Tag: Tools
6 Professional Development Resources for WordPress
No matter what job you have, there is always room for improvement. This is particularly true for WordPress professionals. Web development and design are constantly-changing fields, and the second you learn one method of doing things, another technique is introduced....
Freelancer vs. Agency Developer: Which Path Is Best for You?
As a web developer, your skills are in high demand in today’s job market. More companies are making e-commerce and mobile marketing a priority, and it’s creating an abundance of work opportunities. However, the more career options you have, the...
Consumer Electronics Websites: 4 Smart Lessons from 4 Smart Brands
Consumer electronics are an integral part of everyday life. However, as we move toward complete market saturation in 2019, consumer electronics websites may face many challenges. It’s become even more difficult to make a web design stand out of the...
7 Tips On Typography in Web Design
Working with a graphic design company takes away quite a lot of the hurdles that you’d otherwise have to deal with on your own. Figuring out how to best make use of typography in your web design is one of...
Flow vs. Opacity
Do you know the difference between the Opacity and Flow sliders when using the paintbrush tool? Here is a quick illustration to show what is happening. Opacity sets the ceiling of darkness or opaqueness… Flow sets the speed that the...
Creating a Compelling Photo Composite in Adobe Photoshop CC
Creating a compelling photo composite is as much about finding the right assets as it is about the process of blending them together. If you’re unable to capture your own assets, stock image sites are treasure chests for images, as...
Create Repeating Segments with the Mixer Brush in Photoshop CC
One of the secret powers of the Mixer Brush is that it can sample multiple colors or even pixels to use for its stroke. This is great for creating color-rich strokes to simulate painting with a real brush, but for...
Scorched Neon Effect Using the New Flame Filter in Photoshop
Adobe keeps slipping fun new features into each new release of Photoshop CC. In a recent release, they quietly unveiled a Flame filter that can be used to create everything from candlelight to dramatic flame-thrower bursts to flaming type. In...
Extracting Transparent Elements
The Quick Selection tool and the Refine Edge dialog are the go-to resources for making precise selections, yet when it comes to extracting transparent elements on a solid-colored background, nothing is faster than working with channels. In today’s tutorial, we’ll...
The Evolution of 3D Text in Photoshop
I’ve been a designer for the better part of 20 years, and I’ve seen design trends come and go. Some have endured and many have faded into obscurity. As Photoshop has always been my tool of choice for almost every...
Getting Creative with Custom Shapes
This technique is written for Photoshop CS6, but can easily be accomplished in prior versions. Working on a children’s book has given me the opportunity to deeply engage my imagination. Specifically, I’ve been “dressing up” animals with patterns. Doing so...
Action for Removing White Background
In order to make this action works in any language, we need to make some steps using the menus (instead shortcuts) so we can fully control the names of every single layer we make. Before starting the tutorial, please download...
CS6 Blur Tools
Using Photoshop CS6 to create selective softening effects using the new on-screen Blur Filters. Mix and match among the three filters for a variety of depth-of-field and tilt-shift effects. Step One: Open Choice Image Open choice image from the File...
CS6 Vector Tools
Photoshop CS6 public beta preview introduced some great new vector design workflows. This walkthrough will cater to some of those designer and graphic workflow and improvements. Visit Adobe Labs to download your own copy of Photoshop CS6 Beta. Vector Layers...