Photoshop

Using the Color Range selection tool in Adobe Photoshop is an awesome (and quite handy, I might add) method for selecting areas of a photo that are unique in color. Oftentimes, you can make quick work of grabbing hold of particular items that would have otherwise taken far too long with more traditional selection tools. […]

There are two things I’ve come to absolutely love and rely on over the past few years. One of them is shooting in RAW format and the other is editing my photographs in Adobe Camera Raw. Really, there are so many benefits to following this particular workflow, I’m not sure I would have the time […]

Have you ever tried to select something in Adobe Photoshop, when half way through you realized that you didn’t begin your selection at the correct spot? Basically, if you screw up the beginning anchor point, the entire selection will fail. You’ll either have to click somewhere in the image with your selection tool to deselect […]

Working with blend modes in Adobe Photoshop isn’t something you should know how to do. It’s more something you should know exists and that you should recognize that it’s something that requires creativity and exploration. Simply understanding the effects of a particular blend mode really isn’t good enough because, oftentimes, what you think may happen […]

The Quick Selection Tool is one of those tools in Adobe Photoshop that you’ll use over and over and over again. As a matter of fact, selecting aspects of photographs and graphics may be one of the most common tasks that are undertaken with this application. I already discussed using this particular tool in a […]

Oftentimes, designers use Adobe Photoshop to create mockups to show clients what things may look like if a change were to be made to something. This is actually very common and I think it’s important to understand just how you can use the tools that Photoshop offers to quickly and easily accomplish such a task. […]

I was going to title this post Adding to, Subtracting From & Transforming a Selection in Adobe Photoshop, but that didn’t work for me. Growing and shrinking doesn’t do much better, so I’ll need to explain what I’d like to do below. It’s a pretty cool trick you may have never known about. Basically, there’s […]

There may come times when you need to align duplicate layers in Adobe Photoshop. I can’t tell you when those times may occur, but they will. And when they do, you’ll wish you had a method for accurately aligning those layers. That’s what I’m here for. In this post, I’m going to let you in […]

One of my most frequent tasks in Adobe Photoshop has to do with selecting objects. Whether it be to separate them from something else or to add some sort of edge or color alteration, I can tell you that I use the selection tools all the time. One tool that’s especially helpful for things like […]

Today, I’m going to work on a simple example project. I’m going to use the photo seen above as a background for some suggestive vacation text. I’ll also give the photo a border. There will be five layers in all. Then, I’m going to convert all three layers into one smart object (remember the importance […]