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Adobe Photoshop Tips, Tutorials & Techniques

The Adobe Photoshop section includes posts and articles that cover tips, tutorials and best practices for various areas of opening, editing and exporting photographs and graphics into and from Photoshop. Discussion includes how to effectively utilize this piece of photo editing software in post-processing to best arrive at the result you're looking for. Additional topics include how to work efficiently with all of Photoshop's tools and panels; color, clarity, size, type, filters, etc...for both print and the web.

How to Add a Texture to a Shape in Photoshop

This is going to be a super-duper helpful post if you’re into textures in Photoshop. If you’ve ever wanted to convert a shape into something else, this is your chance to learn exactly how to do it. I’ve got an awesome technique for you and I think you’ll love it. Okay, here’s what I’m talking […]

Safe Cropping With Canvas Size in Photoshop

Did you know that the Crop Tool isn’t the only way to reduce the size of an image in Photoshop? Or to crop an image? Yes, it’s true. To crop, you can also take advantage of the Rectangular Marquee Tool (+ Image > Crop) or adjust the canvas size of the file. To reduce the […]

Is There an Effect in Photoshop That Can Make Falling Snow?

Why yes there is. I actually just wrote a post on this very topic yesterday. Take a look here: How to Create a Falling Snow Effect in Adobe Photoshop The post I just linked to was rather long winded, so I figured I’d write up a synopsis here. If you’d like to add a falling […]

How to Create a Static Text Effect in Photoshop

I’ve got another cool Photoshop text effect for you today. This one is ultra simple and it shouldn’t take much time at all. All you need to do is write out some text with a text tool in Photoshop and then apply a layer style to it. I’ll show you how to do that below. […]

On-Image Adjustment Tool + Curves Adjustment in Adobe Photoshop

The Curves adjustment is, hands down, one of the best tools you can use in Adobe Photoshop to edit contrast and the like. As opposed to the regular, more straightforward Brightness/Contrast adjustment, the Curves adjustment has the ability to fine-tune edits in a way that the other simply can’t. In the Brightness/Contrast adjustment Properties panel, […]

Using Advanced Blending Options in Photoshop

I was toying around with a section of the Layer Style palette a few days ago when I stumbled upon a neat little area that offers some granular control over blending modes. If you’re familiar with blending modes and how they work in Photoshop, you may enjoy what I have to share below. The section […]

How to Create Blurry Text in Photoshop

I’ve been working on a lot of different text effects lately and one interesting effect I discovered had to do with blurring. If you aren’t aware, or if you’ve never looked closely at blurred text, you can actually see different colors stemming from the edges. It’s strange to look at and even stranger to notice, […]

Adding a Vector Mask to Text in Photoshop

I recently wrote a post that discussed making a selection in Photoshop and then converting that selection into a vector mask. The vector mask was applied to some text and it appeared to somewhat integrate itself into the text to offer a very cool effect. To read the post and see all the screenshots I […]

Softening & Brightening a Portrait in Photoshop

Have you ever wondered how magazines and professional image editors work their portrait photos so they look as good as they do? I’ve wondered this for a long time and I think I’m making some progress in figuring out how they get things done. It’s the secret sauce that I’m interested in and I’ve recently […]