Posts Tagged ‘photoshop’

New Guide: What’s New In Photoshop CS6

Hi, Photoshop lovers! I hope all of you could afford the latest Photoshop version – CS6. It’s worthy 200%! No,  I am not an affiliate, it’s just my opinion. If you are curious about what’s new in it, please don’t hesitate and download my latest guide. I’ve covered the most important new features and tools and how to use them.

Whether you’re looking to get the most out of your newly-purchased copy of CS6 or wondering whether it’s worth the upgrade, this ultimate outline will teach you all of the tricks and tools the latest version of earth’s best photo manipulation software can offer. Read more »


Amazing Photo-Manipulation by Michael Oswald

Photoshop is probably the greatest software for photo editing. There are many talented digital artists that make the most out of it. And Michael Oswald is one of them. If you haven’t heard of the name yet, he’s an award-winning Photoshop genius from California, USA, who creates amazing artworks from real photographs by using Photoshop. Read more »


How to Create a Morphing Effect in Photoshop

As I informed you before, I wrote another Photoshop Manual for MakeUseOf.comAdvanced Features and Fun Photo Effects. This time I will post a small part of it here on TrueKolor. I will show you the basics of animation in Photoshop CS5 and you will create a morphing effect. As we proceed, you will use such tools as Liquify, Forward Warp, Bloat, Color Replacement, etc. Plus, you will learn the basics of creating an animation and saving it for the web.

What’s morphing? Basically, morphing is transforming from one thing to another. And yes, we’ll make some face transform into something weird, an alien-looking thing. Here’s what you will create Read more »


Photoshop CS5 Guide: Advanced Features and Fun Photo Effects

As I promised before, I’ve finished writing another Photoshop Guide titled “An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop, Part 4: Advanced Features and Fun Photo Effects” for MakeUseOf.com and now it is available for free download. No matter whether you are a beginner or an advanced Photoshop user, this guide will teach you some cool things for sure.

What will you learn in this guide?

This time, I’ll show you how to make use of some amazing features that came with CS5, such as Content-Aware and Puppet Warp and some handy tools that we had before the CS5 Read more »


Adobe Photoshop CS6

Guys at Adobe never stop surprising us with new features and everytime an update is released Photoshop users get excited about what’s it gonna be like. While some of us still haven’t got over Content-Aware magic, others already trying the new stuff.

Photoshop CS6 comes with dramatic changes and awesome features. The interface has been changed (which is totally revolutional for Photoshop), more Content-Aware tools, improved engine, faster performance, video editing, RAW import, improved Crop tool and on and on and on… Tons of everything. Read more »


Quick Tips on Speeding Up Photoshop CS5

Most of Photoshop users think they are getting the most of it without any settings changed. Well, I am not talking about monster machines, but those who work with Photoshop on average computers will find those tips useful.

Photoshop’s performance depends on your RAM in the first place, so the more RAM – the faster the workflow. At least, you will need 2GB of RAM to work with the program and still you will face “slow-downs” when working with many layers, high-res images and brushes. Moreover, if you have tons of fonts, it will slow down on startup.

So how to speed up your Photoshop CS5? Read more »


An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop pt III: Pro Tips (Free Download)

I’ve finished writing the Third part of Photoshop Guides for MakeUseOf.com and am really proud to announce it! It’s totally free and cool!
In this Pro Tips part I covered more than 30 most important Photoshop tips and tricks, which will be useful for both beginners and professionals (please believe, some of them you didn’t even know about). Moreover, I’ve included some detailed tutorials like Creating a YouTube Partner banner with links, How to create a favicon in Photoshop, Silhouette tutorial; Read more »


Learn How To Create an Animated Scrapbook for Google + Page

Ever since Google launched their Google + Pages I was plotting and scheming on writing a tutorial about creating a nice animated scrapbook for the page. By the way, the scrapbook is the header of your profile page where you can display 5 images from your Photos.

It is similar to Facebook’s scrapbook. But Google’s one supports animated images as well! You may have seen nicely animated scrapbooks on various profile pages. Ever wondered how they do it? Read more »


Awesome Photoshop Plugin to Make Grids Friendlier (FREE)

Free Photoshop ExtensionIf you have ever used Photoshop for any project where alignment/layout of elements is very important then you are familiar with Guides. Especially web designers, who deal with templates know what I am talking about. And calculating guide spaces is not the sweetest part of the job. Some skip this part and put guides relying on their eyes. But it’s not accurate.

Today I will share one of the greatest contributions to Photoshop extensions. Please welcome – GuideGuide. Created by Cameron McEfee, this extension/plugin is totally FREE and absolutely Awesome. If you are using Photoshop professionally, then you have to have it. This will make your life easier.

I’ve downloaded it and installed, tried just for a few minutes…the result is – this post to share the knowledge. Read more »


Free PDF Guides to Help You Start With Photoshop

I am currently working over another PDF guide on Photoshop, that’s why I thought it would be cool to give you the first two parts of the series. These guides are best for beginners – once you go through them you will not be scared when you open Photoshop for the first time.

The first two parts of  “An Idiot’s Guide to Photoshop”  series of guides explain how to use some basic tools (from How to create a new document to How to add a fake tattoo to your photo and help you to get prepared for more advanced operations. The Part II was written by me and was downloaded more than 20800 times from MakeUseOf.com. Numbers don’t lie, Read more »