Posts Tagged ‘photoshop’

Quick and dirty wood texture

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

This tutorial is about making a quick and dirty wood texture using Photoshop’s Fibers Tool, for beginners to advanced users alike. A wood texture can be used when creating organic web interfaces or if you are 3D modelling wood objects. This is probably the shortest tutorial ever, but I believe the end effect is pretty [...]

Tags: photoshop

Complex selections made easy

Monday, August 30th, 2010

With Adobe Photoshop CS5 it is very easy to select intricate image elements, such as hair, for refinements, compositing, or placing in layout. Eliminate background colour around selection edges, and automatically vary selection edges and perfect masks using new refinement tools. I will be removing this woman from the blue sky background:

Tags: guide, photoshop

Use a font in Photoshop without installing it

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

I find myself working on projects sometimes that require a unique font for a logo or an advertisement, but over time it can become a problem that you have too many fonts on your system. Numerous articles on the internet claim that too many fonts slow down system boot-up. I have found a simple solution [...]

Tags: font, photoshop, tips