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How to Trace a Drawing in Photoshop

We've talked about tracing a photo in Illustrator and creating an illustration using simple gradients in this post: How to Trace a Photo in Illustrator. What if you have a sketch or a hand drawing you'd like to trace and enhance?


How to easily separate Objects from Background in Photoshop

You probably know how to manually create a path around an object you want to separate from its background. Photoshop's Magnetic Lasso Tool can speed this process up a little for you.


How to create and apply Custom Patterns in Photoshop

This post is about creating and applying custom patterns in Photoshop. It is a part of a series, the other parts are: The differences between brushes and patterns in Photoshop, Photoshop Brushes: install and create, Photoshop Patterns: install, create #1 and #2. How to create and apply Custom Patterns in Photoshop Here are two quick ...


How to create a Favicon for your Website

You see the little icon in your browser's address and tab bar, left to the name of the website? That's a favicon. All you need to know about Favicons, you can find in this post. About, Create, Install - all of it at your fingertips!


How to Select and Extract Hair in Photoshop (Advanced)

Here is a good tutorial on extracting hair from a background in Adobe Photoshop. You need to know a little bit of Photoshop to follow it, although it's pretty thorough and explains each step very well.