Hello there dear GFXer readers, Tonight there have been some big updates with GFXER tutorials. Have posted 3 brand new tutorials and they’re great. I’m proud to say that we now have 10 Photoshop tutorials in GFXER. That’s a small number, I know, but it’s a small archivement for me. I hope to post a lot till the end of August...

Smart Objects are the latest development in the evolution of Photoshop layers. Working with pixel-based media, we are inhibited by the rules of resolution. Photoshop allows us to stretch and scale our images as if they were Silly Putty, but if we take too many liberties, we irrevocably damage our images. Not anymore. Smart Objects let us scale...

After some hours of hard work I can proudly say that GFXer is far better than it was before. I upgraded the whole thing to a newer version and installed some addons and other stuff. I’ll soon design a new logo that will be nice (already have something on my mind). I’ll post as many tutorials as I can in the following days and weeks. I h...

Layer Comps is a great productivity tool. A snapshot of the state of your Layers palette, a layer comp lets you experiment with multiple versions of a layout in a single document, saving time and disk space, but most importantly freeing you from worrying about what layer went with what on which version, and what its exact opacity and blending ...

Layer styles are effects like drop shadows, bevels, and glows that you can add to a layer with a single click. These effects change with the content of the layer and can be updated at any time. Layer styles fit in with our approach of nondestructive editing because while the effects are attached to a specific layer, they do not actually change ...