Everyone needs to know how to blend images into each other!

Primarily an artworking and retouching tool, the Healing Brush allows you to correct blemishes and errors and remove parts of your photos and images.

This tutorial will show you how to make a panorama from two pictures. With Photoshop options you can make giant pictures.

If your anything a hobbyists with Photoshop as I am, you may find yourself experimenting with a new technique or mixing filters. I usually start with a prefab document size. Here is a great way to help simplify this new document preset with minimum clicks...

Matt Kloskowski shows how to use Smart Objects in Photoshop CS2 with Illustrator to make your life easier.

The Eyedropper Tool defines the foreground / background color.
In the Toolbox, select the Eyedropper Tool. Click somewhere on your image to define the foreground color. Look how foreground selector on the Toolbox changes...

We know about blend modes, and they are a truly powerful thing, but how can we use them to our advantage?

1. In the Optimize palette, select GIF in the format menu. The palette changes; lots of options appear!
2. GIF images may have very limited amount of colors (up to 256); the less colors contained in image, the smaller file we get. First, let's choose a color reduction algorithm (movie)...

Using masks rather than the selection tools is somewhat like working in grayscale instead of bitmap mode. Masks offer much finer control of how filters, effects, and colors are applied.

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, August 2006
This is a great video tutorial that will show you how to make some really nice multi-photo collages with Photoshop. Be sure to take a look at this one because it could definitely be helpful.