips & Resources

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts – Tips &# ...

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts – Tips & ResourcesIn this tutorial I’ll show you how to use Photoshop CS and CS2 to chang …

Why Layers (page 5)?

Why Layers (page 5)?

     To sharpen images, the Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask should always be your first choice. The sharpen t …

Why Layers (page 4)?

Why Layers (page 4)?

     Since I was happy with the Levels adjustment I had, and the clone corrections looked good, I wanted to merge t …