Photo Tuts Tutorials

Photoshop: Working with CMYK Ink Density

If you design for print, and specifically for materials that will be printed on traditional offset lithography presses, you either already know about Total Ink, or really should know. In offset lithography, your designs are replicated on paper by little dots of ink of various colors (typically, Cyan / Magenta / Yellow / Black, or “CMYK”, and “spot” colors). These little dots of ink hit the paper in what is known as a halftone pattern. If you bust out your loupe and take a... learn more

Photoshop: Which Anti-Alias Setting is Best?

Without going into too much gory detail, anti-aliasing is the term used to describe how the edges of shapes get rendered with pixels. With anti-aliasing turned off, pixels are either just “on” or “off” and you see jagged edges. As we will see later, in some scenarios turning off anti-aliasing is the best option. With anti-aliasing on, the edges of shapes have semi-transparent pixels applied to give a smoother appearance. But as you can see in Photoshop, anti-aliasing isn’t... learn more

How To Use Layer Comps in Photoshop

Ever since CS, Photoshop has had a feature called “Layer Comps”, which is largely underutilized by designers. The concept of the Layer Comps is very simple, it’s just a quick way to take a “snapshot” of which layers are turned on and which layers are turned off in your document. Think “compositions”. Some Adobe Photoshop files get to be VERY complicated in terms of number of layers, and it can be useful and efficient to be able to jump back and forth between... learn more

Make Repeating Seamless Tile Backgrounds with Photoshop

This tutorial is a guest post by Pixblix.com Not every image will lend itself well to a repeating background. I like to select a portion of an image that already has a bit of a pattern to it and also has similar colors, say for example a group of flowers. For this tutorial, I’ve chosen an 800×600 portion from a picture of spring fruit tree blossoms. For now it is much easier to work with a larger image than a tiny one; you can resize the tile when it is finished. The objective... learn more

6 Creative Reasons for Applying Blur to Photos

Blurring, at it’s most fundamental level is the softening of an image. It is standard procedure to use a very slight blur on photos straight off your digital camera as often they are overly sharp. Sharpness, of course, isn’t a bad thing but it is more beneficially applied at the end of your retouching sessions than at the beginning. There are many other (more creative) uses for blur though. Here are some examples. To Imply Depth Depth of field looks best when done in the camera, but when... learn more

Christmas Photoshop Brushes

In our previous Christmas Photoshop tutorials roundup we learned a few simple techniques, lets take it a step further so you can create your own designs and list some Photoshop brushes you can download for free … learn more  Read More →

Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

As Christmas approaches us, there are lots of things that designers are required for; Christmas Cards, E-Cards, Wrapping Paper – why not make your own for that custom Christmas feel. Today lets take a look at some tutorials to help you with Photoshop … learn more  Read More →

Daily Photography

If you are a photographer, you should work on improving your skills every day even if you have already achieved good results in this sphere. Reading photography books, communicating in photo forums and taking photography classes can be good practice, but these activities will not help you learn how to efficiently manage your photography equipment. learn more  Read More →

10 Websites with Great Photography

Photography can make or break a website – got a great site with lame pictures, then you’ve got a lame website. Today we’re going to take a look at the ones that got it right… learn more  Read More →

Free Photoshop Plugins

Plugins and filters extend Photoshop by providing new functionality and effects that you wouldn’t otherwise be able to achieve or by simplifying a process. There are lots of plugins that you can buy but in the TutorialBlog way we are going to be taking a look at the best of the free plugins … learn more  Read More →

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