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Reid's Place Hi, Welcome to Reids Place. I am a Web design student right now and I am learning some pretty amazing stuff. Web design is my passion and I plan on making a living at it when I am finished. I have a little background in design already, being a long time user of Photoshop and Wordpress. But, its not about me, its about the community surrounding Web Design, so I plan on sharing resources, tutorials, inspiration and so much more. Thanks for dropping by, become a member and have fun!

04 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Sites of the Week (10)

Sites of the Week (10)

As some of you know, or don’t know, I am taking a web design course right now.  For part of the course, I am to look around the internet and save great inspirational websites to my digital morgue file.  A morgue file is basically a file filled with inspiration, and for a web designer [...]

04 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Colored Photo to Black & White

Colored Photo to Black & White

This Photoshop tutorial covers the reverse of the last one. This time I take a colored photo and apply a black and white layer mask to get the effect of a black and white photo with a splash of color, by using the pen tool and a layer mask.

04 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Coloring a Black & White Photo

Coloring a Black & White Photo

In this Photoshop tutorial I will be showing you how to take a black and white image and coloring it.  I use the pen tool to make my mask selection, but you can use any selection tool you like.  This will give you the effect that I am sure you have all seen.  An entire [...]

04 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Pen tool with layer mask

Pen tool with layer mask

In this tutorial I go over how to use the Pen tool with a layer mask to render a part of an image. This is not the only way to do this, but if you make a mistake while using the pen tool instead of starting over, you can correct the mistake afterward very [...]