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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.
Elated (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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A very frequently asked question in Photoshop 911 is putting text into a circle or a shape. A number of readers have asked how to put text into a shape so it runs around pictures. This is all doable so long as you remember the rules of putting text on a path.
Photoshop Tips and Tricks (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Photoshop is useful at generating interesting textures and patterns, and version 7 even has a nifty Pattern Maker filter to help you craft patterns that tile seamlessly. To create a more custom look, I like to create patterns and texture using different combinations of the built-in filters along with Blend Modes and Adjustment Layers. It's fun to spend time experimenting in the Photoshop laboratory to see what you can come up with.
Duggan, Sean. Mac Design Magazine (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Thinking Outside the Box-Shaped Photo: How to Create Cool Photo Edges in Photoshop CS2
Don't be satisfied with boring rectangular photos! Thanks to Photoshop, you can use simple techniques to create amazing edge effects and cool artistic borders that can add the ultimate finishing touch to your photos. Dave Cross shows you how easy it is to create many different variations from three key techniques.
Cross, Dave. InformIT (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Turning Portrait Into Stone Statue with Photoshop
This is a simple tutorial on how you can make a statue from a portrait with Photoshop. It is highly recommended if you're using a close up portrait of a woman/man.
ReviewZine.com (2006). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Use Actions in Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop's Actions utility is a great way to speed up repetitive image-editing jobs or quickly perform commonly used edits. This tool lets you assign a sequence of commands to a single key. Rather than going through a number of steps, the program records a set of actions and allows you to recall those same actions with a single keystroke the F12 function key, for example.
Regenold, Stephen. Presentations (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Using Color to Bring Harmony to Photographs
What do you do if the photographer is on assignment -- hundreds of miles away -- shooting an event that happens only once, and all the elements in the setting seem to work against each other? After getting the images via email the next morning I couldn't hardly call the photographer to say 'shoot it again.' In this scenario the photographer had but one chance to create the images for a web page with an important, compelling story. In situations like this the only thing you've got to work with are the camera and your senses. The serious nature of the message dictated that the audience play an important role in the overall impact of the story. However, the lights were mixed incandescent and fluorescent, giving a greenish tint to the audience when the stage lights rendered flesh tones fairly well.
Photoshop Tips and Tricks (2002). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Photoshop's zoom facility is very versatile and allows you to zoom in and out of an image in many different ways. You can even have different views of the same document open at once, with different zoom levels! In this tutorial we will explore the zoom tool and its applications.
Elated (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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In this tutorial we're going to show you some quick and easy ways to find out information about your image in Photoshop. The tutorial was written for Photoshop 4 users, but also applies to later versions of Photoshop.
Elated (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Mixing vector and photo is one of the hottest trends in the illustration industry today. We've seen this effect used in national ad campaigns from Anheuser-Busch to Hawaiian Tropic. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create this effect in Illustrator. Before you begin, keep in mind that you can download the Illustrator source fi le used in this column.
Kloskowski, Matt. Layers Magazine (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Photoshop. Fireworks. If you’re a serious web designer (and not using the GIMP) you’re going to be using one or the other. But which is best?
Smith, Nathan. Digital Web Magazine (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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The official Adobe Reference guide is available online and in PDF form. While not exactly a “quick” reference guide, it is essential for anyone who uses Photoshop professionally.
Adobe (2009). Books>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
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Setting Up Photoshop For Web, App and iPhone Development
Most people who have designed websites or apps in Photoshop will, at one point or another, have had issues trying to match colors in images to colors generated by HTML, CSS or code. This article aims to solve those problems once and for all.
Edwards, Marc. Smashing (2009). Articles>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
