Photoshop Tutorials

image blending

Image Blending

A simple tutorial on blending two images together using a quickmask and gradient.

texture blending with layer masks

Texture Blending with Layer Masks

Tutorial on how to blend together two textures applied to a font. This is similar to how I do many of the logos you see in the gallery.

texture blending

Texture Blending

A very old tutorial on how I used to blend textures together when making logos. I don't recommend doing it this way. Refer to the "Texture Blending with Layer Masks" tutorial for a better way of doing this.

dashed lines

Dashed Lines

How to make dashed lines for any type of shape. It's similar to the look of how Photoshop draws selection (i.e. the marching ants).

precise cropping

Precise Cropping

An old method of cropping an image to the minimal amount of space. These days you would use the "trim" function of Photoshop, although sometimes it does come in handy when Photoshop's trimming doesn't quite work.

transparent GIFs

Transparent GIFs in Photoshop 4.0

Before Adobe introduced the "Save for Web" method of saving transparent GIF images, this is the way I used to do it.

Other Tutorials

RGB and HTML color conversion

RGB & HTML Color Conversion

How to convert between RGB and hexidecimal colors, which are commonly used in HTML and CSS.