Establishing a Photoshop work is not quite a piece of cake. Photoshop itself is a useful yet complex program, armed with various handy tools to help you alter photos or create marvelous images. In using the tools, the manual alone is not enough to guide you – you might need some tips and tricks to [...]

You no longer need to scoot the mouse around!
Using a mouse as an input device is common by the Photoshop users. It works well if you want to place insertion points in text as well as dragging a rectangular selection. However, if you are using your mouse for brush tools or selecting specific areas it [...]

In the brand new Photoshop CS3, you will find a new selection tool that enables you to quickly select broad areas of an image by simply painting them. You can use the quick selection tool where you can brush all over the areas to select them and varying the brush size as you work to [...]

Creating your dream wedding photos is not difficult - all you need is a little creativity.
Have you ever wished that your wedding photos didn’t look so bland? Have you ever wished that you had spent a little more money to have those dreamy-looking wedding photos? Well, now there’s a solution to that. If you have [...]

Layer mask is the powerful tool that enables you to open new possibilities that the traditional tools cannot do. When using a layer mask to create hidden parts of one image it may reveal parts of another image, you are now able to design new images that may get the viewer’s attention.
With the layer mask, [...]

Be creative to create your own adjustment layer with the powerful Adobe Photoshop CS3.
With Adobe Photoshop CS3, you can make a lot of adjustments to an image with the adjustment option that you can find on the image menu. Actually, if you made the duplicate from the background layer, you are able to adjust your [...]

You can add shapes to your own photo as a design element or may alter the shape of the photo itself.
A lot of times, you may feel that a photo would be much more perfect if you are adding it with a special design whether it is the shape from Photoshop itself or from your [...]

In the Adobe Photoshop CS3, you can duplicate the background layer. The background layer is the bottom-most image that you will find in the layers palette. It is the only layer when you are opening a new photograph to edit. Not only that, with the powerful Adobe Photoshop CS3, you can even change the blending [...]

This technique will give the best on a photo with a large sky area and an open horizon.
It is often embarrassing when your beautiful scenery photo has a bad sky or the scenic photo you have has a dull sky. It can be because of the bad lighting, exposure setting, or polarizing filter on the [...]

As designer, you can use the gradient tool in so many ways..

Using gradient tools to blend multiple colours as one so that you can fill a specific area in an image is quite common for Photoshop CS3 users. Well, as designer, you can use the gradient tool in so many ways. You can fill backgrounds [...]