Quick Tips and Easy Tutorials For Using Adobe Photoshop

Monday, December 20th, 2010

photoshop 101 Quick Tips and Easy Tutorials For Using Adobe Photoshop

Quick Photoshop Tips For Beginners To Advanced Users

The following tutorials have been designed to help enhance and automate your projects with Photoshop. Whether your a beginner or an advanced Photoshop user the lessons below should be easy enough to follow. Each tute is numbered and accompanied by screen shots of the processes. If you have any questions or would like to see how a different aspect of Photoshop works leave a comment and I’ll be happy to create a tutorial to suit your needs.

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Photoshop Tutorial Using Clipping Masks

Masking images in Photoshop is a very useful design option that has many, many uses. Masks can be used for creating multiple graphics of the same shape. They can be used to create breath taking title graphics as well as impressive images with layered effects.

Creating masked images in Photoshop is a simple process. It’s up to the designer to provide the creativity and vision to create truly impressive graphical pieces.

How to Use Photoshop Blending Options

Photoshop blending options give your images and text some extra impact. Drop shadows, gradients, outlines, bevels and more will give your graphics that professional look you are striving for. Below I’ll be explaining the, “Blending Options”, Pallet in Photoshop.

First off to get to the, “Blending Options”, pallet right click on the layer you wish to apply effects to. You’ll get a list of options. Blending options is the second in that list.

Use Photoshop Actions To Automate Repetitive Tasks

So you have a folder with 100 images in it that need to be re-sized and have a watermark added. Doing this one at a time would take you all day, but with the use of Actions in Photoshop this repetitive task is as simple as editing one image with just a few extra steps.

Using Photoshop Blending Effects To Make Your Graphics Stand Out

If you’ve never used blending effects in Photoshop you really need to hop on board. Blending effects can be particularly handy when creating the same effect over and over. This is especially beneficial when making graphics for a website that holds a set standard. Save a psd with layer effects applied to it and you can re-create the same look and feel time and time again without re-inventing the wheel.

Today we’ll be adding effects to textual graphics.

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