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Jun 27, 2005 in Photoshop Basics

Checking Your Color (Mac only)

Macintosh OS X includes a nifty utility called DigitalColor Meter that can help you determine how accurately your monitor is producing color. You'll find it in the Applications> Utilities folder...

Jun 27, 2005 in Photo Editing

Controlling Layer Blending Modes

Using layer blending modes is a quick and easy way to composite images. Copy one image over the other and change the upper layer's blending mode and/or opacity, and you've got a great image! But you can finesse the appearance of the composite by using multiple blending modes...

Jun 27, 2005 in Photo Editing

Super-Smooth Skin: The Porcelain Look

Here's a technique for producing that absolutely, perfectly, flawlessly smooth skin. It's not appropriate for all images, but when you need perfect skin, give this trick a try...

Jun 27, 2005 in Textures & Patterns

Compound Paths: Creating a Gear

Photoshop's Pen and Shape tools are incredibly powerful tools, especially when creating complex compound paths by intersecting paths. To see how this works, let's create a gear in Photoshop...

Jun 27, 2005 in Photoshop Articles

Moving Custom Bits & Pieces to Photoshop CS

You've recorded a lot of custom Actions in Photoshop 7. You're a fiend for a good layer style and have collected dozens and dozens of them. You make a custom brush for just about every job you do. And you don't want to have to start over now that you've upgraded to Photoshop CS...

Jun 27, 2005 in Drawing Techniques

Make a None!

The Post-it® note has become part of our everyday lives. It’s simply amazing how commonly we see these little pieces of paper with their strips of sticky stuff. Not to mention the dozens of spin-off products. You can even find their electronic counterparts in many computer programs...