Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, August 2005
With an expert guide at your side, learn an effective way to blend items, such as text, into textured surfaces.

The Elliptical Marquee Tool creates elliptical selections: To create a selection In the Toolbox, select the Elliptical Marquee Tool; click on the image and drag...

This video tutorial shows you how to use the Camera Raw utility plugin in Photoshop CS3.

The Lasso Tool creates freehand selections: To select an area In the Toolbox, select the Lasso Tool, click on the image and draw a contour holding mouse's button pressed* (or simply draw if you use sylus)...

The Healing Brush Tool* retouches image using sampled pixels or pattern: Click to enlarge To retouch using sampled pixels: In the Toolbox, select the Healing Brush Tool. Set brush size and style. On the Options bar, select the Sampled option. ..

The Background Eraser Tool clears content of background layer to transparency: In the Toolbox, select the Background Eraser Tool. Choose brush size and style*. Choose in Layers palette Background. Erase. The gadget Sampling on the Options bar allows to select one of three erasing modes:...

Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, July 2006
Masking out detailed images can often be a real pain if you don’t know what you are doing. This tutorial will show you the way to get around this often difficult task.

Photoshop can make easy work of your batch processing with Droplets. This tutorial explains how EASY it is to get going.

We know about blend modes, and they are a truly powerful thing, but how can we use them to our advantage?

Let's have some fun dabbling with gradients. First let's take a look at our options in Photoshop, then well do a little creative applying. To begin with, you select the gradient tool from the toolbar. With Photoshop 6 we are given a gradient Options Bar, similar to other tool selections lik.....