Photoshop Basics Tutorials

Icon Design

Icon Design

Learn how to optimize Photoshop CS2/CS3 settings for icon design.
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Create Ocean Water and Ripples

Create Ocean Water and Ripples

Learn how to use photoshop tools to create water and ripple effect.
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Smoothing Rough Edges of a Heart

Smoothing Rough Edges of a Heart

Learn how to convert rough corners or sides into smooth lines.
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Touring the Galleries

Touring the Galleries

In this tutorial, we will go through many of the great photo galleries available.
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Make the French flag into a glass orb

Make the French flag into a glass orb

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a glass orb out of an image of the French flag.
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Aero Glass Vista Button

Aero Glass Vista Button

Draw a glossy vista like aero glass black button.
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Create a Glossy Orb

Create a Glossy Orb

This tutorial will show you how to create a glossy orb.
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Photoshop Basics

Photoshop Basics

Learn some of the basics of photoshop. Ideal for beginners.
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Image Resolution, Pixel Dimensions

Image Resolution, Pixel Dimensions

Let's look at some of the most confusing terms you'll come across when working on images in Photoshop: image resolution, pixel dimensions and document size - what it all means, why it's so important to understand, and why you may not need to understand it at all!
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Geometric Shape Effects

Geometric Shape Effects

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create spiffy-looking complex geometric shapes using pre-defined Photoshop shapes. You'll get practise with the Direct Selection Tool, as well as different Transform properties
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Install & Use Free Photoshop Brushes

Install & Use Free Photoshop Brushes

How to install free Photoshop brushes, plus 28 free frames and borders Photoshop brush set.
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Everyday Photo Techniques, Part I

Everyday Photo Techniques, Part I

Digital photographer Rick Sammon shares some tips on balancing the right amount of light and shadow in order to "make" a picture rather than "take" a picture.
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Bicubic Sharper

Bicubic Sharper

When resizing an image in Photoshop, if you use all the default settings, the image will end up with a little bit of a blur to it--hardly distinguishable, but it is there. In this tutorial, you will learn how to customize the way your image is resampled when you resize it in order to maintain the sharpness of the image.
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The Vanishing Point Tool

The Vanishing Point Tool

There comes a time in any photoshop user's life when they finally notice a little tool in the filter menu called 'Vanishing point'. But what is this strange and mysterious tool, What does it do, apart from annoy people? Nearly all, they say, is about to be revealed.
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Rubber Band

Rubber Band

The pen tool can be a little tricky to use, and until you get used to it, you might not always know where your next anchor point is going to leave you. In this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to use the Rubber Band option with your pen tool, which will allow you to see hints of what your shape will look like.
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Dotted Lines

Dotted Lines

Photoshop doesn't provide any quick means of creating dotted lines, but in this tutorial, Geoff Riggs will show you how to create your own customized dotted line quickly and easily, using the paintbrush tool.
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Tricky Selections

Tricky Selections

It's not always easy to make complex selections in your Photoshop images, but in this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will show you one very effective way to use the highlights in an image to make a selection in order to alter an image.
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Open Type Font Embellishments

Open Type Font Embellishments

In today's tutorial, Photoshop trainer Geoff Riggs shows you how to add embellishments and alter the appearance of specific letter pairings for open type fonts.
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Document Sizing Tips

Document Sizing Tips

In this video tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs illustrates a few different tips for setting document size in Photoshop, including a shortcut on how to create a new document that's the same size as your current document.
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Media Business Logo

Media Business Logo

This tutorial will show you how to design a logo to be used for a media based business.
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Designing Labels with Photoshop

Designing Labels with Photoshop

Here's a way to design labels that you can then quickly modify for related products. Photoshop's Smart Objects, align-and-distribute options, and layer groups make it easy to repeat your label design to fit the label stock.
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Photoshop History

Photoshop History

This excellent article recounts the history and development of Photoshop. The authors give not only a timetable of each development and version released, but they explain the process of incorporation of each new tool and technique.
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Intuitive Levels Adjustment

Intuitive Levels Adjustment

You may already know the basics of the levels adjustment tool, but in this video, Geoff Riggs will show you a neat little trick you may not have known. Using this method you'll be able to very quickly and effectively adjust the brightness and contrast of your image in a very intuitive manner.
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Creating a New Document

Creating a New Document

Today's tip is an excerpt from the upcoming video series, "Introduction to Photoshop CS 2" by trainer Geoff Riggs. In this video clip, you'll learn some of the basic options available to you when creating a new document in Photoshop.
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Using CMYK Mode For Photographers

Using CMYK Mode For Photographers

If you print your photos, you may want to consider using the CMYK mode in Photoshop to do your corrections. This is because most printers use some combination of cyan(c), magenta(m), yellow(Y) and black(K). So, it only makes sense to limit your colors to make sure they print correctly and with consistent results. RGB, what you are used to right out of your digital camera or scanner includes way too many colors. These colors are often interpreted by printers and the result is a muddy mess.
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Gold Flash Effect Animated Banner

Gold Flash Effect Animated Banner

Create a nice banner animation that includes a nice little flash effect.
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Changes Across Multiple Photos

Changes Across Multiple Photos

Ever wanted to resize a group of images or add a watermark to a group of images, but you just didn't have the time to do it? Well, with Photoshop's Batch processing capabilities, you can make changes to multiple images all at once. In this video, you'll learn how to add a watermark to a collection of images all at once.
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Creating Custom Brushes

Creating Custom Brushes

This tutorial will show you how to create a custom brush from any shape, start to finish. You can use these techniques to create a brush from virtually anything.
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Creating Textures

Creating Textures

We often use textures while working with web backgrounds, textures for 3d, etc. But many of them have a common problem. When you fill an area with the pattern, seams may appear.
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Brush Creation

Brush Creation

You can make brushes from any detail in your photo in just a few steps.
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