PhotoShop has many many tools at your disposal, and are offering even more with every release. With all these tools at your fingertips, it is good to know the quickest way of getting to them. This is where Keyboard Shortcuts can come in very handy. At the press of one, two or three keys, you can select a tool or apply a filter without moving your mouse across the screen and clicking and finding. This tutorial is aimed at CS3 Extended, primarily, but the majority of shortcuts will be the same in older versions as well. You will learn the most common keyboard shortcuts in this article, as well as...

Around the web you have probably noticed a variety of simple, clean-looking backgrounds such as diagonal, vertical and horizontal lines but don't know how to recreate the look. This tutorial will show you how to create lined patterns to use on backgrounds. Server Intellect assists companies of all sizes with their hosting needs by offering fully configured server solutions coupled with proactive server management services. Server Intellect specializes in providing complete internet-ready server solutions backed by their expert 24/365 proactive support team. In this demonstration, we will use the...

In PhotoShop, we have the ability to create transparent GIF and PNG images. In this tutorial, we will look how we can export images to maintain the transparency we create in PhotoShop, so that we can have a background image or color show through. Yes, it is possible to find a good web host . Sometimes it takes a while. After trying several, we went with Server Intellect and have been very happy. They are the most professional, customer service friendly and technically knowledgeable host we've found so far. We will start with the following image: At present, we have a White background on the Padlock...

One of PhotoShop's main uses is for such Photo-Editing tasks as removal of objects from images. One of PhotoShop's built-in tools for this, Extract, can seem a little confusing and daunting at first. This tutorial will show you how to use the Extract tool in PhotoShop. If you're looking for a really good web host, try Server Intellect - we found the setup procedure and control panel, very easy to adapt to and their IT team is awesome! In this demonstration we will be using this image and extracting the man: You'll notice that we have our view at 50%. It is important to have a relatively large and...

Part Two Continuing on from Part One , in this tutorial, we will look at other Layer Styles that PhotoShop has to offer. We will create a new document for this tutorial, and will apply styles to different layers. We used over 10 web hosting companies before we found Server Intellect . Their dedicated servers and add-ons were setup swiftly, in less than 24 hours. We were able to confirm our order over the phone. They respond to our inquiries within an hour. Server Intellect 's customer support and assistance are the best we've ever experienced. First, we will start with a blank canvas of size 400x300...

PhotoShop has the ability to let you use many custom tools - and even develop your own. One of these tools is brushes. PhotoShop allows you to download new brushes from the internet, and even create your own. Custom PhotoShop brushes can be downloaded from many places on the web, one of which is the Adobe Exchange . If you're looking for a really good web host, try Server Intellect - we found the setup procedure and control panel, very easy to adapt to and their IT team is awesome! This tutorial will show you how to install custom brushes into PhotoShop to use in your compositions. The first thing...

Layer Masks have a lot of power in PhotoShop. They are used to block out (or mask) certain parts of layers so that other layers can be shown in only certain areas of the document. What's great about layer masks is that they are not destructive - they can be undone and changed, as opposed to erasing parts of your image. We chose Server Intellect for its dedicated servers, for our web hosting. They have managed to handle virtually everything for us, from start to finish. And their customer service is stellar. In this example, we will show how we can simply add a mask to a layer, and what we can do...

Part One This tutorial continues our Introduction to PhotoShop series and will introduce you to Layer Styles. Since they were implemented into PhotoShop, Layer Styles have exploded and become one of the most commonly-used features of the popular graphics creation software package. In this tutorial, we will look at how we use Layer Styles and what we can achieve with them. We used over 10 web hosting companies before we found Server Intellect . Their dedicated servers and add-ons were setup swiftly, in less than 24 hours. We were able to confirm our order over the phone. They respond to our inquiries...

This tutorial is part three of Introduction to PhotoShop. You can read Part Two here if you haven't already. Need help with Windows Dedicated Hosting ? Try Server Intellect . I'm a happy customer! This tutorial is aimed toward Adobe PhotoShop CS3, but most PhotoShop versions will largely be the same with regard to this article. In the last part, we looked at adding text to a document and using layer styles. In this part, we will look at using Filters. We can use the document we created in part two. We will create a new layer and choose the Custom Shape tool (U or left-click and hold the Rectangle...

This tutorial is part two of the Introduction to PhotoShop Basics. You can read Part One here if you haven't already. Server Intellect assists companies of all sizes with their hosting needs by offering fully configured server solutions coupled with proactive server management services. Server Intellect specializes in providing complete internet-ready server solutions backed by their expert 24/365 proactive support team. This tutorial is aimed toward Adobe PhotoShop CS3, but most PhotoShop versions will largely be the same with regard to this article. In the first part, we looked at creating a...