In this very cool but simple tutorial, I will teach you how to fill a shape with text within minutes! Are you ready? Let’s go! Preparation: None. This tutorial was done on Adobe Photoshop CS5. Other versions may vary slightly. Step 1: Select the Custom Shapes Tool, and choose your shape. I’ve chosen a heart! […]
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Custom Photoshop Brushes bring in a whole new world of design and possibilities. There are numerous effects and artwork that custom brushes bring to you, from smoke, fire and cloud effects, to blood splatters and abstract art. You don’t have to be a pro designer to ‘paste’ designs, and that’s what Custom Brushes do! You
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You will often want to separate a person or an object from a background or photo so that you can use it in another background or photo. In this tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to extract them out! Preparation: Open your image first by going Menu Bar: File > Open >
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So I thought having a Photoshop FAQ would be a great thing to do for beginners. The questions here are what I feel commonly asked by beginners so they will sound somewhat basic and ‘stupid’ but hey, everyone starts somewhere right? Hope you find this compilation useful and feel free to submit your own FAQs
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No one takes perfect photos (well not without a tripod anyway), and we all sometimes have photos that are crooked but yet capturing that once-in-a-lifetime moment shot. So what do you do? No worries, fortunately it only takes a few minutes to straighten them up in Photoshop. Preparation: The first step is to get your
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How Layers Work It’s all about layers in photoshop. Without them, Photoshop just wouldn’t be Photoshop. I’m sure you must have used Paint before, and I’m sure you have trouble editing a certain portion of the image without ‘disturbing’ the surrounding areas. This is where layers come in. You can select anywhere on the document
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In this lesson, you will get to know the interface and layout of Photoshop, and how to execute basic operations. Workspace Customizing your workspace Creating New Documents Opening Documents Saving Documents, and their various formats Undoing Changes Workspace The whole space in which you work in Photoshop is called the Workspace. They can be customized
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This tutorial is very important, and almost essential in most Photoshop situations. You will find that in many situations, you may want to change the color of a certain object in a photograph, or you want to crop out a single object from a poster. The trouble is that although we can see and differentiate
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It’s pretty easy to move stuff in Photoshop. Your objects are ‘contained’ in layers, so simply select that layer and you can drag and move it to wherever you like, without affecting other objects. As you can see below, I have a butterfly under the layer named ‘Shape 1’. Select the layer, and simply click
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I have labeled everything in the above picture for your easy reference. Just as a reminder, if you see a small black arrow at the bottom right corner of the icon, it simply means you can hold it for more options to choose a different tool. Now let’s take a more in-depth look at each
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