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Easy Vectors in Photoshop Tutorial

Quick and Painless Image Vectoring

Did you know that you could scale a vector graphic to the moon and back, and it wouldn’t lose any of it’s clarity or ultra smooth edges? Well, they don’t make printers that big… but at least you can create vector graphics from photographs in just a few simple steps! Here’s how! More »

Change Text Orientation

Tip: How To Change Text Orientation

In todays Photoshop Tip, I’ll show you how to change the orientation of your text between Horizontal and Vertical Type. Very useful for beginning users looking to learn more about the Type Tools. More »

Create backgrounds easily that are scalable, easy to adjust, and quick to make

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. More »

How to use Photoshop’s Grid Feature

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. More »

Duplicate Images in Adobe 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. More »

Setting Photoshop’s 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. More »

Create the Vista Window Effect

Vista Window Effect Photoshop Tutorial

Vista users are quite familiar with “Aero” Theme effects in the new Windows Operating System. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how you can recreate some of the Transparent Window Effects using Adobe Photoshop. More »

Vista Lighting Effect

Windows Vista Aurora Effect Photoshop Tutorial

If you’re a Windows Vista user, you’re probably familiar the eye catching graphics shown off on the box, and in some of their wallpapers/screensavers. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create that effect yourself. More »