Confession: I never knew how much there was to Photoshop until my wife, the photographer, decided to move over to the digital age. During the course of our marriage, while she has excelled in the art of digital photography, as well as Photoshop, I have remained the amateur.

Luckily, Corrie Haffly at Sitepoint has started a series of articles for geeks like us who still think all we need on our Websites is any of the eight colors we learned when we were five. (By the way, I got a star on my paper in kindergarten...red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple, brown, and black!)

The visual style that has come to be associated with the term
Web 2.0 has exploded in popularity; everywhere you look, corporate
sites, web service sites, ecommerce sites, and even personal blogs are
making use of clean, minimalist design coupled with fancy graphic
effects. If you'd like to jump on the bandwagon, this is the article
for you! Using Photoshop, I'll show you how to add Web 2.0 graphic
goodness to your site design using non-destructive techniques. It may
even take your site from boring to trendy!

The articles to take a look at include the following:

• Creating Web 2.0 Effects With Photoshop, Part 1
• Creating Web 2.0 Effects With Photoshop, Part 2