Photoshop

Creating and duplicating Vector Smart Objects

Digitip 050 – Adobe Photoshop CS2 This is part 1 in a 3 part tutorial on Vector Smart Objects.

eSeminar follow-up

Sincere apologies to those of you who have been waiting for the promised Photoshop CS2 tutorial after last week’s eSeminar. It’s been a very busy week, and I’ve not had much time to work on the promised PodCast. As the most requested eTutorial was related to Smart Objects, I’ve recorded 3 short PodCasts, that also include some other tips such…read more →

Georeferencing plug-in Photoshop

Avenza released a while ago a georeferencing plug-in for Photoshop CS2: Geographic Imager. A suite of plug-ins available for Mac and PC, that uses georeferencing data to create mosaics of mutliple images, and applies required transformations, whilst retaining access to the georeferencing information. The application uses Ground Control Points for positioning purposes and is useful for cartographic, aerial photography merges….read more →

Blur with Gradient

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

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

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

Digitip 017 – Adobe Photoshop CS Updated 1-Feb-2010 (few typos fixed). 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

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 image updates at a…read more →