In this tutorial I will show you a quick way to create custom shapes in Photoshop using a selection. All you have to do is make a selection of an object, refine the selection edge, turn to work path and finally define custom shape. All this in 5 minutes opposed to let's say 20 minutes if you decide to draw the silhouette from scratch using the Pen Tool. The time depends a lot on your vector drawing skills. So you can make custom shapes using selection of a raster image.

In this tutorial I will show you how to use a fire brush in Photoshop. In the case of other brushes all you have to do is to pick a color an use the brush. In this case if you want to use a fire flame brush properly you have to add a layer style. That way you will obtain beautiful and realistic fire flames.

This is mainly a tutorial for beginners, so it is better after reading this tut to save the layer style and use it whenever you need to create fire in Photoshop. In fact in my next tutorial I will show you how to use flames in a photo manipulations.

In this quick tutorial I will show you how to install a new font on your computer. If you are reading these lines, you probably encountered an interesting font on the internet that you want to install in Photoshop.

As you probably know all the Photoshop resources like brushes and custom shapes can uploaded directly into Photoshop using the Preset Manager. But the Fonts can not be uploaded directly in Photoshop, there are other steps that need to be followed.

I recently needed a sunburst for one of my tutorials. I had to choose from using one of the free sunburst brushes or creating one myself. Wanting to learn something new all the time, I chose of course to create a sunburst from scratch.

It is not hard to make a sunburst in Photoshop but you really need to know some little tricks to get it right. Remember that this is not a vector sunburst, I will explain how to create a sunburst shape in one of my future lessons.

Adobe Photoshop comes with a number of default shortcuts for different Tools, Menus or Filters with the obvious purpose of making your work process easier. Switching between mouse and keyboard can be annoying and time consuming. So these Photoshop shortcuts are a really cool feature. In fact all the major software have predefined shortcuts.

In this quick Photoshop Tips article I will list the main available shortcuts for the Brush Tool. The most used is the brush size shortcut, but it is useful to know other shortcuts like the brush opacity shortcut or the brush hardness shortcut And if you don't find one on the list you can create it. As you will see Photoshop allows you to create new shortcuts for many Brush Tool actions.

Learn how to make a swirl in Photoshop from this easy to follow tutorial. So, you need to create a spiral in Photoshop and you don't want to use a pre-made swirl brush or a swirl shape. To be honest swirl custom shapes are hard to make and for that reason there are not to many swirl shapes available for free on the internet.

You can create your own swirl in Photoshop from scratch and the good news is that it can be made in just 5 minutes. In this tutorial I you will find the basic steps on how to create a swirl in Photoshop using different types of gradients and the Distort Twirl Filter. Sounds good? Let's start!