This excerpt is from Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual. Used by permission of O’Reilly Media. Copyright © 2010. Exclusive access for CreativePro.com readers provided by: Preparing graphics for a website is a journey into the unknown: You have no idea what kind of monitor folks will use to view your images, how fast (or slow) […]

The late (great!) sci-fi author Douglas Adams once said, “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” Sadly, that “whooshing noise” is far too familiar, and in today’s economically stressed world deadlines are mission critical. After all, to get money in your pocket you have to get projects out […]

When I became a pixel pusher years ago, one of the toughest concepts to wrap my brain around was that of image resolution: What the heck was it, how did I change it without trashing my image, how much did I need when, and so on. I acted like I got it, but what I’d […]

Here’s a super-simple technique for enhancing the most important bits of any portrait: the eyes. It’s a quick and painless way to make the eyes really stand out and take on a slightly sultry and burning look. To illustrate, we’ll use a photo of a beautiful woman culled from the vast database over at iStockphoto.com. […]