This is a tutorial on how to turn a photo of a person into a vector image. This is part 1 of three. These are the basic shapes, the other will go into more detail of blending and making it more realistic.

It's generally understood in the Photoshop world that almost every image can benefit from judicious sharpening.

Need some ideas for your next media center? Here you will learn some useful techniques, one being Text on a Path.

In the first two parts of this series, we looked at the theory of sharpening and the commands and tool available in Photoshop.

A great way to save on your printing costs is to use two inks instead of four.

In the first installment of this series, we looked at duotone color mode, how it works, and how you can control it.

You may never think about color when you design.You may just think what looks good is what is good.

The second part of the Media Center interface.

Last week we began talking about color theory and we discussed analogous color. Let's talk about this more.

The vanishing point filter is pretty much another application. It allows you to maintain a perspective plane inside an image allowing you do to alot of things that would be just short of impossible to do in photoshop alone without pulling all of your hair out. This filter is so deep I'm going to break this tutorial down into 3 or 4 parts.Ever wanted to put someone's picture on a billboard? The side of a building? The wall in your room? While the vanishing point filter will do tons of other things, this is something it excels at doing.

The third and final part of the Media Center interface.

Make a body part shine like in those science fiction movies.

Ever wonder how designers are able to place an image inside text?

In Part 1 of this tutorial, we created a very simple non-destructive vignette.

Vignettes are a very popular way to highlight the subject of a photograph.

Introduction to the basic use of Photoshop's Shape Tools.

Combining 'Options Bar' features and Pen Tool manipulations for maximum control over those shapes.

In this tutorial I will teach you the rest of composition in photography. In part one of my photography composition guide I taught you about angle and the Rule of Thirds. In this tutorial I will each you about using landscape or portrait, cropping and more.

Ok, so we have now talked about colors that are similar. Now let's talk about colors that are disimilar.

Hello and welcome to part 2 of making a speed environment tutorial. We've stopped on making basic shape of our environment. We've also picked a color to our image and now we will paint some shadows and refine the image.