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Square to Round: Easy Spheres
It’s simple to convert a square picture to a round picture by simply making a circular selection and adding a mask. However, how about converting a square image to a … Continue reading
Copying Between Images of Different Size
It’s happened to most of us at one time or another. We drag a layer from the layers palette to the window of another image to copy it and –surprise!– … Continue reading
Quick Painting
This week I’ll show you a quick way to turn your photos into a line art drawing. This effect is fairly popular, but I’ve not seen many tutorials on how … Continue reading
Creating A CD in Photoshop
This week we are going to look at how to draw a CD. We will be using the new opacity options on the layer palette. We will also be using … Continue reading
Fun With Faces
Even though I’m ‘into’ crazy effects, for a long time I considered the liquify tool to be pretty useless. Some times it just takes awhile for things to sink in. … Continue reading
Creating A Blurred Background
Let’s just do something really simple this week. I have had the task of taking a number of photos for work these past few weeks as we ramp up the … Continue reading
The Power of Hue and Saturation Adjustment
I have been using the Hue and Saturation Adjustment tools that Photoshop provides for a long time. Usually I am just making overall image adjustments, but from time-to-time there is … Continue reading
Photoshop 7 Alchemy: Apply Image
Photoshop 7 has a few new commands and blending modes that I’ve been playing with, and as I already told my buddy Colin Smith about it, I thought I’d better … Continue reading
Making Medals in Photoshop
I am going to show you how to create a medal here.. We are going to create a medal for the fictitious “snow bike” category in the fictitious 2001 Olympics, … Continue reading
Creating Motion
What happens if you can’t find that perfect photograph? What if you want to make things a little bit more active than they are in the stock photo? Here is … Continue reading
Photoshop Tutorials
Hollywood Touch-Ups
See how you can add some subtle touches to give that green screen studio shot the Hollywood treatment.
Flare Effects
Corey has a cool trick for creating a flare brush and see how one effect can lead to another.
3D Christmas Ornaments
Corey shows how to create reflective holiday ornaments using 3D in Photoshop.
Styles & Text
This week Corey has a tutorial using layer styles and text shapes to create energetic effects.
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CS6 Blur Tools
Use Photoshop CS6 to create selective softening effects using the new on-screen Blur Filters. Mix and match among the three filters for a variety of depth-of-field and tilt-shift effects. Continue reading
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High Roller 3D
This week Corey shows you how to take simple vector shapes and gives them life with 3D in Photoshop CS6. Using simple extrusions and lighting effects you can achieve a level of hyper-realism you never could before. Continue reading
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Dark Edge Vignette
Make your subject of your photograph stand out using dark edge vignettes. Continue reading
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Content Aware Move Tool in CS6
Lesa explores the new Content Aware Move tool in Photoshop CS6. Continue reading
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Create A Composite Layer
If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don't flatten the layers--use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.
Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
by Colin Smith
