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1. Vector Tutorial

by heathrowe (143 tutorials)

Jul-5-2003

This tutorial shows how to create paths or vector shapes by tracing the contours of a mini car by using the pen tool with various anchor points.

2. The Basics Of Photoshop: A Tutorial For Beginners

by psgallery (6 tutorials)

Nov-25-2003

You will need to have a good understanding of all terms and techniques covered on this page before using our tutorials, as the techniques described here will be referred to in most tutorials. Topics cover common Photoshop terms and concepts such as the workspace, layers, keyboard shortcuts, and tools.

3. Quick Mask

by arraich (24 tutorials)

May-26-2003

There are many ways to make selections in Photoshop. I do ninety percent of mine with the regular lasso tool and Quick mask. You should experiment with the other features, but I have never had any success with the Magic Wand and find the magnetic lasso tool annoying. If you have a part of your object that has a straight edge, the polygonal lasso can be useful.

4. Air brushing

by idigitalemotion (125 tutorials)

Apr-7-2004

Various basic techniques using a medium sized and airbrushing in small lines and dots of similar colors.

5. Mastering Layers in Photoshop

by webdevshed (2 tutorials)

Dec-14-2004

Learn how to work with layers by creating these buttons in Photoshop.

6. Action and Batch to Resize Images

by pagecurve (34 tutorials)

Sep-27-2005

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a custom action and use Photoshop’s batch command to process a group of images to a certain size. This is a fairly simple tutorial, but does require some Photoshop knowledge. For this tutorial, we are going to create a group of thumbnail images for a website gallery. So we are going to convert all our images to small jpg’s.

7. Beginners' Guide to Adobe Photoshop

by pegaweb (30 tutorials)

Jun-21-2003

Ever wanted to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop, but had no idea where to start?
Most Adobe Photoshop tutorials (including my own) are for people who are already familiar with Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial goes right back to the DAWN OF TIME! :) ...and is designed for the Adobe Photoshop beginner.
This basic, thirty-minute tutorial is not a comprehensive instruction manual. It only gives you the very basic features you need to know to start using Adobe Photoshop. From there, you'll quickly discover most of the other features of the program.

8. The Pen Tool

by digitalbainbridge (1 tutorial)

Feb-1-2006

The pen tool is a very useful but often overlooked item of Photoshop. Using the pen tool allows you to create an image composed and saved in curves instead of pixels. This lets you create images and logos which are infinitely resizable to any scale with applications from posters to tiny web logos. In addition to creating vectors the pen tool is also useful for clipping images and selecting sections of a picture with a very accurate precision. This tutorial shows how to create a vector based logo from a picture with the pen tool.

9. Four Keys to Better Brushing

by s3 (25 tutorials)

Jan-27-2006

This tutorial covers the four key factors to better brushing techniques: 1. Good brushes
2. Atmosphere
3. Variety
4. Coloring

10. Easiest Slideshows Ever

by photoshoplab (47 tutorials)

Apr-4-2005

You can create PDF slideshows with Photoshop in about ten seconds. This tutorial shows you how easy it really is.

11. 10 Useful Tips for Beginners

by elated (6 tutorials)

Jun-18-2003

In this tutorial we'll list 10 really useful techniques and shortcuts for Photoshop beginners. These tips will hopefully do wonders for your Photoshop skills, and speed up your work.
1. Moving Layers with the Control Key.
2. Hiding the Palettes with the Tab Key.
3. Selecting All Pixels on a Layer.
4. Double-Click to Open Documents.
5. Dragging Layers Between Documents.
6. Use Layer Sets.
7. Full Screen Mode.
8. Nudging.
9. Choosing Colours Quickly.
10. Keeping to Straight Lines.

12. Selecting and Extracting Hair

by photoshopsupport (110 tutorials)

Jan-17-2007

One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. When the model has long flowing hair and the subject needs to change location many post-production artists call in sick. Get it wrong and, just like a bad wig, it shows. Extract filters, Magic Erasers and Tragic Extractors don’t even get us close.

13. Record an Action

by binary-refinery (1 tutorial)

Oct-6-2005

This Flash video tutorial illustrates the basic steps required to record an action for batch processing or to perform repetitive tasks.

14. Difficult Extractions

by pixeladdiction (25 tutorials)

Oct-20-2004

This tutorial is going to show you a quick and easy way to remove difficult images from their backgrounds. There are many, many ways to extract an object, this is only one of them.

15. How to add a border around your photo

by perrush (3 tutorials)

Jan-7-2007

In this short tutorial we will see how to make a border around your photo by using the using the "canvas size" menu in Photoshop.

16. Learn Photoshop from the scratch, step by step the easy way

by pure-graphics (12 tutorials)

Jan-5-2007

Learn Photoshop in this guide written for beginners.

17. Typing Along a Path

by n1studios (8 tutorials)

Aug-17-2005

This tutorial shows how to type text along a path.

18. Creating Brushes

by tutorial-search (2 tutorials)

Dec-30-2006

Brushes are something you use often when using Adobe Photoshop. They are vital to add creativeness to your design. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can take almost any image and turn it into a brush.

19. Basic Layers

by arraich (24 tutorials)

May-19-2003

This tutorial will walk you through the making of a composite photo image, using a variety of Layers palette features. It touches on the basics of adjustment layers, layer masks, and briefly at the end, layer effects.

20. 101 Hidden Tips & Secrets For Photoshop

by 11amdesign (2 tutorials)

Apr-17-2007

I've used Photoshop for a long time and didn't know a lot of these. There are several that are going to make a major difference for me. Thank you so very much!

21. Making Custom Shapes

by n1studios (8 tutorials)

Mar-2-2006

This tutorial shows a quick way to create custom shapes from any image.

22. Paths and the Pen Tool

by elated (6 tutorials)

Jun-18-2003

In this tutorial we'll cover Photoshop's Paths feature. Paths are a powerful tool and a big topic to cover. They're also quite tricky to get the hang of, but once you do, you'll never look back!
As this is a very long tutorial, and covers a lot of ground, we'd recommend studying it in two or three sessions, rather than trying to understand it all in one go!

23. Batch Actions

by stephenknox (3 tutorials)

Oct-30-2005

This short one-minute video tutorial shows how to add text to every picture in a folder automatically.

24. Spiky Vector Border

by coldsteelstudios (12 tutorials)

Jul-20-2005

Learn how to create a spiky border in vector format.

25. Photo Merging

by apdz (7 tutorials)

Mar-29-2005

This is another simple tutorial that shows you how you can use Photoshops "Photomerge" function to merge together panoramic photographs easily. Some times people spend time dragging images onto a big canvas and try merging with another image manually and the whole thing becomes one ugly mess. Photoshop already does all the hard work for you so you don't have to.

26. Layer Styles Explained

by teamphotoshop (58 tutorials)

Nov-17-2005

Back in the old days, a cool effect like a drop shadow or glow was worthy of a 4 or 5 step tutorial. Then along came Layer Effects, and later Layer Styles. Now a handful of impressive special effects are at your disposal. All it takes is a few clicks and a familiarity with what is possible.

27. Cutting Objects with Quick Mask

by graphicmentor (11 tutorials)

Nov-7-2005

When you have the need to cut out a person or object from a background, one of the ways to go about it is by using the Quick Mask mode in photoshop. This feature allows you to control what you want selected, so you can easily copy, cut, and paste the object onto any other canvas or photo. In this tutorial, we'll walk through the process of cutting out a person from a scene using Quick Mask Mode, then we'll paste the person in another photo's background.

28. Tips and Tricks For Beginners

by photoshopsupport (110 tutorials)

Apr-5-2005

These Photoshop beginner tips and shortcuts address some of the most common things you'll do in Photoshop, and learning them will save you lots of time down the road.

29. Nine Tips For Writing Tutorials

by oman3d (31 tutorials)

Apr-10-2006

There are many talented people out there that have great knowledge that they wish to share, but they fail to effectively communicate that knowledge to others. It is amazing to see a lot of generous people willing to share their knowledge with the world, but writing a Photoshop, a 3D Studio Max, or a Flash tutorial that does not make sense is a waste of your time as an author and a waste of a million other people's time that attempt to read and apply your tutorial.
The following points might sound like common sense to a great number of people, but you will be amazed by the number of tutorials that you find on the web that miss these.

30. Script Event Manager for sRGBs4w

by heathrowe (143 tutorials)

Jun-28-2005

When you use a color profile different than sRGB, the color of your images do not look right when opened in a non color managed application, like a web browser. A solution is to convert your images to sRGB before you use Save For Web. But doing it manually can be tedious. In Photoshop CS2, here comes the Scripts Event Manager to the rescue! Its function: if a peculiar event happens, it will automatically run an action or a script.

31. Splicing Images

by forum (47 tutorials)

Mar-8-2004

How to splice images using Photoshop and ImageReady.

32. Removing the Background from an image

by forums (5 tutorials)

Dec-15-2006

Learn how to remove the background from an image using alpha channels and the selection tools.

33. Removing objects and placing them into another scene

by tutorials4ps (6 tutorials)

Mar-13-2007

Some of the very important aspects of Photoshop is its ability to remove objects (humans, tree, animals, etc..) from a given photo, and place them in another one. In this tutorial I will cover this issue and teach you how to do this step by step.

34. Vector Masking

by biorust (119 tutorials)

Jul-16-2004

Photoshop can be used for a great variety of graphical tasks, including original content creation, interface design, and texture mapping. At the heart of its functionality there are, of course, also tools for photo manipulation and compositing - many of which are overlooked by the casual user. The aim of this tutorial is to detail 'vector masks', a handy Photoshop feature which allows you to 'cut out' objects from their background, but without any actual loss to the original source picture. The major advantages to this method will quickly become apparent, and soon you will wonder how on earth you ever coped with the traditional 'eraser' technique.

35. Photoshop Tips And Tricks - Volume 2

by photoshopsupport (110 tutorials)

Nov-24-2004

Here is a collection of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.
- Flip Through Your Font Collection.
- Reset Dialog Box.
- Copy Layer Styles.
- Stroke A Path.
- Color Sampler Tool.
- Pick Up The Average Color.

36. Photoshop Tips and Tricks - Volume 3

by photoshopsupport (110 tutorials)

Apr-25-2005

Here is a collection of useful tips and tricks to improve your Photoshop skills.
- The Amazing File Browser.
- Finding The Correct Layer Blending Mode.
- Radial Blur Center Adjustment.
- Shift Drag A Layer.
- Quick Layer Effect Duplication.
- Switch Horizontal And Vertical Guides.
- Expand Canvas With The Crop Tool

37. Cut Out For Renders

by icestudiosv2 (1 tutorial)

Apr-11-2007

A technique not many people know of to cut out renders "extraction technique"

38. Macromedia Dreamweaver Settings

by photoshopsupport (110 tutorials)

Oct-2-2005

In this video clip tutorial you will learn the following:
* How to make Photoshop the default image editor in Macromedia Dreamweaver.
* How to make Photoshop the default editor for other file formats, including swf flash files.
8.7 MB / 3:46 min [Quicktime is required to view this video clip]

39. How to Install and Organize Photoshop Brushes

by brushfind (1 tutorial)

Nov-28-2005

Installing brushes is something that's extremely easy to do. But installing them and keeping them all organized is another thing all together. In this article we'll show you how to do both...install and organize.

40. Action Recording

by photoshopbee (6 tutorials)

Jul-28-2006

Actions process of photoshop which is not used because it is not well-known is in fact a feature that fairly facillitate our jobs and is extremely easy for registation. It records the processesmade with photoshop in rows and provides them to be used if necessary. Thus, it helps you do the processes which you do with complicated and sensitive settings by clicking on only one button.

41. Basics of Using Layers

by pure-graphics (12 tutorials)

Jan-11-2007

Layers are if not the greatest option in Photoshop. Most of the beginners are intimidated by this. How to use it? It is a bit abstract if you do not know some of the basics. So here it is a quick overview of The Layers.

42. History Palette

by freewebs (11 tutorials)

Jul-17-2006

You can use the History palette to revert to a previous state of an image, to delete an image's states, and in Photoshop, to create a document from a state or snapshot.

43. Creating Grunge Brushes

by devppl (25 tutorials)

Nov-6-2004

Creative method to define a brush with grunge style from an image.

44. Using Curves

by evenicoulddoit (6 tutorials)

Jan-19-2007

Curves in Adobe Photoshop, are designed to help improve the contrast in your pictures, emphasize shadows, highlights or midtones, and generally increase the style of the photo. There are many Photoshop tutorials focusing on curves - and so I would like to hopefully please you by giving you a brief detail of what exactly curves are, why they are useful, and how you can use them. I will then proceed on to notifying you of some famous curve techniques used by many such as the 'S-Curve'.

45. Layer Mask

by schemo-design (1 tutorial)

Apr-27-2003

A layer mask is used to:
- cut out pieces of a layer
- create semi-transparent parts
without loosing information on the working layer (nothing is deleted !)
Colors on the layer mask:
- white: fully visible
- grey: semi-opaque or semi-transparent
- black: not visible

46. Photoshop CS2 Vanishing Point Tool Video Tutorial

by photoshopsupport (110 tutorials)

Apr-13-2005

In this video clip you'll get a first look at the new Vanishing Point Tool featured in Photoshop CS2 (Photoshop 9). Vanishing Point lets you clone, paint and transform image objects while retaining visual perspective. In this clip you'll learn the following:
- How to draw a grid that matches the perspective of your photograph.
- How to set new source points and then clone and paint inside the grid.
7.3 MB / 3:22 min [Quicktime is required to view this video clip]

47. Batch Processing

by wundar (10 tutorials)

Jan-7-2006

Ever had like a bazillion image files you needed to resize? Well with batch processing you could have them all resized for you instead of having to open every each file yourself and resizing it.

48. Effects

by arraich (24 tutorials)

May-19-2003

Did you know that you can add styles to masks? When applied to a mask, styles react to the luminosity instead of the transparency, allowing you to create effects that cannot be achieved on layers.
Layer effects can be applied to any layer in an image. They cannot be applied to the image background layer, if there is one. Turn the background into a regular layer if you want to apply an effect or style to it.

49. Using Brushes

by thedesignworld (42 tutorials)

Mar-2-2006

You can find a lot of brushes here. It's very nice for beginners so download this now and save somewhere on disk (it is good idea to create folder called "brushes", and save brushes in it [you can also create various categories like "grunge", "abstract" and so on).

50. Graphic Design and Pre-Press Tips

by omnetwork (28 tutorials)

May-15-2006

As a beginner you have to know that design for printing has some differences than web design or other screen designs. These are some "must-know" tips for CG people who decide to start doing some pre-press and design for printing:
* Allways use CMYK
* Black should be only 100%K, not composite from all colors
* Use minimum 300DPI for Offset and 600DPI for Digital printings.
* Clean up small composite values
* Make from 3 to 5 mm overedge on every edge that should be trimmed
* Make margins at least 5mm
* Use TIFF as the final format

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