" This month's tiny cheatsheet contribution covers shortcuts and tricks for Photoshop's Brush Tool:" On there own, these small quick-reference guides are handy to have around. But stay tuned as we add more each month. Soon you'll have ...

" 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 ...

"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 ...

Alpha channels are basically specialized selection processes. Alpha channels are used to make, store or edit selections made using tools such as Lasso, Magic wand or Pen tool. Alpha channel is another type of image masking. When we say mas ...

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 ...

Explosions are cool. Seriously cool. So when I received some e-mails asking about how to create a break-apart, explosion effect, I knew it'd be worth making a tutorial on. Read on to find out how to break apart a body, then add some awesome l ...

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 will show you a fast technique to enhance eyes and make them stand out. Let's start with a typical flat image.This technique works best for light-colored eyes. first off go to the DODGE tool and choose MIDTON ...

Contact Sheet X (CSX) is a script-based package for Adobe Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4 that provides a full featured contact sheet generator. The core of the package has capabilities that include everything found in Contact Sheet II (bu ...

The PhotographyBB Online Magazine Issue #11 for December is now available for download! The holiday season is upon us and what better way to celebrate than to grab a cup of hot chocolate, kick back, and enjoy the December Issue of the Phot ...

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 ...

Adobe Camera Raw is the gateway for opening Raw images into the main editing space of Photoshop, but Adobe Camera Raw is also a great space for optimising images quickly and easily. Many of the basic tasks such as straightening and cropping i ...

PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the 20th edition of the PhotographyBB Magazine Online. The PhotographyBB Magazine Online is a leading resource in the future of free information distribution, offering readers: Digital Photography ...

"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 ...