The Digital Photography School blog has an instructive tutorial on using layers for those just getting their feet wet inside Photoshop, or other high-end image editors like the open-source GIMP. Those ...

“Layers” (http://www.layersmagazine.com/) , the “how-to magazine for everything Adobe,” has launched its new Adobe CS5 Learning Center (http://www ...

Adobe Photoshop CS5 can accomplish many seemingly miraculous image-editing and retouching tasks, but it can't do the visual equivalent of spinning straw into gold. If it could, you might find a ...

In graphic art and design, a mask is a tool that lets you isolate part of an image from the area surrounding it. Once isolated, you can apply adjustments (for example, special effects or color balance ...