Photoshop Tutorials

I introduce the selection and pen tools in Adobe InDesign in this short video tutorial.

This is a short video tutorial on using the pen tool to trace photos in Adobe Illustrator.

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.

by Chad Neuman

Text layout doesn’t have to be boring. Designer David Carson became famous using unique typographic effects, one of which was flowing text in an unusual way. In many magazines, text not only conveys information but joins the photos and colors to become art and part of the style of the magazine as well. Here’s a way to thread text on paths, which has many possibilities once you get the basic concept. Let’s thread text on path shapes to create unique magazine layout designs.

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by Chad Neuman

Let’s say you need add an image to another one, but it needs to look seamless. The image we’ll be adding to the other needs to have the same angle and texture of the other one. We can use the lens distortion tool and a layer blending mode for this example, and it’s also a fun way to learn the lens distortion tool and layer blending modes. Read the rest of this entry »