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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.

The Easiest Way To Use the Basic Panel in Adobe Camera Raw

If I had to guess, I’d say the most popular goal most people around the world have when using Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop is to make their pictures look better. Period. Nine out of ten people I know in this business do just that. There’s a reason Adobe offers a “Photography” plan in their […]

Changing Color Settings & Saving File Types in Adobe Photoshop

I’d like to go over some really basic housekeeping items in this post. Far too often, people like me who write posts on blogs like this, tend to focus on the more exciting aspects of photography and photo and graphic editing inside of Adobe Lightroom, Camera Raw and Photoshop. While this is fine and while […]

How To Relink to a Video File in Adobe Photoshop

I can remember back when external hard drives weren’t really very popular. All that mattered what how large your internal drive was. The bigger, the better. Larger drives meant that you could stuff all sorts of stuff on them and they’d take years to fill up. Unfortunately, drives, in general, didn’t last that long and […]

How to Hide Parts of a Video Clip Using Masks in Adobe Photoshop

There are some areas of working with video that seem super challenging, but that are actually quite simple to grasp. If you’ve ever heard of an “ah ha” moment, working with video editing is full of them. The topic I’d like to share with you below describes one of those moments well. Something that seems […]

The Best Way to Add Light to a Photo Using Adobe Lightroom

I’m always in awe with what can be done to an already fantastic looking photo to make it look so much better. Oftentimes, many people don’t really know how good something can look. I remember back in the day, before I took photography or photo editing seriously, I thought a picture was a picture. I […]

Beautifying an Image with the Graduated Filter in Adobe Lightroom

Over the past few years, I’ve written a few posts that talk about how to use the various enhancement tools in both Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Lightroom. The tools I’m referring to are called the Radial Filter Tool, Graduated Filter Tool and the Adjustment Brush. To view some of these older posts regarding Camera […]

Copying Objects & Areas with the Clone Stamp Tool in Adobe Photoshop

It is of my humble opinion that the wide majority of Adobe Photoshop users don’t use nearly enough of the tools that are available to them. While I can’t be absolutely certain of this statement, I’m fairly certain. My own history demonstrates this as well as the histories of many friends of mine who have […]

How to Overlap Graphics in Adobe Photoshop

Do you remember a post I wrote a while back where I worked with a few different layers and merged them into one document in Adobe Photoshop? If not, please take a look at this post: How to Arrange Layers in Adobe Photoshop Basically, I showed how to take multiple files and drag them over […]