I find these tools very useful in alot of ways. Here is just one way you can use these to to add some detail into a design. I started off with a simple orb, not really that shaded or anything. ...

Some people find the pen tool to be a fairly hard tool to use. In this tutorial I am going to show you some of the tips+tricks to using the pen tool, as this tool plays an important part in creating images. The pen tool is sometimes used for selecting certain pa...

1) Open a new file, around 500 x 400pixels, with a transparent background. 2) make a square. 3) Click on the polygon eraser tool 4) select a region around your square that you want to cut out. 5) click the delete button on your keyboard **For some people you must rasterize...

I learned this really simple technique from my cousin, so many ThX (as always) to him, cause it saved me a lot of work. 1. The whole idea of this tutorial is to show how to straighten a crooked image. You probably don't have one, so open a random image and go t...

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.....