Open up the image you want to convert. I chose an image from the stock gallery at stock.xchng.
Press CTRL+A, to select the whole document
Now select the rectangular marquee tool, And press and hold the alt button, whilst creating this second, inner rectangle.

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With an expert guide at your side, learn an effective way to blend items, such as text, into textured surfaces.

Now that you've got a selected area (the wall in this case); go to Image: Adjustments: Hue/Saturation. Click on the Colorize box. Now you can move the Hue sliders around to choose a value which you can preview in real-time to see your wall change color...

In this tutorial, i'll show you how to make a text effect with a light burst coming through from behind.

Concept: Darken mode selects the Dark color as a result. Lighter Pixels are replaced and darker pixels do not change.

Photoshop tracks all the changes from the time you opened your image to the time you close it. This feature allows you to go back in time to any particular state* of the edited image.

The magic eraser tool can be a nice and quick tool to use in the right circumstances. Start out with a clean background image. This tutorial will help you to better understand it. I recommend that you duplicate the background layer first, by dragging it to the new layer icon...

Learn three different ways to save every step you take during a design process without losing the information when closing the file.

What is a RAW file and what makes it so outstanding ? I really will try to keep it simple When we talk about digital image we have to remember that it is not film anymore, most features of an image like color, temperature , contrast light etc.

The Zoom Tool magnifies / reduces the image view without changing the image data.
In the Toolbox, select the Zoom Tool. As default the tool magnifies the view, so the cursor looks like this...