Over the years as time savers and bits of weekend fun, we've featured a variety of popular Photoshop tips and tricks. Before we share the links though, here are some random facts about Photoshop and an interesting mini-documentary about the founding of Photoshop.
- Photoshop was invented by a University of Michigan PhD student named Thomas Knoll. Knoll's brother John worked for Industrial Light and Magic and encouraged Thomas to continue developing the software—apparently the imagery-manipulation gene is strong in the Knoll family.
- Despite the widespread prevalence of using "Photoshop" as a verb, Adobe strongly discourages it.
- The use of Photoshop in advertising is so widespread that fairly frequently a photo-editing mishap leads to a humorous outcome. Photoshop Disasters is a popular blog that catalogs mishaps in advertising like phantom hands, missing fingers, and super models with no navels.
- Make Your Own Andy Warhol Pop Art
- Add a Dash of Color to Black and White Images
- How to Install Photoshop on Ubuntu
- Photoshop Tip: Create professional HDR images
- Punch Up a Photo in Under 60 Seconds
- Suck Less at Photoshop
- Make Your Own Pop art
- Quickly Remove Backgrounds with Photoshop
- 111 Free Photoshop Plugins
- How To Create Smoke in Photoshop
- Spiff Up Flat Images with Textures
Have a favorite Photoshop tip, trick, plugin, etc.? Let's hear about it in the comments.
Startup Memories [Adobe via The National Association of Photoshop Professionals via Bright Side of News]
