Learning Effects
[Please note: you can not use this tutorial for Elements 2. History states for all effects are concealed.]Before I ge …
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 …
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 …
Now, let’s try something a little more complicated. We’ll combine some of the Glass Button styles …
Clear the last style by clicking the Default Style button, and apply the Copper Tube and Negative styles to get the result shown below. …
Clear the last style, by clicking on the Default Style button, and try the Molten Gold style followed by the Brushed Metal style. Again …
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 …
The Color palette provides an alternative way of choosing foreground and background colors to the Color Picker (Figure 3-8). In contras …
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 …
[The Ctrl-J shortcut for duplicating a layer or selection contents to a new layer is disabled in Elements 2. U …
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 …
This is a continuation of the Holes tutorial. Though both use the same editing technique, that probably isn …
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 …
Assigning Scratch Disks
Photoshop uses a temporary file for storing data and performing computations when there is insufficient RAM. It …
Reducing Palette Thumbnail Size
Leaving the Preferences dialog for the time being, the palettes also have options that can affect perfo …
Setting Preferences
Photoshop ships with factory settings, known more popularly as Preferences, sometimes shortened to Prefs, that you …
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 & ResourcesIn this tutorial I’ll show you how to use Photoshop CS and CS2 to chang …
To sharpen images, the Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask should always be your first choice. The sharpen t …
Since I was happy with the Levels adjustment I had, and the clone corrections looked good, I wanted to merge t …