Photoshop Tutorials by canonblogger.com

Found 15 tutorials by canonblogger.com
Generate Amazing Text FX
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Create AMAZING Text FX Online!

Generate your own amazing, photoshop quality text effects online! textfx.co

Creating Custom Brushes
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Creating Custom Brushes

New tutorial, showing how to make custom brushes, brush sets, save brush sets and load brush sets. Great for repetitive tasks like signatures, logos, copyright symbols, etc. Video tutorial 8:11 minutes)

Calendar Template, Part II
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Calendar Template, Part II

This week I finish out the calendar template that we set up the guides and object positions for last week. very handy to turn your pictures into calendars you'll love to display (or your clients!) Longer video than normal (8 minutes), but the end result should be worth it!

Create a Calendar Template
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Create a Calendar Template

Great template for use in photography...simply import client shots and produce a calendar for 2009 with your pre-made template. Will pay for itself in one print! Part one of a two part series. Check it out...part two should be out next week. Enjoy!

Photoshop Reloaded
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Photoshop Reloaded

This week I re-visit creating well galleries in Photoshop to update a couple steps and to introduce a little teaser on something called Digital Asset management. Here you can see how one little change can have a huge impact down the road if you have lots of photos. About 8 minutes total...enjoy!

Creating Web Galleries
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Creating Web Galleries

With many photographers expressing an interest in creating web galleries, I go through the motions of using Photoshop templates to create your web gallery for you. The templates aren't the best and require some modding, but nice to get the basics down. 10 minute tut, so a tad long, but good content for beginners. Enjoy!

Selective Color, Part II
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Selective Color, Part II

Another 5 minute video tutorial, showing another method for applying selective color techniques that is useful across the Photoshop family (CS, CS2, CS3). Enjoy!

Selective Color Part 1
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Selective Color Part 1

This 6 minute video tutorial shows a basic technique that works across multiple versions of Photoshop (CS, CS2, CS3) for selecting objects and applying color to only those objects. Also kind of a sneak preview of the look and feel of CS3 - enjoy!

Shiny and Mirrored Text (Web 2.0 Style)
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Shiny and Mirrored Text (Web 2.0 Style)

Adding on to a trick put out in NAPP's member magazine - Photoshop User, here's a tutorial (about 12 minutes of video) that's kind of advanced. Definitely not beginner material. KB shortcuts galore. There's a printed version linked off the main page of the blog if the vid moves too fast... Enjoy!

Applying Antique Effects to your Images
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Applying Antique Effects to your Images

A great technique for applying a specific type of faded antique effect to images. This tutorial is specific to PS- CS2, as the menus for CS3 and LR will be different. The neat part though, is that the settings are identical across each. Five minute video, but worth every second.

Paths as a Selection
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Paths as a Selection

This 8 minute video tutorial demonstrates how to convert a marquee selection to a path selection. Great for wrapping text around either standard or custom shapes. Useful for anything from web graphics to posters, logos, and any sort of design requiring graphic usage.

Centering Objects in Photoshop
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Centering Objects in Photoshop

Petitioning a new format that is viewable both embedded in the blog, and as a download-able video in WMV format. Short and to the point - only 3 minutes long so check it out and let me know if you like the video format.

Quick Backgrounds Made Easy
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Quick Backgrounds Made Easy

This video tutorial (about 7 minutes) shows a quick and easy way to make backgrounds in Photoshop. Very handy for layout and design setup - no pictures needed, it's all internal to Photoshop! Enjoy!

Create a Sharpening Action for Photoshop
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Create a Sharpening Action for Photoshop

This 12 minute video tutorial demonstrates how to record an action that allows you to apply multiple layers of sharpening cumulatively for evaluation during mass image processing. Huge time saver!

Applying Gradients to Text using Layers
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Applying Gradients to Text using Layers

This video tutorial shows a technique for applying gradients to text in Photoshop using layers, which allows you to preserve both the type of gradient and the style of text for future use.