San's Graphic Blog

If you were to photo an image from a magazine, books, photograph etc, you might not always get it at the exact angle where it is perfectly allign, and if you were at a slight angle than good luck trying to align the photo and get it ...

continue from Layer Blending Modes Part one The following sets are combination of the last two set, where 50% gray area has no effect on the photo, darker pixels on the blending mode will behave like their Darkening counterpart and ...

Clone stamp is not just for cloning objects in photos, you can also “erase” them. Blemishes and wrinkles can be magically erased from your model’s faces as well as that annoying person who somehow made it in to your photo. To ...

Brush property can be use for any other tool that requires painting on the effects or selection such as painting dodge and burn effects or painting quick mask selection. Selecting Brush – Photoshop is shipped with ...

If you need to get the exact color from a specific location on your photo you can extract that information using the eye dropper tool. There are two version of the eyedropper, one is call eyedropper and the other one is ...

Dodging and Burning can help you brighten and darken small or big areas of your photo instantly. I advise using this only for small touch ups as it is directly applied onto your photo so it is difficult to reverse the effect. Before ...

Polygonal Lasso tool is perfect for outlining object with straight edges such as buildings. You can also simulate curving organic edge by using the refine edge tool later. (L) Short cut key to activate the Lasso, hold shift ...

Lasso tool is good for minor quick selection unless you have really good eye/mouse coordination or you are drawing from a tablet don't think about making precise selection. I rarely use freehand lasso as I find it difficult ...

After creating your selection you can further refine the edge of the selection. With the Refine Edge tool you can expand, contract, soften and even automatically trace the nearest edge. Refine edge is available in many selection ...

Rectangle and Oval Marquee tool is great for quick geometric selection for drawing shapes, creating boarders, outlining geometric object in a photo etc... Hit M on keyboard to activate the Marquee tool, hold Shift + M to ...