Anyone who plans on spending any length of time wandering the halls of Photoshop should consider learning how Photoshop layer sets work.

Layers are crucial to the entire mechanism of Photoshop design and enhancement.

The Photoshop “Layers” palette maintains a precise history of all your keystrokes… so you don’t have to remember anything.

Layers can be likened to your command post, so it behooves you t (more…)

In 1987, brothers John and Thomas Knoll started developing a computer program that would focus mainly on imaging and photography using the computer. Little did the brothers knew by that time that they would come to develop one of the computer world’s most sought after software—the Adobe Photoshop.

When the program was initially developed, the Knolls established a firm called the Adobe Systems. The history of the company is equal (more…)

Twenty years ago photographers needed a variety of skills in order to produce professional quality photographs. Knowledge of film speed, exposure value, shutter speeds, and focal length was required. You also may have needed to have your own dark room in order to develop your photos as well as needing much more equipment in order to get great photos. With digital technology today\’s budding photographer has it much easier. Photography, always an (more…)

Anyone looking for a photo editing program has to use one of Adobes’ software products. If the basic idea is just to play around with digital photos one would vouch for the Photoshop Elements. The latest version of elements is really very advanced and a few advanced Photoshop Elements tutorials are just what you need to excel in this excellent editing software, and includes a free adobe photoshop elements book.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 (more…)

Are you a so called Photoshop specialist photographer who can correct an image that was destined for the ‘Recycle Bin’ and produced an image that can be uploaded and sold through Microstock?

Do you justify your Photoshop expertise by explaining that the landscape shot was ruined because it had an overflowing litter bin in the foreground? Or are you the portrait photographer telling me how you had saved your embarra (more…)