It goes without saying that everyone here has adjusted the contrast and levels in a picture. This tutorial will show you a way of safely using Auto Levels and a better way to adjust the contrast. All this can be built into an Action Script that can be turned into a droplet for drag and drop batch processing.
How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing
Sep 12th in Photo Effects, Tools & Tips by Matt Campbell
Get Going with Adobe Bridge CS4
Aug 11th in Tools & Tips by KajikIn this tutorial, we’ll take a look at one of the most underestimated and unused tool in the Adobe product family called Bridge CS4. It is available in most of Adobe’s professional Creative Suite applications and I’m sure some of you use it, but a lot of people just ignore it, not realizing its potential to speed up your workflow and help organize your files. What’s Adobe Bridge? Why should I use it? How does it work? Where to start? That’s what you’ll learn in this tutorial.
Quick Tip: Preparing Line Drawings for Coloring in Photoshop
Jul 24th in Illustration, Tools & Tips by Joe PelowIn this tutorial, we’ll be learning how to take a paper line drawing and preparing it for coloring in Photoshop. Learn to take your line drawing and clean it up in Photoshop. The image we’ll be using is an original hand drawing provided by myself. The end result is left open for experimentation. Let’s jump into it!
Making Sense of the Warp Tool – It’s All About the Lines
Jun 23rd in Photo Effects, Tools & Tips by Dennis DunbarEvery now and then a project comes along that challenges me to use one of Photoshop’s tools more than ever. This particular image was part of a series of ads I was working on with photographer Richard Radstone for a clothing line based in Colombia, South America.
Each of the ads featured a surreal representation of a different region of Colombia and was created by compositing various stock images and photos Richard shot for the job. The challenge with this one was to wrap an accordion around the palm tree like a giant snake.
Super-Handy Photoshop CS4 GPU Features Unraveled
Jun 5th in Tools & Tips by KajikThe latest version of Photoshop CS4 offers a variety of new features that save time and work. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at all the new GPU based features and how to use them. On the one hand they save you a lot of time, on the other hand they snatch your RAM away and stress your graphic card, but one things for sure, they all look cool! Let’s jump into Photoshop and take a look at what it offers!
Use Over 40 Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts to Create a Reflective Timepiece
May 12th in Tools & Tips by Tavis GloverThis tutorial will teach you basic to advanced keyboard shortcuts, all while designing an amazing timepiece! We can’t cover all of the keyboard shortcuts in this tutorial, but there are over 40 essentials here to give you a great start! Let’s get started on the way to being a super efficient designer!
How to Use Depth of Field to Create Portraits with Blown-Out Backgrounds
May 1st in Photo Effects, Tools & Tips by Sara GrayPhotographers can benefit by learning some camera and shooting principles that will improve their results. A strong photograph has a clear subject, and using depth of field to create a blurred background is one of the classic ways to isolate and play up the subject.
An understanding of this will also allow you to adjust your photos to create natural looking depth of field effects in Photoshop when needed. Let’s look at seven such principles and techniques that will help you with adjusting depth of field to focus the subject in your photos.
Professional Tips for Improving Photoshop’s Performance
Apr 24th in Tools & Tips by KajikIn this tutorial, we’ll take a look at the Photoshop Preferences to increase our Performance. With more and more features and important improvements, Photoshop gets more effective than ever. On the other hand, depending on the Photoshop version, features for working with 3D imagery, motion-based content, and advanced image analysis, greatly increase the requirements of both Graphics and Hardware.
There’s nothing worse than being detained from your workflow because of performance deficit. That’s why you should check out this tutorial to work more efficiently without wasting your time and improve your workflow and designs!
A Comprehensive Introduction to the Type Tool
Apr 21st in Tools & Tips by Alvaro GuzmanWho doesn’t know the Type Tool? This is maybe one of the most powerful and useful tools of Photoshop. We’ve all used it at least once, but do you know all its potential? That’s why I decided to write a comprehensive guide about Photoshop’s Type tool, including do’s and don’ts of the most important features of this tool.
How to Use Content-Aware-Scaling in Photoshop CS4
Mar 17th in Tools & Tips by KajikThe latest version of Photoshop CS4 offers a variety of new features that save time and work. One of them is the newly added Content-Aware-Scaling feature, which automatically preserves important areas like people, buildings, objects, as you resize your images. It saves you a lot of time, since there’s no time-consuming cropping and retouching required anymore. How and why you should use this? That’s what we’ll cover in this tutorial!




















