Background Designs
This effect has become increasingly popular for use in designing backgrounds. By using the live trace effect, you can take any stock image and transform ...
Nesting Smart Objects for Multimask Effects in Photoshop
One of the biggest drawbacks to smart filters is that all filters applied to a single layer must share a common filter mask. Fortunately, there’s ...
Working with Hair in Photoshop
Hair can be a difficult thing to work with in Photoshop. Here are some tips to help make it easier.
Video in Photoshop
Now that Photoshop CS3 Extended can work directly with video files, I’m receiving an increasing number of questions about the nuances of working with video ...
Trendy Circle Brush in Photoshop
There’s a design trend that’s blown up over the past year and it’s based around one simple shape—the circle. Not just one circle, though, lots ...
Animate the Splash Using Photoshop and After Effects
In this Olympic-inspired tutorial, Corey teaches an effect where he extracts areas of an image in Photoshop and then animates them using After effects in ...
Black and White Fine-Tuning in Photoshop CS3
In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some ways to shape and enhance the tonality of a black-and-white image with some quick and simple ...