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Adobe Photoshop CS is a popular image editing software that provides a work environment consistent with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe ImageReady, and other products in the Adobe Creative Suite. This tutorial is an introduction to using Adobe Photoshop. Here you will learn how to get started, how to use the interface, and how to [...]

This tutorial will show how to create a simple layout from scratch in PSE3. You will learn how to create a new document, bring in photos, resize elements, add text, add shadows, and save your layout. Create a new document 1. Once Photoshop Elements is open, go to File>New… 2. In the New pop up [...]

Adobe Photoshop is an industry leading image editing software package that offers a variety of powerful tools for creating and editing images for print and Web presentation. This tutorial covers the fundamental procedures for doing simple adjustments to images and saving them for publication on the Web. To follow the procedures outlined in this tutorial, [...]

After shooting with your digital camera (of after scanning a piece of film), you will want to use Photoshop to fine-tune the colors and mood of the photos you took. Often, especially when shooting in raw format, your pictures will look a bit dull and washed out compared to the way they looked on the [...]

Using background images in your website can create a professional design for your website, or it can curse your site as amateurish. In this tutorial, create a wrapable background image for a website. Following the tutorial are some recommendations on background image design. Loading a background image into a webpage is simple, you define and [...]

Historically, one of the guiding conceptual principles behind creating images digitally has been the concept of WYSIWYG, or, What You See Is What You Get. When color is involved in a desktop environment, however, WYSIWYG turns into something like: WYSIONECTWYG — What You See Is Often Not Even Close To What You Get. There are [...]

This outline presupposes you have at least a beginner’s knowledge of Photoshop, version 5. This technique will work in version 4 as well. It also assumes you have a working knowledge of your scanner, if any. This technique will work best for inked artwork, but will also work for dark, clean pen- cil drawings as [...]

If you’ve worked with many images from the Public Domain, you’ve most likely encountered the issues I’m going to address in this fourth installment of Photoshop Tricks. Many of the images that you find online from the Public Domain are at a low resolution…most images are like that actually. And if you want to make [...]

This document is meant to serve primarily as a guide to using Adobe Photoshop CS as a tool to generate visual layouts, generate graphics from these layouts and optimize graphics for placement on the web. There are three different steps to this guide. The first is an explanation of image file types, which will describe [...]

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