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Mar 14
Photoshop's Background Eraser Tool
In this tutorial, we look at Photoshop's Background Eraser and how this powerful and popular image editing tool uses differences in color to easily erase unwanted background areas of a photo!
Mar 7
Photoshop Brush Dynamics Tutorials
In this series of tutorials, learn how to dynamically control various aspects of your brushes as you paint in Photoshop, including brush size, shape, color, and more, using the Brush Dynamics options in the Brushes panel!
Jan 31
Create Your Own Custom Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop ships with lots of great brushes for us to use, but it's way more fun and interesting to create our own! In this tutorial, learn how to create a new brush from scratch, and how to control the behavior of the brush with dynamic brush options!
Jan 27
Photoshop Black and White Conversion Tutorials
In this series of tutorials, learn the many ways of converting color photos to black and white in Photoshop. With few exceptions, the tools and techniques we cover here have been around in Photoshop for years and are available to anyone using any recent (and even not-so-recent) version of Photoshop!
Dec 14
Photoshop Texture Map Effect Tutorial
Learn how Photoshop's Displace Filter makes it easy to map an interesting texture to someone's face in a photo!
Dec 8
Photoshop Three Image Photo Frame Template Tutorial
Learn how to create a simple three-image photo frame in Photoshop, then how to easily convert the final result into a reusable template with Smart Objects!
Nov 22
Photoshop Worn Torn Photo Edges Effect
Learn how to easily combine the Eraser Tool with one of Photoshop's built-in brushes, along with a few layers and some layer styles, to give a photo a worn, torn edges effect!
Nov 8
Photoshop Film Strip Photo Collage, Part 2 - Creating The...
In the first of this two-part Photoshop tutorial, we used Photoshop's shape tools to create a film strip photo frame. In this second part of the tutorial, we'll use multiple copies of that film strip to create a photo collage!
Nov 1
Photoshop Film Strip Photo Collage, Part 1 - Drawing The...
In this two-part Photoshop tutorial, learn how to create a fun photo collage using a film strip as a photo frame for multiple images. In this first part of the tutorial, we'll see how Photoshop's various shape tools make it easy to draw the actual film strip itself, which we'll then be using in Part [...]
Oct 25
Creating Photo Borders With Photoshop Brushes
Learn how easy it is to create interesting photo border effects using Photoshop's brushes, including how to load additional brush sets and combine multiple brush strokes with different tools, like the Eraser Tool, for virtually endless creative possibilities!
Oct 15
Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Magnetic Lasso Tool
The Magnetic Lasso Tool is one of the best selection tools in Photoshop, giving us much better results than what the standard Lasso Tool offers in less time and with less effort and frustration. In fact, with a little practice, you may find yourself hopelessly attracted to it!
Oct 12
Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Polygonal Lasso Tool
The Polygonal Lasso Tool, another of Photoshop's basic selection tools, is perfect for selecting objects in a photo with many straight, flat surfaces or sides, allowing us to draw as many sides as we need in any direction with just the click of a mouse!
Sep 30
Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Elliptical Marquee...
The Rectangular Marquee Tool may be one of the easiest Photoshop selection tools to use, but it isn't much help to us when we need to draw oval or circular selections. That's where the Elliptical Marquee Tool comes in, and it's every bit as simple. In fact, the Elliptical Marquee Tool is really just the [...]
Sep 24
Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Rectangular Marquee...
Being able to select objects or areas in a photo is one of the most important Photoshop skills you need, but not all selections need to be complex or time consuming. In this tutorial, we look at one of Photoshop's most basic and easy to use selection tools, the Rectangular Marquee Tool, perfect for making [...]
Sep 16
Photoshop Selections - Why Do We Need Selections?
There's lots of ways to make selections in Photoshop, but having lots of ways to do something doesn't explain why we need to do it in the first place, so in this tutorial, we'll look at why we need to make selections in Photoshop at all, and why Photoshop doesn't see things like we do.
