Photoshop

Contours are those little things that most of us breeze right by when working with layer styles in Adobe Photoshop. I completely understand why this happens. When I open up the Layer Style palette to apply a Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Stroke or any other style, I primarily focus on the top portion of each […]

When I work in Adobe Photoshop, I use the various shape tools quite a bit. Even when I write these posts and create the screenshots for them, I use the shape tools. In these cases, I primarily draw with the Rectangle Tool and the Ellipse Tool to outline points of interest in those screenshots, but […]

I don’t know how I let this one get past me for so long. This topic is so popular that I’m almost ashamed of myself for missing it. Adding copyright watermarks to photographs is something virtually all photographers have to do, so I thought it’d be a good topic to cover here. Luckily, the process […]

When I work on files in Adobe Photoshop that have multiple images contained in them, I usually combine those images in the same file by clicking on the appropriate layers in the individual tabs and then by dragging those layers over to the working file. I’ve discussed this process quite a bit on this website. […]

Once upon a year, there was a nice little Refine Mask dialog box that worked very well in regards to cleaning up selection edges and the like. In Adobe Photoshop CC version 2015.5, however, came the wonderful new Select & Mask workspace that replaced it. You’ve all seen this new Select & Mask workspace. I […]

I have no idea how many posts I’ve written about making selections in Adobe Photoshop by this point, but I know it’s a lot. The sad part about all the work I’ve put into this topic is that I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface. There is so much to selecting objects in this […]

Did you know that there’s another way to make selections in Adobe Photoshop, other than with the traditional selection tools? Well there is. It’s possible to create and modify existing selections with the push of just one button and the use of a painting tool. It’s actually really cool and the system is so easy […]

The problem with previewing video in Adobe Photoshop is that many of us have limited RAM installed on our computers. The combat this, Photoshop employs a number of methods for smoothly previewing video files, but many of them skip frames, reduce resolution and even make for a choppy session. Because of this issue, attempting to […]

Every so often, I think each and every one of us suffers from some type of…what’s the word here…clicking around while not having any idea what we’re doing. I know I do this in Adobe Photoshop from time to time. There are areas of that program that I don’t use often and that I haven’t […]

Forget about acquiring the know-how to edit photos to make them actually stand out and look wonderful, just learning and figuring out how to navigate around Adobe Photoshop can be a chore unto itself. I get that people need “an eye” to make images look awesome. They need to know some color theory, fundamentals of […]