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Tutorials & Tips
Jus' the Tips, and Nuttin' But
the Tips!
I've collected some good places to go that
feature Photoshop tips. There are great things to learn out there, and these
sites have a lot to offer. Most anything you want to achieve with Photoshop and
don't know how to start your project can be found here. I've described the sites
as best I can without getting long winded. Some are PC oriented, some Mac
oriented, but the techniques are still the same.
Photoshop Tips Sources From Around the World
- Wacom
Technology's website features a tip of the week.
- HTML
versions of Kai's Power Tips and Tricks for Adobe Photoshop
These are written by Kai Krause.
- Tips
on using Photoshop for Web graphics.
- Carl
Volk has an article about sharpening scans on his
Photoshop Tip of the Week page. It primarily defines and discusses the use
of Unsharp Masking.
- Tips
on making lightning FX
- GrafX
Design offers web graphics tutorials for users of
Photoshop, CorelDRAW! and Paint Shop Pro.
- Devin
Bryants Tips page for Photoshop
- PixArt
Web Magazine covers a wide range of topics from
Articles and reviews of the latest products to a gallery of amazing graphics
sent in by Artists around the world. Tips and how to's on many graphic
programs including Photoshop, KPT, Illustrator, Fractal products and more.
- Andy's
Photoshop Tips has great tips on making buttons,
seamless tiles, embossing, creating animation and more.
- High
Voltage has tips on Blue and Green sceen
techniques, Digital Visual Effects, Motion Control Cinematography, Cel
Animation, Stop Motion Animation, Photoshop, After Effects, and Lightwave
3D.
- Cooltype
- tips and tricks for Photoshop has Type F/X
for doing: Bevel, Carve, Chalk, Charcoal, Chrome, Cloudy, Dirty Snow, Fire,
Ice, Mat Glass, Mercury, Neon, Glow, Oil, Outline, Raised, Stone and Tearout.
Tips on Memory and how Photoshop uses it, along with how-to-do Jigsaw
Puzzle, Burning, Reflection, Fading, Lightning and Text to path F/X.
- Rice's
Photoshop Tutorial talks about: What's New in
Photoshop 3.0, Importing and Saving Images, Color, Brightness, and Contrast
Correction, Selecting, Filling, and Pasting, Editing, Painting, and Typing,
Manipulating and Resizing Images, Understanding Channels, Understanding
Layers and Printing. .
- Ray
tracing in Photoshop This site will show you how
to add raytracing effects without a raytracer. You can add these effects
with just about any renderer, even sometimes with shaded preview renderings.
The program the Author used in his examples was Macromedia MacroModel, but
he says you could use 3DStudio, Lightwave, Alias, anything. A great tutorial
and all it takes is a little bit of theory, a little bit of forethought, and
a copy of Adobe Photoshop.
- Photoshop
Tutorial which only covers version 2.5, but some
of the controls tips can be applied to later version. Written for a
student's point of view just starting out.
- Photoshop
Professional Tips & Tricks Most of the things
described here are undocumented features. The author assumes you have a good
working knowledge of Photoshop. The tips and tricks are for those who want
to get more out of Photoshop and go beyond the basics.
- Photoshop
Paradise from Desktop Publishing.Com has a great
number of links and onsite tips.
- Ticks
on Trips! The author says "these ticks don't
suck!" Get 10 Tips on text and textures, plus more.
- Alf's
Alley talks about creating and using Displacement
Maps. This tip covers a very simple and yet powerful technique, that every
Photoshop Imagineer should know how to do: The creation and use of
displacement maps. Since it involves the use of alpha channels, it is a
great way for beginners to learn how they can be used. More tips than just
this one can be learned from Alf.
- Doc
Ozone has a fabulous site to visit with great
graphics, tips and tutorials.
- Laura
McCanna book author and Photoshop user has free
art for the downloading and some Photoshop tips.
- Parallax
Perspectives gives you tips on making realistic
lightning, transparent GIF's, 3D buttons and using layering.
- Photoshop
Tips & Tricks A great resource of ideas and
problem solvers for and by Photoshop users... "the best way to learn
and master Adobe Photoshop." Photoshop Tips & Tricks is built on
reader questions.
- Metatools
the place where Kai's Power Tools, Bryce and more reside.
CorelDraw
Tutorials & Tips
- Corel
Draw E-Tutorial
Learn to design Graphics using Corel Draw with this
On-Line Tutorial from Crane Information Solutions.
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- Corel
DRAW! 3D Buttons
This tutorial will show you how to create 3D buttons
in Corel DRAW! I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows.
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- Corel
DRAW! 3D Textured Text
This tutorial will show you how to create 3D Textured
Text in Corel DRAW! I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows. Some things may be
done differently with other versions.
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- Corel
DRAW! Animated GIFs
This tutorial will demonstrate how you can create an
Animated GIF logo. I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows for this technique.
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- Corel
DRAW! Contoured Text
This tutorial will show you how to create Contoured
Text in Corel DRAW! I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows.
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- Corel
DRAW! Cracked Text
This tutorial will demonstrate how you can create a
Cracked Text effect. I used Corel DRAW! 8.0 for Windows for this technique.
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- Corel
DRAW! Creating Yahoo! Style Buttons
This tutorial will show you how to create Yahoo!
style buttons. Many people have written asking how these are done and I'll
be demonstrating the technique with all of the programs I write tutorials
for. I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows for this technique.
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- Corel
DRAW! Drop Shadows
This tutorial will show you how to create drop
shadows in Corel DRAW! I used Corel DRAW! 7.0 for Windows.
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- Producing
a logo and short publication with Corel Draw
Essentially this functionality falls into two main
categories: the creation of design-intensive illustrations and the
production of page-based publications. We’re going to tackle both aspects
by looking at a typical real world project, the creation of a logo and its
incorporation into a brochure.
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- Vector
Transparency
Tom Arah investigates how the vector-based drawing
packages deal with transparency in Corel Draw.
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