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" Adobe's pen tool works pretty much the same across Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Yet, as important as this ubiquitous tool is, many people get confused with how to handle certain tasks, and the differences between the various pen sym ...

The brush engine of Photoshop is a powerful tool and can be the key to simulate real paint. But in the wrong hands it can create awful things, making your pictures not look like painted, but just like they were done in Photoshop really bad. E ...

"In this Photoshop tutorial we will explore how to use the pen tool. First, we will look at the pen tool's basic controls. We will examine creating paths, curvature modification and anchor point adjustments." "Next, we will use our ...

Bram from Sweetbeat.be tells you how he got the rainbow in the photo above using photoshop : - Open new document 20x20cm. - Make a new layer and select it. - Select the pen tool en draw a bowed line.Make sure when you have the pen tool sel ...

In the last post I wrote about LR2's Graduated Filter. The other localized editing tool, which many think might be the most significant addition to LR2, is the Adjustment Brush [AB]. The AB (keyboard shortcut "K" in your program) allows you t ...

This Photoshop tutorial by SweetBeat will show you how to design and use your own background brush Making the brush -Make a new document 60x37cm and make sure that the foreground and background colours are set to black and white. ...

This Photoshop tutorial is written for experienced Photoshop users and will show you unique techniques for retouching photos. You’ll learn how to enhance backgrounds, dodge and burn, brighten eyes, and add hair shine while keeping a low count ...

In this tutorial I'll retouch this girls portraits by enhancing the skin, eyes and lips. For the start i type Ctrl+j to make a copy of the layer ..to see at the end what we`ve done.. We see she has some imperfection..so we use the Healin ...

"Unlike Healing brush, Patch Tool gives you the ability to replace a large amount of skin in one operation. To use Patch tool you must be sure that you have a good skin area on your photo. This skin area will be your replacement pattern. ...

Photoshop may be the industry standard -- but that covers a lot of industries. So the program's interface is pretty general. As it has increased in complexity, many of its efficiencies have been hidden. And it can be very difficult to demonst ...

In this tutorial, we're going to take this image : And make it look like the following one thanks to a texture, blending modes and layer masks : This process works best for images with a grayish neutral background, so I took one sho ...

There are quite a few trends in web design right now. Some still use a lot of twirly flowerly ornaments, others, following the trends dictated by psdtuts.com and abduzeedo.com have proceeded to glowing lines and starry psychedelic effects but ...

Now, let me say this up front: From the research I’ve done, I don’t believe photographer Dave Hill actually uses a Photoshop plug-in; I believe he creates his look without a plug, using a series of layer blend modes, High Pass Sharpening, Ski ...

"If you have a nice photo of a model, but she or he wasn’t smiling and you want the photo to feature a smiling face, or vice versa, you can use Photoshop to slightly tweak the facial expressions. The key is to be subtle in your approac ...