OK. Many blogs do this very well. I'm going to show you a quick technique to add lighting effects to your images. This works well against darker backgrounds, but for this tutorial, I'll show you this technique using a photo from iStockphoto.com. First, you open up your file in Photoshop. Now, in your layers palette, add a new blank layer. Using the pen tool, draw a curvy line around a particular part of the photo. Right click on the path, and select Stroke Path. (To ensure a big enough line, be sure to go to your brush palette and select a pixel size of around 8. Also make sure you increase the hardness to 100 percent.) When the dialog box pops up, select brush from the drop down menu, and ...
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Cruising through the new edition of Dynamics Graphics magazine, I couldn't help but notice its latest "How'd they do that?" Because it is a cool effect and it is easy to do, I figured I'd pass it along to any one willing to give it a whirl. I've seen this trick done in Adobe Photoshop several different ways, but of all the methods I've seen, this seems to be the easiest in my book. It's takes very few steps and creates a very nice effect. If you have working knowledge of InDesign, then it shouldn't take but a few minutes. read more

At the end of March, Adobe released an “express” version of its claim to fame software program, Photoshop. The beta version of the program, Adobe Express, is available to online to anyone. While it doesn’t have the capability or all of the functions of the very pricey and high-powered program, it is a wonderful application for t ...
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