Saving your images in photoshop is easy! Right ? A quick File>Save As, type the file name and location and away you go. Well not quite. The matter of choosing a format, which is as important as any other phase in the design process.

This short tutorial introduces the new user to Photoshop and explains what it is used for. This tutorials also show some basics such as the screen and the toolbar. First in a series.

This Tutorial is designed for the beginner Photoshop CS3 user. But the concept should also work in Elements and other photo editing software.

Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations.

We continuing our look at the Layer Style window, especially how Outer and Inner Glow work

Speed up your process in Photoshop by learning shortcuts! Shortcuts can be difficult to learn especially when you are new to the program and with so many software to learn it will get tougher. So I created my own set of shortcut list to print out, each grouped into smaller categories so that I can find the exact shortcut I want with one glimps. Learning shortcuts in Photoshop will speed up your work by at least 40%! …ok ok I lied, I made that number up, but shortcut really speeds things up significantly, they will give you more time to learn and create instead of wasting it on finding the right tool on the menu, try them out.

In the following tutorial I will attempt to remove some of the mystery of working with the pen tool and hopefully make it easier (and more fun) for you to use. Everything I talk about in this tutorial (or any other tutorial on this site) is from my own experience with Photoshop CS. I do not know if the newer versions have changed things or not so if you encounter any discrepancies you'll have to refer to your help files or Google for an answer.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a simple object reflection. The effect is very easy and creates a nice effect.

As I am big Photoshop fan, I really love their keyboard shortcuts - it really helps to build up working speed using them in Your workflow. Keyboard shortcuts are keystrokes or keystroke combinations to quickly execute some command. If You like using Photoshop as designer, You will evaluate those keyboard shortcuts strength. However there are really huge amount of keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop, there is no way You can remember them all - and that’s really not worth it so I created my own list and included there not all, but just those worthy ones and little more.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a silhouette.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to use quick masks. Quick masks are similar to the selection tools but are more useful as it give you more control.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to remove object/item from an image. This is a very simple effect and will require using the clone stamp tool.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a solid border around an image. There are many ways to create this effect but this is probably the easiest method.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create rounded image corners. This effect is very simple and only requires the rectangular marquee tool.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to merge different objects in images together.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a soft border around an image.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to remove the background from an image.

Adobe Photoshop includes Layer Styles, a number of automated effects that you can apply to layers, including drop shadows, glows, beveling, and embossing, as well as a color fill effect

Learn how to create an emerald/pretty (icky) rock with the help of this tutorial.

A tutorial explaining how to make text follow a path of your choice.