Creating "Rounded Windows" Op Art from Scratch (and Math) in Photoshop

Deke's Techniques 190: Op Art Experiment 1a: Inflated Checkers in Photoshop

This week, Deke takes a Photoshop journey in to the eye-bending world of op art, creating a Bridget Riley-inspired twist and bulge of checkerboard contortion.

Deke's Techniques 097: Creating Type that Inverts Anything Behind It

Create text, in Photoshop, that provides absolute and unambiguous contrast with everything in the composite image behind it. Automatically.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #9: Levels

The Levels command, and its cohort the histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The upshot is that you can increase contrast, correct for color cast, and make a bad image good.

The Big and Gritty Black-and-White Sky

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #36: Black & White

In the digital age, we shoot linear images that are converted to full-color photographs. Which is a good thing, because it means we can distill the perfect black-and-white shot in Photoshop, one range of colors at a time.