Photoshop Top 40, Feature #32: The Pen Tool

Newbies select images with the quick select and magic wand tools. Highly automated, but they rarely work. Experts use the pen tool. It's an art form unto itself, but it always works.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #33: Calculations

One of the oldest, most abstruse commands in Photoshop, Calculations lets you merge two channels to create a new alpha channel. It's a tough nut to crack, but crack it you must if you want to master masking.

Photoshop Top 40, Feature #35: Refine Edge

Photoshop's amazing Refine Edge command lets you modify your selection using five different parameters and preview the results in five different ways.

High-Res, Downloadable Masking Video and Layered PSD File

Nested Smart Objects Tutorial

The Essential Approach to Masking

Photoshopping the Great Masters

There is no objective standard of beauty. In fact, the very definition of beauty shifts from one generation to the next. Want proof? Watch a 16th-century honey turn into a 21st-century hottie in this dekePod.