How to Do Dotted Border and Dashed Border

Like every other post, it's like an obligation for me to type in a short introduction. Sure, you can go ahead, look at the picture and figure out instantly what this post is all about. But then, it wouldn't look so nice in terms of presentation or space utilization right?. So, today's tutorial is about creating borders in Photoshop. We are gonna learn to make two types of borders. The first one

Creating Border For Your Photo in Photoshop

Not many of us buy picture frame anymore. Most of the things are digital these days. So, it's only natural for me to write this tutorial on how to create a simple border or frame for your digital photo. Everybody posted pictures in Facebook or blogs but not many posted pictures with borders and frames as cool as what I'm about to show you later. So, why not be different (or if your prefer to call

Tips on Using Light Textures on Your Photo

Last week we did a blog post showing a great collection of free light textures for your download. And in that post, we promised to make another post this week about some tips on how to use them for decorating your photo or design. Promises are something we all should try best to keep, and we intend to do just that here. So, keep reading and maybe you'll be struck by some useful idea and

How to Make Rounded Corners in Photoshop

Tired of regular pointed edges on your picture? Let's try something new today. I'll show you how to get the rounded corners on your image. It's so easy but maybe a large amount of the Earth population have not figure it out yet (or just don't care). This is just one of those fast tutorials I tend to write when I'm not in the mood to indulge myself in a complicated thought. Hope this will be

Photoshop Tips and Tricks for Beginners

If you're a beginner or haven't been enlightened about these tips and tricks that you can do in Photoshop, I hope this compilation page might be useful for you. We'll keep adding more tips and tricks as life goes on, so it might be wise to bookmark this page if you're interested to learn more about this awesome software we hereby called Photoshop. There are plenty of ways for you to better

Guidelines to Use Our Photo Effect Action

Some of the resource we offer here is 'Action'. Action or .atn file is a series of steps recorded in Photoshop to generate a certain photo effect (or in general, anything you do in Photoshop). This recorded steps can be saved and play-back at later time to achieve the same effect on different image. This action can also be shared with other Photoshop users to create the same photo effect. All you

Photo Editing with Adjustment Layers

Today's tale is about the adjustment layer in Photoshop CS and why you should be using it instead of the regular image adjustment from the menu. If you've read some of our tutorials, you'll notice that we often use Adjustment Layers. And in case you're wondering, what's the different between this method and the regular image adjustment method, then today must be your lucky day, because you're

Rotate your Brushes in Photoshop

This post will enlighten you on how to change the angle of any brush in the Brushes palette quickly and easily in Photoshop. Before I discovered this method, I used to rotate my layer to get the desired effect of some designed-for-corner brushes in Photoshop. For instance, the brush below is designed for the lower right corner of your canvas. What if you want to put it on the top left of your

The Rule of Thirds in Design and Photography

The Rule of Thirds, one of the most popular rules in Photography, can be applied in painting, design and shooting movies too. It's useful to remember this rule when you're taking pictures with your digital camera or later cropping your digital image in Photoshop. In most cases, applying this rule will create a big difference in your image. And yes, it's a good difference.The rule states that:1.

Must Know Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

When I first started this blog, my goal is to compile everything I've discovered about photoshop and share them with all photoshop newbies out there. So today, I'm writing about Photoshop keyboard shortcuts. There are really huge amount of keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop and I admit, even I don't remember them all. So, here's the plan..pick some shortcuts for the tasks you often use. Memorize it

How to Save and Use Patterns in Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to save an image or picture and use it as a new pattern in Photoshop. This is very useful when you download a small pattern image but wanted to use it as a background for a bigger canvas. Most patterns downloaded from the web are repetitive in nature. Once you know how to sort of install it in your pattern palette, the size if the pattern image shouldn't be a

Create Sunburst Pattern or Rising Sun Effect

This tutorial will teach you how to create that famous sunburst effect you often see in retro or pop art design. Also known as the Rising Sun effect. And it's not complicated at all. You can probably have the sun rising on your canvas in less than a minute. It's a great way to get this funky stripe texture as a background for your poster design. Another way would be to download a sunburst brush,

Smart Guides in Photoshop

I just found out about Smart Guides in Photoshop. I know...shocking right? I should have known about this amazing function in Photoshop a long time ago. For those who already knew about Smart Guides..well, good for you. For those who have no idea or whatsoever, I'm gonna enlighten you today..spread the knowledge so that everyone's lives will be so much easier after this..well, at least when

How to Use Coloring PSD Files

This tutorial will guide you on how to use the coloring psd files downloaded from this blog. It will also include some tips and tricks to fully utilize those psd files not only to get the coloring you want but also generate new coloring for your image. When we created the psd files, we tried to use only adjustment layers. So that, when you downloaded them, you still have the flexibility to adjust

How to Use the Icon Coloring Actions atn Files

The action files (.atn format) is included in some of my tutorials to simplify your life. You can load this file in your action palette in Photoshop and hit the Play button to achieve the coloring effect with just one click of a button. Further instruction below..Note: This tutorial is written specifically for the action files available with my icon coloring tutorials. If you wanna know more

How to Use Photoshop Actions Tutorial

Looking for some actions in your life? Well, here's one...a Photoshop action. Then you ask, 'what's that?' In plain English, what Photoshop action does is, record the steps you do in Photoshop and then you can replay these steps over and over again with just one click. Essentially, it's like having a robot..first, you show it what to do. Then, whenever you want to do the same thing, you just

Remove Background Using Extract Filter

Another way to delete background out of an image in Photoshop is by using the Extract Filter. It may not be the most precise tool for background removing but it gives you a pretty decent selection that you can clean up afterward. With some images, the clean up process might not take that long. If you're not really familiar with the Pen Tool, then the extract filter technique is a simple and easy

Cutting Image Out of the Background Using Pen Tool

Today I'm gonna teach you a technique to cut an image out of the background in Photoshop. Though there are several ways to get the background out of the way, today's tutorial will involve just the Pen Tool (P). Now, don't run just yet. I know, some people said, the Pen Tool is not for beginners, but I don't agree to that. It's so easy to use once you've tried it. So really, you don't have to be

Simple Image Blending Technique in Photoshop

There are many ways to blend images together in Photoshop. But as a start, let's find out the easiest way to do this for all the beginners out there who just discovered Photoshop. Of course, as you move forward, you'll figure out how to use brushes for extra impact on your blended image or add textures for interesting result. But Layer Mask and Gradient Tool are two basic techniques to get you

Icon and Avatar Cropping Tips

The crop tool allows you to select an area of an image and discard everything else outside this area. When making icon, some people like to crop first then proceed to do the coloring from there. If you ask me, I do cropping in the end. Why? well, because I can do the coloring on one image and just crop them differently to get 4 to 5 icons...maybe more. So now, the question is...what is a good