By default setting, tools, option bar, and some panel are visible in Photoshop. But to make it more convenient to use, we can adjust the workspace and we can also hide/unhide the tool box and option bar too. If we just need to expand the Photoshop CS4 window view so the entire bar and tools disappears for awhile, we can simply press Tab key. Here is a quick guide for trouble shutting to hide/unhidden tools box in Photoshop CS4.
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How to Hide and Unhide Tools in Photoshop CS4
Category: Photoshop Tutorial | Posted at August 10, 2010 with 1 Comment
Make USA Flag Graffiti in Rough Wall using Photoshop Displacement Technique
Category: Photo Effects | Posted at August 9, 2010 with 0 Comments
Displacement is one of versatile Photoshop ability that useful to blend many kind of image to different surface. The more rough / contrast the surfaces, the more detail the blended art will be. Here is the tutorial. We will try to make graffiti photo effect of USA Flag in a rough brick wall.
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Simple Tutorial to Turn a Picture into a Transparent gif on Photoshop
Category: Photoshop Tutorial | Posted at August 6, 2010 with 0 Comments
Gif is one of image file formats which have abilities to create empty/transparent background with small size. You can make transparent background in any other file format such psd, but due the compatibility and image size, some people prefer to use gif as output format. For example if you want to put it on the web. Gif file with transparent background can be made by deleting the background first and then save it in gif format or you can save original image directly in to gif and make it transparent with the gif setting. I prefer to use the first method, because it is much simpler and we can control the part of the transparent one easily. Here is the tutorial to do it in Photoshop.
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JPG File Compression in Photoshop
Category: Photoshop Tutorial | Posted at July 30, 2010 with 1 Comment
Sometimes we need to get a smaller image file, mostly to save time and bandwidth usage for uploading it in internet. Except for some web service that limit our photo size such as Facebook that will standardize the file size to fit to their page wide. We don’t need to adjust the photo because no matter how big we upload the file, the result still be the same. But we can save some uploading time if we make the file size smaller.
We don’t have to reduce the file size if we want to save our work in Photoshop in to hard drive storage or Compact Disc. I usually save a large image file, in jpg or psd, just in case I need to edit them later.
Jpg file is one of the smallest file that popular to use. It has compression system that we can adjust to make the file smaller as possible. Of course we have to notice the image quality, because as smaller the file will be, the less quality the images are.
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How to Cut Something Out of an Image Using Photoshop
Category: Photoshop Tutorial | Posted at July 28, 2010 with 0 Comments
Photoshop is a powerful image editing software. One of it function is to cut something out of an image or photo. This not only Photoshop function, there are lot more of it. But removing any unwanted objects or photo model is one of popular effects that done by any graphic designer. Not only for satisfying the designer need but more are base to their customer need.
There are lot of Photoshop technique to cut something out or discarding any unwanted object/s. I have post about clone stamp tool and healing brush previously. Those tool actually can be use to remove any object by duplicating any area in to it, so the original object is covered with its surrounding pattern.
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