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The How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop, Part 6: Digital Art

For artistic readers, Photoshop offers digital painting options few other painting or photomanipulation programs can equal. Whether you want to draw for a living, or simply want to paint for fun, learning the painterly side o…

Eric Z Goodnight Nov 20th, 2010

The How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop, Part 5: Beginner Photo Editing

Photoshop is named “Photoshop” for a reason; it’s for editing photographs. Take a look through some basic photo-editing techniques and learn how you can improve your own family photographs.

Eric Z Goodnight Nov 12th, 2010

The How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop, Part 4: Basic Menus

Photoshop has a huge menu system with options even advanced users may ignore. For today’s lesson we’ll take a quick tour through them and learn which of them will help you increase your mastery of photo editing….

Eric Z Goodnight Nov 9th, 2010

How To Use JavaScript to Save Time by Automating Photoshop

The most basic of basic programs, the Photoshop CS5 Scripting Guide provides a sample “Hello World” script to help us leap in and get started. We can see a few things going on here: units are set to inches, a new document…

Eric Z Goodnight Nov 8th, 2010

The How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop, Part 3: Layers

Your layer panel is one of the most important within Photoshop. Whenever you use Photoshop, you’ll work spend a lot of time working in it.

Eric Z Goodnight Nov 1st, 2010

The How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop, Part 2: Panels

One of the best features of Photoshop is one of the worst, as well: you are overwhelmed with options. Have a quick look through the default panels and learn more of what Photoshop can do in your hands….

Eric Z Goodnight Oct 27th, 2010

How to Create a Pumpkin Carving Stencil in Photoshop

Sick of the same boring Jack O’Lantern faces? For something different this year, fire up Photoshop and make your own custom stencils out of Photographs or nearly any kind of image.

Eric Z Goodnight Oct 26th, 2010

The How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop, Part 1: The Toolbox

Photoshop is one of the most intimidating programs for any beginner, but has powerful image editing ability for any skill level. Look through a fresh install of CS5, and learn the basic tools and info to help you get started….

Eric Z Goodnight Oct 25th, 2010

Use Photoshop Channels to Elegantly Remove Backgrounds from Images

There are those occasions where the Magic Eraser is just too frustrating to use and there’s an opportunity to remove the background without all of that tedious erasing. In this How-To, you’ll see how to use Channels to remove…

Eric Z Goodnight Oct 12th, 2010

How to Use Photoshop Smart Objects to Automate Multi-Object Editing

Ever lay out a page of multiple business cards (or other project) to print, only to have to come back to perform dozens of annoying edits? Photoshop Smart Objects can automate this process and turn dozens of annoying steps in…

Eric Z Goodnight Oct 11th, 2010

Quickly Remove Backgrounds in Photoshop Using the Magic Eraser

One of the most common questions I get from inexperienced Photo editors is “How do I remove the background from my picture?” There are probably dozens of ways in any version of Photoshop to do this, and each has its challenge…

Eric Z Goodnight Oct 8th, 2010

How to Easily Straighten Crooked Photographs in Photoshop

It happens to the best of us: we take a quick pic, hoping to blog it or print it. And despite good intentions, it never comes out straight! Here’s a quick fix in any version of Photoshop to straighten and correct perspectiv…

Eric Z Goodnight Oct 6th, 2010

Remove Complex Backgrounds from Images in Photoshop

While tools like the Magic Eraser can sometimes remove your backgrounds, the fact is you’re going to have to get your hands dirty with the eraser if you have images with complex backgrounds that need removing. While this can …

Eric Z Goodnight Oct 1st, 2010

Quick and Dirty Vintage Photo Effect in Photoshop

Looking for a quick way to transform your photos into handsome, convincing vintage art? Lots of programs offer vintage photograph filters, but these are often rough, and give unexciting, unconvincing results. With a few momen…

Eric Z Goodnight Sep 28th, 2010

How to Fix Photoshop Breaking the Escape Key in Windows

Does Photoshop annoy you by breaking the escape key in other programs? Here’s an AutoHotkey script that will let you run Photoshop and still use the escape key as usual in other programs.

Matthew Guay Jun 24th, 2010

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