If you want to improve your Photoshop workflow, you need a good brushes library to easily add graphic elements or effects to your pictures. Sometimes you find yourself trying to draw some Christmas ornaments for the background of your image, or browsing the web looking for some Photoshop brushes which can fit your needs just [...]

This tutorial won’t cover basic Color Swatches information… I suggest you to follow Photoshop’s help if you don’t know what I am talking about. The interesting value of the Swatches palette is the ability to load custom swatch collections, so you can quickly access to specific colors without having to remember any numeric color values. [...]

Did you ever want to master Adobe Photoshop? In this video I unveil 5 killer tips I use almost every day. Follow some simple steps and you will be able to: 1) Remove objects from a photo 2) Correct red eyes 3) Make a photo look older 4) Create realistic fog 5) Turn a night [...]

If you are looking for a software that lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images with just one click, then optikVerve Labs ‘ virtualPhotographer is the software you need. This free package comes in two versions: as a Photoshop plugin or as a standalone software. I tested the PS [...]

Do you want to know what do Adobe ships to you when you purchase the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Master Collection? Here it is: Five DVDs with the suite itself and one DVD with two hours of video footage about using CS4 softwares. Let me remember you the software included: InDesign CS4 Photoshop CS4 Extended [...]

There are thousands of posts around the web about free Photoshop alternatives. Let me start from another point of view. There isn’t any free alternative to Photoshop. As far as I know, there isn’t any alternative at all to Photoshop. But if you aren’t going to use all Photoshop features or you are somewhere around [...]

Today I needed some key icons for developing an help window in a project I am working on and I stumbed upon 104 Standard PC Keyboard Key Icons. These icons are free for personal and commercial uses but I needed something a bit different (and I have some keys on my keyboard that aren’t listed [...]

I am always looking for new ways to simulate vintage colors. I already published Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop and Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop but I decided to turn into an action this tutorial from CreateBlog. This action can convert a photo like this one (made by Tommy Huynh) into this [...]

Today I was playing a bit with Photoshop to create a stone background for a one-week game I am developing for the experiment. I wanted something random, with a style that reminds old style arcades. I found this tutorial and I modified it to fit to my needs. Then I developed an action to optimize [...]

Today I was playing with Photoshop looking for some interesting photo effect and I found a quick and easy way to convert a modern photo in a vintage one. I have already created an action to simulate this effect in Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop, but I am sure you’ll like this effec too. [...]