Selecting a Snake Silhouette in Photoshop

Deke shares two ways to select a silhouette (of a snake or any imaginary animal) in Photoshop.

"Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Fundamentals" Goes Live Today

Today I Finish Recording "Photoshop Masking & Compositing: Fundamentals"

Deke's Techniques 046: Adding Stereo-3D Text and Shapes

This week, I show you how to take a stereoscopic photograph (fit for viewing with 3D glasses) and add text and shapes at different planes of depth.

Deke's Techniques 044: Making a Stereoscopic Photo

Learn how to pull of one of the most arcane but ultimately practical techniques in Photoshop, the creation of a 3D stereoscopic photograph. (Glasses required.)

The Self-Made Mask

Martini Hour 062, In Which Colleen Graciously Lets Deke Pick Up Where We Left Off

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #24: Curves

Where luminance is concerned, no feature gives you greater control than Curves. It lets you reign in highlights, open up shadows, and reveal all points in between. Curves takes a bud of an image and makes it blossom.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #25: Selection Calculations

Press the Shift key to add to a selection. Press Alt (or Option) to subtract and Shift+Alt (Shift+Opt) to find an intersection. Helpfully, these tricks apply to layers, channels, and paths. They're a power user's dream.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #31: The Brush Tool

The modest brush tool is one of the deepest, most versatile tools in Photoshop. It's not only a terrific painting tool, but it is also invaluable for masking, as this video demonstrates.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #32: The Pen Tool

Newbies select images with the quick select and magic wand tools. Highly automated, but they rarely work. Experts use the pen tool. It's an art form unto itself, but it always works.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #33: Calculations

One of the oldest, most abstruse commands in Photoshop, Calculations lets you merge two channels to create a new alpha channel. It's a tough nut to crack, but crack it you must if you want to master masking.