We've put together a list of 10 favorite Photoshop tricks, tips, and shortcuts. You're sure to find something incredibly useful.
Added: 07/05/2001,
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This tutorial shows how to use a displacement map to warp an image, and to cast light on the image in the right places, to make it look real. This process can be used to create ribbons, curtains, banners, or anything else that bends or waves. In this case, I've taken a diagram of the Australian flag, and turned it into a realistic-looking wavy flag.
Added: 09/12/2002,
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In this tutorial we'll look at using some of Photoshop's tools to produce realistic brushed-metal effects. You can easily apply these effects to text or to other objects such as geometric shapes and interface bars.
Added: 01/04/2002,
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This tutorial shows how to make a complex watermark (in this case a Sun), to help break up an area of monotone colour. Unless you plan to use nothing but photographs in your web pages and documents, the ability to create complex watermarks is essential.
Added: 09/12/2002,
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Photoshop's gradient fill tool allows you to produce all sorts of effects, from subtle shading to wacky psychedelia. We're going to show you how to use the gradient tool, make your own gradients, create 3d-like objects using gradient shading, and other fun-filled stuff.
Added: 01/04/2002,
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The Photoshop Lighting Effects filter is the most powerful built-in filter known to mankind (and probably most of the galaxy). With it you can create fantastic 3D detail in your images. In this tip we're going to show you various 3D effects applied to a simple button, using just the Lighting Effects filter and channels.
Added: 07/11/2000,
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This beginner's tutorial explains the concept of layers in Photoshop. Layers are a very powerful tool for image editing, and are a fundamental tool in Photoshop for creating complex images.
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This tutorial covers the basics of Photoshop. The step-by-step approach used throughout this tutorial will make it simple to learn the basic techniques involved in using Photoshop.
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Master the basics of Photoshop with the visual examples and easy-to-follow lessons in "Introduction to Photoshop".
Added: 02/18/2011,
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One of the best ways to advertise online is to make banner ads. I'm going to show you how to create fantastic animated banner ads using Adobe Imageready and Adobe Photoshop. I decided to make a banner ad for our very own Mouse Tamer software, and you can follow along.
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Learn how to make your photos look old... All done in a few steps in that digital darkroom all-star: Adobe Photoshop.
Added: 03/10/2003,
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This tutorial will describe how you can create a page curl effect using just the built-in Photoshop options. No extras are needed for this effect. As usual, though, you can learn more than just the actual effect. If you scratch a little below the surface of this tutorial, you'll see that I'm also demonstrating how to create paths from selections and how to manipulate them.
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This tutorial will show you how to create shapes in Photoshop. I've decided that, because there are so many people asking for Photoshop basics on Usenet, I should write some tutorials that describe how to accomplish things like drawing circles and creating drop shadows.
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Quick and Dirty tutorial on how to make halftone effects (raster effects) using Adobe Photoshop.
Added: 03/10/2003,
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Layer masks are fairly easy to use, but a little mysterious. They can, however, produce some pretty spectacular results and are worth playing around with.
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We'll show you how to make one of those trendy menus that look like one image, but are in fact several images joined together, with each image changing as the mouse moves over them. Oh, words will never do - take a look at it in action!
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This tutorial will show you some ways to select areas of your images using the variety of selection tools available in Photoshop. First we'll talk about why selecting part of an image is so useful, and then we'll examine the various selection methods in Photoshop: the Marquee tools; the Lasso tools; the Magic Wand tool; the Color Range tool; and the Quick Mask mode.
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Probably the most important tool to use in creating low-res graphics is anti-aliasing. Anti-aliasing makes the stair-stepping, or "jaggies" of diagonal edges less apparent.
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