Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. This week I create a simple, multi-purpose greeting card template using smart objects.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. I continue with borders and create a sloppy border that resembles an old large format negative. Some techniques involved: clipping masks, layer masks, fill adjustments, layer styles and quick mask selections.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. This week I create another variation of a sloppy border using a stock texture image and the Ocean Ripple filter.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. This week I use some shapes, brushes, text and layermasks to transform an image into a graphic that could be used for a sign-in page in a book or a folio.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. This week I get rid of an annoying shadow behind a couple in an otherwise nice portrait using mainly a radial gradient.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. This week I create my own sloppy type border out of a texture file that I create and use as a displacement map.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. I finish up my "stock photo fairy" by adding some layerstyles and a custom shape or two.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Color correct with Levels using sampled points from your image telling you where your darkest shadows, lightest highlights and most neutral grays are. Tools covered: Color Sampler, Levels, Threshold and Info Palette.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. This week I turn a stock photo into a fantastical image using alpha channels, custom shapes, tweaked brush presets and various layerstyles.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Use alpha channels as texture channels (also know as bump maps) inside Photoshop's Lighting Effects dialog. Create alpha channels to be used as interesting textures with the clouds and add noise filters

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Use an alpha channel, which is nothing more than a grayscale mask (think layer masks), to remove a subject from a background.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video demonstration. Part 2 of my poster project sees me finishing up the poster by adding details such as wrinkles, scratches and even a fake wad of adhesive using scratch brushes, plastic wrap filters and external texture graphics.

In this video we calibrate a laptop monitor using GretagMacbeth's Eye-One Match software and colorimeter. We use the "Easy" setting. Also goes over where the profile is on a PC and how to change it.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Add some finishing touches to your digital painting by painting in some more texture with a low flow brush setting and adding a canvas stock image for added realism.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. Turn a photographic image into a realistic, digital painting. This photo painting technique uses the smudge tool in conjunction with various brush presets.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. In the last part of the globe exercise, we tweak the brush settings for the standard round, soft brush and create a starry backdrop for the globe to sit on.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. In Part 2 the text gets a cosmic makeover with layer styles and various filters.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. We finish up the simple globe graphic we started several months ago and turn it into a realistic-looking, 3D celestial body. Part 1: We give the globe a dramatic makeover.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video. Watch as I turn an ordinary photo into a piece of pop art, then mount it on a virtual wall. Part 1: I create the poster, drop into the wall graphic, transform and warp it, and add the drop shadow and reflection.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 video tutorial. You can apply many filters directly to the color channels. Here I've quickly applied a gaussian blur to the blue channel and desaturated the image for an interesting softening effect.