brush tool

Burn Tool Thumbnail

Photoshop's Burn Tool paints in areas of darkness to an image. It can be used to burn in shadows of a portrait, darken the skin tones of a model, or increase the intensity in a stormy sky. Taking the form of a paintbrush, the Burn Tool can strengthen the tones of an image in a more artistic way than other methods, making fine, precision guided adjustments that add contrast and tonality to an otherwise flat image.

Brush Hardness - Tips & Tricks

The Brush Tool comes with plenty of options. In fact, it has so many options it gets its own dropdown dialogue box and panel where you'll find all the controls split into sub panels. One of the most useful options available to any Photoshop user (not including the resizing controls) is brush hardness. Here I've prepared a few illustrations and a little bit of text to show you how it works.

Touring the Full Edit Mode Video Tutorial

The Full Edit mode unleashes the full power of Photoshop Elements in the form of layers, a full set of tools, full ability to select and move pixels, color adjusting and retouching tools beyond the realms of your wildest dreams and much, much more. This is where things start to get interesting. Follow me on a virtual tour of the workspace and rest assured that by time we’re done, you’ll choose power over ease-of-use any day of the week.

The Sponge Tool Video Tutorial

There are many ways to add or subtract saturation from images using Adobe Photoshop, here we'll look at how the Sponge Tool works, and how to get the best results when using it.

Red Eye Removal Video Tutorial

Although most cameras now have a red-eye reduction feature, it's still fairly common to see the dreaded red-eye phenomenon ruining a perfectly good photograph. In this tutorial we'll look at why red-eye happens and how your camera tries to defeat it. Then we'll get down to business and explore two ways to remove red-eye inside Photoshop.