Pixellated Blur
This week let us learn a little technique I like to call the pixellated blur.
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Pixel Fonts
Pixel fonts are all the rage these days in web design. Why? Because they're cool. And they also can be very small and still legible. I'll show you some techniques to make sure your pixel fonts come out nice.
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You may never think about color when you design. You may just think what looks good is what is good. Well think again, because it goes much deeper than that. This week I want to begin talking about color theory. Before I do, I want to stress that some of this is hard and true "Color Theory" as i...
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Web Pages with Photoshop
A while back somebody asked me a simple question. "I want to make images for my web pages, but what size do I make them?" I remember having this same problem when I was first starting to lay pages out. How big do I make my header? What is a good width for a navigation area at the side of my page? Ho...
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Creating Motion
What happens if you can't find that perfect photograph? What if you want to make things a little bit more active than they are in the stock photo? Here is a little technique that should help you in those...
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The Power of Hue and Saturation Adjustment
I have been using the Hue and Saturation Adjustment tools that Photoshop provides for a long time. Usually I am just making overall image adjustments, but from time-to-time there is a specific area of an image that needs adjustment when the rest of the image should stay the same. Here's how to ...
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Design a Perspective Text
Let's say you want to create some text that looks as though it is disappearing off into the distance. If you notice, you cannot transform text with perspective transform function. If you rasterize t...
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The Basic Layer Mask
Let's talk about masking this week. Layer masking is really a great thing to play around with and it can be extremely powerful. One of the things that it is really great for is blending layers t...
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Photoshop 7 Natural Brushes
I have given you a couple of examples to look at that are just stock brushes that Photoshop packaged with Photoshop 7. One of the things that is so cool, is that Photoshop can now "spray" brushes in different sizes, rotations and color variations creating much more realistic natural techniques. Th...
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Using Quick Masks
Quick masks are a handy little Photoshop- feature that many people don't even know about. If you've never heard of quick masks, this article is going to show you how to use the basic features of the feature. When you want to use a mask in a more traditional way, use a quick mask. It works very ...
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