Category Archives: Photoshop

Using Textures and Borders to Add Interest to Photoshop Projects

Adding texture to an image is a great way to make an image appear 3-dimensional, even though it is flat. Textures can also develop visual intrigue in simple, minimalist designs. In this lesson, you’ll learn: How to add textured borders … Continue reading

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Photography | Cutting Objects Out in Photoshop

Not all images are created alike, which means some pictures are harder to cut out than others. This tutorial allows you to cut out more intricate things, like curly hair and feathers with Levels and smoother objects with Quick Selection. … Continue reading

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Basic Training: How to Create Canvas Buttons

Canvas classes sometimes request a set of buttons to function as external links on their homepage. The buttons are used for things such as tech support, professor’s email, or outside websites that are used frequently for class. In this tutorial, … Continue reading

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Principles of Design | Color Wheel

In this training, you will go over color terminology and relationship to understand how colors interact with each other. This training will help you familiarize yourself with the basic relations of colors by placing them creatively in a re-invented color … Continue reading

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Publication Design | How to Create Flashcards

In this Photoshop training you will be designing a set of beautiful flash cards, you’ll sharpen your technical skills, and conceptual skills, such as: familiarizing yourself with choosing copyright-free icons from the Noun Project that look consistent in line wight/style … Continue reading

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Intro to Design Styles | How to Paint in Photoshop

In this training, we will go over how to use the brush tool in photoshop to create illustrations that could be used for animations, posters, graphics, blog banner updates, or the college’s magazine. There are many ways one can go … Continue reading

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Animation | Create Your Own 8-Bit Style Animated Gif

In this training, you’ll learn how to create your own miniature, infinitely-looping animated gif using the timeline tool in Photoshop. You will create between 5 and 10 Photoshop layers which will be converted into frames for your animation. Your design … Continue reading

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Basic Training: How to Edit Green Screens

This training will cover how to delete the green background of an image. Find an green screen image of your choice and follow  the steps below, your final product will be a PNG with a creative background of your choice. … Continue reading

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How to Scan Slides and Film

The purpose of this basic training is for familiarizing yourself with scanning pages of documents that professors may bring to the office. The scanner used in the office is the EPSON PERFECTION V700 PHOTO. Step One: Setting up the Scanner … Continue reading

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Photography | How to Scan Slides and Film

The purpose of this basic training is for familiarizing yourself with scanning slides that professors may bring to the office. This process is more involved than simply scanning pages of a document. The scanner used in the office is the … Continue reading

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