Photoshop

This is such a silly simple process that you’re going to laugh at not knowing how to do it. Basically, the question here is “How can I make videos smooth? How can I make the first clip fade in, the last clip fade out and have the clips fade into each other as the video […]

Working with shapes in Adobe Photoshop is a lot of fun. I should know; I’ve been doing it for a very long time. There’s a lot that can be done with shapes to create all types of graphics, but in order to go that far, you need to learn the basics. I just wrote a […]

If you’ve ever seen a photo slideshow online, you’ve probably seen what we in the industry call “movement.” We call it this or even sometimes call it “motion.” Defined, this means that instead of each fixed photo simply staying still and directly transitioning into another one, there’s sort of a graceful floating that goes on. […]

I talked about this topic in the second half of the post I wrote yesterday. Check it out if you wish. I discussed both renaming and reordering layers in Adobe Photoshop. This post here will be about reordering layers only. I’ll tell you how to do it below. If you would like to know why […]

Alpha channels and masks go hand in hand when it comes to Adobe Photoshop. They’re pretty much one and the same. If you aren’t familiar with masks, you can read up on them in my what are masks post and if you aren’t familiar with alpha channels, you can read up on them in my […]

You can do a lot of things with the shape tools in Adobe Photoshop, but sometimes it’s not as easy as selecting one of the tools and simply drawing out a shape. There are some considerations that you need to take into account and because of that, things may not always turn out as you […]

Question: I have many old photos that my parents recently gave me and I’d like to scan them to preserve them better than if I just kept them in their paper format. The problem I’m finding is that many of them are in terrible shape. This has become readily apparent by looking at the scanned […]

The term “lower third graphic” may be foreign to many of you if you don’t work with video a lot. If you do, you’ve probably heard of these things. Basically, this type of graphic covers the lower portion of a video and is somehow informative. It usually tells who is speaking and a bit about […]

This is one of those tasks you’ll likely have to complete when putting together a photo slideshow. Since slideshows pretty much always consist of more than one image, it’s obvious that a method of moving those images into the Timeline panel of Adobe Photoshop is necessary. And of course, we want that method to be […]

Adding a watermark overlay to a video in Adobe Photoshop is extraordinarily simple. It’s actually the same exact process you’d take to either create some text or a shape in a static file. The only additional aspect you need to concern yourself with is that the watermark graphics need to have the same duration as […]