Tutorials

Below are PDFs of tutorials presented at the monthly meetings, along with actual Photoshop documents used in the tutorials. Visit the links section for information on other sites with tutorials.

June 2004: Coverting Color to Black-and-White

June's meeting focused on converting color images to black-and-white. Information discussed in this meeting has been added to a June 2004 meeting resources page. Visit this page for links and to downloads resources used in the meeting.

June 2003

At the April meeting, there was an extensive discussion about Photoshop's file formats. This information has been summarized in a Photoshop 7 file format guide
download PDF (50KB)

April 2002

Assignment: magazine cover mock-up. All members are encouraged to participate in this project combining techniques and skills which we have looked at over the past few meetings. We will look at member's progress and results during the May PSIG meeting.
download PDF (88 KB) | download images (822 KB) (files removed)

Using a Displacement Map
download PDF (195 KB) | download images (1.5 MB) (files removed)

February 2002

Creating a Vignette
download PDF (93 KB) | download images (1.2 MB) (files removed)

Color Correction Using Curves
download PDF (81 KB) | download images (985 KB) (files removed)

December 2001

Adding a reflection
download PDF (54KB) (files removed)

Using the Art History Brush
download PDF (49KB) (files removed)

Downloading Tips

The tutorials are PDFs, viewable with Acrobat Reader. It is recommended (but not mandatory) that you download the file to your computer before opening and viewing. To do this, simply click on the link and hold until a contextual ("pop-up") menu appears. From this list, choose the appropriate "Save Link to Disk..." option, select the saving destination (the desktop is a good place) and save. Then you can find the file on your desktop (or wherever you saved it) and open it by double-clicking on it. Downloading the tutorial using this method allows you to view the PDF in Acrobat Reader instead of in your browser window, and allows you look at it regardless of any internet connection.

In most cases, the images have been "stuffed" for downloading as a self-extracting file. Once it is downloaded, you will have to unstuff it simply by double-clicking on it (if it has not expanded automatically.) If you have any trouble automatically decompressing the file, check to see that you have the latest version of the free decompression software from Aladdin Systems.