Adobe Illustrator Basics for Dummies #18: Designing a Cigarette

Adobe Illustrator keywords: New Brush, New Pattern Brush, Filter, Distort, Roughen, Effect, Stylize, Feather Continue reading →

Image Correction with Adobe Photoshop CS2 #10: Inverting Colors

Inverting colors… Just switching black and white, right? Even when you have a color image, you can invert colors by pressing Command + I. But what does inverting colors really mean? And how do we invert colors without using the shortcut key? Continue reading →

Adobe Photoshop Very Basics for Graphics Dummies #6: Mask

Masking an image is an important aspect of Adobe Photoshop. It’s like a man wearing a mask and only showing his eyes. So when you mask an image, some parts will be revealed and other parts won’t be. And the background may become transparent. Continue reading →

Adobe Photoshop Very Basics for Graphics Dummies #5: Quick Mask

Okay. We now know which tool we should use to make a particular selection. Let’s move on to the next stage. This short video tutorial is concerned with Quick Mask, which is used to revise the existing selection. Continue reading →

Adobe Photoshop Very Basics for Graphics Dummies #4: Selection

There are many ways by which you can make selections. Marquee, Magic Wand, Lasso: These three tools are commonly used to make selections in Photoshop. But other tools including Pen, Rectangle, Eclipse and Type can also be used to make selections. Continue reading →