Hot Spots Too Bright

I have a photo of a pearl necklace, which has one bright flash spot on each pearl. How do I reduce the brightness without making the pearls appear dull and gray?

Photoshop 911 (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

How to Blur the Background Around an Object

Working in your new layer, and on the item you wish to keep in focus, find a starting point, click the mouse once and begin slowing tracing around the object. Once it has been entirely traced, return to your starting point and double-click to select your object. Under the SELECT menu choose INVERSE. Then under the FILTER menu choose BLUR » GAUSSIAN BLUR. When the Gaussian Blur window appears, use the radius slider bar to choose the amount of pixels to blur. I chose 4.5 for my example. When you are satisfied with the preview, click OK.

Hill, Julie. Presentations (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

How To Blur The Background Around An Object

Julie Hill shows you a quick and easy way to enhance a photograph's point of interest using Photoshop 7.0.

Hill, Julie. Presentations (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Idea Generators  

Stuck for design ideas? Try messing around with plug-in filters for Illustrator.

Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Illustrator

Identical Twins?

For the same reason a doctor uses different types of scissors or scalpels for specific cases, or a handyman carries different types of screwdrivers, a smart designer will have the tools that are necessary to complete any design task that might arise. In many ways Photoshop and Illustrator seem to be exactly alike, but they aren't.

Golding, Mordy. Illustrator World (2005). Articles>Graphic Design>Software

InDesign Tools Palette, Part 1

This is the first of several tutorials covering InDesign CS' tool palette. It covers the Selection tools, the Pen tool and the Type tool. It also gives tips and trick on how to make selections in InDesign.

Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Software>Graphic Design>Adobe InDesign

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is hands down, the most popular program for creating and modifying images for the Web. This is true not only because Photoshop is available on a wide array of platforms ranging from Mac to Windows to UNIX, but because after four generations of development, Adobe Photoshop has the most intuitive user interface, the most complete set of tools, and the largest number of reference books around.

Extropia. Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Introduction to Digital Painting

Believe it or not, Adobe Photoshop can be used for more than just photo editing and design. Yes, despite its name, Photoshop is one of the ever-expanding range of tools available for digital painters, illustrators, and just plain doodlers. These tools are allowing people incredible freedom to express themselves and create fun pictures. Imagine reliving your childhood days of drawing and scribbling, without ever having to worry about making a mess, or running out of supplies. Best of all, digital art is much more forgiving when you make mistakes. No other medium would let you erase 1000 times, without harming your canvas one bit. At the other end of the spectrum, Photoshop can be used to create professional, print-quality illustrations with great efficiency. Here's a general introduction to the world of digital painting.

Priest, Jeff. Design, Typography and Graphics (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

An Introduction to Illustration Software  

Follas describes the differences between various types of graphic editing software.

Follas, Brian J. Intercom (2001). Design>Graphic Design>Software

Introduction to Layers

This beginner's tutorial explains the concept of layers in Photoshop. Layers are a very powerful tool for image editing, and are a fundamental tool in Photoshop for creating complex images.

Elated (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

John Trevino's Layers of Meaning

Drawing on a period of instability and change in her personal life, artist John Trevino calls on Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter to create a richly layer composition that evokes a transient state of being.

Trevino, John. Creative Pro (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Let Photoshop Do the Driving  

Photoshop's Actions feature is a powerful tool for automating repetitive tasks or even batch-processing files, and you'll work more effectively with it if you know exactly what Actions can and can't automate.

Dayton, Linnea and Jack Davis. Adobe Magazine (1997). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Make Maximum Use Of The Multiple Slide Master

Nearly every presenter knows the pain of having to merge presentations from different sources. In earlier versions of PowerPoint, such as 95, 97 and 2000, slides copied from another presentation were automatically reformatted by PowerPoint to reflect its current template design. This made it necessary to painstakingly reformat all the new slides, or to program links from one presentation to another, to make everything appear consistent. It was a time-wasting hassle. But with PowerPoint 2002 (also known as XP), the problem can now be easily solved. PowerPoint 2002 offers multiple slide masters, a feature that allows you to copy slides from different presentations and still retain their original formatting. Multiple slide masters also make it easy to design a variety of layouts within one template.

Terberg, Julie. Presentations (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint

Making the Grade  

If you thought gradients were just a matter of getting two colors together, take a look at how sophisticated they've become.

Alspach, Ted. Adobe Magazine (1998). Design>Graphic Design>Software

Merge Layers Loses Effects

When merging a layer with the layer below John lost all of the effects applied to that upper layer. Answer: Don't merge?

Photoshop 911 (2004). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Multi-Colored Glow

By using Layer Styles, this effect can be created in two simple steps. Scott Kelby shows you how to look like a professional at a beginner's level.

Kelby, Scott. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

National Association of Photoshop Professionals

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) is a trade association and resource for Adobe® Photoshop® education, training, and news.

NAPP. Organizations>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Patterns

U ovom jednostavnom tutorialu naučiće∫ kako da pomocu photoshopa napravi∫ jedan ovakav efekat na nekoj fotografiji.

Emir, Isovic. Superemir (2000). (Bosnian-Croatian) Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop 7.0 Overview

Is Photoshop 7.0 magnificent? Or does it leave us itching for more?

Thomas, Evany. Webmonkey (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop 911

Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements users ask questions, the Photoshop 911 team answers them via email or in the online BLOG. Based on the 911 Emergency concept calling for help.

Graphic Design Network (2005). Resources>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop Blends Color to Grayscale

How to take a photo, remove the color so that it's black and white. Then, I want to drag over it so that the B&W blend into color. Basically, a nice transition from no color to colorized.

Photoshop 911 (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop Crash Course

Adobe Photoshop is the Ginsu knife of graphics programs - it does everything from creating Web graphics to tweaking photos to putting the head of your favorite actor on the body of a porn star.

Frew, Jim. Webmonkey (1998). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop