Archive for the ‘Photoshop’ Category

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Don’t be afraid of the pen tool.

I know some people that use Photoshop very often but still don’t want to think about using the pen tool for anything. Why? Because it does scary things, draw lines and curves I don’t want, etc…

To bad because the pen tool is in my opinion one of the most powerful tool in photoshop. I really discovered it when I learned how to delete the history vectors on curves. (more…)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Super cool tutorial from abduzeedo

Floral logo

An other blog I am reading on a daily basis. Abduzeedo is all about graphic design and tutorial covering any subject with any tools.

I have found one their article few weeks ago very impressive so I want to share it here.

http://abduzeedo.com/super-cool-frilly-bits-typography.

This will show you how to use texture and vector art to make a very nice typographic art work. Enjoy!

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Adobe Photoshop useful shortcuts

Just a quick list of useful shortcut available with Photoshop. There is a great many more but I think those are what will really save me time.

Basics shortcut like tool selection are easy to get, just over your mouse on a tool, the shortcut will appear in a tool-tip along with the name of the tool. (more…)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Create a custom shape in photoshop

If like me you tend to use some shapes more than once you migth be interested in learning how to create your own shape and add them to the photoshop shape tool. The process is quite straigth foward and save a good amount of time in the futur.

Let’s get started. (more…)

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Image resizing with photoshop and batch processing

We have briefly seen in a previous article: Photoshop, begin with action how to create photoshop action to help you with repetitive task. Now we are going to see how to use those actions and the batch function of photoshop to make them even more usefull. (more…)

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Adobe Photoshop Express, online and free

adobe photoshop express

Adobe has released recently a online version of Photoshop called Photoshop Express. Basicly it is a simple version of the photoshop you use on your computer.

It is not the first photo-editing sofware available on-line but considering the background of the creator we can expect some good result.

Registration is free and comes up with 2GB of online storage for your creations. The first page is pretty impressive by the quality of the flash.

Check it out at https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html