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The design section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of web design on the internet today. Also discussed is print design for offline media. Discussion includes fundamental and moderately advanced topics in the worlds of brand identity, graphic design, photo manipulation, typography and more. Additional topics include how to effectively manage website layout, e.g. mobile and tablet interface, responsive website design as well as coverage of online communities that assist with the design profession.

Introducing the Face-Aware Liquify Filter

I guess Adobe has either invented or has licensed some very slick facial recognition technology because it’s incorporated it into Photoshop in full force. You’ve got to see it in action. It’s impressive, to say the least. Take a look at the post I wrote yesterday on the Face-Aware Liquify Filter for a complete rundown […]

Can I Animate Graphics in Adobe Photoshop?

Yes you can and it’s very simple to do. Much more simple than applications from years ago. I remember working with Adobe LiveMotion and Macromedia Flash trying to animate graphics. While Flash was much more robust than LiveMotion was, there were shortcomings in both. Today’s software is much better at these types of things. Animating […]

Working Edges With the Liquify Filter in Adobe Photoshop

I’d like to take a few minutes to discuss the Liquify filter that can be found inside of Adobe Photoshop. What I have planned for this post is to first introduce you to the filter itself and then work it a bit to show you what it can accomplish. Now, I’ll only be using a […]

What’s the Best Way to Adjust Contrast in Photoshop?

Question: I’ve been reading about many different ways to add contrast to my photos in Photoshop, but I don’t know the best way. It seems like there are multiple ways to do everything. I’d like to know the best one. Which tool do you use to add contrast in Photoshop? Answer: As you said, there […]

How to Set Up Guides in Photoshop

I use guides in Photoshop almost every day. I never used to use them, but ever since I learned what they were and what they can do, I take full advantage of them. Basically, guides are light blue lines that you can overlay on your working workspace. They’re nice because you can line things up […]

Tips For Duplicating Shapes in Photoshop

This is such a great tip that I just had to share it here. If you’ve ever been faced with the task of duplicating a bunch of shapes and then arranging them in the file you’re working on in Photoshop, you know how time consuming that can be. What if there was a better way […]

Cutout or Outline Effect in Photoshop

Effects that are applied to text can be applied to other objects in Photoshop as well. It’s not like there are “only” text effects and “only,” say, shape effects. These things are pretty interchangeable and work well across the board. And speaking of effects, there are about a million different ones available. It boils down […]

Can You Animate Scale in Adobe Photoshop?

I recently wrote another post where I described animating a layer’s opacity in the Timeline panel in Adobe Photoshop. I was initially going to animate the scale of the layer, but soon realized that there was no keyframe available for that process. All that was available was Position, Opacity, Style, Vector Mask Position and Vector […]

Going From Photoshop to Camera Raw as a Filter

Question: Once I move from Adobe Camera Raw into Photoshop after I’ve edited a picture, can I ever go back to Camera Raw again to edit further? Or do I have to start all over again, and do all my edits in Camera Raw and then go into Photoshop? I heard there was a filter […]