Photoshop

Once you get into and work with Adobe Photoshop for a few months, you’ll find yourself using the Transform and Free Transform tools very frequently. Most likely, you’ll become comfortable with one or the other and you’ll effortlessly slide into an effective routine and will probably never look back. These tools are easy to grasp […]

When it comes to making minor color and exposure adjustments in Photoshop, the Levels adjustment tool can come in quite handily. If you read my post on editing brightness and contrast, then you already know where the Adjustment panel resides. If not, I suggest you check out that post or simply continue to read on […]

While working in Adobe Photoshop, there are some basic premises we all need to keep in mind. One very important premise is that we must assume we’re going to, someday, open the file we’re currently working on, again, and edit it. It may seem that the moment we feel as though we’re finished with a […]

I talk a lot about adjusting the levels of various aspects of photographs on this site. So far, I’ve primarily used Adobe Lightroom and Camera Raw to cover these subjects. What I’d like to do today is to enter into the realm of Photoshop. After all, Photoshop is the most popular photo editing software on […]

I’ve got a small project to take care of. I took a few example photos last night for my previous post that I’d like to add some text to. One of the photos (the cranberries in the small saucepan) would look great with some descriptive text in the lower portion of the photo. This is […]

When it comes to Photoshop, I’m an organization freak. As I’ve mentioned in another post on this website, when working on large files with many layers, things can get out of control – fast. It’s of the utmost importance that these things be tamed. The good news is that the fine creators of this program […]

If you’ve ever wanted to create a file that contained multiple images in a certain pattern, you surely know that there are quite a few steps to follow. It’s not as simple as opening up some photo tabs and arranging those photos together. If you want precision and accuracy, you’ll need to follow the proper […]

In this post, I’d like to build off of what I discussed previously, where I combined three images inside one file. In that post, I brought a few images into one document from separate tabs and arranged them by using guides. Today, I’ll be dragging a few photos into one document again, but I’ll use […]

In this post, I’m going to go through a fun little project. My goal is to open three photos into Photoshop as layers and arrange them in a new file a certain way. To do this, I’ll use Adobe Bridge and, of course, Photoshop itself. What I’d like to show you are a few simple […]

It seems that as people hear about the power of Adobe Photoshop and become interested in learning how to use the application, one of the primary questions is “How do I make things look cool?” Basically, they’re asking how to use layers and layer effects and styles. Well, that’s not entirely true – there are […]