Create a new image, 800x800 pixels.
Go to the Channels window, create a new channel , and select the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Holding down Shift, draw a selection about 25x25 pixels.
To see how big your selection is, open the Info Palette, by going Window > Show Info.
Press D to select White as the foreground color, and then fill the selection by pressing Alt+Backspace.

Does Photoshop sometimes make you dizzy? In this fun tutorial you will make a design that may induce actual dizziness -- one like mine to the right.

In this tutorial, you will be taking advantage of some of Photoshop's mathematical algorithms. In other words, you will be making something that is very beautiful because of its mathematical precision, but you don't have to do the math. PS does it for you! YAY

Last week, Alexandro Colorado emailed me asking why Photoshop creates a mask when making shapes with the shape tool. I told him that I would explain the reason why the best I could.

First let's start out with what Photoshop vector shapes are. They aren't really vector shapes at all. In fact they are a solid fill of color with a mask or clipping path over the top of the color to make it appear as a vector shape. The mask can be edited just like a vector shape is in Illustrator or Freehand, which makes it appear as though the shape is a vector.

Let's start with a simple shape. This is a rabbit that ships in the Photoshop shapes palette. As you can see, it looks like any other rabbit you've seen.

This is a tutorial to show you how to transform animals into other animals by using the liquify filter and for those of you who want and actual example, how I made this picture:

now find a picture of the animal (i'll call animal2) you want to transform animal1 into. there are a few things you should follow when doing this as it makes this process a lot easier.

1. animal2 should be BIGGER than animal1; hence i used a rhino for 2 and a deer for 1.
2. to make this easier on you find a picture of animal2 that is in the same position as animal1 (as near as you can get it)
3. the pictures should be roughly the same resolution (doesn't matter so much if you can't get a pic like this but it helps)
4. thats all i can think of at this moment....

There is a way, however, to pull a Style effect, such as a drop shadow or such, from the layer it was applied to and give it its' own layer, on which it may be manipulated, edited, or set on fire.

Just for fun, let's make a quick, cool text style:

1) Open Photoshop. I'm using PS 7 for this tutorial.

2) Create a new image. If it isn't already, fill the background layer with white.

3) Create a new Layer.

4) On the new layer, enter some large type with the Type Mask Tool.