It feels like summer may almost be upon us here in Europe... and to celebrate, Martin Perhiniak shows how to use 2D and 3D techniques to design ornamental patterns for a poster in Photoshop. (Part 2).
Masks are wonderful things in Photoshop... but they rarely are perfect straight out of the box. Iain Anderson shows how to improve them with some selection tricks.
So, you can climb a mountain... but can you make it fly above the ground? No? Nor can we. But, Martin Perhiniak shows how to bring fantasy to life using Photoshop CS6 - with reality defying results.
Go for the icy look by creating this eye-catching movie poster, with a distinctly wintery feel, in Photoshop. Martin Perhiniak shows you how to create something so stunning it'll freeze your screen.
Modifying a photo from a portrait to landscape while keeping a realistic looking background used to be impossible. Not so with Adobe Photoshop's Content Aware Scale feature. David Smith explores.
In Photoshop it is possible to remove all colors except one using masks. David Smith demonstrates an even simpler technique for applying color pass on photos. No messing with masks required!
Photoshop can handle removing even the trickiest of backgrounds from an image. But when other tools come up short, the Blend If function can come to the rescue. Iain Anderson zaps some pixels!
Ever wanted to give a car/van/*insert preferred object here* a brand-new paint job, but were unsure exactly which colour to go for? David Smith shows how to pimp a car's paint job in Photoshop.
Creating complex filters in Photoshop need not lead to destructive and fixed results. Iain Anderson reveals his workflow for creating fully editable and non-destructive filters for Photoshop CS.
Have you been considering using a graphics tablet to help you get the most out of Photoshop? Iain Anderson demonstrates how to control brush options and more with a Wacom Intuos.
Giving a sense of movement to a static, still image can be immensely fun and useful in all sorts of ways. David Smith cuts to the chase with this Photoshop CS5 article on creating speed effects.
For anyone who has ever attempted to create Graphics in Photoshop intended to be edited into a video sequence and delivered via a TV screen or monitor, the results can be very disappointing.
Making stylized line-art or shape-art style images is normally the domain of Illustrator. However, Photoshop can be used to good effect. Toby Pitman outlines this stylized creation process.
Actions are a really great way to save time when repeating common processes. But Photoshop can go one better with Batch Processing to automate those repetitive tasks so you can sit back and relax.
So you've created excellent, pixel-perfect vectors in Illustrator. What next? Import them into Photoshop with ease. In this tip (with project files included) learn how to use Vector Masks in PS CS5.
Wood textures! You can never have enough of them! Well in this tutorial I'll show you how I go about making quick and easy wood grain in Photoshop. The process is highly customizable and can be kept a
There are plenty of ways to create cool looking grunge effects in Photoshop; and if you have some textures or custom brushes handy, you can really achieve some spectacular results.
Can Photoshop CS5's Content Aware Fill Help My Photography Stay Authentic?
The truth of my photography lies in my intention, that is, how I intend my photograph to look and what it says to it's viewer