A review of a cheap, fast, accurate masking tool. You’ll be amazed.

Halloween may be over, but faces are still scary for the newbie Painter artist. Richard Ramsey offers some great training to help you face your fears.

A short tutorial showing how to use layers to create a stunning background for your portraits.

Finally, a book that shows how to work with Photoshop and Painter together, by the author of the Painter Wow books.

Image brushes are a standard part of the Photoshop toolbox. This tutorial shows how to import Photoshop brushes into Painter.

A review of Susan Ruddick Bloom’s new book, Digital Painting in Photoshop, from Focal Press.

Perhaps the camera never lies, but sometimes it does stretch the truth. Learn how to identify and correct lens distortion.

Learn how to use Photoshop to correct exposure problems in your beach photography.

Here’s a Photoshop tutorial showing how you can capture a nebula inside a glass ball.

Here’s a step-by-step showing how to create an Anne Geddes-style fantasy baby image.