Filters add spice to Photoshop. They can fulfill the need of beginner as well as professionals. The first time user of Photoshop can just open an image and apply filters with single click. Professional will be more serious and can create wonders out of it...

1. Here is a few simple things to watch out for when using 'Slices' for your web designs/layouts.
2. Organization and Naming Conventions. The above is an example of a single page layout. Iv’e got all my layers organized into Folders...

The main difficulty with trying to separate an image from its background is that there are pixels which cover an area of the picture which is partly foreground and partly background...

1. Find any image you'd like to use. Make sure your image is NOT in the background layer. Make sure your background is set to the color you'd like the image to blend into(ex. background color of your webpage). 2. Select the Rectangular Marquee tool. Create a square in the photo. Let enough r.....

This tutorial, geared towards Photoshop novices, gives an overview of the many interfaces in Photoshop. You will practice working with the toolbox, palettes, the option bar, and tool presets. Toolbox Photoshop's toolbox contains all the tools available to you. The toolbox contains fly-out or s....

Let's take a looks at our Palette Hotkeys. Pressing these will help find or hide some of the palettes and save some clutter in your workspace.

I find these tools very useful in alot of ways. Here is just one way you can use these to to add some detail into a design. I started off with a simple orb, not really that shaded or anything. ...

Some people find the pen tool to be a fairly hard tool to use. In this tutorial I am going to show you some of the tips+tricks to using the pen tool, as this tool plays an important part in creating images. The pen tool is sometimes used for selecting certain pa...

1) Open a new file, around 500 x 400pixels, with a transparent background. 2) make a square. 3) Click on the polygon eraser tool 4) select a region around your square that you want to cut out. 5) click the delete button on your keyboard **For some people you must rasterize...

I learned this really simple technique from my cousin, so many ThX (as always) to him, cause it saved me a lot of work. 1. The whole idea of this tutorial is to show how to straighten a crooked image. You probably don't have one, so open a random image and go t...