This excerpt is from Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks. Used by permission of New Riders. Copyright © 2009. Part of the Creative Edge Photoshop Resource Center. Exclusive access for CreativePro.com readers provided by: In this how-to, you’ll start with a regular photo and end up with a powerful advertisement. Along the way, you’ll learn […]

Excerpted from “The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers.” Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc., and New Riders. After you’ve sorted images from a shoot, one of the first editing tasks you’ll probably undertake is cropping a photo. There are a number of different ways to crop a photo in Photoshop. Here are […]

Excerpted from “The Photoshop Channels Book.” Published by Peachpit Press. Adding a ray of light to the correct type of photo (one in which seeing a ray of light coming in through a window would make sense) can take it from boring to beautiful. Without the light beam, this photo was only so-so.   In […]

Excerpted from “The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers.” Published by Peachpit Press. To buy this book click here. Digital photographers often need to distribute photos electronically — as proofs for clients, perhaps, or on a portfolio site. But with that digital distribution comes a certain risk. Your photos could be used in ways you […]

All right, first things first: I know you’re a bit freaked out about this upgrade being named “Photoshop CS” rather than Photoshop 8. Don’t feel bad — we’re all a little freaked out, but once you see how the whole “CS” works together, it makes more sense (I didn’t say I liked the name, I […]

Adobe just announced Photoshop 7.0, so I wanted to give you a quick look at some of the cool new stuff they packed into this slick upgrade. I know you don’t want me to blab on and on about the history of Photoshop, and what this upgrade means, blah, blah, blah — you just want […]

In this column, I usually start off with a brief look at what’s happening in the graphics market, then we wrap up with a quick graphics tip or tutorial. But this time, the news it so big, I’m dedicating the entire column to it. This morning, at Seybold San Francisco, Adobe will officially announce Adobe […]