Hey all, just thought I would let you know that I cam across a basic but good printing blog elsewhere (that’s right, I said “elsewhere”). It doesn’t seem to have been live for very long, but there is some useful information in there for those wanting to learn a bit more about printing and graphic design.

The site is: http://www.printing-tips.info
Check it out and have a click around. You’ll find some good stuff.

In this great Photoshop tutorial, we will show you how to apply an interesting copper metal text effect. We use a metal texture and some basic layer styles to achieve the overal look.

In this great Photoshop tutorial, we show you another high-end magazine retouching trick that will help you achieve perfectly smooth skin on almost any subject. There are a few skills covered here, such as: using the lasso tool to select the face and copy to a new layer; applying a Gaussian blur to the copied face layer and altering opacity; and removing blemishes using the clone stamp tool.