Getting Started Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Transforming The Warp Tool
In the past tutorials, we showed you how to transform objects and how to use the basics of the Warp tool to distort text. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the Free Transform tool and we will expand on your knowledge with the Warp tool. Along the way, we will show you how to warp an image around a coffee cup. We will also show you some tips and tricks to speed the process up on transforming your image.

5 Common Photoshop Myths Solved for Absolute Beginners
In this post, I will provide 5 Simple, Yet Useful Photoshop "How-to"s for Absolute Beginners. Take a look and hopefully you will see after all, Photoshop is not that hard to start with!

Using Layer Masks
In this tutorial I will show you different ways to use layer masks to add some extra flare to your photos.

5 Interesting Little Tricks to Add Extra Elegance to Your Design
In this post, I will show you yet another 5 Interesting Little Photoshop Tricks to Add Extra Elegance to Your Design. These techniques are just little things that I found useful in Photoshop, and I think they're quite beneficial to learn if you're a PS beginner.

Extracting The Background
In this tutorial we will be showing you how to use the Extract Filter in Photoshop. There are many ways to remove the background from the image, but we find that the Extract Filter does a good to excellent job with extraction. We will be showing you how to highlight the edges of the object and to fill that specific area that you would like to protect from being extracted. Along the way, we will give you tips and tricks how to remove the background for tough foreground objects.

Quick Mask Fighter Jet
Here's a tip for editing your selections in Quick Mask Mode. Near the bottom of your toolbar you'll find two buttons that allow you to "Edit in Standard Mode" and "Edit in Quick Mask Mode". You'll be in standard by default. If you enter Quick Mask Mode you'll notice everything turn red.

Create Your Own Custom Brushes
In this tutorial, we'll learn how easy it is to make our 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, especially after Adobe completely revamped the brush engine in Photoshop 7, adding unprecedented painting ability to what was already the world's most powerful image editor.

Interface Features Quick Tour
New to Photoshop or upgraded from an earlier version? Check out our quick tour of all the features in Photoshop CS4's user interface, the most streamlined, efficient and user friendly interface so far!

Blend If: Masking
This is a semi-automatic masking technique that enables users to mask or knock-out complex and unwanted areas of a picture with ease and accuracy.

Cheatsheet for the Shortcuts
It takes a while to get to grips with Photoshops many shortcuts, but there is no denying that once you have learned the major ones productivity increases massively.

High Pass Sharpening
Photoshop comes with various sharpening filters built in. But why is the High Pass method a more preferred tool compared to the new Smart Sharpen feature that provides similar results?

Layer Blending Mode Guide
Layer blending modes are a key part of the Photoshop program. When you have more than 1 layer, than you can blend the layers together. The blending modes are broken into 6 main areas. 1). Basic, 2). Darken, 3). Lighten, 4). Contrast, 5). Comparative, and 6). Composite. Instead of this being a tutorial, this is going to be more of a reference guide. Keep our website as a favorite and refer back to this document whenever you are trying to blend layers.

Change workspace colour
In this tutorial you will learn how to change the workspace colours in Photoshop CS4.

What's new in CS3?
Some of the new features in CS3 can be seen immediately.

Hiding / Arranging Workspace
This tutorial will teach you how to use the various workspace features in Photoshop. It will also show you Hot keys like using TAB to hide all your panels and how to dock your tools panels in the side of the screen for easy access.

High Pass Sharpening
In this tutorial, we will be showing you the last sharpening technique and it is called the High Pass technique. High Pass filter is one of the obscure Photoshop filters that tries to determine the edges in an image. When you blend the High Pass layer with the original unsharpened image, you get a great looking image. Throughout this course we will show you different blend modes and give you tips and tricks to improving the image quality.

Download Real Smoke Brushes
Create abstract art with this set of 108 Photoshop brushes of real smoke. These naturally shaped smoke brushes can be used individually or stacked on top of another.

Variations
The Variations command is a simple and easy feature. It is designed to remove prevailing color cast and to restore the natural hue and saturation balance of an image.

2 Ways To Create Realistic Depth of Field
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create realistic "Depth of Field" in Photoshop. We are going to look at two different ways of doing it depending on what kind of picture.

How to Create Shapes
Create photoshop shapes starting with the basic Shapes Tool.