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Pattern maker is really a smart tool to create pattern from an image or drawing. In this post, I'm gonna tell you about Photoshop Pattern Maker. After completing this lesson, you will be able to create beautiful and eye-catching patterns from simple drawing or image! Creating Patterns from Image You can create pattern from any image. I'm gonna show you an illustration -  I will use the above image to create a pattern. I'm gonna open this image through Photoshop CS6.  Filter > Pattern Maker . . . Now look at the image below -  As soon as you choose Pattern Maker, you will get this window. Look at the area I've selected as my pattern area.  You can choose any area to create a pattern.  Select your area > Hit on the Generate button > You will get a patter > Hit Generate again to create a different pattern > You will be able to create 20 different patterns. You can also change the values of the opti...

When you scan an image, most of the times it may not be straight. Or when you take a shot, the photo may not be straight along with the horizon. In that case, you can automatically correct the deviation using Photoshop. You have to use both Ruler Tool and Image Rotation option. Applies to  I've tested this tutorial on Adobe Photoshop CS5 and CS6. And I think it will work fine with previous versions of Photoshop. Let's Start - Run Adobe Photoshop from your PC. Press Ctrl+O > Find & Locate the image that needs to be corrected > Open it. Look at the image properly and determine how much rotation you need. Now choose the ruler tool as shown in the image below. (You can press Shift+I to change the tools of this section. Press Shift+I until Ruler Tool appears) Hope you've Ruler Tool selected. Now you've to draw a line within your image in such a direction which you think straight.  Now go to the Image menu > Image Rotation ...

Adobe Photoshop is a widely accepted tool for working with photos and images. For better printing and viewing experience we save images with high quality and resolution. And it makes the image large in size. If you use heavy images in website, blog or social networking sites, that causes the site to load slower. But you can easily optimize the images before uploading without sacrificing quality! Today I'm gonna write about the Save for Web option of Photoshop. With this saving option, you can optimize your images. You can also reduce the size of those images which are unnecessarily large.  And definitely optimized images will save internet bandwidth as well as time. And if you're a site owner, you must practice using optimized images on your site. If your site loads faster, you will get more traffic. And always keep in mind - slower sites are always boring for the users and thus they can't retain visitors.  Save for Web/ Save for Web & Devices...

If you're a Photoshop user, you must know about transparency grid. Transparency Grid is a checkerboard which appears when you're working with an image with transparent background. If your image has no color in the background, this checkerboard appears behind the image.  Okay fine. Transparency will be indicated by the checkerboard. But you may ask, why I will change the color of transparency grid. In this post I'm gonna answer this question. And I will also show, how to change the color of the transparency grid.  Why to Change?  Suppose you've an image with white background. And you need to remove this background behind the image. You know there are different ways to remove background. I'm not gonna discuss it here.  In the critical part of the image, Magic selection tool may not be able to select the white part. In that situation you can manually select the unselected portion. But you may also fail remove the white background properly...

By default, Adobe Photoshop contains numerous attractive effects/ filters. And you can also add third party filters if you want. Today I will show the use of liquify filter which can be used to twist an image or object. And it's really a useful tool when you need to distort the photos of your friends! You can make their faces bizarre! :)  I'm using Photoshop CS5 Extended Version. Hopefully the commands and options will be almost same with other versions of Photoshop. Let's start -  Run Photoshop and open an image from your hard disk.  Now go to the Filter Menu and choose Liquify (Shift+Ctrl+X). Now your image will be opened in a new window.  Mouse pointer will take the form of a plus sign with circle.  Hit and move the pointer over the image.  Rotate and twist the image as your wish.  If you're done press OK. Or if you wanna cancel, hit the Cancel button or press Esc.  There are some additional options too! Look at th...

Photoshop guys are very familiar with the color range option of Adobe Photoshop. Color range command is a great tool for selecting the areas of an image based on sampled color. And it's somewhat similar to Magic Wand Tool. In Magic Wand Tool you need to manually click on the areas of an image that needs to be selected. But if you use the color range option, you just need to choose the sample color. And Photoshop will make the selection by itself!  This tutorial applies to all running versions of Adobe Photoshop including CS4, CS5 and CS6. But I've prepared the tutorial using Photoshop CS5. All the images of this post will be based on Photoshop CS5.  Color Range Color Range belongs to the Selection part of Photoshop. You will find it under the Select Menu. Run Photoshop from your PC > Open an image from your hard disk > Go to the Select menu > Choose Color Range. You will get the following image:  Have you noticed M...

Photoshop Stroke belongs to layer style. You can add stroke outside of an image, text or shape. When you apply stroke over something, it looks like a border or outline. You can also choose different colors for stroke. And you can also adjust the size, position and opacity while applying stroke.  Last month I wrote about how to work with Fill & Opacity in Photoshop . I think you should also have a look to this tutorial. It will be helpful for you.  Photoshop Stroke Look at the two images below side by side. The left one has no outline. But the right one has a border outside of it.  No stroke has been applied on the left image. And the right image has a stroke outside of it. You can also use stroke with texts and shapes. Stroke can highlight something. Sometimes after applying stroke over something, you can minimize the fill. In that time, you will get stroke highlighted and the inside dimmed! Learn more . . .   How to App...

In this post, I'm gonna publish a funny tutorial of Adobe Photoshop. Now I will show you how to create a sample barcode (fake) by Photoshop. It will not be a real one but look like an original barcode. And maybe all of you know that original barcodes are machine readable. A real barcode includes product information like country of origin, manufacture and expiry date etc.  I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS5 for this tutorial. But so far I know, any version of Adobe Photoshop will produce the same result for you. Okay let's start -  Run Adobe Photoshop and open a new file with following settings Choose Width 250 px, Height 100 px, Resolution 72, RGB Color Mode with 32 bit , White Background and hit OK.  Now you will get a white rectangle in the screen.  Go to the Filter Menu > Noise > Add Noise . . . > Amount 400 > Distribution - Gaussian > Select Monochromatic > Hit OK.  You white rectangle will take the following loo...

Adjusting the performance settings could double your Photoshop experience. Though Photoshop automatically sets the performance depending on your hardware configuration. But sometimes you may need to adjust the default settings to improve the performance. If your hardware configuration is strong, you should customize the performance settings.  Couple of days ago, I got a new CPU you know. And the following parts will affect the Photoshop performance:  Intel Core i3 Processor (3.3 GHz, 3 MB Cache) 4GB DDR3 RAM (1600 Bus) 1 TB HDD And I always use Photoshop CS5 (Portable) for edidting or creating image. The hardware of my old PC was not strong enough. And it didn't allow me to customize the settings so much. But the new one lets me customize the performance settings.  Optimize the Performance Settings| Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS6 Don't be confused! All the images used in this post, options I'm talking about are based on A...