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Adobe Photoshop tutorials, helpful tips and learning resources for design students and graphics professionals.

Adobe Photoshop tips and learning resources

Photoshop tutorials Photoshop can be a frustrating, but also an enjoyable software program to learn or teach yourself. With a seemingly endless number of features, filters and plugins it can sometimes become somewhat overwhelming.

 

Indeed, Adobe's primary image editor is one of the only graphics tools that is used by a vast number of professions (graphic designers, web developers, photographers, pre-press and commercial printers, amongst others) for an almost endless variety of applications.

It is fair to say that few, if any, designers can claim to have mastered all of its techniques. Even the Adobe Photoshop help manual and the various third party teach yourself Photoshop books barely scratch the surface.

One of the most fascinating features about studying Photoshop is that you soon learn that it often provides a variety of different tools and techniques for achieving similar results. Indeed, experimenting with those techniques is often the best way of teaching yourself.

You never know what you are going to learn next about the program and this is one of the reasons why online tutorials can be so helpful. Not only can they offer immediate advice on solving problems, but they can sometimes also offer insights into new methods of creating old effects.

Backing up Adobe Photoshop Preferences A method for making backups of Photoshop settings and preferences.
Best way to set up Photoshop scratch disks Setting up a computer hard drive as a scratch disk for optimum performance.
Could not complete your request because of a program error A quick solution for an irritating problem.
Design with Photoshop Elements Can Adobe Photoshop Elements be used for graphic design for print?
Fixing grainy pictures in Photoshop Is there a way to fix grainy photos?
Photoshop color halftone separation for screen printing Creating a custom halftone separation for use in silk screen printing. Is using the color halftone filter the best method?
Speeding up Photoshop Tips on the best way of speeding up Adobe Photoshop.
Using text in Photoshop for print design Can text used in a design be used for print and what file format should it be saved as?
Which Photoshop file format to use? What is the best file format to save for use in a DTP layout program?

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