Create a new transparent document…With these settings:You should have something like this:Maximize the small window, and put these values:If you dont find this panel go to: (Windows > Navigation)Then select...
If you're anything like me, you don't like the default text of Adobe Photoshop. You like a lot of space between your text and some space between text lines as...
Photoshop has what it calls “Blending Modes.” In the Layers palette, these options show up in the drop-down that is usually set to “Normal.” You can also set the blending...
I just learned a new trick!! I'll explain my “old way” of doing things first. Let's say you have a layer in Photoshop and apply a Layer Style (drop shadow,...
Here are two images that I'm going to blend together. I purposefully made them two different colors, and also made sure that the light/dark values were different as well: ...
I decided to start at the beginning. The very beginning. For those people who just "picked up" a copy of Photoshop and have no idea what to do with it....
Well, the answer actually depends on the value (lightness/darkness) of the red and green used, when you're dealing with Multiply Mode in Photoshop. Let's get to some examples. When you...
The Linear Light blending mode is a combination of Linear Burn and Linear Dodge—but similar to Vivid Light, the combination gives slightly different results. I created an example similar to...
Again, let's start with the Photoshop description of Color Burn: Color Burn: Looks at the color information in each channel and darkens the base color to reflect the blend color...
The Magic Eraser Technique The Magic Eraser tool (hold down the Eraser icon in the toolbar to access it) allows you to erase pixels that are all the same...
You may have caught on by now that Photoshop has “opposite” blend modes: Darken vs. Lighten, Multiply vs. Screen, and Color or Linear Burn vs. Color or Linear Dodge. So...
The Background Eraser Technique The Background Eraser Tool (again, hold down the Eraser tool to access this option) is meant to be used along the edges of an object....