As the software enters its 30th year, a look back at one of its weirdest, most wonderful features. --- The idea is simple: you pick a tree species, change how voluminous you want your leaf count to be, on a sliding scale from zero to 100, and tinker with the size of the leaves and the height and thickness of the branches. Then fill the landscape with pre-rendered trees.

Removing white or black backgrounds from an image in Photoshop is easily done in many ways. Here's how to do it using blending sliders.

How to use the Smart Objects Link Panel I just linked.

An awesome and essential script for creating objects that can be placed and linked in PSDs across multiple files. (Essentially Smart Objects that can be updated across multiple PSDs.)

"Adobe Photoshop tutorials, from beginner to advanced." Because I am not really much of a visual artist.

How to set up Photoshop so this will never happen again.

"The purpose of these color profiles is something I could into another time, but the important thing to remember to avoid problems like Norm's is to make sure all your images were exported in the same way and so they either don't have a color profile or all have the same color profile. This will ensure that the site, at least color-wise, renders the same from browser to browser."

Donkey Kong, Mario, and other classic game bits Photoshopped into photographs. Well done.

Of all the Garfield mods, I think this is the best.

In the darkroom, you can tilt the photo paper onto which film is projected to get a focal scheme that makes the picture's subject look like a miniature model. Here's how to do it in Photoshop!

We were just talking about this useless dialog box/warning/alert the other day.

Embarrassing effects.