For anyone who doesn’t know how to use the pen tool very well but wishes they did, allow me to point you to a recent article over on Veerle’s blog. She offers up an Adobe Illustrator file where she has some exercises layed out for you to start learning how it all works. If any […]
I gotta admit, the Art History brush is not one of my go-to tools in Adobe Photoshop. It just seems to me that anything I could do with that, I could accomplish chronologically a different way, instead of working backwards like the Art History brush does.
It is far from useless though. Jennifer Farley from Laughing […]
Someone called psychochild on the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club, Inc. Forums (randomly) has posted a tutorial on photoshopping up your own car like a car from the Disney movie “Cars.”
A bunch of people followed up and did up their own cars, it’s worth a look!
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Here is a quickie derived from a great tutorial on PSDTuts.com:
Create a well-saturated radial gradient on a layer:
Bump up the intensity of this gradient by duplicating it (Command-J, with the layer selected) and setting the new layer to Color Dodge.
Create a blank new layer above these layers and fill it with Clouds (Filter > […]
Here is a real quickie tip for a cool effect in Adobe Photoshop utilizing the layer blending mode Overlay with a Black and White photograph.
Grab a paper texture. This one comes from the free Stock Photo site stock.xchng.
Now place your black and white photo on a layer on top of the paper texture.
Now set the […]
Jennifer Farley has a great post up on her Laughing Lion Design blog on give your drop shadows a little more life. Basically it’s giving them a more realistic and three dimensional feel. They really look great and this technique is becoming a bit of a trend, so let’s go through it here.
Open up […]
Huge props to Photoshop Killer Tips for this awesome tip. Dodge & Burn are Photoshop-pseudonyms for “lighten” and “darken”. Those tools are available right in your toolbar:
These are great tools, but they are destructive, meaning that any layer you use these on will be permanently altered. If you would like to apply some selective darkening […]
The animated “ticker” is one of the things the animated GIF is still useful for. This is a really quick and simple process in Photoshop:
Create a white-to-transparent gradient from the left side of your document in a little bit.
Press Command-J to duplicate the layer, rotate it 180-degrees, and place it on the right side of […]
Make sure your source image is just a little bigger than the size of your final button. (Image > Image Size…)
Using the Rounded Rectangle Tool (a sub-tool of the Rectangle Tool in your toolbar), draw a path shape of the shape of the button. To make sure you just get a path, make sure the […]
