There are two key marquee selection tools in Photoshop: the rectangular and elliptical marquee tools and they share a toolbar position. Here are some things you may not know about these tools.

1. Squares and Circles

The rectangular and elliptical marquee tools can be used to draw perfect squares and circles. When you click and drag the marquee, hold the Shift key to constrain the shape to a circle or square.

Removing red eyes from photos with Gimp is a straight forward process.  It involves just five steps and allows for a fair amount of flexibility for the photographer.  Let’s jump right in!

That’s me.  Slightly out of focus as usual.  This shot was taken with a simple point and shoot in near darkness. And with plenty of red to remove.  The trick is to not simply replace the red with another color or the result will be too fake.

Whether you like it or not, most of us are constantly looking for ‘another Photoshop’, no matter whether we already have it installed or would like to have it.

Many have no need for the extraordinary talents of this profound application but still have the need to fool around with our digital pictures and find the print-biased GUI a bit of a pain. Pixelmator as a pixel-based image editor may well be the one that will satisfy this craving.

On the gloomy side it demands Mac OSX version 10.5.7 and upwards in both Power PC and Intel Macs. Lesser OS’s need not apply!

On the shiny side it can handle an amazing array of file formats (100+), some of which you may not have seen for some years. Like … PICT, BMP and others even more obscure — and of course it can deal with JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD etc.

This fun Photoshop technique lets you showcase your photos on a computer screen or billboard and it uses the vanishing point filter to distort and crop the image.

The Vanishing Point Filter was first introduced with Photoshop CS2 so you will need Photoshop CS2 or later for this project.

Step 1

Open an image of a computer screen (or a billboard) in Photoshop and open the image you want to place on it.

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If you’re used to clicking the crop tool dragging the tool over your image and pressing Enter, it may surprise you to know that there are other options that you can use when cropping in Photoshop.

Here are my five “best-kept secrets” of the Photoshop crop tool.

1. Rotate as you Crop

When you drag the crop marquee over an image, you can rotate it by letting go the mouse button and drag on one of the corners of the marquee to rotate it. When you double click you will rotate and crop the image at the one time.