I used to love Spirograph when I was a kid. I had two sets, the one that my older sisters had that was completely wrecked which I inherited, and the one I got from Santy. Mine was the set with four coloured pens and I used to look at the pictures on the cover of the massive set that had loads of colours and think “someday you will be mine”. Well I never got the bigger set but I have got a computer with millions of colours and I work in...

You can clone an image, or part of an image onto a separate image in Photoshop using the Clone Tool. Here’s how to do it; 1. Make sure that you have two images open – the one you want to clone from and the one you want to clone to. 2. Select the Clone Tool (S) and Alt + Click (windows) or Option + Click (mac) on the first image to select a sample point. 3. Switch over to image you want to clone onto and start...

I wrote this article for PhotographyBB magazine. Check it out for lots of great articles on photography, Lightroom and Photoshop. The toy model look has become a very popular photo effect in recent times. It tends to work best on photographs taken from a height such as a shot from a window or a bridge. The high viewing angle helps to give the impression that you’re looking down on a toy model. 1. Open up your picture in Photoshop. This is...

In this tutorial, we’ll look at a technique you can use to gather together a number of your shots with a common theme and present them in a nice grid format. The idea is to do some close cropping on the images so they are all the same shape. 1. The first thing you need to do is to sort through your photographs and choose nine images that you want to use in your poster. It doesn’t matter if the pictures are in Portrait or Landscape...

There is a new update for Photoshop available now that fixes several bugs including some security issues, Liquify meshes, and problem with Quick Selection crashes among others. This update also makes Photoshop able to communicate with the new tablet apps that Adobe just announced a couple weeks ago. The apps are not available just yet but be sure to check iTunes in the coming weeks. That doesn’t necessarily mean you have to wait until...

Adobe has announced some new apps for the iPad that you can combine with Photoshop on your computer and use certain features right from the tablet to Photoshop. The apps themselves are pretty basic but what they do well is demonstrate this new technology that does seem have some real potential. The apps are called Adobe Nav, Color Lava, and Eazel. Here’s the blurb from the Adobe mobile site. Adobe Nav With Adobe Nav and a network...

In a previous Photoshop tip, I showed how you can increase the size of the font previews in the font drop-down menu, but let’s say you don’t want to see the previews at all? Maybe you know your favourite fonts already – and the preview display does slow the menu down slightly. So here’s how you switch them off. Choose Edit > Preferences. Choose Type from the list of preferences that appear. Then simply, click on the Font Preview...