Graphic & Photo Design Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

I’ve been sitting at my desk messing around in Photoshop this morning and I think I found a pretty neat little type effect that can be used in many different situations. My original goal was much more complicated than what I ended up with and I’m happy about that (that it ended up less complicated). […]

There are tons of effects you can make up and use on all sorts of things in Adobe Photoshop. Between the idea, the effect itself and the adjustments you can make to it, I’d say the possibilities are endless. When it comes to text effects, I have seen many through the years. Typical stuff really […]

Lots of users take advantage of Adobe Photoshop for its photo editing capabilities. I’d say that I edit photos about 90% of the time in this application. There are many folks, however, who use Photoshop’s many graphics tools to draw and makes shapes and do all sorts of things. Since it’s a creative application, there […]

Have you ever wondered how people get their photos to take on certain shapes? Like, how someone turns a square photograph into a circle one or even something much more complex? Well, I’m here to tell you that the process for doing something like this is so very simple. What these people are using to […]

I was working on a larger project a few days ago that I’ll discuss here on this blog soon when I stumbled across a neat effect that I thought you’d like to know about. the technique I pulled off creates what appears to be snow in a photo. It’s pretty cool looking and somewhat adjustable, […]

As they say about Photoshop, there are nine ways to do everything. I’d say that’s a good thing because I like having options. When it comes to cropping, there’s no shortage of how we can get things done. For years and years, I used the Rectangular Marquee Tool to crop my images. I still like […]

I see this all the time. Lots of folks out there take great photos that they’d like to add colorized backgrounds to. The reasoning behind this is to either give the photo an alternate look or to avoid distraction from the subjects in the images. Whatever the reason, it’s a good enough subject to cover […]

I’ve got a very cool and extremely helpful bit of information to offer you today. If you’ve ever attempted to duplicate a Smart Object layer in Photoshop and then had some issues working with the duplicate, I think I may know just what’s going on. Typically, when you duplicate a Smart Object layer the same […]

I use guides for so much in Adobe Photoshop. As a matter of fact, I just finished up a project in which I used a fair number of guides to trim multiple images that were to be sized identically. I love the fact that I can resize an image using the Free Transform tool and […]