Photoshop Tricks: How to Enhance your Portfolio Images using Adobe Photoshop

Photomontage is an art form where multiple photos are combined to create one image, similar to collage. In today's tutorial I'll be showing you several techniques for creating a digital photomontage using GIMP.

In today's tutorial I'll show you how to use the Pen tool in GIMP to create beautiful lines and shapes that remain adjustable even when you're finished drawing. We'll begin with a basic heart shape just to learn how it ...

One of the really fun things that artists can do with “photo manipulation” software is create digital paintings. Today I'll show you how to use some of GIMP's basic tools to create your own digital artwork.

Even with our best efforts, photographs of paintings and other 2D artwork don't always come out looking like the real thing. Luckily, using GIMP, we can salvage these less than perfect images by adjusting color, angles, and more.

One of the first things that artists might want to do in GIMP is to format images of their artwork for the internet - perhaps for an art blog or an online gallery. In this tutorial I'll be showing you ...

Sending a completed project to a commercial printer for printing can be stressful as well as exciting. If you do not prepare the file just right, the printer will have a hard time completing the job. Here are 7 things ...

Adobe Photoshop allows artists to alter photos in amazing ways. One of the more subtle (and often very effective) changes that you can make to an image is to add depth of field. Here's how.

One of Adobe Photoshop's best features is the ability it gives you to colorize black and white photographs. With Photoshop you can add color to the entire photo, or just "paint" one part of the image to create a focal ...

To consistently produce quality photos or fine art prints using Adobe Photoshop, you will want to become familiar with bleed and crop marks. The following tutorial will show you how to create crop marks and set up the appropriate bleed ...

In this tutorial I'm going to show you the Photoshop tools that I use when fixing problems in my digital images. You may have used some of these tools before (like the Healing Brush) but it's more than likely that ...

If you don't know how to use the pen tool in Photoshop but you want to learn, just keep reading. In the following paragraphs I'll explain how to use the pen tool to outline any type of object. (And I'm ...