Pixel fonts are all the rage these days in web design. Why? Because they're cool. And they also can be very small and still legible. I'll show you some techniques to make sure your pixel fonts come out nice.

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, May 2005
Ever seen icons that look like transparent plastic? Want to make some of your own? With this tutorial you’ll learn how it’s done.

Tired of clicking? Here are some quick shorcuts for you to work faster and rather efficiently!

I just recently finished off my favicon and added it to the site. You can see the bigger version to the left. I should have done this earlier, but it's just one of those things you tend to overlook. It is, however a very important part of branding and identity for your site. Plus, it's so much bet.....

This is a quite simple tutorial to create a very nice plastic feel to your texts and shapes.

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If you have ever snapped 100 pictures to be emailed and then see they are hi-res, then you know you will have to reduce their size one by one. Creating Actions for Batch Processing will let do all very quickly.

1. You've got a shape or font created in Photoshop, but doesn't quite appear smooth around the edges. Here's a simple way to correct this.
2. Ctrl + Click the layer in question to Select it.
3. Go the Channel Palette and create a new Channel...

Here's a neat trick to apply a single click transparency trick straight inside the 'Save For the Web' control panel. This works best if its's an indexed image, if your working to create a transparency to a flattened file, a pasted or imported file...

In this tutorial explains some simple transparencies and masks to put a car onto a background.

In this Photoshop tutorial, Chris Alvanas shows how to create a template using clipping masks and layer styles which can then be used to create photo composites.