The Rachael Leigh Cook Photoshop Tutorial

Added October 27th, 2010 | Posted in Photoshop Tutorials | 1 Comment
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Rachael Leigh Cook recently lashed out against Photoshop, claiming people are misled to thinking people look amazing, when in reality they are just Photoshopped to perfection. She’s right, and here’s how they Photoshop this shit.

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How to keep your guides and slices accurate in Photoshop

Added October 12th, 2010 | Posted in Photoshop Tutorials | 1 Comment
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Ever dealt with a Photoshop file that had inaccurate guides and slices? Here’s a simple way of ensuring your slices, guides and shape layers are all properly and correctly aligned.

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How to highlight parts of an image in Photoshop

Added September 30th, 2010 | Posted in Photoshop Tutorials | No comments yet
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Here’s an easy way to highlight images or objects in Photoshop to help draw more attention to them. Kind of like a vignetted type of deal. This is a quick 5-10 minute tutorial, tops.

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How to cut people and objects out of the background in Photoshop

Added September 29th, 2010 | Posted in Photoshop Tutorials | 3 Comments
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Alvin Greene at the Dyke March, thanks to this Photoshop tutorial.

Someone asked me how to cut objects and people out of the background, and add a new background behind it. Here’s a Photoshop tutorial that teaches you one technique on how to do just that.

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Building the Apollo Creed Travels footer in Photoshop

Added March 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Apollo Creed Travels, Photoshop Tutorials | 1 Comment
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Designing a website footer in Photoshop.

Here’s a screenshot progression showing how I built the footer for Apollo Creed Travels in Photoshop.

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Photoshopping the new Groovy Web Design

Added February 13th, 2009 | Posted in Photoshop Tutorials | No comments yet
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Steps taken in Photoshop to design, paint and illustrate the Groovy Web Design layout.

Here are screenshots showing the steps taken to Photoshop the new Groovy Web Design layout using various illustrating and painting techniques.

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Building the new Apollo Creed Travels

Added February 13th, 2009 | Posted in Apollo Creed Travels, Photoshop Tutorials | 5 Comments
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Screenshots of building a website layout using Adobe Photoshop.

Well, after lots of procrastinating, my brother and I finally gave Apollo Creed Travels the updated its needed. Even though it’s still a tad rough around the edges (we were pressured to launching today after Apollo hit up the Asheville Twestival), we’re pretty happy with how it turned out. Anyways, I have found over the [...]

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Photoshop Tips & Tricks

When exporting images for web use, try to use JPG for images like photos or complex backgrounds with lots of gradients. Use GIF for simple buttons, text images, and things like that. Text will generally come out crisper when using GIF, and photos will most certainly look better and load faster when using JPG.

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