Okay, so what am I talking about here? What is high pass? Is it a new version of the chest pass in basketball? No. It is not. It’s a way to sharpen your images in Photoshop. I know, I know,…

First, I don’t mask everything the same way. In fact, the example I’m about to show you would probably be done differently given the neutrality of the background. But, I want to get really really basic here for a second.…

Okay, so everyone is doing it. And that probably means you should too. (Isn’t that what Dad used to say?) Adobe uses the look for their application splash pages. Apple uses the look through out their Leopard UI for both type and…

If you’ve been to my site before you’ve probably seen me take this approach to various desktop and iPhone wallpapers. The look was originally inspired by Apple’s “chrome” version of their logo. This technique seems to work best with simple…

I got a few emails asking me how I created the leather for the Pac-10 iPhone Wallpaper or if I just used an image from a car interior or something. I created the whole thing in Photoshop and figured that it…

Let’s talk about fills. You probably already know about solid fills and gradient fills in Photoshop, but it seems a far underused fill is the pattern fill. With the ability to customize and create your own fills you have an…