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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials by Jennifer Apple
Jennifer Apple's free Adobe Photoshop tutorials deal with web and blog design, photo and text effects, and Adobe Photoshop tips and tricks for beginners.
Mysteries Of The Favicon.ico — How To Create A Favicon In Photoshop
Create tiny custom icons using Photoshop.
Photoshop Blog Templates — Blog Design Tips And Resources
Photoshop tips (resources and templates) to improve your blog templates.
Photoshop Web Template — Web Site Design Tutorial
Learn how to make a Photoshop web template with this web site design tutorial.
I See iPod People — The Photoshop Silhouette
Learn how to make an iPod ad Silhouette in Adobe Photoshop.
Resize Images In Photoshop Without Losing Sharpness
This simple Photoshop trick will eliminate the blur often found after resizing.
Turn A Photo Into A Sketch In Photoshop For Making Coloring Books
Use Adobe Photoshop to turn a photo into a sketch for a coloring book.
Working With Layers In Photoshop CS2
Learn how to work with layers in Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts For Photoshop CS & CS2
How to edit and create sets of keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop CS and CS2.
Photoshop Tips And Tricks For Beginners
Photoshop tips and tricks that will save you lots of time down the road.
Create A Sepia Tone Effect In Photoshop
A simple way to create a Sepia Tone effect in Adobe Photoshop.
Photoshop CS4 & Photoshop CS4 Extended - Best Deals From Adobe
Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended feature a newly refined, tab-based interface in a single, integrated window, with self-adjusting panels arranged in docked groups. Automatically keeping tools well organized and away from your work area means you get greater efficiency, less clutter, and better results, faster than before.
Delivering all the features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 software, including the new Adjustments and Masks panels, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended also provides breakthrough 3D editing and compositing power to paint directly on 3D models, create 3D animations, convert 2D images to 3D objects, and more; richer motion graphics editing; and more powerful and flexible image analysis and tracking. Learn more on our Photoshop CS4 Tutorials Page. To download the free trial, see details on our Photoshop CS4 Free Trial Download Page.
Find upgrade options and package deals at the Adobe USA Store. Teachers and students get special pricing at the Adobe Education Store.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Available At The Adobe Store
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 is the photographer's essential toolbox for managing, adjusting and presenting large volumes of digital photographs.
Lightroom 2 is available now through the Adobe Store in English, French and German with the Japanese language version planned to be released at a future date. Visit the Adobe site to download a free 30 day Photoshop Lightroom trial free download. Find the latest Lightroom 2 video tutorials on our Photoshop Lightroom 2 Tutorials page.
Free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials, CS2 Tutorials, CS3 & CS4 Tutorials
Our free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials have been separated into 4 collections. You can find free Photoshop Tutorials for CS, free Photoshop Tutorials for CS2, free Photoshop Tutorials for CS3, and free Photoshop Tutorials for the new Photoshop CS4. If you own Photoshop CS3 you can go through all 4 collections, but if you have an earlier version of Photoshop, the tutorials for later versions will include features you might not have. To upgrade visit the Adobe Online Store. If you are a student get super savings at the Adobe Academic Store.
Photoshop CS5 Tutorials & CS5 Resources
See our Photoshop CS5 Resource Center for Free Photoshop CS5 Tutorials, and the upcoming Free Photoshop CS5 Trial Download (check for availability).
Free Adobe Photoshop Plugins & Photoshop Plugins Discounts
On our Free Photoshop Plugins page you'll find the latest Photoshop plugins news, and links to resources and sites that offer free Adobe Photoshop plugins.
We have full product pages and special exclusive discounts on Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins, including exclusive 20% specials on onOne Software's Genuine Fractals, Mask Pro, PhotoFrame Pro, Nik Sharpener, The Photoshop Plugin Suite, and the very new and exciting PhotoTools and PhotoTools Pro Edition.
Plug-in Suite 5 Now Available - Plus Exclusive 15% Discount
onOne Software has announced the immediate availability of Plug-in Suite 5 for Adobe Photoshop. Designed to solve the most common problems facing photographers in the areas of color correction, enlarging, masking and professional photographic effects, the Plug-in Suite 5 combines full versions of six essential software tools in one affordable package: FocalPoint 2, PhotoTune 3, PhotoFrame 4.5 Professional Edition, PhotoTools 2.5 Professional Edition, Genuine Fractals 6 Professional Edition and MaskPro 4.
Enter our exclusive discount coupon code - PSSPPT06 - during the checkout process at onOne Software for an instant 15% discount on any onOne product.
With support for Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4, the onOne Software Plug-in Suite 5 now includes the new onOne Panel which provides quick access to all products, Windows 64 bit support and the ability to access select plug-ins from within Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Apple Aperture 2.1.
Photoshop Brushes - Free Adobe Photoshop Brushes
Our Photoshop Brushes Page has links to all kinds of amazing Photoshop brush sites, all handpicked by Jennifer Apple. We also offer some great free sets from Janita of Seishido and Kirsty of 500ml Brushes — including a very popular Valentine Brush Set filled with hearts and romantic gestures.
Also see our Free High Resolution Photoshop Brushes Directory, where you'll find an amazing collection of high-res free Photoshop brush sets, and we've collected some of Stephanie's original brushes on a special Obsidian Dawn Photoshop Brushes Page, with big preview images for each set. You'll also find her great random tips for using Photoshop Brushes.
Free Photoshop Actions & Photoshop Actions Tutorials
Find links to great free Adobe Photoshop Actions on our Photoshop Actions Page. Also look for free tutorials and free actions from Gavin Phillips. The Toning With Duotones, Tritones And Quadtones tutorial will teach you how to create duotones, tritones and quadtones inside of Photoshop. At the end of the tutorial you'll find a link to 8 custom duotone/tritones as a complimentary download.
Gavin has also kindly written up a nice Photoshop Actions Tutorial that will give you a quick course on Photoshop Actions. That tutorial ends with 3 free Photoshop Actions that produce beautiful photographic effects.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - Who Needs It?
If you have managed to live without Photoshop Lightroom up until now, what makes it so fantabulous/damned hot that you need to place it at the top of your software wish list? Read Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - Who Needs It? by Mark Galer for some thoughts on Lightroom's top features. From the intro:
Photoshop Lightroom has had somewhat of an identity crisis amongst the general population of photographers since its release in early 2007. The Adobe engineers built it to fill a gap in the Photoshop family of products (Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements being the other two family members) but many amongst the photographic community have not been able to identify its primary task to make it the ‘must have’ product that Adobe hoped it would become for all digital photographers. Read Adobe Photoshop Lightroom - Who Needs It?
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials From Photoshop Expert Mark Galer
We are very proud to be hosting these amazing tutorials from Photoshop expert Mark Galer. An internationally acclaimed author and teacher, Mark's Photoshop tutorials are comprehensive, yet easy to follow, and will bring your skills to a professional level.
How To Sharpen An Image In Photoshop — Advanced Sharpening Techniques
Most if not all digital images require sharpening. Most cameras or scanners can sharpen as the image is captured but the highest quality sharpening is to be found in the image editing software. The best sharpening techniques are those that prioritize the important areas for sharpening and leave the smoother areas of the image well alone, e.g. sharpening the eyes of a portrait but avoiding the skin texture. These advanced techniques are essential when sharpening images that have been scanned from film or have excessive noise, neither of which needs accentuating by the Unsharp Mask. So let the project begin.
Selecting & Extracting Hair - Masking Tutorial - Extraction Tips
One of the most challenging montage or masking jobs in the profession of post-production editing is the hair lift. Get it wrong and, just like a bad wig, it shows. The first secret step must be completed before you even press the shutter on the camera. Your number one essential step for success is to first shoot your model against a white backdrop, sufficiently illuminated so that it is captured as white rather than gray. The post-production is the easy bit - simply apply the correct sequence of editing steps and the magic is all yours. This is not brain surgery — but follow these simple steps and you will join the elite ranks of Photoshop gurus around the world. Celebrity status is just a few clicks away.
Photoshop Masking & Montage Tutorial — Using Masks To Improve Landscape Images
In this sample chapter from his new book, Photoshop CS3 Essential Skills, Mark Galer shows you Photoshop techniques that use selections and Photoshop masks to create amazing effects that can be applied to landscape images. As a bonus, you can also download high resolution versions of the images that are used in the tutorial, so you can work along with Mark. This tutorial is an excellent way to become more familiar with Photoshop's powerful masking and selection tools.
Use The Displace Filter & Displacement Maps To Make A Realistic Flag
By using the blend modes the flag in this project can be modified to respect the color and tonality of the undulating silk beneath it. The highlights and shadows that give the silk its shape can however be further utilized to wrap or bend the flag so that it obeys the material’s shape and sense of volume. This can be achieved by using the Displace filter in conjunction with a ‘displacement map’. The ‘map’ defines the contours to which the flag must conform. The final effect can be likened to ‘shrink-wrapping’ the flag to the 3-D form of the undulating silk.
Working With Photomerge In Photoshop Elements 6 For Windows
They say that sequels are never as good as the original - try telling that to Adobe. There fully revamped Photomerge now comes in three flavors and is ‘fully fantastic’. You get to explore the greatly improved Photomerge features only in Elements 6 and Photoshop CS3. Photomerge is now capable of aligning and blending images without any signs of struggle - banding in smooth areas of tone.
Working With Shadows In Adobe Photoshop - Advanced Shadow Techniques
Learn the fine art of isolating and preserving delicate and complex shadows for transplantation to exotic new backgrounds. The flower for this tutorial was photographed on a cold winters morning in Victoria whilst the sand hails from the Great Indian Desert in Rajasthan. Unlikely bedfellows, but with a little craft the two can lie together comfortably within the same frame – but only if the subtle shadow is captured with all of its subtlety and delicately transplanted to its new home in the desert. This is how...!
Adobe Photoshop Cookbook Series — Free Sample Recipes
These sample recipes are presented as tutorials and are a great way to develop your Photoshop skills. Adobe Photoshop tutorials include:
• Whitening Teeth & Eyes
• Creating Black And White From Color
• How To Create A High-Contrast Sketch
• Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect
• Scraped Polaroid Picture Effect
• Van Gogh Effect - Van Gogh's Sunflowers
• Daguerreotypes - The Louis Daguerre Photo Effect
• Autochrome - Color Process Photo Effect
• Powder Pastels — Hand-coloring Image Tips
• Selective Coloring — Remove Color From An Image
• Hand Tinting — Tips For Photo Coloring Effects
• Watercolor — Creating Artistic Painterly Effects
• Photoshop Fine Art Effects - Create A Cubist Look
• Photoshop Fine Art Effects - Cross-Processing
• Ink Outlines — How To Give An Image A Drawn Look.
SiteGrinder Photoshop Plugin - Create Websites Instantly
There often seems to be a strict division of labor within the world of web design and development. Creative professionals tend to stick to the Photoshop domain, while those well-versed in scripting are left to the task of implementing their work. Indeed, the two realms are quite different from each other, to which any of us even vaguely familiar with either can easily attest.
Essentially, Photoshop is a no-holds-barred design studio, offering the artist a seemingly endless array of creative options. On the other hand, HTML, CSS, Java and the like follow strict rules of engagement, requiring the developer to take any number of esoteric concerns into consideration in order to ensure that designs are properly displayed on the web.
Turn Photoshop Into A Complete Web Design Tool
SiteGrinder seeks to bridge this gap between design and development. Basically, this program turns Photoshop into an easy-to-use and fully functional web design tool. With SiteGrinder, designers will now have the freedom to totally let their creativity loose and then, without skipping a beat, transfer their designs to the web. Bringing esthetic concerns together with more practical considerations, this program is an amazingly powerful tool that would make a fantastic addition to any web designer's bag of tricks.
Generate Your Web Pages Directly From Photoshop
By generating web pages directly from Photoshop, you'll be able to spend much more time on the creative end of the spectrum, since you'll know right off the bat how well particular designs will translate to the web. No more going back to the Photoshop drawing board after getting a phone call from your development team, telling you that what you had envisioned doesn't have a chance of being displayed on the web. You can immediately visually and interactively test your designs, which permits you to then make changes to either esthetics or functions while it's still relatively early on in the design process.
Pricing and Availability
Mac OS X and Windows versions of the SiteGrinder unlockable demo are available now via download. SiteGrinder can be ordered from Media Lab's online store.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Advanced Video Tutorials From Total Training
Total training has kindly provided us with some links to clips from their brand new training videos for Photoshop CS3. Here's a taste of what their new training videos have to offer.
Working With A Wacom Tablet To Create A Collage In Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS3 Extended Frame Animation And Timeline Animation Features, Working With The Vanishing Point Filter, Working With Smart Filters, and Non-Destructive vs. Destructive Editing
See our Photoshop CS2 Tutorial Page for free Adobe Photoshop 9 video clips. These clips include tips and tricks for working with Camera RAW, Photoshop CS2 new Vanishing Point Tool, Adobe Bridge, Smart Objects, the Smart Sharpen Filter, and the new Remove Red Eye tool.
lynda.com Online Training Library Subscriptions Start At $25 A Month
Subscriptions to the lynda.com Online Training Library start at just $25 a month, and provide anytime access to tens of thousands of video tutorials covering Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, web design, digital imaging, 3D, digital video, animation, and many other topics. View free clips.
The company adds several new training courses to the library each week. For less than a dollar a day, members have the opportunity to stay current and keep skills sharp, learn innovative and productive techniques, and gain confidence and marketability - all at their own pace. Premium subscriptions include instructors’ exercise files so that members can follow along with the exact examples onscreen. Customers learn at their own pace and may stop, rewind, and replay segments as often as necessary. Learn more at lynda.com.
Latest Adobe Photoshop News From Our Photoshop Blog
Here are the latest top Photoshop news items from Jennifer Apple's Photoshop Blog:
• Save $200 On Eligible Upgrades To CS4 - 30% Off Lightroom 2
• Photoshop CS4 Feature Tour Videos From Adobe TV Site
• Intro To Photoshop CS4 - Free CS4 SuperGuide From Colin Smith
• Top 10 Free NASA Photos From The Space Station
Adobe Photoshop CS4 Resource Center - Photoshop CS4 Free Tutorials, Photoshop CS4 Beta News
You can find the latest news for Photoshop CS4 on our new Adobe Photoshop CS4 Resource Center, plus links to free Photoshop CS4 tutorials, Photoshop CS4 video tutorials, CS4 tips and tricks, and the free Photoshop CS4 30 day trial download.
Want to read about new features in Photoshop CS4? See our Adobe Photoshop CS4 New Features Walk Through by Photoshop expert Philip Andrews. It highlights all the new Photoshop CS4 features. Also see our new Free Photoshop CS4 Training Page. Looking for a CS4 book? See our Photoshop CS4 Book Center.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Photoshop 10 - Resource Center
For Photoshop CS3 tutorials see our Photoshop CS3 Tutorials Page. Here is the direct link to the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended 30 Day Trial. Photoshop CS3 Extended includes all of the features in Photoshop CS3 plus specialized features for editing 3D and motion-based content and for performing image analysis. The Mac version of the download is 759.57 MB, the Windows version is 463.59 MB. For more info on Photoshop CS3 see our Photoshop CS3 Resource Center, which has the latest Photoshop CS3 news, Photoshop CS3 articles and Photoshop CS3 reviews.
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Resource Center - Dreamweaver CS4 Free Tutorials, Dreamweaver CS4 Beta News
You can find the latest news for Dreamweaver CS4 on our new Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Resource Center. There's not much yet, but as soon as Dreamweaver CS4 is released we'll have the news for you. In the meantime, there are some Dreamweaver CS4 Beta video tutorials. And as soon as they are available, we'll have links to free Dreamweaver CS4 tutorials, CS4 video tutorials, CS4 tips and tricks, and the free Dreamweaver CS4 30 day trial download.
Adobe Illustrator CS4 Resource Center - Adobe Illustrator CS4 Free Tutorials, Illustrator CS4 Beta News
Go to our new Adobe Illustrator CS4 Resource Center Page to find the latest news for Adobe Illustrator CS4. There's not much yet, but Fireworks CS4 Beta has been released. In the meantime, look for the latest Illustrator CS4 news articles.
And as soon as they are available, we'll have links to free Illustrator CS4 tutorials, Illustrator CS4 video tutorials, Illustrator CS4 tips and tricks, and the free Illustrator CS4 30 day trial download.
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 CS4 Resource Center - Adobe Acrobat CS4 Free Tutorials, Acrobat Pro CS4 Free Trial Download
Go to our new Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 CS4 Resource Center Page to find the latest news for Adobe Acrobat Pro CS4. You'll also find links to free Acrobat Pro CS4 tutorials, Acrobat Pro CS4 video tutorials, Acrobat Pro CS4 tips and tricks, and the free Acrobat Pro CS4 30 day trial download.
Photoshop Masking Plugin Fluid Mask 3 - Price Drop And Exclusive $20 Instant Discount - Now Only $129
The 4 1/2 out of 5 star review of Fluid Mask 3 at MacWorld begins by saying that this "Photoshop plug-in takes the pain out of extracting backgrounds," and goes on to recommend the latest version, stating that "Fluid Mask 3.0.2 is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve."
Our friends at Vertus, the makers of Fluid Mask 3 Photoshop Plugin, have set up a special exclusive discount for PhotoshopSupport.com. Buy now for only $129. Just follow this discount link and instantly get $20 off your purchase of Fluid Mask 3.
Fluid Mask 3 is designed for photographers, image editors, graphic designers and all those who take digital image editing seriously. In a streamlined interface and workflow, Fluid Mask 3 instantly shows key edges in the image and provides comprehensive easy to use tools that work with difficult-to-see edges and tricky areas like trees & lattices. Fluid Mask will also preserve all-important edge information for a professional quality cut out. Simply follow this discount link and pay only $129 for Fluid Mask 3.
Photoshop Tutorials From CreativeBits
We're very proud to be hosting these great tutorials by Ivan Raszl of CreativeBits. His tutorials include how to remove red eye from photographs, how to make diamond plated brushed metal, how to create brushed aluminum, how to create water drops, how to turn photos from color to black and white, how to create seamless tiles in Photoshop, how to place artwork on uneven surfaces to make waving flags, and the very popular series Photoshop Tips & Tricks Volume 1, 2 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials & Articles By Jennifer Farley
Use Photoshop To Add A Title To An Image - Working WIth Text
Designing With Paragraphs Of Type - Photoshop Type Tool Tips
Hand Colouring A Black And White Photo In Photoshop
How To Make A Dotted Line Brush In Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Drop Shadows - Drop Shadow Tips
Working With Photoshop Blending Modes & Opacity
Matching Image Sizes When Dragging Between Documents
Photoshop Photo Effect - Haunted Grungy Look
Using Photoshop's Art History Brush To Create A Painting Effect
Photoshop Tutorials Directory
Our Photoshop Tutorials Section has links to over 160,000 free Photoshop tutorials. We found so many sites that we created a new page of even more Photoshop tutorials. The listings on that page focus on extensive tutorial sites, like The Photoshop Roadmap and Pixel2life.
Photoshop Express - Free Online Photoshop - Resource Center
Visit our Photoshop Express Resource Center to find the latest news articles on Photoshop Express, the free online version of Photoshop. We will be updating this page and expanding it when Photoshop Express is officially released to the public.
Photo Recovery Resource Center
Our new Photo Recovery Resource Center will point you to resources for immediate digital photo recovery. These are expert solutions that we strongly recommend in the case of catastrophic events like a total hard drive crash or a corrupted media card. You'll find information on DriveSavers, an acclaimed company that specializes in safe and complete hard drive recovery, and information on PhotoRescue, which is currently the most popular and successful digital photo software available for photo recovery, and which includes the ability to undelete invisible files.
Photoshop Contest Sites - Directory
See our new Photoshop Contest Sites Directory for a list of the top 4 Photoshop contest sites, along with links to where you can submit your own material to a contest, where you can find informative tutorials that may help your skills, and where you can find details on the contest prizes.
Worth1000.com - Photoshop contest site
PhotoshopContest.com - Photoshop contest site
Freaking News - Photoshop contest site
Fark News - Photoshop contest site
We've created a new section — Photoshop Elements Resource Center — with Free Photoshop Elements Tutorials, and the Latest Photoshop Elements Books. Also added a collection of free Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 video tutorials courtesy of Total Training.
This special section offers you digital photography news, articles, books, and a special camera raw section.
Get all the latest news and information on Apple's Aperture digital photography software at our new Aperture Resource Center. This directory will list all the latest Aperture tutorials and Aperture reviews as they become available.
Our Free Fonts Directory offers a comprehensive list of free font resources.
Our Free Stock Photos Directory offers a comprehensive list of free stock photo resources.
Stock Photo Agency Directory - list of fee-based royalty free stock photo agencies.
Find information and links to a wide variety of commercial plugins, brushes and actions, as well as free plugins, free brushes, and free plug-in resource sites. You'll also find links to monitor calibration solutions.
Wacom Pen Tablets
All of Wacom's tablets are pressure sensitive - they literally feel the full range of pressure from the pen on the tablet. See our Wacom Tablets page for more information.
Our Photoshop Resources Center has links to Adobe's online Photoshop resources, online and video-based Photoshop training programs, great Photoshop forums, and the best Photoshop books, Photoshop magazines and design magazines. You'll also find links to stock photo websites, photography resources, and other interesting Photoshop sites.
Dreamweaver Center with free Dreamweaver tutorials, reviews and books.
Flash Center with free Flash tutorials, Flash templates and books.
We've been adding to our Inspiration Section. You'll find exclusive photos from Face Of Tomorrow, the beautiful and mysterious photos of Marshall Sokoloff, some mesmerizing photos from Jeff T. Alu that use dodge and burn techniques, the work of technical illustration master Kevin Hulsey, selections from FILE Magazine, an amazing piece of Photoshop work by James Porto, some extraordinary celestial art from Greg Martin, some magical underwater encounters from Catherine Salisbury, and a stunning piece of photo-realism from Photoshop Guru Bert Monroy.
James Porto "New York Magazine Cover"
In our Stock Photos section you'll find a comprehensive list of fee-based stock photo agencies.
A collection of the best Photoshop books by such authors as Deke McClelland, Jason Cranford Teague, Tanya Staples, Martin Evening, Scott Kelby, Katrin Eismann, David Blatner and Bruce Fraser. Find the best books for Photoshop CS2 on our Photoshop CSS Books Page.
A collection of Photoshop articles, including a roundup of Photoshop CS reviews. There's a great article on the new color replacement tool in Photoshop CS, and an article on the history of Photoshop, with a graphic of the first ever Photoshop application icon. You'll also find an interview with Photoshop co-creator John Knoll.
Find the answers to the most commonly asked Photoshop questions, and links to sites that maintain vast Photoshop FAQs and photography-related FAQs pages. The FAQs are divided into 8 sections - Absolute Beginners, General Photoshop Questions, Photoshop Interface, Photoshop Actions, Brushes & Plugins, Web Graphics, Digital Photography, Color Management and Photoshop Tips & Techniques.
Our Photoshop Help Center page is a collection of resource sites that can assist you if you're having trouble with Photoshop.
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