Checking the feedback from LCD may not be the best way to know if your photographs are properly exposed. Checking the histogram ensures that your images are properly exposed, and this tutorial tell how.

Curves in Photoshop is a very powerful tool but is often underexposed to Photoshop users. Learn how to utilize this tool in your graphic designs and gain an edge over other designers.

Learn about the different types of light in photos and how to use them to get the best result.

Get an understanding of swatches and their relation with foreground and background colors.

Far from being voodoo, manipulating levels is a very powerful way to quickly improve an image's tonal range and color balance. In this theory-based tutorial you will learn how they work, and realize how mastery of Levels functionality will make you a superior-level Photoshop user.

Far from being voodoo, manipulating levels is a very powerful way to quickly improve an image's tonal range and color balance. In this theory-based tutorial you will learn how they work, and realize how mastery of levels functionality will make you a superior-level Photoshop user.

Learn to use one of the most powerful tools in Photoshop.

Image pixels are the tiny building blocks of every digital image. All Photoshop sees is pixels. It's these pixels that you're changing in some way with every edit you make to your image, and it's these pixels you're printing when you send your digital photos to the printer.

Caging the Rhino - Understanding Vector Masks

To help you learn and understand how the blend modes work, I have provided a summary of all the blend modes currently found in Photoshop CS3 Extended

Photoshop CS2 has a new way of understanding vector data. This is called smart objects. In this tutorial we will guide you through this new function.

Read this tutorial and discover the different curve shapes and their uses, plus ways to adjust parts of your image using adjustment layer masks.

In this tutorial, white balance for digital photography is discussed. Learn what it is, what it does, how it effects your image quality and how to correct poor white balance in Photoshop.

Understanding what light metering stystems are, how they work, and when you should use them.

This short tutorial would help you to understand what aperture and depth of field is.

Adobe Photoshop includes Layer Styles, a number of automated effects that you can apply to layers, including drop shadows, glows, beveling, and embossing, as well as a color fill effect.

We continuing our look at the Layer Style window, especially how Outer and Inner Glow work

This versatile effect help create a feeling of depth by adding highlight and shadow to layer shapes. Depending on where these highlights and shadows are placed, a 3D effect can be quickly generated

Photoshop is a powerful tool for creating illustrations, here I will show you how using the Cutout filter to make simple illustrations from your photos

Three elements need to be considered when making decisions around exposure on your digital camera. This tutorial unpacks them all.