When putting together graphic designs or editing photos, opaque backgrounds on images can be a hindrance - so knowing how to ...

Adobe Photoshop CS5 supports the use of layers which enable you to apply effects such as fading to your images. Fading lowers the opacity of the layer, enabling you to blend your image with the ...

Some of the greatest features in Photoshop are the text, object, and image effects such as Textures, Patterns, Gradients, and Styles. Styles are those amazing special effects that you see rolling ...

Sitting quietly in the Tools panel of the popular image editors Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Pixelmator, is the Gradient tool, a wonderfully useful painting tool that lets you create a ...

Luke has been working in consumer tech for over a decade and is an expert in cameras, computing, VR and audio. He joined Pocket-lint in 2021 and can always be found writing reviews, news and features ...

From product photography to web design, sometimes an image is just better without the background. But attempting to tackle the task without the right tools can make even the most skilled photographers ...