The open source image-editing program GIMP is a good alternative to programs like Photoshop for creating eye-catching images, documents and advertisements to promote your business. GIMP allows you to ...

Adjustment layers are among the most useful editing functions, partly because they enable you to edit non-destructively but also because you can use the Layers function to select part of an image and ...

Remember the last time you gave your walls a fresh coat of paint? You probably used a roll of blue or beige masking tape to cover the baseboards and windows so you wouldn’t get paint on them. Masking ...

Longtime Adobe Photoshop aficionados are likely familiar with selecting people or foreground objects and replacing what’s behind them, though not everyone knows all the tricks to doing it well. It’s ...

Adobe Illustrator CS5 enables the user to create drawings using layers. Layers separate the drawing into sections that can be edited independently of one another. For example, you can have the same ...

Do you use layers when editing your digital photos? If not, you’re missing out on the single most powerful tool in your photo editing repertoire. Layers may seem baffling at first, but they’re not ...

Imagine drawing something on a plain piece of paper, and halfway through the drawing you realise that you’ve made a mistake and you need to erase and rectify. But erasing that object would also affect ...