If you’ve got a suggestion as to what feature you’d like to see in future versions of Photoshop Elements, or a feature that is already part of the software doesn’t function as it should, did you know that you can tell Adobe about it?
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If you’re a photographer, or a regular user of the levels command in Photoshop, you’ll be familiar with a histogram. Photographers know how to read the tone of the shot from it, ensuring the right balance of shadows, midtones and highlights. Users of the levels command will tell of a similar use, but rather than it balancing out the tone before a photograph, they’ll tell an equally important story of using it once the photograph is taken and the image downloaded to their computer. Yes, the story of post processing.
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On many of my tutorials I go through the process of downloading and using custom fonts, often trying to get the right feel to a project. In these circumstances I’ll go to a free online font vendor and download something that meets the look and feel of the project.
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Adding borders to a project is a common task in Photoshop. Often it can be done with relative ease; especially if the image is flat (meaning it contains one layer). Other times though, if the image has multiple layers that float and expand outside the boundaries it can be an altogether different story. Since both scenarios crop up from time to time I decided to write a solution to both, first the simple flattened image, then the more thought provoking layered file.
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Animation, Automation, Commands / Tools, Creative, free, Graphic Design, Manipulation, Output, Photographic, photoshop cs4, photoshop trial, Special Effects, Text Effects, Vector Artwork, Web Design, Tips & Tricks
If you don't have Photoshop, or are contemplating an upgrade, the best path to take is a fully functional trial version. If you're not sure if Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or even Photoshop Lightroom is going to serve your purpose, or you want to compare and balance out which variation best suits your specific needs, or even if you just want to play around and figure out if image editing is for you - my top tip would be to download a trial version. In this article I'll show you how it's done, completely legally and with Adobe's blessings.
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I've been using Photoshop for many years. I've written articles and recorded over 30 minutes of video on the subject of sharpening using the wealth of excellent sharpening techniques Adobe provide, so I figured I'm qualified to bring up one of the most negatively discussed and ubiquitously bemoaned tools in the existence of image editing, that's right - not just Photoshop but the whole image editing world - the Sharpen Tool. Here I plan to explain what its purpose is, what it really does do, and when and why it might come in useful.
What is the Sharpen Tool?
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avatar, free, image size command, Output, photoshop elements 8, resample, resize, resolution, save, signature, Web Design, Tips & Tricks
There are stacks of tutorials on the web that guide you through the process of making signatures and avatars. Most of them focus on the design side of things - how to pull off that effect? How to add this face? How to blend the colours? Considerably fewer detail what I consider to be the technical side of the creation - how to work out the right dimensions? Achieve the right file size? Keep it active and visible on a community? And the mysteries of saving to the right format? In this tutorial I'm going to provide answers to all those technical questions, and others along the way.
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Interlacing is a technique used by video recorders and television sets to ensure a smooth and fluid display on screen. It splits each frame into two sets of fields, an upper field and a lower field. Each field carries half the picture in horizontal rows, which when added together creates one interlaced frame. When viewing these frames in motion they are played too quickly for the eye to pick up any trace of interlacing, however, if you pause the video the effect becomes more prominent, growing even more if you happen to export a frame and view it on a computer screen.
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In this tutorial I’ll not just show you how to create the effect of TV scan lines on your artwork or photographs, I’ll show you how to achieve it in a non-destructive way using layers, patterns and blending modes. Our mission for this project is to take a photograph captured on any camera (below left) and tattoo the interlacing found on many older-style television sets across the world (below right). High definition this isn’t!
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The Basic Animation video tutorial I released a few years ago has been one of the most popular videos on the site, consistently being in the top 5. In that video I demonstrate how to build up basic animated scenes in the full version of Photoshop using options and techniques such as the animation panel and tweening. In this tutorial things will be a trifle different – we’ll work in Photoshop Elements, we’ll make a block of text flash using a simpler technique, and we’ll use layers instead of a frame-based animation panel.
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