101 photoshop tips in 5 minutes

Can you believe it? This is amazing – Deke McLelland really knows his stuff!
I am learning little by little how to use Photoshop and this video is a fun challenge to use the tools.

Photshop layers tutorial- creating a border

I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out a solution to a Photoshop problem -  how to put a white border around an image .
I tried all sorts of things, but every time I drew a rectangle it filled with colour, instead of being an empty frame for the picture to sit in.
Then I found [...]

Avatars

Isn’t it fascinating how many words have changed their meaning over the years.  When I first dipped my toe into computing it was a whole new language. Mouse, driver, wallpaper, copy and paste – everything seemed to be old words with new meanings.
The word I found hardest to use was avatar [ the little picture [...]

Adobe InDesign CS3 rocks!

I just love InDesign CS3. After all the problems I had getting the new CS3 suite installed I am delighted with it.
The upgrade from CS2 has been well worth while and I am discovering new benefits every day. So far the best thing for me has been the new tool panels (or are they [...]

Stay calm and follow instructions

Last week I hit a bad patch with my computer software.
I had been using Adobe CS2 for a while, and now I was to upgrade to CS3.  As always, I did a web search of any known issues and discovered that some people had hit bad problems – all the programs in the suite loaded [...]