If you’ve used Photoshop for image-editing, you know that the popular program can sometimes be a little intimidating for newcomers. One of the advanced, but vital tools you’ll need to get to grips ...

Sitting quietly in the Tools panel of the popular image editors Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Pixelmator, is the Gradient tool, a wonderfully useful painting tool that lets you create 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 ...

When you use masks to hide and reveal parts of the layers in an Adobe Photoshop document, you can edit your masks using some of the same tools and options you rely on to alter and retouch Photoshop ...

Early portrait photographers often vignetted photographs by cutting them out in rounded shapes or masking the photographic paper while an image printed, restricting the result to an ellipse. Because a ...

French software manufacturer DxO has released Nik Collection 8 with new masking options. The plug-in collection for photographers contains a total of seven image editing programs that can be ...

Aside from a re-designed, tab-based user interface, the latest version of Adobe Photoshop provides some exciting new features for digital photographers. September 23, 2008: Aside from a re-designed, ...

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 ...