Archive for Tips & Tricks

  • Create a Surreal Night Scene Create a Surreal Night Scene

    I was inspired and here's the result of an image composition using an image titled "Carcassonne at night" that I downloaded from sxc.hu for this project. I was over in the PSD TUTS Premium area and was looking at "Creating a Magic Night Themed Template" which can be previewed HERE. -Well I wasn't in...

  • Get A Cool Avatar! Get A Cool Avatar!

    Post Updated: Check Out the User Submited Avatars at Bottom of this Post! So I frequent lots of sites and Blogs, mostly graphic sites - and I keep seeing these really cool Avatars! Well I just had to get one for myself. At first I thought they were something really special and had to be paid for....

  • Magic Lighting Effect Magic Lighting Effect

    I was really impressed with the results of the magic light effect that I decided to give it a try, adding my own little twists to it. I'll include the PSD that I used to create this featured item. You can follow along with the Tutorial for this type of effect at the end of this piece. First let's ha...

  • Intro to the Type Tool Intro to the Type Tool

    This is A Comprehensive Introduction to the Type Tool Check it out and learn more today about using the Type Tool in Photoshop....

  • Shortcuts Shortcuts

    Most interesting thing about Photoshop Shortcuts, it that they are helpful in streamlining your workflow. The better you memorize the shortcuts, the quicker you can get a job done. another interesting thing about shortcute is that you don't need a sheet of paper to memorize them . . . all you need...

  • Quick Tool Tips Quick Tool Tips

    Of Course you know the shortcuts by now . . . and if you don't - Now is a Good Time to learn them. For instance; to access the Levels interface hit command 'l' -|- - >> for Curves Command 'm'yo -|- - >> Eyedropper hit letter 'i' -|- ->> set colors to Black and White Defa...

  • Sharpening for Printing Sharpening for Printing

    Sharpening an image can be done in many number of ways. A particular trick useful for printing is began in the RGB mode - Switch to LAB Mode under Image/Mode/LAB: from here you select Channel #1 'Lightness' and apply your sharpening filter to that Channel. Good settings are normally of: A...

  • Lense Flares and Lighting Tips Lense Flares and Lighting Tips

    The image seen at the top of these pages is of Hong Kong. The original image didn't have those cool glowing lights shown - they were created using the Lens Flare Filter accessed in RGB mode using the 'Filter/Render/Lens Flare' (as shown below) tool. It's that simple, and you can add as many Flares a...

  • Apple and iPhoto Apple and iPhoto

    This site is dedicated to the use of Photoshop, but every now and then it's useful to see what else is out there. Here we get a little into iPhoto. Now if You're using the newer Leopard on an Apple Macintosh - there's come really cool features you can access in iPhoto. Befor...