Photoshop

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 […]

Now that I’ve discussed alpha channels on multiple occasions, I thought I’d talk about one final method for creating one. This is the method most designers and photographers use and it’s an extremely helpful tactic to choose for many different purposes. I’ll get to all that below. First though, I’d like to offer you a […]

Question: I work a lot with adjustment layers inside of Adobe Photoshop. I also somewhat work with Smart Objects, but not as much as I do with adjustment layers. I’m starting to see that my Layers panels are getting quite full and I’d like to organize them somewhat. I’m wondering if I can take a […]

Question: I am working in Adobe Photoshop right now and I am trying to measure a photograph that I have situated inside a greeting card that I plan on selling on Etsy. The greeting cards are white and the photo sits directly in the center of the front flap. Etsy is asking me for an […]

I have no idea why Adobe hides such helpful features behind other ones, but I guess that’s just the way it is. Luckily, we have the workings of the internet to help us out and to show us all the neat stuff we’d never be able to find ourselves. What I’m referring to here is […]

Did you know that Adobe Photoshop offers an incredibly accurate and extremely handy feature in it that aligns similar images? It does and it’s marvelous. For a comprehensive article written about this alignment feature, click on through. First though, please allow me to explain what alignment is all about. Generally, when photographers are out in […]