Last week I did quick tip with the new Intuos 4 from Wacom and it seemed to be well appreciated by everyone so I thought I would perhaps try to get a Wacom related tip…
Author Archives: Corey Barker
Position a paste
When you’re pasting an element from the clipboard into a Photoshop document, you can specify where to place the object by making a selection—a small circular selection with the Elliptical Marquee tool will suffice. The…
Creating a starfield is easy!
Press the D key and fill the layer with black (Option-Delete [PC: Alt-Backspace]) and then apply the Add Noise Filter (Filter> Noise>Add Noise). You’ll need to enter a large Amount (we used 230%) in the…
Guru Winners | Planet Contest Deadline Today!
One of the coolest parts of the Photoshop World keynote is the Guru awards. For those of you who don’t know, the Guru awards is a special design contest only for Photoshop World attendees and…
Get rid of that shape layer outline
If you’ve worked with a shape layer, you’ve probably noticed the appearance of a thin outline around the shape. The outline you see around a shape layer really doesn’t mean anything. It won’t print or…
Cycling through Layer Blend modes (part 2)
If you’ve tried the previous tip but have a tool selected that also has blend modes associated with it (like any of the Brush tools), then you’ll find that the keyboard shortcut cycles through the…
More Fun with Brush Effects
Corey explores further the uses and experiments you can have with brush effects.
Friday In 3D!!
Well I thought I would share some new things I learned in the world of 3D in the past couple weeks. First my friend Bert Monroy turned me on to a very cool site that…
on 3D Bold Text Effect[...] This tutorial will explain how to create a bold bright-textured slick text effect in Photoshop CS6. A simple pattern...
on 3D DNAGood tutorial with nice instruction. 
on Replace ColorI found something that worked great for me that will work for black (that's what I used it on), select...
on Vintage Metal Text EffectNice tutorial and cool effect!!! Thank you!!!!