Check it out at creative pro.

In case some of you don’t know, I also run a web site tutorial site with free tutorials, all based on Adobe software or photography. Check it out! It’s called Photoshop Tutorials and Tips and we have Photoshop Tutorials, Photography tutorials, Illustrator tutorials, InDesign tutorials.

I write all the tutorials for now, but if any of you want experience and exposure and would like to write, let me know. I’ll be adding some new tutorials soon.

I’ve written a two-part tutorial on getting started with Wordpress. I recommend the publishing software if you want to create a web site or blog that updates content often. See part 1 and part 2.

Creative Pro has a helpful tutorial about using available light. Ben Long’s book Complete Digital Photography, is the textbook I use in the university photography class I teach. I think I met Ben at Photoshop World when I was managing editor at two magazines at Kelby Media Group a little over two years ago. The book is really helpful. I like the CD that has sample photos to follow along, too.

I have a new tutorial up at Creative Pro: Vector Speech and Thought Bubbles.

Check out a new web site I’ve created: Photoshop Tutorials. It also has photography tutorials, Illustrator tutorials, and InDesign tutorials. I’ll be updating it quite frequently. I do write for iStockPhoto.com regularly and am contributing editor at CreativePro.com, and I’ve also written for Layers. Some of the articles I haven’t sold all rights to, but just first rights, will most likely appear at Photoshop Tutorials as well as some original articles and tutorials.

PopPhoto has a helpful article on using high ISO settings with some newer cameras that reduce a lot of the noise you get with higher ISO:

Although low-light performance has been improving incrementally across the board for the past few years, it has soared recently. ISO 3200 and even 6400 is increasingly common, digital noise shows up less, and higher megapixel counts let you apply noise reduction either in the camera or in postprocessing while maintaining plenty of sharpness in your images. No tripod? You can handhold to 1/8 sec or slower.

Read the article.

You can use Adobe Illustrator’s Color Guide palette to set a coor scheme, or you can check out Colour Lovers.com, which has a lot of color palettes to choose from.

Check out my most recent Creative Pro article about vector splashes.

I recently wrote a tutorial and feature on combing vector and raster files. Vector being illustrations with points and paths and raster being photos made of pixels. Check it out at iStock