Photoshop Zone

  1.  Getting Started with Photoshop This tutorial on SitePoint, a popular site for web professionals, will guide you through the Photoshop fundamentals and the basic tools available at your disposal. It's an excellent jump-off point that will give you an understanding of what you're up against. The tutorial starts with a bird's-eye view of Photoshop's workspace to get the reader familiarized with the lay of the land. Then it goes on to cover essential concepts such as saving files (and the various popular formats for the web), an introduction to shortcuts that all Photoshoppers should know, how to choose colors, and much more. 2.  Photoshop's Toolbox If you're just starting out with Photoshop, you will no doubt be spending plenty of your time using the Tools panel, which contains various tools for working with type, painting, drawing, moving objects, and so forth. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will get a beginner's overview of the various tools contained ...

  Photoshop Basics Tutorials Learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop! These tutorials are perfect for Photoshop beginners or anyone who just needs to refresh their skills, covering the essentials topics you need to know to get up to speed with Photoshop quickly! Use the links below to jump to lesson chapters and other popular topics, or scroll down for our latest Photoshop Basics tutorials! Need Photoshop CC?  Get the latest version here ! Lesson chapters 01. Getting started with Photoshop (8 lessons) 02. Getting your images into Photoshop (10 lessons) 03. Learning the Photoshop interface (10 lessons) 04. Zooming and navigating images (7 lessons) 05. How to resize images with Photoshop (8 lessons) 06. How to crop images in Photoshop (8 lessons) 07. Using layers in Photoshop (10 lessons) 08. How to make selections in Photoshop (17 lessons) Popular links: Understanding layer masks How to use clipping masks in Photoshop Drawing and editing gradients Scale and resize images with smart...

Text-only GIFs Text-only GIFs are by far the easiest format to explore if you are short on time. They are best used for displaying information, such as events, dates and sales and can double up as a more noticeable version of a static call-to-action image. Even though this method is devoid of images, it can still look incredibly effective if generated according to brand guidelines, colours and typefaces. 1. Open a new document in Photoshop and type in your desired dimensions 2. Ensure that your layers window is open. If you cannot see it, go to Window > Layers. 3. Don’t forget to click on the padlock icon on your background layer first to unlock it for editing (its name will automatically change to layer 0). 4. Choose a background colour for your first layer – ideally in line with your brand styling. Click the colour swatch square on the bottom left hand side and select a colour from the spectrum window. Click ‘OK’ when you are happy with the colour you have chosen. ...