Master Masking with Photoshop's Alpha Channels

Masking an image is like poking a hole in the background to reveal the foreground. I use this analogy because A) I'm growing a bit weary of the "white reveals, black conceals" line; B) I'm just coming off a ski vacation in Big Sky, Montana, at the end of which I wiped out on a bunch of rocks at the top of the 11,166-foot Lone Peak (see diagram below) and poked a purple-looking hole in my knee; and C) masking is exactly like that, except not so purple.read more

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Create Your Own Photoshop Brushes (or Just Take Ours)

Why should we limit the fun in Adobe Photoshop to the digital world? You can combine old-school art with digital darkroom techniques to create Photoshop brushes for painting and masking. By painting on actual paper first, you'll create original Photoshop brushes that look more authentic than purely digital art. Then you'll vary size, angle, and hue of the brushes in Photoshop, and use them for painting and for masking parts of existing artwork.Step 1read more

Make Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign Get Along

This article is excerpted from the April/May 2010 issue of InDesign Magazine (#34). Subscribe to InDesign Magazine.Microsoft Word is the de facto standard word processor. That means that the majority of the text for our layouts arrives in the form of Word documents. Ugh!Still, with a little knowledge and a decent strategy, importing and styling copy from Word needn’t be arduous or tedious. I’ll show you how to be productive despite the software.

30 Exciting Examples of Sports Photography

Today we bring you 30 exciting examples of sports photography. Sports photography often captures a great amount of movement and passion. Often spectacular split-second moments must be captured, to expose the feelings of the wider game.

Turn a Photo Into a Drawing in Photoshop

In this example of turning a photograph into a drawing, professional artist and Photoshop expert Bert Monroy shows you how to make a photograph look like a hand-drawn image on canvas. First, you'll open a portrait in Photoshop and turn the entire image into a pattern (Select > All, Edit > Define Pattern). You'll duplicate the image in a new layer, then apply the Find Edges filter (Filter > Stylize). read more

Creative Advertisements by Giovanni Pirajno

Companies spend big money to catch your attention with their advertisements. Advertising agencies use creative advertising techniques and ideas to attract visitors as these creative and unique ads will give visitors a very good first impression. If an ad doesnt catch your attention within seconds, it can be considered fail. Theres no chance for a [...]Read more web/graphic design, SEO, blogging tutorials & articles on AREA 1.FREEBIE:RSS & Twitter icon