photoshop
Blur with Gradient
Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Digitip 039 - Adobe Photoshop
My dad asked me a question on how to blur an image, whilst having the blur occur gradually. The following tutorial provides one method you can use to achieve this.
Chalk and tear-off edge mask
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Digitip 030 - Adobe Photoshop CS
A quick tip on how to create digital tear-offs using Photoshop’s default chalk brush.
Layer Mask from Grayscale Image
Sunday, July 25th, 2004
Digitip 025 - Adobe Photoshop CS
(revision 1.1)
During a Saturday training session, one of the trainees asked a question about creating a layer mask based on an existing greyscale image. A solution was found, that seemed too much like a work around. The following tip uses a copy-’n-paste approach.
Shadow/Highlight vs. Selections/Curves
Thursday, November 20th, 2003
Digitip 017 - Adobe Photoshop CS
(revision 1.2)
After seeing the new shadow/highlight Image adjustment command recently I got pretty excited. I’ve compared this new command against a more conventional selection and curves based technique used for (shadow) contrast and detail enhancement and found it to be much less distorting on 8-bit images.
Soft edged transparency effect
Sunday, August 3rd, 2003
Digitip 013 - Adobe Photoshop 7
How do I create one of those nice looking soft edge transparency effects on a photo? There are dozens of methods of creating this effect in Photoshop. The following is a quick ‘n easy method, that not only retains the original image information, it also allows for quick ‘n easy […]
Colouring a Cartoon
Sunday, May 25th, 2003
Digitip 008 - Adobe Photoshop 7
Building on Nick Hodge’s spot colour Photoshop / InDesign tips I thought it would be nice to show a way of creating a simple cartoon, using one(spot)colour and black in Photoshop. It includes using a layer effect to spice-up the look a bit and calculations to extract the different colour […]
Cache and the File Browser
Thursday, April 24th, 2003
Digitip 005 - Adobe Photoshop 7
When you view the image contents of a new folder using the File Browser, you must have experienced a delay in the viewing process at times. As you open a (new) folder, Photoshop looks “into” each file and extracts its metadata (file information) and a thumbnail (the preview).
Amending File Browser width
Thursday, April 24th, 2003
Digitip 004 - Adobe Photoshop 7
Do you find that when the File Browser is docked to the palette well you can’t make the browser window wider only deeper? Use the following workaround to make the browser window wider.