1. Select the Pen Tool option (Press the letter P on the keyboard). Hold the mouse click and the drop down option reveals five different Pen options.
2. Using Pen Tool with Paths This basically creates an Outlined Work Path, with no color fill and no layer attributes...

1. At first imagine you want to create a photo gallery for the web. You want each photo to be 300 * 225 pixel and not bigger then 15 kb. O.K. of course you will say: "Oh man, shut the fuck up! I don't need a tutorial how to modify a picture". And you're right. But now imagine you don't want to ...

1. Open your image. It seems that the film was overexposed. We have to brighten it up and adjust color.
2. Create an adjustment layer Levels.
3. First, let's fix the levels for RGB (composite) channel. On the histogram graph you notice some lack of highlights. Move "light" I...

The Elliptical Marquee Tool creates elliptical selections: To create a selection In the Toolbox, select the Elliptical Marquee Tool; click on the image and drag...

Photoshop has the option to make textwrap around an image. In this tutorial you'll learn how to do this in a few easy steps!

Here's a neat trick to apply a single click transparency trick straight inside the 'Save For the Web' control panel. This works best if its's an indexed image, if your working to create a transparency to a flattened file, a pasted or imported file...

The Magic Eraser Tool automatically clears continuously colored areas.
In the Toolbox, select the Magic Eraser Tool. Click on an area to erase. Contiguous on the Options bar (selected by default) limits the tool's range to adjacent areas only...

The Smudge Tool spreads and mixes content of image areas: In the Toolbox, select the Smudge Tool. Choose brush size and style*. Set the tool's strength. Drag on the image. on the Options bar you can choose also effect mode.

The automation in Photoshop is mainly action-based. An action is a recorded sequence of your steps that can be reproduced afterwards.

In the first contest the Auto Color was the champion. However, if you are not discouraged, you may try to adjust tone manually.