If you are one of those lucky enough to be running Photoshop CS3, I want to show you a neat trick. In CS3 you can very easily change the color of the excess artboard! I just happened to figure this out a night or two ago, so I wanted to post about it right away.

I want to show you an easy and quick way to make a grunge-textured background in Photoshop. Of course, this isn’t the only way, but it’s not hard to do if you have a decent set of brushes to work with.
If you find yourself without a decent set of grunge brushes, you can download my [...]

I’ve been releasing some of my Photoshop Brushes, and I’ve gotten lots of feedback on them, so thank you for that. I’ve also gotten a lot of questions concerning how to “make” a Photoshop Brush. I labeled my Brushes as High-Res, but that’s only because they were really BIG brushes. You can make any size [...]

I love this Photoshop CS2 feature so much, I want to make sure you all know about it.
First open a new Photoshop file, and use the text tool to type anything you want on the artboard.
Then Control + Click (right click) on that text layer in the layers palette, and select “Convert to Shape.” Your [...]

This is much easier than I ever expected it to be. I’m not sure about previous versions, but I know this is possible in both Photoshop CS and CS2. First open any layered Photoshop file and hide a few layers.
Then, in the Layers Pallete, click on the little arrow in the upper right and [...]