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 ...

Remember the last time you gave your walls a fresh coat of paint? You probably used a roll of blue or beige masking tape to cover the baseboards and windows so you ...

Early portrait photographers often vignetted photographs by cutting them out in rounded shapes or masking the photographic paper while an image printed, restricting the result to an ellipse. Because a ...