Photoshop is a pretty awesome piece of artistic software. You can do just about anything 2D graphics related with it. It has so much power, that somethings just seem a little bit too simple. But with great power, comes a ridiculous amount of menu options. And for the novice, these menus can provide the perfect mechanism to get lost and confused. But, never fear, here at SOTC we do a little graphic design as well as programming.

Our favorite online video tutorial series has released a couple of more videos. You suck at Photoshop, narrated by Donnie Hoyle, is now up to volume 7. We missed volume 6, so we're just going to post both here.

What's becoming one of my favorite online series of video tutorials has released another installment today. This episode will introduce you to Photoshop's color select tool. If you haven't seen these before, volumes 1-4 can be located here. The latest is here, which is also embedded below.

If you call yourself a web surfer, you've no doubt seen the "You Suck at Photoshop" series of tutorials created by Donnie Hoyle. The narrator, to me, sounds a lot like Dane Cook. If you don't agree, check it out for yourself on Wikipedia. If you search for Donnie Hoyle, Dane Cook comes up at a whopping 98.1% relevance. You just can't argue with numbers like that.

Not all of us have professional light stands and those umbrella looking things to make your scenes look magazine quality. Most of the time we take photos under incandescent or fluorescent lighting which tend to skew the colors in our images towards the orange or green spectrum. Thanks to Photoshop, we can fix some of the color problems with a simple click of the mouse.

If you've ever used Photoshop for any serious project, you've probably used at least one layer style. Getting to know what each style does and what the available options are can be a daunting task. This tutorial will go though every layer style found in a default installation of Adobe Photoshop CS3, show what it does to your image, and describe some available options.

Recently we posted a tutorial on how to build your own Javascript color picker. That tutorial uses a semi-transparent gradient image for choosing colors. This tutorial will go through all the steps required to create the gradient image using Photoshop.

This tutorial is going to provide a step-by-step guide on how to use Photoshop Actions. Actions are an easy way to apply the same thing (cropping, rotating, filters, etc.) to a large collection of images. In this tutorial I'm going to demonstrate how to crop the center out of every image in a folder.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of creating a seamless texture from almost any photo.