One of the most useful, but complex, functions of Photoshop is the layer blending options. At the top of the Layers palette is a pulldown menu that by default says “normal”–but normal’s no fun! Extraordinarily dynamic compositions can be reached with careful use of layer blending. Their uses are expansive: subtle changes in tone, color, [...]

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This is just a friendly reminder from all of us at Tridea that this Tuesday, November 4th is Election Day and we’d like you to get out and VOTE! Why? Because this great country runs on the voice of the people and this is one of the best ways to make your voice heard. If [...]

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Photocompositions are one of the primary uses of photoshop: to integrate seamlessly several images to produce a new reality represented in the resulting image. Look through your Sunday advertisements, I guarantee you will find dozens of instances of this; this morning I found the Hulk sitting on a couch to watch his namesake film with [...]

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I stopped in a lower Manhattan Burger King the other day to satisfy a craving for a milkshake. As I walked up to the counter and stared up at the menu to try and find the shakes, I was greeted with an unfamiliar sight. This is what I saw:

Five Flat Screen TV’s served up a [...]

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One commonly-cited (and totally false) weakness of Photoshop is that it has no effective text layout capacities.
If you need a dynamic way to wrap or curve a line or whole blocks of text, Photoshop is perfectly capable of catering to your every need. A seemingly uncommon demand for a raster-based image application, I can’t tell [...]

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