As your proficiency in Photoshop continues to improve, the learning curve seems to get steeper and steeper. There’s rarely a single “correct” way to approach any image editing task, so the more techniques you can master, the more versatile and capable you’ll…
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The smartphone revolution isn’t just changing the way people use their mobile devices. The transition from traditional “flip” phones to full-screen smartphones is changing the way people view their favorite web content. Increasingly, Internet users are reading their content on the go…
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If you don’t know exactly what you’re trying to accomplish within a photograph, you could spend many hours in Photoshop trying filters, masks, adjustment layers, and other tools, and you could still end up with no improvements. In fact, you might even…
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Creating digital artwork requires a lot of skill, talent, and technique. Texture is one way that professional illustrators distinguish themselves from amateurs or hobbyists. Textures add interest to an illustration through the use of variation and depth. With proper texture, illustrations no…
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Photoshop is a great tool for image creation and editing. Photoshop CS6 in particular has some impressive new functions that allow you to easily create a variety of abstract backgrounds. Instead of searching online for well-suited backgrounds or browsing through stock photography libraries,…
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I love fonts! Hands down, scrolling through gobs of new fonts is one of my biggest time-killers (second only to Facebook). From a creative standpoint, fonts are a major driver of design for me. Often, I look for the right font prior…
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Designers are usually responsible for every single aesthetic facet of their project. Between perfecting imagery, implementing branding ideas, and accommodating sites for mobile devices, there’s usually little time left for the intricate details of constructing your own buttons, icons, or other interface…
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Retouching images is a major part of photography and a common component of any design project. Whether you are shooting models for a print project or polishing the imagery of a landing page, there will almost always be some easy ways to…
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Practice is the perfect way to hone your Photoshop skills, and I’m sure we’ve all had enough practice with common, rudimentary tasks such as cropping corporate headshots, building margin and padding into document designs, and adding drop shadows to punchy marketing copy.…
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Photoshop is the tool of choice for a wide variety of creative professionals. Web designers use it to mock up their sites before slicing and coding them, photographers and image retouching specialists use it to enhance and improve photos, and graphic designers…
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