Spot colors can be used with CMYK or Multichannel documents intended for print to add additional colors, create "bump plates," and to control varnishes. They can add a bunch to your printing bill. Or they...

Before we move on to the next subject, I want to talk a littl bit more about slices and the slice tool in Photoshop. Last week we sliced up our web page into bits and pieces that we could place into our HTML tables for our web site. We used Image Ready to make slices out of guides. What happens if y...

Using masks rather than the selection tools is somewhat like working in grayscale instead of bitmap mode. Masks offer much finer control of how f...

A layer mask is great for creating masks for a single layer. But what happens when you have several layers that you want to mask all at once? Well, let's find ...

Custom gradients are the key to many of the coolest Photoshop tricks and effects. If you produce photo-realistic work or simulated 3D, gradients are ...

Let's have some fun dabbling with gradients. First let's take a look at our options in Photoshop, then well do a little creative applying. To begin with, you select the gradient tool from the toolbar. With Photoshop 6 we are given a gradient Options Bar, similar to other tool selections lik.....

1. Start buy opening the image you want to extraxt. Go to Filter > Extract (Alt + Ctrl + x). Choose the Edge Highlighter Tool (B) and in the Tool Options menu set the Brush Size to 20 and check for Smart Highlightings. Mark the edges of the areas you want to retain until it's completely out....

1)Open the pic that has something that you want to cut out. 2) Goto FILTER > EXTRACT now click on the marker icon on the left. 3) slowly start to outline the thing that you want to cut out. I usually zoom......

I was working on a magazine this weekend and after scanning and cropping about 50 pictures I stumbled across something I never noticed before, if I doubled click...

Creating Custom Brushes After using the brushes others have created for some time, you may desire to create your own, either for your personal use or distribution. One thing you may have noticed is that when you download someone else's brushes, they come "packaged" ...