Auto Levels

Hello and welcome to this tutorial on Level Adjustment. At first, Auto Levels may seem crude and hard to use effectively. Learn how to enhance images easily with this tool in just a few steps. Stock: from Rod L. As you can see, this shot had the potential to be good, but poor light and camera adjustment...

Creating And Using Custom Patterns

In this tutorial you will learn how to efficiently create and use patterns within Photoshop. Find out everything you need to know about patterns and start using them right away! Patterns can be used as backgrounds, or become helpful when making image blends. Learn how to create and use those popular patterns...

Creating And Using Brushes

What are brushes? How are they used? How do you make your own brushes? How to convert stamps (image packs) into brushes? After reading this tutorial, these questions should be cleared Brush usage Brushes are in fact imitations of the real-life brushes. The idea is to be able to draw with them the same way...

Creating Futuristic Logotypes

In this tutorial you will learn some simple techniques to create a stylish futuristic logotype. Get your design groove on and let’s begin! Hi there and welcome to the futuristic logo creation tutorial. Hopefully you’ll learn some very exciting new tricks along the way. Let’s begin! Create a circle...

Advanced Portrait Retouching

In this tutorial you will be learning the intricacies of real-world photography touchups and manipulation. Follow photographer Mitchell Kutney as he shows you step-by-step his workflow of manipulating close-up portraits…[more] Alrighty, this is what we have to work with – a high resolution...

Embroidery Text

In this tutorial I am going to show you a quick way to do embroidery looking text, this technique can also be used for borders and logos to make patches. The first thing that we have to do for this tutorial is create a Paint bucket pattern fill for later on. Make a new canvas 2 pixels x 5...

Managing Your Photoshop Workspace

This tutorial will teach you several neat tricks for Photoshop worspace optimization. Hi there and welcome to this tutorial. I’m going to show you some quick and dirty tips on managing your webspace in Photoshop (CS but it also applies to other versions such as the upcoming CS2 and the older ones). We’re...

Cellshade

This tutorial will teach you hoow to create a cellshade-like styled image. 1. Open the image you would like to Cellshade. 2. Make a selection with the “Polygonal Lasso Tool” as shown below. 3. Now click INSIDE the selection you made with the “Eyedropper Tool“. – You can see...

Text Inside An Object

This nifty technique will show you how you can get text inside an object using Photoshop. Open up photoshop cs then make a new image of 400×400 (or anysize you like). Next make a new layer and fill with white. Then go to the custom shape tool to get more shapes click on the arrow and select all –...

Sun Animation In Photoshop CS2

In this tutorial I’m going to briefly show you the animation feature in Photoshop by creating a sun coming over the mountain. This is the image i started with and went ahead and went to Filter/Render?Lighting to give it a darker morning look. After that I created a new layer made a quick sphere and gave...

Restoration – An Old Photo

Welcome to this tutorial. As you can see this photos is a little dark and has lots of grain. We are going to run through a few steps to fix this photo up. In this zoomed in photo you can see that there is a lot of grain.Some older photos were printed on a cloth/canvas type material....

Create A Stamp

I went ahead and created 2 new layers. Layer 2 is just a fill color so that layer 3 will show up. On Layer 3 use your select marquee tool and create a square and fill it with White. Next lets set up the Eraser tool setting: Select your Eraser tool....