Now Reading ...As a blogger, a little Photoshop skills in image editing is very crucial. Beside you can make your own image creation like logo or header image, you can virtually change anything in your blog to suit your mood.
There are more than millions of Tutorials in the web. Sometimes it will overwhelming you if you don’t know where to start your first step.
I hope within this post, you will be able to find your start point and begin to learn this powerful image editing software and apply it to your own blog.
Basics
- Getting the most out of your RAM
- Photoshop is a RAM hungry application for your desktop, find out how is the basic skills to optimize your RAM so your computer won’t slow down by Photoshop.
- Top Useful Photoshop Shortcuts
- Knowing some shortcut fasten your working time. Make sure to make a good use of this list.
- Layers Explained
- Layer is one of the most favorite feature in all graphic designing software. Find out what is Layer and how the magic is happening in this tutorials.
- Comprehensive Guide on Type Tool
- Type tools is very useful when you want to create nice text effect for your blog header or somewhere else. This guide will teach you all you should know about Text tool.
- Tricks to working with Text
- Learning the comprehensive guide on text is not enough. This tutorial will show you how to ‘play’ with text.
- Learning the comprehensive guide on text is not enough. This tutorial will show you how to ‘play’ with text.
- Complete Guide on Pen Tool
- Pen Tool is the most useful tool in photoshop to make selection and forming a custom shape manually. This tutorial will share you the basic element of Pen Tool to help you understanding it deeper.
Favicon
- Creating and Using Favicon.ico
- Favicon.ico is the image beside your blog URL. It’s important to have one for your blog to differentiate your feed items in your user feed reader.
Blog Header
- Beautiful light effect
- You can use this tutorial to create your own beautiful header image to impress your reader!
- You can use this tutorial to create your own beautiful header image to impress your reader!
- Simple Web 2.0 Banner
- Nice tutorial for creating web 2.0 style banner image for your
- 3D logo
- Logo is a crucial element of your blog brand. Make sure to have one for your blog.
- Dreamy Text for Header
- Create a dreamy text effect to suit your header design.
Blog Content
- Professional Glossy ‘Download’ Button
- If your blog offering a free e-Book, Trial Software, or movie, you can use this button to let reader click on it to download the file.
Blog Sidebar
- Simple Glossy Icon / Button
- This is the most general skill in creating glossy shinning icon or button in photoshop. Suitable for your blog navigation bar or Header image.
- Rounded Button
- Simple tutorial to make a rounded corner button for your blog’s sidebar
- Mail Button
- You can use this tutorials to create a Feedburner’s mail subscription button instead of the default form. Change the text inside the tutorial to “Subscribe via Mail” or something else.
- Cool Glassy Feed Icon Creation
- Want to make a different kind of Feed button for your blog? This tutorial will show you how to make a glassy feed button in 18 steps.
- Groovy Smooth Orange Icon
- Add some nice and groovy like icon to colorize your pale blog.
- Post-it Note
- Create your own Post-It note and Stick it to your side bar to remind reader to subscribe to your blog.
There is more tutorial that you can eat. Make sure to make a clear target instead of trying to learn every one of them. Have fun learning!
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(September 10, 2007, 3:15 am)
Wow! This is a great collection. Thanks for sharing this Ken! Stumbled.
Reply to Nirmal(September 10, 2007, 4:50 am)
You are welcome!
Reply to Ken XuI’m glad you like this post, Nirmal! Thanks for the stumble too! I’m appreciate it very much.
(September 10, 2007, 10:54 am)
Ken, a lot to digest :).
Reply to jamy(September 10, 2007, 10:59 am)
Indeed a beautiful collection! Stumbled
Reply to Shankar Ganesh(September 10, 2007, 1:36 pm)
Thanks Jamy!
Thanks Shankar!
Reply to Ken Xu(September 10, 2007, 3:31 pm)
wow nice collection of tutorials, but i dont have latest photoshop.
Reply to ram(September 11, 2007, 12:53 am)
Oh, don’t discourage by it Ram. Using photoshop 7 still ok. It’s indeed that the newest have more advance tools but, the basic still same!
I also using not so new PS CS1. and things going smooth too! 
Reply to Ken Xu(September 11, 2007, 7:35 am)
Thanks for this compilation! Wish I had this post as a guide when I was learning to use this software.
Reply to Clara(September 11, 2007, 9:59 am)
Hi, Clara! Thanks for commenting. It’s nice to see you here.
Reply to Ken XuSure, I will make more content about design and tutorials. Hope you can make this blog as your future reference.
(September 11, 2007, 5:32 pm)
very handy info. Thanx Ken!
Reply to JennyHow(September 11, 2007, 9:17 pm)
Hi, Jenny!
Thanks for stopping by.
Reply to Ken Xu(September 17, 2007, 8:36 am)
hi ken! you’re such a prolific blogger huh! wanna see my real baby? pls. visit my site again…
Reply to proud mom(September 20, 2007, 11:16 pm)
Hi, proud mom! I have seen your baby! Really a cute boy.
Reply to Ken Xu(September 20, 2007, 6:04 pm)
Great list, thx
Reply to VagabondoDigitale(September 20, 2007, 11:19 pm)
Hi, you are welcome. Please make a good use of it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Reply to Ken Xu(December 7, 2007, 7:08 am)
I appreciate your list! Thaks a lot! I became your RSS subscriber.
Reply to Mike(December 31, 2007, 4:42 am)
Man that helped out a lot. Thanks! Now if only Photoshop didn’t cost a fortune.
Reply to Areeb Bajwa(January 3, 2008, 10:05 pm)
Nice post..quite educating. Thanks a lot.
Reply to Manav(January 13, 2008, 3:55 am)
This are very useful tutorials. Bookmarked.
Reply to Dumoulin Hystan(February 21, 2008, 9:29 am)
So Thanks for your list very helpfull for me…
Reply to Xmlci(March 26, 2008, 10:33 am)
Now, this what i like…as a graphic designer myself..this is very helpful..a digg and a stumble.
Reply to PhotoshopMaster(May 9, 2008, 9:11 pm)
Very useful, i really like the Blog Header section! Thanks for all the tips!
Reply to Drunk Paula(June 10, 2008, 7:47 am)
do you know where i can have photoshop tutorial? please tell me…
Reply to Bobby(July 10, 2008, 7:11 am)
nice post..useful tutorials.Thanks
Reply to robert(September 11, 2008, 11:11 pm)
This is a great find. Ken… from one artist to another, thank you!
Reply to Mike