Creating A Tilt-Shift Effect Using Photoshop

By Anthony Hortin | Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

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A Tilt-Shift effect on your image gives it the impression that the subject is actually a scale model. It does this by dramatically simulating a shallow Depth of Field along with an increase in the color saturation. (more…)

10 Second Tip – Controlling The Photoshop Pixel Grid

By Anthony Hortin | Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

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Photoshop CS4 has a great new feature called the Pixel Grid. The pixel grid appears when you zoom past 500% and can help with editing at the pixel level. (more…)

Backing Up And Restoring Wacom Tablet Preferences

By Anthony Hortin | Friday, October 16th, 2009

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The latest Wacom Intuos4 Tablet driver now has a feature that enables you to backup and restore your tablet preferences. Like any sort of backup, this should be used to safeguard your settings in case of computer failure or file corruption. (more…)

10 Second Tip – Adding Guides In Photoshop

By Anthony Hortin | Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

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Adding guides to your Photoshop document are a great way of making sure everything’s aligned nicely.

Guides can be dragged from the Rulers on the edge of your document, or you can also use the “View > New Guide…” menu option. (more…)

10 Second Tip – Configure Your Document Tabs In CS4

By Anthony Hortin | Saturday, June 20th, 2009

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One of the first changes you’ll probably notice when upgrading to Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), is the use of tabs to display your windows. Previously, your windows “floated” within the CS4 interface. Now, they dock neatly up against the Options panel. (more…)

Designers Predict Design Trends for 2010

By Anthony Hortin | Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

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I was recently asked to submit my thoughts on what I think will be trending in the design community in 2010. It may sound far away, but we’re almost halfway through 2009 already. (more…)

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