Written by Steve Patterson. In this tutorial, the first in a series on editing and retouching images with Adobe Camera Raw, we’ll take a quick look at the main difference between the two most popular file formats used by digital cameras today – raw and JPEG – and learn why one of them has a major advantage over the other when it comes to image editing and retouching. Many digital cameras today, including both DSLRs and higher end compact cameras, give us the option of saving our images as either raw files or JPEG files. The JPEG format has been around for over 20 years and remains to this day the most widely used file format for saving and sharing digital photos. The raw format, on the other hand, is a much more recent development, but if you’re thinking “Well, obviously newer is better, right?”, it’s not quite that simple. While JPEG is an industry standard file format, it may surprise you to learn that raw isn’t really a file format at all. At least, not in the traditional sense. Continue reading  

 

 

 

 

Welcome back to Tutorial Tuesday!

It’s kinda ironic to me that I am teaching ANYTHING.  I mean…I’m a homeschooler…who went to college to be a teacher…realized VERY quickly that I am not cut out for it and will praise the fine educators of the world till kingdom come…took up a camera less than five years ago and photoshop after that….to be here, attempting to teach you little tricks with no real training myself except a whole lot of trial and error (emphasis on the error!).  That’s irony people.  At least I think it is…I was homeschooled afterall  Continue reading  

 

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In the following tutorial your will learn how to create a lighter illustration from scratch in Photoshop.

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Anyone can cobble together a few photos and textures and create a humdrum montage.

To elevate yours beyond this it takes a few simple tricks using Photoshop’s awesome array of tools.

Do it right and the style has got dozens of applications from static navigation or graphics, through to animated banners and interactive collages.

I’ve picked a musical theme, as the style works really well for band graphics or music based sites.

This tutorial explains how to create a great Photoshop montage in 19 steps, so let’s get started and have fun with it. Continue reading  

 

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In this collection, we gathered for you stunning 3D text effect Photoshop tutorials because 3D text effects are very popular these days. For creating such stunning and awesome 3D text effects almost every designer is using Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is very popular and commonly used software and with Adobe Photoshop designers can easily generate amazing and creative 3D text effect. Basically Typography is a platform where designers can display their artistic skills.

In this article, we gathered some outstanding and highly professional 3D text effect Photoshop tutorials. We hope you will like this collection. Do let us know what you think about this compilation. Feel free to share your opinions and comments with us via comment section below. Enjoy and have fun everyone!!

Create an Autumn-Themed 3D Text Effect With Photoshop CS6 Extended

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In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create a New Year greeting card with golden stars and snowflakes on a red background using Adobe Photoshop CS6. We will use advanced compositing techniques, Layer styles, custom shapes and brushes to get an impressive holidays design. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!

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Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with the size 1920px by 1200px(RGB color mode) at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Continue reading