Photoshop 911 Tutorials

Here's a listing of the more recent Photoshop and Photoshop Elements tutorials in the areas of Color Issues, Effects, Tips, Tricks, Image Editing, Photoshop Books, Retouching, Restoring, Web Graphics and Color...

• Photoshop Print Margins
• Design & Graphics Resources Posted
• Photoshop CS2 Image Wrap
• Photoshop Madness
• Prints look muddy
• How to get better scans
• Bitmap to Vector?
• Cropping for DVD TV
• Screen printing to 6 colors
• Photoshop window moves out of screen...
• ERROR: End of File
• Adobe Photoshop CS2 On Demand
• Changing Colors, templates or not...
• HELP creating burned edges
• Fixing old scanned photos
• Holidays Photoshop Madness
• Anthony Cole: Legacy of Illumination
• Photo to 50s Pinup style art
• Help Batch Resize Photos
• Color tint spoils black and white print
• Help using Chormakey
• Help printing Contact Sheets
• Help printing variable data
• Help, soft selection is killing me
• Help print to specific color spectrums
• Where is RAW plug-in?
• Wrap image around a sphere?
• Replace color with White?
• Take Spectacular Nighttime Photos
• Adobe CS2 Learning
• What do Designers and Clients want?
• September Book News
• Shaun Pearce on Photoshop CS2
• Picture Fonts for PS and Illus
• Bayeux font for Photoshop
• Fall Fonts Festival
• Making Black / White in Photoshop
• Web: HEX Color Charts
• Photoshop Resources and Tutorials updated
• Match color from another photo - Before combining two photos, how to get them to match color values
• Getting the Ansel Adams Look - Is it a color photo? You'll need the channel mixer or levels
• Cloning Tool Stopped Working - I am having problems with the cloning tool on photoshop 7
• Scaling to match another image size - Scaling to an exact target size is tricky... and should never enlarge!
• Resetting Dialogs in Photoshop - if Photoshop seems to be misbehaving
• PS 7 rejects Scanner - hello? where did my scanner go???
• Color Photo from Black and White - to and from black and white tips and tricks
• Help removing white backgrounds - How do I get rid of the White background in my forum sig?
• How to pick up an exact color... - How do you select an exact color to match?
• How to fix a corrupted file - Crashing during a "SAVE" is not a pretty picture
• Hot spots too bright - Flash flare and hot spots can cause problems. Here's one way to solve the problem...
• Photoshop picks only black or white - When I go to pick my colour, it will only be Black-white
• Replacing Body Parts - How do you match the color in photos before swapping faces...
• Multiple Scan Assembly - How do you assemble multiple parts of an oversized scan?
• Photoshop Elements for Sepiatone - Give a photo the "old fashioned" look with sepia toning
• Lost scanner contact - Photoshop can't find my scanner!
• How to restrict the file to just TWO colors? - Trying to build a 2-color ad
• Clone Stamp Problems in CS - Here the Clone Stamp Tool seems to have a life of its own, and doesn't catch new samples...
• How do you create an artistic border? - Creating artistic borders
• How to achieve Black/White with Color Detail - How to achieve Black/White with Color Detail
• How to select Hair - The 1,000th person has asked how to select hair
• How do you merge pictures and text? - trying to merge 2 pictures and text
• Photoshop Text Runarounds? - How do I create text runarounds in Photoshop CS
• Sizing Images for Print in Elements - This reader wants help sizing images to gang print onto single photo paper sheets...
• Copying Saving from Disk to Disk - Problems cutting and editing images from disk to disk
• How to fix a corrupted file - Crashing during a "SAVE" is not a pretty picture
• Optimizing graphics for the Web - Can you direct me to a tutuorial on how to optimize photos I wish to publish on my website?
• Sectioning to layers - Changing the color of a car, and breaking into layers...
• Clone Stamp Problems in CS - Here the Clone Stamp Tool seems to have a life of its own, and doesn't catch new samples...
• Sizing Images for Print in Elements - This reader wants help sizing images to gang print onto single photo paper sheets...
• Heart Shaped Photo - This reader needs to know how to put a photo into a heart...
• Brush Cookie Cutter - Make a standing copyright stamp with a custom brush shape.
• Selecting Multiple Layers - When asked to select several layers at the same time, here's what you do
• Hacking Element's HTML Gallery - This reader can't find the "Home" button... PS Element's web gallery is primitive at best, but you can help...
• GIF not TIF for the Web - To Tif or not to Tif... that is the question. The answer is NOT.
• Color Photo from Black and White - This reader wants to make a color photo from a black and white. Tough question.
• Colorizing a Map in Photoshop - Laying color over a map is easier than you think and it doesn't require brushes...
• Photoshop workspace - How do you maintain your carefully organized work space?
• Resetting Dialogs in Photoshop - You don't have to cancel that dialog to return to normal.
• PS 7 rejects Scanner - A recent upgrade took this reader's scanner out of sync with Photoshop
• Hot spots too bright - Flash flare and hot spots can cause problems. Here's one way to solve the problem...
• Merge Layers loses effects - When merging a layer with the layer below John lost all of the effects applied to that upper layer... answer: Don't merge...
• Fading images in Photoshop -
• Making nice looking collage - ... again we refer readers to our Montage tutorial
• Photoshop and Disk errors - Cannot open a Photoshop file because of disk damage.
• Rescue a water-soaked photo - a framed photo gets submerged in water and sticks to the glass... which cracks. Who do you call?
• Blacks don't match: What do you do when CMYK blacks don't match?
• Missing Photoshop Brushes: Reader finds all the custom brushes gone... what happened?
• Line Art to Color Art in PS: Colorizing scanned clip art requires a few mode changes to get started
• Changing Colors in Photoshop: re-coloring downloaded or purchased templates. Careful!
• Feathering Effects in Photoshop: How to make those nice gradual gradient edges to photos.
• Beauty Retouching in Photoshop: How do you remove blemishes from photos, give skin the glamour look?
• Burned Holes in Photoshop How do you simulate a burned hole in Photoshop?
• Help recall Filter Settings... Reapplying filter effects, returning to the last filter settings used.
• PS Bevels by hand How to make bevels by hand rather than through layers styles
• PS helps Faded Photo This badly aged and faded photo from 1900 needs two scans not just one.
• Photoshop and Disk errors - Cannot open a Photoshop file because of disk damage.
• Washed out prints... - Prints much lighter than screen... color matching the devices is the only answer
• Photoshop Ghosting Borders - Using Photoshop to "ghost" or screen back a portion of a photo
• Spot Color Separations with Photoshop - This reader asks for help producing Spot Color Channels in Photoshop for silk-screen printing.
• Curving Type in Photoshop - Using Photoshop's Warp filter to curve type
• Saving and loading color tables - This reader wants to create a custom colors library. Here's how to edit, save, delete and load color palettes in Photoshop
• Photographing X-Rays - Get high quality images from x-rays, but don't photograph them. Use Photoshop
• Anti-aliasing Type in Photoshop - Setting type options for very small Times type in Photoshop
• Reliable scan, monitor and print colors - Getting Consistently precise color between devices is a challenge. Here's where to start.
• Photoshop vs. Elements - Which is better? Photoshop Elements? Which should I buy? We simply got tired of answering this same frequent question -- so, Photoshop and Photoshop Elements expert, Richard Lynch joins us to put this long-running debate to rest: Which is best: Photoshop or Elements??
• Line Drawings from Photoshop - This reader asks how to convert a Photoshop image into a line drawing...
• Custom Gradients How do you make custom gradients? First place to start is with existing gradients. Here's how we do it in Photoshop
• Eyedropper Spread Trick - Photoshop Eyedropper Tool setting can help select an average of pixels rather than single pixel points... here's how
Aging Photographs - How do you age photographs? Make the old look young, and the young look old? Not what you think...
• Annoying Gray Boxes- Annoying gray boxes seem to pop into the upper left hand corner of Photoshop without warning... here's what you do
• Retouch skin tones for Newspaper - Photoshop 911 reader asks how to retouch human skin tones for newspaper reproduction
• White type for Web Pages - Having problems getting clean white type for web pages from Photoshop? This reader gets the inside tips.
• Changing Eye Color - Using the Replace Color dialog in Photoshop 7 to change the color of a person's eyes (or anything for that matter)
• Get Rid of White Backgrounds - Photoshop 911 reader wants to get rid of white backgrounds in exported files for PageMaker or Quark XPress
• Help! Lost Transform Handles - This reader (one of many) has lost the Free Transform or layer Move Tool handles... where did they go???
• Photoshop Balks on an iBook? - Photoshop 911 Case: "Is my iBook not up to running Photoshop cs under OSX?"
• Photoshop Replace Color (Textiles) - Photoshop 911 Reader asks how to change the colors in fabrics and textiles... we say Replace Color
• Printing Multiple Photos, Single Page - Rather than use Picture Package in Photoshop, this reader needs to print different pictures on the same page
• Removing Grain from Skin Tones - Photoshop 911 reader: "Help! I need to get rid of grain and roughness in skin tones!"
• Simulating Gel Buttons - Photoshop 911 reader asks "How to duplicate the Apple's QuickTime logo" (Gel Buttons?)
• Building Templates - Using Photoshop to build template files with built-in frames for inserting art.
• Clipping Paths, Masks - Importing Photoshop files into Illustrator can be frustrating if you're trying to retain Photoshop's transparency. But it's easy once you know...
• Color Proofing Tips - Matching color can be difficult. For big jobs you need to get it right before it goes to press
• Converting to Vectors - Photoshop may not be the answer for building vector images for screen printing
• Drop Shadows - Drop shadows are easy with the Styles Palette
• Fog an image to white - Photoshop fades out an image for ghostly results... like the promotional poster for the "Beyond Borders" movie
• Mac Preferences Files - Mac OS owners need to be aware of backing up the preferences files
• Mirror images - Photoshop "Flip" commands to mirror an image
• Photoshop and Illustrator When moving files to and from Illustrator to Photoshop and back again, be sure to match color space
• Images shift to red A Photoshop upgrade causes a decided shift in color toward Red.
• Remove Scratches - Using Photoshop to remove scratches from a scanned photo
• Spacebar Broken - Something has gone wrong and the spacebar doesn't work in Photoshop

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