Entries Tagged as 'graphic editing'

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Non-destructive Editing: Adjustment Layers

You may have detected a pattern to these posts in my non-destructive editing series, the last couple of weeks. Layers are everything. Fortunately for us, Photoshop thinks so, too.
Adjustment layers are yet another advantage to shelling out the serious coin for full blown Photoshop over it’s free and cheaper competitors. These special [...]

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Non-destructive Editing: Quick Masks

Sorry, I’m so late with this blog entry. I had the opportunity last weekend to do a Home and Garden show in Novi, Michigan, and when I got home last night, I didn’t really have the energy to blog.
This will be a bit of a short entry. I just wanted to write a [...]

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Non-Desctructive Editing: Layer Modes

Hi this will be a bit of a quick one because I don’t exactly know a whole heck of a lot about layer modes, but I know enough to know that I love them.
My goal here is to pretty simple. Briefly gloss over what layer modes are, show you three nice tricks, and encourage [...]

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Non-destructive Editing: Layer Masks

So after the slight interruption from Totally Stylin’ Barbie last week, we’re back to our burgeoning series on the modern graphic designer’s best friend, non-destructive editing (especially if you can’t afford a graphic artist, and have to do it yourself). I believe so heartily in this concept that I hope I can dedicate several [...]

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Non-destructive Editing

I was surfing this morning through my favorite design blogs, when I stumbled onto this wonderful tutorial at gimp-tutorials.net. It’s a great tutorial, as are the tens of tutorials that I read every day, but this particular tutorial spurred me to write about one of the biggest boons to my design carreer – the [...]