Illustrations created in all major vector drawing programs have a definite anatomy and share a common pattern. Whether you use Deneba Canvas™, Adobe® Illustrator®, CorelDRAW or Macromedia® FreeHand® you will find that this pattern exists even though each program may define the parts differently.
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, December 2006 This article is a tutorial in Photoshop. The author provides a guide to Vectorizing a Logo From an Image. The tutorial is done in ten steps and has a lot of graphics and screenshots to show the way to this creation.
A mask is a vector path which allows part of an object to show while blocking out the rest effectively making part of it transparent. A mask in an illustration program is functionally equivalent to a clipping path in an image editor.
One of Photoshop's most powerful features is the use of layers. Each layer in a Photoshop document is a separate image which can be edited apart from any other layer. A layer can be envisioned as an image on a sheet of clear material. Together, all the layers form a stack of images:
This tutorial shows you how to create the following effect in Adobe® Photoshop: Notice that the text is defined by a black shaded area in the upper left of the text and a white shaded area in the lower right of the text.
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, November 2006 This well-written tutorial is done in Photoshop. The author outlines the necessary steps to do Photo Retouching with Photoshop - Levels Adjustment. Each step is made clear with illustrations.
This is an intermediate level tutorial. Shown below is an archive file which you will need to download. You can select the archive flavor of your choice: Stuffit™ or Zip. Inside the archive are two files. One is a master frame in PDF format and the other is a drawing template in GIF format containin...