Learn how to work with Photoshop Pen Tool.

Masking allows you to hide or show certain parts of your image. You can use this method in a variety of ways. One of the most common usage is making an image fade in and out. In this tutorial, we'll show you the basic principles of masking.

We'll start by opening a new 500 x 500 pixel image in RGB mode. For now you'll want to keep the background white, as this works easier. The size of the image isn't that important, it can be anything you like. Now add any shape or type on a new layer, and make the color black...

Concept: Channel mixer is suppose to be one of the best photoshop option to get grayscale image. This time we will work with all RGB channels.

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Articles, March 2007
This article on use of Photoshop will show you Optimizing Performance in Photoshop CS2. The author writes clear sections on Disabling Plugins, Managing Fonts, Managing Presets, and Managing Profiles. The article has good illustratio....

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" ...

I have given you a couple of examples to look at that are just stock brushes that Photoshop packaged with Photoshop 7. One of the things that is so cool, is that Photoshop can now "spray" brushes in different sizes, rotations and color variations creating much more realistic natural techniques. Th.....

Welcome to the continuation of the fill tutorial (from another lesson in the series). Choose the gradient tool from the toolbar. Go to the gradient menu at the top in the options bar and choose the sunset orange gradient. Now make sure the linear gradient tool is chosen as shown...

Use brush on old fashioned, real white paper to make some more or less straight lines. Scan them in gray or B&W mode on 300 pix/inch resolution.
You should get an image that looks like this:

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Articles, February 2007
Photoshop, ImageReady, and Bridge all use preference files to store application settings. In this article you will learn everything you need about preferences and documents.