A tutorial on how to use the pen tool to quickly create smooth vector masks. It's a time saver.

If you're creating a fun design or collage out of your photos, those sharp, right-angled corners may not be sending the message you want. Fortunately, Photoshop makes it incredibly easy to give your photos warm, friendly, rounded corners using a simple Shape tool and a vector mask!

Far from being voodoo, manipulating levels is a very powerful way to quickly improve an image's tonal range and color balance. In this theory-based tutorial you will learn how they work, and realize how mastery of Levels functionality will make you a superior-level Photoshop user.

Far from being voodoo, manipulating levels is a very powerful way to quickly improve an image's tonal range and color balance. In this theory-based tutorial you will learn how they work, and realize how mastery of levels functionality will make you a superior-level Photoshop user.

Learn to use one of the most powerful tools in Photoshop.

Get an understanding of swatches and their relation with foreground and background colors.

The histogram can be confusing to a lot of new digital photographers, but it doesn't have to be! In this tutorial you'll discover what the histogram is, how to read it, and why it's important to you when shooting digital photographs.

Curves in Photoshop is a very powerful tool but is often underexposed to Photoshop users. Learn how to utilize this tool in your graphic designs and gain an edge over other designers.

Learn about the different types of light in photos and how to use them to get the best result.

Image pixels are the tiny building blocks of every digital image. All Photoshop sees is pixels. It's these pixels that you're changing in some way with every edit you make to your image, and it's these pixels you're printing when you send your digital photos to the printer.

Photoshop CS2 has a new way of understanding vector data. This is called smart objects. In this tutorial we will guide you through this new function.

To help you learn and understand how the blend modes work, I have provided a summary of all the blend modes currently found in Photoshop CS3 Extended

Read this tutorial and discover the different curve shapes and their uses, plus ways to adjust parts of your image using adjustment layer masks.

In this tutorial, white balance for digital photography is discussed. Learn what it is, what it does, how it effects your image quality and how to correct poor white balance in Photoshop.

This short tutorial would help you to understand what aperture and depth of field is.

Understanding what light metering stystems are, how they work, and when you should use them.

Checking the feedback from LCD may not be the best way to know if your photographs are properly exposed. Checking the histogram ensures that your images are properly exposed, and this tutorial tell how.

Quick masks are a handy little Photoshop- feature that many people don't even know about.

This tutorial will show you how to use clipping masks.

A layer mask in Photoshop is basically a way of hiding and revealing certain parts of a layer. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create, edit, delete, and modify layer masks in Photoshop.