If you are editing a photo in Photoshop, there are a number of different things you can do to it in order to make it better. One such technique is known as cropping, which you can use to make your picture smaller.
Cropping a picture will allow you to remove parts of the picture that [...]

From time to time, it might be necessary for you to censor an image in order to blur part of a person, place or thing. This can be necessary for copyright purposes, for safety and security reasons or simply in order to create a desired effect on a person that is seeing the image. [...]

While there are many nifty things that you can use Adobe Photoshop to do, there are few that are as elegant an example of the power of the program as the eye colour effects. Believe it or not, you can actually use Photoshop to change the colour of an eye in a specific picture. [...]

With many different concepts regarding colour theory and general design principles already behind us, it is time to really get down to the nitty gritty of modern online graphic design. And there is no better piece of software to start with than Adobe Photoshop.

Granted, Photoshop is an expensive piece of software. But it [...]

Using Adobe Photoshop can be hard if you don’t get the right tutorials. In fact, graphics designing does seem challenging and rewarding and it all depends on understanding the basics and features that come with the software to fabricate and create great image enhancing effects.
Among them include layering. Here is a good video that [...]

I’ve probably talked as much about the history of colour theory as I’m going to during this section of posts. From here on in we will be discussing the details of colour theory at length. However, I’d just like to take the moment to discuss its importance. I’m a science student at [...]

Here’s a brief summary of the last few posts in terms of a timeline for people that have been having trouble following the basic history.
1810: Goethe publishes Theory of Colours, in which he discusses the original RYB system of primary colours and all of the investigations that took place over the 18th century in an [...]

In the previous post, we talked about the red-green-blue and red-yellow-blue systems of primary colours. These systems are systems that you are going to encounter throughout your life as a graphic designer and while you will more often see the RGB system (you will in fact always see this when you do electronic graphic [...]

As previously mentioned, colour theory is based primarily on historical precedent with colours that was discovered through scientific means and then transposed onto the art scene. Perhaps the one exception to this idea is the basic principle of colour theory that still exists to this very day, the principle of primary colours.
Primary colours, also [...]

The last few posts on this blog have given you the opportunity to get out of the theory of graphic design and take a look at it from the perspective of someone in the practical world that has practical concerns related to the business. While that type of look can be a sobering one, [...]