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New Adobe Photoshop Tips, Articles, Resources

Silhouetting in Adobe Photoshop: Softening and Blurring Edges
For Effectively Combining Layers and Images
Creating Type from Images:
Using the Type Mask Tool


Photoshop Elements Workflow Step by Step
Photoshop Elements Resource Page
MORE COMING IN JANUARY 2007!
Boston Photoshop CS3 training coming soon!



Comprehensive Graphics
Resource Sites

Web Reference Web Graphics 
More Web Reference Web Graphics

Graphic Design at About.com  


Adobe Photoshop Resources
Adobe Photoshop Resources 
Adobe Photoshop Tips  
Adobe Photoshop CS2 
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe's Plugin Downloads  

Photoshop Web Reference
National Association of
Photoshop Professionals
Tracy's' Adobe Photoshop Bookmarks 



Web Color Generators
and Charts
 *highly recommended
Web Color Picker*
Stone Design Color Coordinator* 
Mediarama's Color Page Builder 
Lynda's Non-Dithering Color Palettes*

Browser Safe Colors   
DotParagon Browser Safe Colors
Visibone Color Palettes, Swatches
Victor Engel: No-Dither Browser Palette
Yahoo Color Links




Text, Heading and
Banner Generators

Flaming Text 
Cool Text Generator
The Banner Generator

Graphics Articles   
Creating Web Graphics 
Optimizing Web Graphics 
Publishing on the Web Forum Articles  
Creating Transparent Gifs with LVPro 
Graphics File Formats Page 
Web Graphics Type Tips   


Graphics Software
and Utilities

Corel Paint Shop Pro
Irfan Free Image Editor
 
Lview Pro Image Editor/Viewer
Digital Frontiers HVS Color Utilities 

Graphics Software
Free Graphics Software
Alchemy Mindworks Software
Digital Media  DVD-roms



More Graphics Links
My Virtual Ref. Desk: Graphics Links 
Maricopa Multimedia Resources Web
Yahoo Graphics Links

 

See also  links to Photoshop plugins and
Online HTML and Graphics Tools
 


BOSTON COMPUTER TRAINING
with Tracy Marks, M.A.
Windweaver Training
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe
Photoshop Elements Courses,
Training, Tutoring, Consulting

Photoshop CS3 training coming soon!




How to Silhouette and Combine Images in Photoshop
copyright 2006 by Tracy Marks

Have you ever made a selection in Adobe Photoshop, and copied it into another photo with a different color background, then noted that it looked cut and pasted or hard-edged - that its edges did not blend smoothly into the new background?

Antialiasing and feathering are of no use if you intend to move your selection to a background of a different color or texture, because such techniques for softening a selection also result in a fringe around the edges.

Your best bet in Adobe Photoshop is to create a border along the edge of your image, which includes a thin area on the edge of your selection and a thin area of the adjoining background and to blur those areas together. Here's how....... Silhouetting article continued



Turn your Photos Into Type: Use Type Mask
To Create Image Type in Adobe Photoshop
copyright 2007 by Tracy Marks

Do you want to learn how to transform one of your photos into sophisticated type, so that the primary features of the image are revealed in the type? The most effective way to do so is using the type mask tool, which has been in photoshop for over a decade, although few users take advantage of its capabilities. Here is my favorite type mask technique for creating picture or image type.....
Type Mask article continued






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