Photoshop Tutorials

Remove Moiré Patterns in Photoshop

A TutorialBlog.org reader writes us today with a question about how to remove a moiré pattern using photoshop. Are there any plugins for photoshop to reduce/eliminate moire patterns? — William For those of you that don’t know, a moiré is an unsightly pattern that emerges when “two grids are overlaid at an angle, or when they have slightly different mesh sizes.” (Thanks, wikipedia.) learn more  Read More →

Photoshop Tutorial: Plain Pic to Glamour Girl, Retouching Techniques. (part 1 of 3)

Greetings, pixel pushers! Today I’m going to teach you how to subtly transform a good picture into an excellent picture in just a few easy steps. By the end, you will be able to turn your pictures into beautiful portraits for business, friends, family members, even touch up your own myspace pics… This will come in handy when using your own photography on a website, or using your friends for product demonstration photos. This process is very similar to what magazines do to make sure skin... learn more

15 Places to Find Awesome Free Photoshop Brush Sets

Even the best of us creative types struggle with what I like to call “designer’s block,” staring at a blank canvas in your favorite graphics editing program for hours. It can be downright difficult to find inspiration when starting a design from scratch. I have often found that one great source of inspiration are Photoshop brush sets. learn more  Read More →

Photoshop Tutorial: Partial Color With Layer Masks

I’m going to show you how to make a black & white image with selective color, using a very powerful tool in Photoshop called Layer Masks, and painting on these layer masks using the Brush Tool. We’re also going to make the color really pop, and we could even change the color entirely. To start, I find it a lot easier to use an image which lends itself well to the effect. I look for one bright, solid color, fairly isolated from other bright colors. For this reason, I chose this image... learn more

Photoshop Tutorial: The Black & White Adjustment Layer

For those of us fortunate enough to have one of the latest two versions of Photoshop (CS3 or CS4), there is a new, more powerful and fun way to create black and white images and get a lot of control over color brightness. This is my favorite way to convert color images to black & white — I use it pretty much exclusively because it takes all the guesswork out of moving the sliders around and makes it easy to adjust complex colors. Ready? Load up your image and let’s go! [Note: If you own... learn more

Photoshop Tutorial: Black and White Images Using the Channel Mixer

Color just not doing it for you?  Or maybe you’re going for that classic look?  Here’s an easy way to create a dynamic black & white image using Photoshop. Let’s start with a little background information though, shall we?  You might be curious to know what channels are and why we’re mixing them.  The information in your color image is broken down into Red, Green and Blue information (RGB).  Photoshop seperates each of these three into its own layer with brightness... learn more

Keeping Perspective

Remember the game where you had to spot the difference in two images? Take a look at the two images below. Can you spot the difference? Compare Images If you noticed a change in the number of windows on the 3rd floor to the left of the porch area, you are right! The critical factor in making such an edit to the image is…Keeping Perspective. That can sometimes become very difficult…unless we are familiar with the Vanishing Point Filter. learn more  Read More →

Resize It! Part 2 – Using an Action in a Batch Process

In the Part 1 of Using Photoshop Actions, we set up an Action to resize our images and add a stroke just inside the perimeter of an image. Below is an example of applying that action to an image: Image with Action Applied In this second part, we will apply this action in a batch process. The end result will be an entire folder of images are resized with a stroke just inside the perimeter of each image. learn more  Read More →

Resize It! Part 1 – Recording an Action in Photoshop

Actions in Photoshop let us automate a process. For example, instead of spending the time to apply 5 steps to an image, then re-applying those same steps to more images, I only need to record an action one time, then at a click of a button, apply that same action to the other images. Actions can consist of only 1 step or up to as many steps as needed. Actions can also be used within a batch process – so that the action is quickly applied to numerous images. I use Photoshop Actions to create thumbnails,... learn more

What’s With Metadata?

Metadata. We’ve heard the word over and over. If we use Adobe Bridge, or select File Info inside any of the Adobe products, we interact with metadata. But why bother with metadata? In this post, let’s look at why we might want to pay more attention to and actually use metadata. Metadata is descriptive information. It becomes especially useful and important when our images and our designs are sent out into the world. Applying good metadata assists in finding our images again. It lets us share... learn more

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