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Graphic & Photo Design Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

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.

Color Changing in Adobe Photoshop Explained

I’ve already written quite a few posts that have discussed how to change the color of an object using Adobe Photoshop, but as of yet, I haven’t discussed the particulars of the tool that enables this type of action. In the most basic sense, all it takes to change the color of something in Photoshop […]

Dehaze & Camera Raw as a Filter in Adobe Photoshop

There are so many ways that I like to work on editing photographs and I am so glad that the Adobe applications I use have twenty different ways to do everything. Sometimes I prefer to start off in Camera Raw to do most of my photo editing. Once finished in that program, I’ll move into […]

Layer Masks & Type Effects in Adobe Photoshop

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). […]

Creating an Outline Text Shadow Effect in Adobe Photoshop

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 […]

How to Align Paths in Adobe Photoshop

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 […]

How to Set Up Vector Masks in Adobe Photoshop

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 […]

How to Create a Falling Snow Effect in Adobe Photoshop

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, […]

What’s the Difference Between Lightroom Classic & Lightroom CC?

I have the Adobe Creative Cloud app installed on my desktop computer. Every so often, I receive a notification that a few of the image editing applications that I use need to be updated. I go about the process of updating them, which really only consists of me clicking the Upgrade button. After a few […]

Cropping a Measurement in Adobe Photoshop

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 […]