Tutorials to help you use the various tools and features in the Adobe Photoshop image editing application.
One of the biggest reasons to use Photoshop is the ability to separate image elements into layers. This allows you to change individual elements, meaning that you can change the size of a single layer in Photoshop without affecting the rest of the image elements. An important distinction when you are creating and editing images … Read more
When an image or picture that you are working with in Adobe Photoshop includes elements on separate layers, then you will likely need to work with some transparency. This can be difficult depending on the pre-existing characteristics of the image, which can leave you wondering how to make a transparent background in Photoshop. Fortunately there … Read more
While you might have already familiarized yourself with some of the different shape tools in Adobe Photoshop, you might have run into some trouble if you needed a shape with rounded corners. Fortunately, you can learn how to make a rounded rectangle in Photoshop using similar methods to the ones that you used to make … Read more
If you’ve tried to edit a layer in your image but the option you wanted to use was grayed out, or you weren’t able to make an adjustment, then you might be trying to figure out how to unlock a background layer in Photoshop. While most of the elements of a picture that you want … Read more
Once you start experimenting with the different keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, especially for the actions that you perform regularly, it can really improve your experience with the application. But if you have been looking for a Photoshop rotate shortcut, you might have discovered that there isn’t one. Luckily that doesn’t mean that you can’t use … Read more
When you use layers ot organize the various elements of your image it makes it much easier to apply effects to just part of an image. But using layers creates an additional issue where some layers might cover elements of others. Our bring layer to front Photoshop tutorial shows you a simple way to fix … Read more
It’s likely that you will need to know how to flip a layer in Photoshop if there’s text or an image that would look better if it were backward or upside down. The ability to edit in layers is probably my favorite part about Adobe Photoshop. It opens up a world of possibilities by allowing … Read more
When you add text to an image you may have an idea in your head about how you want it to look. But as you continue to edit the image you may realize that the text doesn’t look quite right. You can often make a large improvement to text appearance by simply using a different … Read more
If you create an image from scratch in Photoshop CS5 then you are able to set the original dimensions of that image. If you know the requirements for the image, or exactly what you want to do with it before you start, then you can probably proceed through the entire editing process without needing to … Read more
If you have spent a lot of time creating and editing image files in Photoshop, then being sure to save them can eliminate a lot of future headaches. It’s fairly easy to have a lot of images open at once, however, and it can take a few seconds per image to save and close. You … Read more