One of the easiest ways to improve your designs, whether they are for print or screen, is to align visual elements. Photoshop provides us with a set of tools that make it simple to place components in the right spots.…
In this short Photoshop tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a solid colour layer. The solid color layer has many uses and I’ll show you just one of them now. Quickly Changing A Background Colour In Photoshop Using A Solid Color…
A question that comes up quite frequently in my Photoshop classes is “What’s wrong with my color picker? I’m not getting the usual palette of colors.” Or words to that effect. By default the Photoshop color picker looks like this:…
*Updated August 2021*Usually, when you change the opacity of a layer in Photoshop using the Opacity slider at the top of the Layers panel, the WHOLE layer changes to that opacity. There may be times though when you want only…
The Eyedropper tool in Photoshop samples color to assign a new foreground or background color. You can sample from the active image which you have open in Photoshop or from any other part of the interface. But did you know…
The Sponge Tool is one of Photoshop’s image retouching tools. It lets you increase the intensity of a colour (saturation) or decrease the amount of colour (desaturation) until it starts to lose all colour and becomes grey scale. The tool…
*Updated November 2020*The Spot Healing Brush tool in Photoshop is an easy way to quickly get rid of zits, spots, blemishes and other imperfections from photos. It works by sampling pixels from your photo and then painting on top of…
If you want to gather together several separate images and open them in a single Photoshop document, you can stack them in layers. As with many techniques in Photoshop, there is more than one way to do it. Here are…
Photoshop Bootcamp Guide Working With Type In Photoshop In this quick Photoshop tutorial for beginners, you’ll learn how to use Photoshop’s Layer Styles to create a simple and eye-catching double stroke text effect. Here’s what we’ll make: Layer Styles in…
Updated for Photoshop CC2022 This Photoshop Toolbar Cheat Sheet features every tool in the Photoshop CC Toolbar along with its shortcut key. Learning keyboard shortcuts is one of the best ways to get better and become more efficient at using…
