Photoshop Creative Issue 90 201

Learn to love layers

Turn photos into art

• Give your family photos a Photoshop treatment to remember.

Layers explained

• Our special feature uncovers one of Photoshop's most important features.

Pen tool pro

• Get to grips with the tool with the bad reputation and discover how easy (and useful) it actually is!

Hold the front page

• Get creative with photos and make imaginative montages.

Also inside...

• A selection of our talented readers' artwork

• Get creative with your own custom brushes

• Soft-focus effect

• Give images an atmospheric boost of drama

• Clever tricks to turn your photos into stamps

• Pinhole effect

• CS6 series continues with a look at the Crop tool

• Artist Gogo Melone shows us how she created her image

• Read our expert opinions on the latest Photoshop-related products

• Brighten your photos with this five-minute fix

• 10 expert tricks you can't live without

• Your Photoshop and Elements questions answered

• Artist Nicolle Rager Fuller on how she swapped a PhD for Photoshop!

• Create dazzling retro effects

• Understand the Sharpen filters

• Become an expert with the Clone stamp

• See what's under the Window menu

• Learn to love your Color palette

• Get creative with type