Graphic & Photo Design Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

You know you’re getting somewhere while learning applications such as Adobe Photoshop when you begin using keyboard shortcuts. It’s common practice to avoid them at all costs when you’re first starting out. After all, speeding things up is the last thing you need during those beginning stages. After a while though, when you’ve completed a […]

Making a photo pop isn’t all that difficult to achieve. Oftentimes, all it takes is a bit of tweaking in your favorite photo editor. While I’m very partial to the Adobe Camera Raw engine, which is used in Camera Raw as well as Lightroom, I’m also fond of Photoshop’s capabilities. With the introduction of adjustment […]

I recently wrote a post on this website that dealt with a few selection tools. In that post, I promised that I would start writing more about the Pen Tool and how it works. Well, just as luck would have it, I decided to write this post as the second in this series. In it, […]

I’ve got a really neat trick for you today. If you’re into selecting objects inside of Adobe Photoshop, please read on below because this post may help you out immensely. It’s a trick that you’d only discover if you’ve been in the industry for a long time and it’s one that can save you hours […]

I found a pretty cool photo the other day. It’s full of lightening and clouds and it looks really neat. The only parts I don’t like about the photo are the facts that it looks a bit washed out and that parts of it look like they are the wrong color. The original photo has […]

When doing heavy editing on images in Adobe Photoshop, you’ll find that you do tons of selecting. While I’ve already written a few posts on this site regarding selections, I thought I’d go a bit further and offer some new tricks. Well, I guess they really aren’t tricks because what I’ll demonstrate is readily available […]

I’ve been coding websites since 1998. I can remember the first web page I ever made. It was for a college class and we had to learn all sorts of stuff. How to change text attributes, add images and how to add links to the page were just a few. One of the techniques I […]

I’m a nut when it comes to organization on my computer. Sometimes, I just sit and think about how I can make things better than they are. I know, it sounds weird, but I’ve come up with some pretty interesting solutions like this. Disorganization costs you time and money down the road. There’s no excuse […]