Peachpit Press announced that The Digital Photography Book Vol. 1 by Scott Kelby is the best-selling book on digital photography ever, having sold over a quarter-million copies so far. A big congrats to Scott for…
Author Archives: Corey Barker
Editing Text Without Highlighting It
Here’s a cool little tip for changing your font size without having the Type tool active. Just click on your Type layer (in the Layers palette), then go under the Window menu and choose Character….
Move Your Type, Without Switching Tools
Here’s a tip that can save you a lot of tool switching when formatting your type. Once you create your type with the Type tool (T), and while your cursor is still blinking somewhere in…
The Shroud Is Lifted
Last week, Time magazine posted an article on their website revealing the identity of the guys responsible for the hilarious “You Suck At Photoshop” series that has been amusing the masses on YouTube for past…
Seeing Your Type Change Color
In Photoshop, you can change the color of your type without even selecting it first. “Why is that important?” you may ask. If you highlight your type to change its color using the Foreground color…
New Course On Kelby Training
Motion graphics guru Richard Harrington has just released his newest course: Photoshop & After Effects for Wedding Photographers. This course shows you how to dazzle your clients by creating presentations with flare. You will learn…
Double Your Pleasure
We’ve already talked about rasterizing text, but once you’ve rasterized your Type layer into a regular image layer, your type is no longer editable (meaning you can’t go back and change typefaces, type in a…
Natural Brushes
In this tutorial Corey shows you how to take an existing image and turn it into it’s own custom brush.




