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About David Leggett

David Leggett is the founder of Tutorial9, one of the largest resources for creatives online. He works with the design community to make available the best free tutorials and resources around town.

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Quick, Easy, and Scalable Photoshop Backgrounds

Quick, Easy, and Scalable Photoshop Backgrounds

This tutorial will show you how to design backgrounds with ease of future adjustments in mind. Applying these techniques in your designs will make color adjustments a breeze, sizing/scaling changes in your background incredibly easy, and give you unprecedented control over how your background looks with very little effort involved.

Tip: Use The Grid in Photoshop

Tip: Use The Grid in Photoshop

Today’s Photoshop tip will show you how to take advantage of the “Grid” feature in Photoshop. The Grid is the perfect alignment tool for graphic design, and is very easy to use. By combining the use of the Grid with the “Snap” feature, users can perfectly align objects along grid lines and sudivisions.

Enhance Graphics with Easy Depth of Field

Enhance Graphics with Easy Depth of Field

In this article, I’m going to show you some practical ways of adding depth, or a simulated “Depth of Field” effect to your graphics. These techniques will help you create images that appear to have three dimensions by emulating how your eyes focus in on certain objects while obscuring others.

Tip: Duplicate Images in Photoshop

Tip: Duplicate Images in Photoshop

Here’s a quick an easy tip that should improve your workflow in Photoshop when comparing several different versions of compositions or photographs. Rather than saving instances of several variations of a document, you can simply duplicate an image (layers, blending mode data and all) into a new document saved in memory.

Tip: Setting the Photoshop Work Area Background Color

Tip: Setting the Photoshop Work Area Background Color

Sometimes, I find it rather useful to change the background color of Photoshop when I’m working with certain graphics or photographs. This setting isn’t available in Photoshop’s preferences, so it might not be very well known.

Photoshop Pen Tool Guide

Photoshop Pen Tool Guide

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use the Pen tool in Photoshop to create your own custom shapes. I’ll take you through a series of exercises that will guide you through the basic, essential functions of the Pen tool.

Tutorial9 Forum: Now Open!

Tutorial9 Forum: Now Open!

Today, we’re opening up our brand new community to some of our viewers here at Tutorial9. Some invites have already been sent out (Check your email folks!), but for those of you who haven’t been invited yet, you’ve still got some chances to get in!

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