Essential Photoshop Color Settings For Photographers

    Written by Steve Patterson. Adobe Photoshop is the world’s most powerful (and popular) image editor, trusted by both amateur and professional photographers everywhere to help their photos look their very best. With that in mind, it may surprise you to learn that Photoshop’s default color settings – that is, the settings that determine the […]Read more

53 essential photo ideas for winter

    Just because it’s miserable outside doesn’t mean you can’t take great winter photos. With a bit of imagination and perhaps some warm clothes, there is no reason your photography has to hibernate for the winter. Winter offers some wonderful picture-taking opportunities, both outdoors and in, and we hope this list of 53 photo ideas inspires […]Read more

Photoshop Clipping Paths – The Best and Worst Ways to Create Image Cutouts

  What are Photoshop Clipping Paths? As with so many things in graphic design there several ways to achieve good quality image cutouts in Photoshop. The best way to describe an image cutout is visually, so below you’ll see two versions of the same image. On the left is a flat, unmasked image; and on the […]Read more

Photoshop CS6 New Features – Background Save and Auto Save

    Written by Steve Patterson. Photoshop CS6 brings with it two great new features designed to improve your workflow and minimize annoying interruptions.The first of these new features, Background Save, lets Photoshop save your file quietly in the background so you can continue working on the image even as it’s being saved. The second and more […]Read more

How to Quickly and Easily Remove a Background in Photoshop

    This article was written in 2009 and remains one of our most popular posts. If you’re keen to learn more about web design techniques, you may find this recent article on lorempixel of great interest.Read more

Top 10 Reasons to Use Lightroom

  Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Many Photoshop users are not aware of the many advantages of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. In fact, many will tell you that they aren’t really sure what it is used for and how it differs from Bridge. In this tutorial, we will explain a bit more about what Adobe Photoshop Lightroom […]Read more

30+ Photoshop CS6 Tutorials For Designers

  Have you ever think about Photoshop developers? Today there are 41 developers of Photoshop but in the beginning there were only two persons John Knoll and Thomas who worked on developing this Adobe Photoshop software. All started with frustration with new Apple Mac Plus that was unable to display those images that both these […]Read more

9 Healthy Meals Ready in Under 30 minutes

  Image from Flickr user Studio Five Photography (Terry Allsopp) Eating healthy and eating fast doesn’t always go together. But with a bit of foresight and some simple kitchen prep, it’s easy to whip up a delicious and nutritious meal. For those of you on the go, help is at hand – from breakfast through dinner. […]Read more

How to Take Tack-Sharp Action Photos

    You guys know I love taking photos of Miley and Howie running around like lunatics in the backyard. If you’ve ever wondered what the best settings to use to get action photos sharp and in focus were, here’s my go-to recipe for tack-sharp action photos. I use these five simple settings every single time. I still take a lot of […]Read more