The good people at Room122 have released a useful brush set titled “Watercolor and Salt.” It turns out that watercolors do some “interesting things when caked with salt.” Price – FREE Go and get it…
Continue reading...18. November 2009
I love Thanksgiving. Time off, family, food, friends, and cooler weather just rub me in all the right ways. The good folks over at Tutorial9 have put together a November treat that is very worthy of downloading. The pack includes 5 seasonally-themed icons that you can use in your personal and commercial projects – [...]
Continue reading...2. October 2009
Go beyond “manually” cropping photos in Photoshop. Photoshop makes it simple to crop to specific frame sizes (5×7, 4×6, 8×10…etc.). It also offers up the seldom used by very cool perspective cropping option. Cropping to Perspective Cropping to a Specific Frame Size
Continue reading...27. July 2009
I was recently working with some beginner Photoshop users and was surprised at how many people did not know how to combine two (or more) photographs. In this tutorial I will demonstrate ways to combine photographs into a single project. Hope this helps! Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash [...]
Continue reading...1. July 2009
In almost every Photoshop project I put together I find myself duplicating a layer or three. This morning I was thinking about the ways to do this – Jeez…there are a lot of different methods for duplicating layers! Different ways to duplicate a layer: Select the layer that needs duplicating and hit Ctrl + J (Command + [...]
Continue reading...26. June 2009
Learn how to seamlessly blend a series of photos into a panorama using Photoshop CS3 or CS4’s Automate – Photomerge command.
Continue reading...17. January 2009
Sorry about the delay between tutorials. I’ve been busy jumping around Texas providing training in various software applications. Most of the training is Adobe centered, however I recently led a Camtasia and SnagIt workshop and also completed a few Microsoft workshops. Busy…Busy… Last week Adobe hired me to provide Adobe Acrobat training using their distance learning [...]
Continue reading...5. January 2009
Need more control than simply using Photoshop’s Red Eye Tool to fix the dreaded red eye? Using a Hue/Saturation adjustment will give you much more control over your photos…and will work in previous versions of Photoshop!
Continue reading...30. December 2008
The dreaded red eye. You took the perfect photo but now your subjects all have red eye. Red eye is caused from light bouncing off the retina. The light gets its red color from the blood that is keeping the eye alive. There are a couple ways to fix this: Use the red eye reduction tools [...]
Continue reading...13. December 2008
Happy Holidays! I was browsing my neighborhood grocery store looking for a turkey to fry when I glanced down and discovered a Turducken! Now, I had always thought a turducken was something conjured up in fables and fairytales; but there it sat, like some sort of monster from a Mary Shelley novel, all packaged up and [...]
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26. January 2010
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