Creating A Tilt-Shift Effect Using Photoshop

Posted in Tutorials by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: November 12, 2011)

A Tilt-Shift effect on your image gives it the impression that the subject is actually a scale model. It does this by dramatically simulating a shallow Depth of Field along with an increase in the color saturation.

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10 Second Tip – Adding Guides In Photoshop

Posted in Design, Tips by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: October 12, 2012)

Adding guides to your Photoshop document are a great way of making sure everything’s aligned nicely.

Guides can be dragged from the Rulers on the edge of your document, or you can also use the “View > New Guide…” menu option.

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10 Second Tip – Configure Your Document Tabs In CS4

Posted in Design, Tips by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: October 12, 2012)

One of the first changes you’ll probably notice when upgrading to Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), is the use of tabs to display your windows. Previously, your windows “floated” within the CS4 interface. Now, they dock neatly up against the Options panel.

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Create A Vista Style Tabbed Menu Bar

Posted in Tutorials by
Anthony Hortin
(Updated: November 12, 2011)

This is a simple Photoshop tutorial to create a “Vista style” tabbed menu bar that you can use for your website layout, much like I’ve used on my own site.

The above image is one that I cooked up earlier so that you can see the finished layout 🙂

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