Beveled Steel Type

Brushed metal is always a cool effect to pull off in Photoshop. And after you’ve created your steel texture, what better place to use it than to produce beveled steel type?

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Depth of Field

Shows how to simulate a depth of field effect using a filter.

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Easy Duotones and Silhouettes

Using the Blend If sliders in the Layer Style dialog box, you can quickly and easily create interesting duotone and silhouette effects.

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Fast Frames

Here's a couple of super quick frame effects to add a little burst of creativity to otherwise mundane photos.

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Find The Exact Center

Shows how to find the exact center point of your Photoshop document.

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Make Your Night Photos Pop

Some tips on how to improve photos that are taken at night.

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Photo Reflection Effect

With Apple's release of iWeb -- an amazing web site building tool -- I've been getting a steady stream of emails wanting to know how to recreate the nifty photo reflection effect which appears at the top of iWeb pages and in the slide shows (here's a sample). Adding such a reflection is a super easy way to add depth and a bit of sophistication to your photographs.

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Planet Photoshop

Tutorials on various image-editing techniques using Adobe Photoshop.

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Planet Photoshop Community

Threaded discussion forums for people working in digital image editing.

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Quickly Change a Color

Use an Adjustment Layer to easily change a color in your photo, and then quickly change it back if things don’t work out.

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Step-and-Repeat in Photoshop

'Step-and-repeat' is the term used for the process of duplicating an object and spacing or transforming the duplicates sequentially.

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Taking Advantage of Quickmask

Dave Cross shares some tips on using Quickmask in Photoshop to feather a portion of a selection.

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Tone Down Highlights

Sometimes the only thing that keeps a good portrait from being a great portrait is a little too much shine on the skin. Here’s a quick and easy way to tone down those highlights.

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