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10 Useful Photoshop Tips for Beginners

5 September 2001 / Leave a Comment

Just starting out with Adobe Photoshop? Here are 10 handy tips to help you get up to speed.

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Brushed Metal Effects in Photoshop

16 August 2001 / Leave a Comment

Brushed metal text example

In this tutorial we’ll look at using some of Photoshop’s tools to produce realistic brushed-metal effects. You can easily apply these effects to text or to other objects such as geometric shapes and interface bars.

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Introduction to Photoshop Layers

17 July 2001 / 2 Comments

This beginner’s tutorial explains the concept of layers in Photoshop. Layers are a very powerful tool for image editing, and are a fundamental tool in Photoshop for creating complex images.

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Cutout Text

17 April 2001 / Leave a Comment

In this tutorial, I’m going to look at Paint Shop Pro’s Cutout effect, and show how you can use it to produce some nice cutout text. The text will be used as a template to “cut out” part of an image.

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Saving Graphics for the Web in Paint Shop Pro

2 April 2001 / Leave a Comment

In this tutorial, I’m going to look at the GIF and JPEG Optimizer commands, and show how you can use them to make good-looking, fast-loading Web graphics. (Paint Shop Pro 7 also features the PNG Optimizer, which I may cover in a later tutorial.)

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Creating Bevels in Paint Shop Pro

26 March 2001 / Leave a Comment

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Paint Shop Pro’s Inner Bevel effect to create smooth 3D graphics and text.

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Using the Paint Shop Pro Text Tool

20 March 2001 / 4 Comments

This tutorial walks you through some cool features of Paint Shop Pro’s versatile text-making tool, and shows you some groovy tips and tricks along the way!

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Making a Rollover Menu Bar

12 December 1998 / 2 Comments

This Photoshop 4 tutorial (also works with later versions of Photoshop) is quite a big one. I’ll show you how to make one of those trendy menus that look like one image, but are in fact several images joined together, with each image changing as the mouse moves over them. Oh, words will never do – take a look at it in action!

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Understanding Image Formats

15 November 1998 / Leave a Comment

In this tutorial, we’re going to look at the three common image formats used on the Web: GIF, JPEG and PNG. You’ll learn how these image formats work, and where to use each type of image in your Web pages.

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Photoshop’s Save for Web Feature

25 October 1998 / 4 Comments

As of version 5 and greater, Photoshop includes a very handy “Save for Web” command. This feature allows you to produce a copy of your image that is optimised for Web use. This means that the image file will be as small as possible, and that the image will use only Web-safe colours (if desired). Save for Web can produce GIF, JPEG, or PNG format images.

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