Auto Shapes

In this tutorial you will learn the basics of using Auto Shapes in Adobe Photoshop.

Lasso Selections

This shows Using the lasso and magnetic lasso to make your selections.

Wielding the Wand

The magic wand tool. A great way to make your selections...

Record Your Actions

Learn to make your own actions and save a ton of time.

304 Photoshop 6 Tips

Part of what makes Photoshop such an incredibly powerful and pleasurable program to use is its well thought-out implementation: the interface is polished and uncluttered and easily customizable (despite its vast arsenal of tools and commands). In fact, there is a surprising amount of "hidden" functionality within Photoshop; so much so, that despite the number of years you work with the program, you will undoubtedly keep discovering more and more about it. I doubt anyone could claim that they kno

Photoshop Easter Eggs

What is an Easter Egg, you ask? In an effort to stay sane while staring at thousands of lines of code all day, programmers and software engineers amuse themselves (and in the end you, the user) by embedding hidden, amusing features called Easter Eggs. In fact, The Easter Egg Archive has literally thousands of Easter Eggs, including many of the ones mentioned here for Photoshop and ImageReady.

Animated Rollovers

In this tutorial, you'll see how to combine the power of Photoshop and ImageReady to make a cool-looking rollover button for your Web page.

Photoshop Actions

In this tutorial, we will first take a comprehensive look at the Actions palette, and then look at the commands available in the Actions palette menu. We will then use these commands to create a couple of actions of our very own!

Quick Mask Tool

Here is another way, using the quick mask tool, that you may enjoy using more than any other method. Masking basically means to remove one section of the image, and replace it with another color, or another image altogether. In this tutorial we will be replacing the black background below with a white one.

Polar Coordinates

Learn how to bring your polar coordinating skills to a whole new level.

Selections and Removing Backgrounds

In this tutorial we will work with some of the many different ways to handle selections, including some of the more difficult selection chores.

Using Adjustment Layers

Adjustment layers are so versatile that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to show all of their uses in one little tutorial. In this tutorial, therefore, we will work with just a few.

Layers 101

There is a lot to layers and they will take some time to master. But they are not that difficult once you understand how they work. In this tutorial I will explain the concept of layers, describe the features and walk you through a simple tutorial. Along the way I will throw in a few cool tips to help you work faster and easier.

Rounded Corners

In this tutorial we are rounding the rorners of a rectangle (I know you can create a rounded rectangle by using the shape tool) the princliple of this tutorial is to show you how to round any corner,this is great for interfaces, I also use this technique a lot on my photo realistic art.

Blending Layers

Collaging - Merging 2 images with a layer mask. This is a very requested technique and will be the first in our series on creating collages and montages. You will learn how to seamlessly blend 2 images together, using the layer masks.

Cutout

Here is a highly requested tutorial. Everyone wants to know how to take a picture and replace the background or make it transparent. Here is a method using the extract tool that first appeared in ps 5.5.

Collaging Techniques

More collaging techniques for Photoshop, using channels and layers.This is a bit more in depth than some of the other tutorials, you will learn several techniques that you can adapt to add a pro touch to your montages and collages.

Channels

This is how you get the 3D look using channels. By creating a bump map and transfering it to an alpha channel,

TV Scan Lines

This is a very requested technique that simulates the lines of a TV screen, this technique is used all over the graphics world.

Making Waves

Making waves: I have been asked many times how I made the wavey Grid in my Sig. So here it is, the official tutorial.