Mastering Photoshop’s Blending Modes
Blending modes are both a mystery and a source of great design power. Each blending mode controls how one layer’s pixels are affected by those in another layer (or by a tool from the Tools [More]
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Digital Diffusion with Photoshop
Following on from last month’s tutorial on Recreating Lith Grain, I’m going to show you how to recreate another darkroom effect in Photoshop. The effect were’re recreating, diffusing the [More]
Photoshop Elements 9 –The Missing Manual
There were a few things that went through my mind when I held the Elements 9 box in my hand; Why would I want to use it if I already had Photoshop CS5 on the computer? Isn’t Elements just Photoshop [More]
Using The Histogram and Curves in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at one of my favourite tricks for improving photographic contrast more quickly and more accurately, using the Histogram sliders in Curves. This technique [More]
Photoshop a Holiday Card 2010 Part 1
For this year’s holiday card, I figured we try something a little tougher. Sometimes when looking through your family photos to find the perfect one for a card, you realize that instead of one [More]
Half-Sketch Half-Photo Morph with Photoshop
Today’s tip comes to you courtesy of my wife, Carol, who liked the image you see below well enough to hang it on a wall in our house. That’s saying a lot to me, since I have over 30,000 images in [More]
Changing the Background Colour with Photoshop
For this tutorial I want to share a couple of techniques with you for changing the look and colour in the background of your photographs. These are techniques that I employed recently when I decided [More]
Page Curl Effect with Photoshop
I love Photoshop for many reasons. One of those reasons is the huge number of filters, effects and actions that come built in as standard. Great as Photoshop is, there are a few things that Adobe [More]
Day into Night with Photoshop
Here’s a fun effect and a way to change perspective on reality… using Photoshop adjustments to turn day into night. The difference is mostly a matter of temperature and illumination, after [More]
Photoshop’s Black and White Adjustment Layer
In this post, author Richard Harrington shows us how to use the Black and White Adjustment layer for a combination of effects, including on colour images. Richard Harrington on [More]
Recreating Lith Grain in Photoshop
This week I’m going to show you how to recreate a black & white effect that was all the rage back in the day when I used to spend hours stuck in a darkroom straining over a hot [More]
Photoshop Exploding Text (Sort Of)
I’d like to continue my TS tutorials with a text effect I like, its fairly simple but looks effective. Step 1. We start by making a 1000×1000 pixel document – we have to have a square [More]
Zoomify your Panoramas in Photoshop
Over the past few version updates, Adobe has given us a Photoshop capable of creating some magnificent large images using the Merge to Panorama feature. Creating these images can give you quite a [More]
Photoshop Shortcut Crossword
So, you think you know the Photoshop shortcuts eh? After the popular feedback for A Little Photoshop Multi Choice Quiz and Another Multi-choice Photoshop Quiz I thought I’d put together another [More]
Creative Effects with Photoshop’s Liquify Filter – Pt 2
In the second instalment of the “fun with Liquify” series, Dan focuses on brush parameters and useful masking options to help ‘carve’ a Halloween Jack-o-Lantern.There’s also a few [More]
