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The news of this little freebie has been making the rounds so I thought I would share it here as well. Thus is the way of all things viral. More »

May 21st, 2008 | Tags: , book, download, free, photoshop, sitepoint | Category: graphic artist's resource, industry notes, photoshop | Leave a comment

You can use a displacement map to make a graphic follow every contour or corner of an underlying texture or shape, such as a flag or cloth. More »

May 20th, 2008 | Tags: adobe, channels, displacement map, fit logo to flag, how to, photoshop, RGB, tutorial, wavy, wrap texture | Category: graphic artist's resource, photoshop, tutorials | Comments (6)

One of the most common problems with composite photoshop images are backgrounds that do not match.

What you may find is that two images were pasted together in a collage that both had “black” backgrounds but that they were made up of different formulas…ie one background would be 100K and another may be 30c30m30y100K… on screen they might match but when ink hits paper this can turn into a disastrous print job with the 100K black seeming like a grey next to the richer black. More »

April 10th, 2008 | Category: graphic artist's resource, photoshop, print production | Leave a comment

Note: This Photoshop® tip assumes a basic knowledge of photoshop. I have found that this time-saver has worked over the last 3 versions of Photoshop.

This TIP is one of my most used, and has saved me hours of computer time.

If you have to do the same thing to a great number of files use your ACTIONS palette to record the changes and then BATCH process either an entire folder of images the same way or just one at a time. Either way it’s a great time saver that I have used for watermarking, resizing, adding effects or whatever to large or small groups of images at the same time or – since the action is saved – at a later date. You can even export the actions to transfer to other computers. More »

January 9th, 2008 | Tags: actions, batch, palettes, photoshop, pixels, tips | Category: graphic artist's resource, photoshop, tutorials | Leave a comment

Doing colour correction on skintones can be problematic. Sure, you can adjust them until they look good on your monitor but they don’t print well. The problem is that your monitor may not be calibrated properly, you may be dealing with colour casts on the original photos, or you may simply lack target colours to adjust to. More »

January 2nd, 2008 | Tags: adjust, adobe, calibrate, CMYK, color, colour correction, curves, fleshtone, mid-tone, midtone, photoshop, RGB, skin, skintones, tone | Category: graphic artist's resource, photoshop, print production | Leave a comment