January 10, 2012
Over the past decade or two, Adobe’s Photoshop image editing software has become a staple in the world of graphics and media. In fact, Photoshop’s popularity and usage is so widespread that the word “photoshop” has become a colloquial verb meaning to edit and touch up an image. Unfortunately, not every image that is put through Photoshop turns out well.
September 22, 2011
Occasionally, we all do something that’s a little fun with Photoshop that may or may not have a purpose on the future. So right now, I’m providing something that everyone can sit back, chill, and say “hey, I’ll try that!” So today, I’m going to teach you a little trick that I learned in high school while I was on newspaper staff.
September 12, 2011
Given the opportunity, who wouldn’t want to be better at Photoshop? It’s an amazingly useful image editor! Photoshop Elements 9 is like Photoshop albeit slightly more basic. It’s perfect for aspiring photographers and those interesting in image editing.
September 6, 2011
Contests challenge our primitive instincts. Who among us can deny that we are drawn to it if the contest is up our alley. If you do know your Photoshop then you should try your hand at some of the Photoshop contests that are regularly announced online. You will be up against the best and that’s actually the best way to learn. So, here are ten Photoshop contests that you should keep an eye on.
August 23, 2011
Basic graphic design tutorials are all pretty universal whether you are using Photoshop, the GIMP, or even Pixelmator. For instance, the ability to adapt to your image editor is going to be very flexible in this particular tutorial on YouTube, so aspiring graphic designers, have no fear if you do not own a full-blown Adobe image [...]
August 11, 2011
Since the invention of the camera, people have sought ways to preserve memories in the best way possible. First, we merely had the daguerreotypes, and then we decided framing better-quality photos might be a good idea. After that, we somehow eventually developed photo scrapbooks (let’s not forget Facebook, either). However, in the technological era, we have an even more advanced way to compose a family album.
August 3, 2011
Tilt Shift is that wonderful effect that makes your photographs look like model dioramas, and we’ve covered a few utilities to achieve the effect before. This time though, I want to show how you can do the same thing in Photoshop – and apart from giving you more freedom in the overall process, it’s a [...]
July 25, 2011
Maybe you’ve already tried out Twitbacks, or perhaps you just don’t like limiting yourself to an app such as PrettyTweet. You’re ready for the big dogs, and you want to design your own Twitter background in Photoshop. This how-to goes into the details of creating your very own Twitter background with the help of Photoshop.
June 10, 2011
Cinemagraphs are small animated GIF files created from a movie, that capture a tiny moving section of that movie in a forever looping sequence. See the sample to the left if you have no idea what I’m talking about, or check out Tim’s upcoming article on the 5 best blogs to find Cinemagraphs. Today I’m going to show you how to make your own from a movie file, using Photoshop CS5 Extended.
May 15, 2011
Ever since we first featured Pixelmator in March 2010, it has been improved in so many ways. It’s pretty much the affordable Photoshop alternative for Mac. We’re giving away 25 copies of the latest version of Pixelmator this week, worth almost $1,500 in total; and saying goodbye to GIMP.
