Photoshop: Matching Color Schemes
The Adobe Creative Team teaches you how to combine images and harmonize the color schemes in multiple images by matching the target image to the dominant colors in a source. December 12, 2009
Photoshop: Surreal Landscapes, Part 1
Dan Moughamian begins a new series showing how to create a unique landscape scene by blending or compositing multiple stock photos. December 11, 2009
Elements: Color Correction for Photographers
Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski cover the details of color correction in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7, including working with histograms, studio photo correction, adjusting flesh tones, converting from color to black and white, and more. November 13, 2009
Tutorial: Brushed Silver Text Effect
IN THIS ETC TUTORIAL we will be creating a brushed silver reflective text effect. We will also be creating the accompanying abstract reflective watery background scene. November 2, 2009
Negative Space: nothing says a lot
Someone asked about "Negative Space" and then blogs all over the place picked up the buzz word -- but nobody actually delves into the psychology and philosophy of designing with negative space. It's one of the most powerful tools a graphic designer's toolbox. October 29, 2009
Designing Spaces
Designing Spaces - in logo designing, as well as other design and page layout projects you can leverage the space that contains nothing -- Negative Space. Here are some examples of brilliant use of negative space. October 29, 2009
Photoshop: Stock Images in Collages
Following links to what some people call "best tutorials" can often lead you down a dead-end street. Not so at Vrya's Tangled Synthesis web site! Her tutorials are quality! This one shows how she weaves stock images into movie and TV show montages and collages she's become famous for! October 3, 2009
Visual Proofreading: 10 Rules
Visual proofreading helps you cull out the visual mistakes just like you would typos. It's an important step in the design process that helps you sharpen your design skills and produce better publications. September 25, 2009
Photoshop Eye Effects #1
This tutorial was prompted by a Photoshop 911 reader who wanted to know about techniques that would allow the merging of a symbol into a person's eye. We run through several layering techniques -- but also discover that what you want isn't necessarily what you get. September 7, 2009
Designing For Print On A Budget
We are thrilled to have Mr. Thomas McKenna, instructor for Sessions.edu, with us this month; presenting a talk about the never-ending battle of Designing For Print On A Budget August 11, 2009
