Advanced Color Correction with Levels
Posted by on Friday, June 18, 2004 in
The more I use levels on a daily basis, the more powerful levels and curves become. A simple adjustment layer can be a quick and painless method to restore color the way it was intended. • I recently wrote my own steps for using the levels command and although this is similar, it offers new …
Photoshop History Quiz
Posted by on Friday, May 21, 2004 in
This is a month old but I just came across this site via a link from TextBased.com and StopDesign. Design by Fire had a contest for an autographed copy of Photoshop CS for the first person that could answer the following questions: (I've included the correct answers)
Detailed Selections Using Channels
Posted by on Friday, May 7, 2004 in
I had some fun writing about the details in my last post about levels so here is another attempt at a mini Photoshop tutorial. • This week I was in the need for a custom graphic of a country map. I didn't want to spend all day trying to draw it by hand but I did have a bitmap image. However this …
Using Levels in Photoshop
Posted by on Thursday, April 29, 2004 in
I recently did a review over on silverorange Stuff that required a few photos of my camera. The camera is discontinued and photos were simply not available online from the manufacture. I set out to accomplish this myself. • I realize there are probably a number of better ways to do this and also …
Font Type Descriptions
Posted by on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 in
This months newsletter from Colin Smith of "PhotoshopCafe.com create, don't steal" gives some nice descriptions of the main font families. • “Serif: A serif is the little tick on the ends of the characters on fonts such as Times Roman. These serifs are added to fonts to assist in reading. The …
Graphic Resolutions
Posted by on Friday, April 2, 2004 in
“via: Photoshop User • Make certain that you're using the appropriate resolution for your files. It's amazing how many people design Web graphics at 300 ppi. Try these Adobe recommended Resolutions to give yourself and Photoshop a break.” • Output • Resolution • Mac monitor • 72 ppi …
Hexadecimal Color
Posted by on Thursday, December 4, 2003 in
I read something today that I probably should have already known but here is a quick example of how RGB colors relate to your HTML values. (Hexadecimal values have a base 16 ranging from 0-F equal to 0-15. ex: B = 11) • example using #2C8A29 or R44, G138, B41 • 2C -> 2*16+12 = R: 44 • 8A …
Photoshop Art
Posted by on Thursday, November 20, 2003 in
dhabih eng - myworld:myreality seems to be abandoned but left behind an amazing step by step process bringing a pencil sketch to life using Photoshop 3.05 and a WACOM digital art tablet. (right image: Before and After comparison.) • More can be found in the gallery and when you're this good, you …
Blending Layers in Photoshop
Posted by on Tuesday, July 1, 2003 in
If you are using Photoshop, you are probably dealing with layers and the different types of blending modes. I'm also sure that many are like me and scroll through them to get the effect but can't explain what they are doing. • This video (17.6 mb .mov file) from dvgarage explains what each blend …
Converting Raster to Vector
Posted by on Saturday, March 29, 2003 in
An excellent video on how to convert a Raster image into a Vector based image.