Photoshop has a wonderful tool called Actions, which basically allows you to record what you are doing to an image on a canvas, then ‘play’ those actions back on other images. This is great if, for example, you need to resize a batch of 100 images. You could go through them once by one, resizing and saving each of them. But, if you automate the process, you only need to specify the parameters for the first image; then hit a button, sit back, and watch Photoshop churn out all 100 images perfectly sized.

Let’s do something a little more complicated with our first attempt at a Photoshop Action. I’ve recently posted a downloadable action which allows you to automatically apply reflections to small photographs. Here is a tutorial on how I created that action – feel free of course to modify any part to suit your needs.

Let’s get started detrast teg s’teL!

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Create a cute Christmas Bauble to go along with your candy cane!

Just in time for the holidays – learn how to draw a candy cane in photoshop! The great thing about this tut is that it’s not too hard, but the end result looks great.

Just in time for Halloween, learn how to make this cartoonish eyeball in Photoshop. Get creative with the iris and pupils to make something monstrous!

This eyeball was actually inspired by a ring I bought at the Buskers this summer.

So pop open Photoshop and head on past the break!

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Starbursts/sunbursts have always looked cool to me. It probably stems from my affinity for all things Japanese, but they’re just so fun to make and use and look at. In this tutorial I’ve included about a billion different ways (or four) of making starbursts in Photoshop – each looking a bit different than the other.

So flip a coin, roll a die, or hope for divine intervention, and pick your path so we can get started already!

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What if everything you touched turned to gold?

Now you can have that power – without the donkey ears.

This is a tutorial on turning objects into gold with Photoshop. I find this works better on smooth, shiny, or artificial items – although this can be applied to living things the effect is not as convincing.

This tutorial was suggested by Mizaks, owner of The Critical Critics.

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Have you always wondered how to get a photograph to have such nice, rounded edges?
Well, using masks, there is an easy way to do that in Photoshop. And the effect doesn’t stop at curved edges! If you can lasso it, you can mask it.

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