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Adobe Bridge CS4 Quick Tour

Adobe Bridge CS4 Quick Tour

Digital cameras give us the freedom to snap as many photos as we like, and Adobe Bridge CS4 gives us an easy way to locate, manage and organize them! In this tutorial, we take a quick tour of Bridge CS4′s many features and options.
Photoshop Brushes - Other Dynamics

Photoshop Brushes – Other Dynamics

Learn how to dynamically control the opacity of our brush’s color and the flow of the paint with the Other Dynamics options, the last (but not least) of six Brush Dynamics categories in Photoshop’s Brushes panel!
Photoshop Brushes - Color Dynamics

Photoshop Brushes – Color Dynamics

Learn how to dynamically control the hue, saturation and brightness of your brushes as you paint, and even how to paint with both the Foreground and Background colors at once, using the Color Dynamics options, the fifth of six Brush Dynamics categories in Photoshop’s Brushes panel!
Photoshop Brushes - Dual Brush Options

Photoshop Brushes – Dual Brush Options

Learn how to blend and mix two different Photoshop brushes together using the Dual Brush options, the fourth of six Brush Dynamics categories in Photoshop’s Brushes panel!
Photoshop Brushes - Texture Options

Photoshop Brushes – Texture Options

Learn how to use textures to change the shape of your Photoshop brush and how to paint with patterns using Photoshop’s Texture options, the third of six Brush Dynamics categories found in Photoshop’s Brushes panel!
Photoshop Brushes - Scattering Options

Photoshop Brushes – Scattering Options

Learn how to dynamically scatter multiple copies of your Photoshop brushes as you paint, creating a ‘spraying’ effect, using the options found in Scattering, the second of six Brush Dynamics categories in Photoshop’s Brushes panel!
Photoshop Brushes - Shape Dynamics

Photoshop Brushes – Shape Dynamics

In this Photoshop Brushes tutorial, learn how to dynamically control the size, angle and roundness of your brushes as you paint using Shape Dynamics, one of six Brush Dynamics categories in Photoshop’s Brushes panel!
Photoshop Brushes - The Brush Dynamics Options

Photoshop Brushes – The Brush Dynamics Options

In this series of tutorials, learn how to dynamically control various aspects of our brushes as we paint in Photoshop, including brush size, shape, color and more using the Brush Dynamics options in the Brushes panel!
How To Make Your Own Custom Photoshop Brushes

How To Make Your Own Custom Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop ships with lots of great brushes for us to use, but it’s way more fun and interesting to create our own! In this tutorial, learn how to create a new brush from scratch, and how to control the behavior of the brush with dynamic brush options!
The Magnetic Lasso Tool - Photoshop Selections

The Magnetic Lasso Tool In Photoshop

The Magnetic Lasso Tool is one of the best selection tools in Photoshop, giving us much better results than what the standard Lasso Tool offers in less time and with less effort and frustration. In fact, with a little practice, you may find yourself hopelessly attracted to it!
The Polygonal Lasso Tool - Photoshop Selections

The Polygonal Lasso Tool In Photoshop

The Polygonal Lasso Tool, another of Photoshop’s geometry-based selection tools, allows us to easily select objects with straight, flat surfaces with just the click of a mouse!
The Lasso Tool - Photoshop Selections

The Lasso Tool In Photoshop

Photoshop’s Lasso Tool is probably the easiest of the selection tools to use, allowing us to draw freehand selections around objects in a photo as if we were outlining them on paper with a pen or pencil. We’ll also learn how to fix up problem areas and dramatically improve your results!
The Elliptical Marquee Tool - Photoshop Selections

The Elliptical Marquee Tool In Photoshop

The Rectangular Marquee Tool may be one of the easiest Photoshop selection tools to use, but it isn’t much help to us when we need to draw oval or circular selections. That’s where the Elliptical Marquee Tool comes in. In fact, the Elliptical Marquee Tool is really just the Rectangular Marquee Tool with extremely rounded corners!
The Rectangular Marquee Tool - Photoshop Selections

The Rectangular Marquee Tool In Photoshop

Being able to select objects or areas in a photo is one of the most important Photoshop skills you need, but not all selections need to be complex or time consuming. The Rectangular Marquee Tool, one of Photoshop’s basic selection tools, is perfect for making selections based on simple geometric shapes.
Why Do We Need Selections In Photoshop?

Why Do We Need Selections In Photoshop?

There’s lots of ways to make selections in Photoshop, some simple, some advanced, but having lots of ways to do something doesn’t explain why we need to do it in the first place, so in this tutorial, we’ll look at why we need to make selections in Photoshop at all, and why Photoshop doesn’t see things like we do.