Photoshop Tutorials

This is a short Adobe Illustrator tutorial on how to have text flow on a path, whether it’s on a path drawn with the pen tool or a shape such as a circle.

This is a short introduction to the Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator, focusing on how to create shapes with points and paths, adjusting anchor point locations and angles, adjusting paths, and adding fill and stroke.

This is a basic introduction to Adobe Illustrator Shape Tools, such as the rectangle tool, rounded rectangle tool, elipse tool, polygon tool, and star tool. Adjusting the shape anchor and path locations are covered as well as changing the fill and stroke.

by Chad Neuman

While teaching layout and design, magazine design and production, and web design at the university level, I’ve noticed a few common mistakes students make while creating designs in either Adobe InDesign or Adobe Photoshop. Here are five prominent bad examples with five corrections for making better publication designs. I’ll provide better alternatives to make various designs more professional. Check these out to avoid those design faux pas, and in the process we’ll learn the design principles of repetition, contrast, alignment, and proximity. Read the rest of this entry »

By Chad Neuman

This is an often-requested technique from some of my university students, so here’s a tutorial on it. Sometimes you may need to cut out the background from part of a photo and keep the background transparent. Reasons for this include needing a transparent background in a web page design or in an InDesign file. Here’s how to do this. Read the rest of this entry »

by Chad Neuman

This technique can be useful when creating brochure, web site, or poster designs. Creating duplicated layers from selections and then applying layer styles to them is a simple yet effective technique. Let’s get started. Read the rest of this entry »

by Chad Neuman

Here’s another way to create a Holga effect. Some Holga photos have varying hues or vignettes, and the one shown here. But others have a faded out focus on parts of the photo and a faded look. Here’s how to achieve that in Photoshop. Read the rest of this entry »

by Chad Neuman

Holga cameras were created in China decades ago in order to create an affordable camera for the masses. Now hipsters and artists alike have discovered the Holga, taking photos that often turn out very suprising. Waiting for the photos to develop results in often desaturated photos, vignettes, and extra saturated areas on the photos. Here’s one way to add a Holga look to a normal photo by using Photoshop. Read the rest of this entry »

by Chad Neuman

Here is how to use layer clipping masks with photos and text in Adobe Photoshop for unique looks for brochures, web sites, and posters. Read the rest of this entry »

by Chad Neuman

We can use Adobe Photoshop not just for editing photos but for creating artistic design and effects as well. Here’s one way to create an interesting and aesthetically-pleasing look. Read the rest of this entry »