For this to work it needs to be on a transparent background. If you look in the layers panel you will see it is a Background layer at the moment. So double click the layer and click ok. This turns it into a normal layer with a transparent background. Then we want to enlarge the canvas so the second image can fit. Go to Image > Canvas Size and double the height. Then open the second image and...

In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll be experimenting with layers and styles to create a cool glowing orb and dial effect. This tutorial is written with an intermediate to advanced user in mind but I think anyone who knows their way around Photoshop shouldn’t have a problem reproducing this effect.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a watch from scratch in Adobe Photoshop. I will guide you step by step until it is complete.

For this script we will be creating a PHP function to generate the code. I will not discuss functions in great detail here and so I will presume you know pretty much what they are and how and why they are useful. Put simply, using a function to do the work you can use it from anywhere in your application and therefore do not need to rewrite code. I will also presume you know where to put the...

Learn how to make a hit counter in ASP. A hit counter is an essential part of a site to know how many people are coming to site. Here is an easy way to make a counter. All you need is access to ASP and be able to give a write access to a directory. We're going to save the amount of hits in a .txt file so that we won't need to worry about database connections.

When you type 10 and press Enter, the line of input assigned to $originaldist consists of three characters: the 1, the 0, and a newline character. When chop is called, the newline character is removed, and $originaldist now contains the value 10, which can be used in arithmetic operations.

little like the Magnetic Lasso tool the Magic Wand does much of the hard work for you. It works by selecting pixels based on settings defined by you. Select the Magic Wand tool by pressing W. In this example we are going to remove the background of a picture. This is a common task in Photoshop and one that is simple with the Magic Wand tool.

Curved rectanges are simple - there is tool in photoshop that will create the shape for you. You can access this tool by pressing U. This selects the Custom Shape Tool. To create a curved rectangle you need the Rounded Rectangle Tool, which is the second one down.

First lets start with the image. Think about what you want to portray. Find an image that matches the aspirations of your brand. Choose one that is quick to recognize and will work on the smaller screen resolutions of the web. There are numerous image banks on the web and you do not need to pay the earth for excellent imagery.

The Healing Brush is similar to the Clone Stamp Tool in that it is used to sample from an image to correct or enhance other areas of the image. It samples the colour, luminosity and texture of the source area separately and blends it with the destination area. This means you can get excellent results without having to do things manually.

All digital images can benefit from some sharpening. Translating the continuous tones of the real world into a mosaic of square pixels will inevitably introduce some softness into an image. With digital captures, this is more noticeable with RAW files because cameras typically apply some amount of in-camera sharpening to JPEG captures but not to RAW captures.

Thats the button that looks like a magnifying glass. Click on that and zoom in to a comfortable level by left clicking. The more you zoom in the longer time it will take but the better the cutout will be. Once you are zoomed in use the pen tool to go around the whole image where you wanted cut and left click around the edges. Once you come to the end that's where you will connect the points by...

Here are my thoughts about designing icons in Adobe Photoshop: - many respected icon designers consider Illustrator better tool to design icons - http://blog.turbomilk.com/ . I do not own or know Illustrator, but I'm pretty good at Photoshop, and I found that it can be tweaked to create icons fast and easy too. - the best way to design icons (even in small sizes) is vectors. In Photoshop, they are...

Using custom patterns is a great way to fill large areas. Open up a new document of 12 x 12 and select the pencil tool. Draw a pattern that will repeat. Here's the one that I've drawn.

I want to have shapes or anything for that matter have a stroke but a transparent fill. In Illustrator this would be easy but it requires a little more effort in Photoshop. We want the shapes to overlap with a transparent center but for them also to have a stroke.