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How To Make an Incredibly Easy Panoramic Photograph With Any Camera
You might know that there are special cameras for shooting panoramic pictures.
Create Cool 8-Bit Style Pixel Art from Ordinary Images
I have to be honest. I love the look of pixelated graphics! If you’re also a fan of jaggies or old school video game graphics, here is a simple trick
Improve a Lackluster Photo by Selectively Softening the Background
When you’re shooting portraits, the soft background look keeps distracting backgrounds from ruining a shot.
How To Hide Passwords in an Encrypted Drive Even the FBI Can't Get Into
Encryption tools exist to protect your privacy.
How To Make Line Tone Art (Like on Money) With Photoshop and No Filters
Printers have been using line tones to create rich looking images long before there was any digital art.
How To Animate Your Own Custom GIF with Photoshop
Creating animations from scratch in Photoshop might seem daunting, but in fact, they’re very simple.
Help Us Pick The First T-Shirt Design To Support How-To Geek!
One of the characters you might have seen around How-To Geek is our very own “Keyboard Ninja.
How To Remove The Background From a Drawing or Lineart
For those of you of the artistic persuasion, you might be using Photoshop or GIMP to color your scanned drawings.
How To Use Camera Raw Tools to Develop Digital Photographs
If you think Photoshop is the most powerful tool in a photographer's toolbox, think again.
Make A Seamless Tiling Background for Webpages In About Ten Seconds
Creating a background image for your webpage (or desktop background) isn’t challenging at all.
How to Own Your Own Website (Even If You Can't Build One) Pt 3
If you've followed along, you've bought hosting and installed Wordpress software for a swanky new webpage.
How to Own Your Own Website (Even If You Can't Build One) Pt 2
Last week we talked about how to buy and start a simple website using Wordpress.
How To Be Your Own Personal Clone Army (With a Little Photoshop)
Maybe you've always wanted more of yourself.
How To Properly Scan a Photograph (And Get An Even Better Image)
Somewhere in your home, there's a box of old analog photographs you probably want digital copies of.
Reader Request: How To Repair Blurry Photos
Ever taken a picture that has a focus that's just a little bit too soft? Today's graphics idea was requested by a reader that wanted to do something about those blurry images.
Photography: What Is A Chromatic Aberration, And How Can I Fix It?
You may have heard photographers talk about “Chromatic Aberration” like it’s a disease.
How To Create Photorealistic Caricatures With Photoshop
Even if you don't have much drawing talent, it's surprisingly easy to create a photorealistic caricature from a photograph with good resolution and a few minutes in Photoshop.
How To Make Youthful, Glowing Portraits In Under a Minute
You've seen it in magazines, photo websites, advertisements, and loads of other places---that romantic, almost saccharine look applied to an image to soften skin texture and create "glowing" portraits.
Beginner Photoshop: How To Make Convincing Fake Tattoos
While falling under the "just for fun" category, faking a tattoo in Photoshop or GIMP is an exercise that can teach you quite a lot about the program.
Why Old School Photographers Think You’re Just a Spoiled Hipster
When you learned photography the hard way, it’s hard not to see the new generation as simpletons spoiled by the advance of tech.