45 Awesome Abstract Textures. Finding that perfect texture for your design can be quite the search, and also quite time consuming. To help you out a bit we’ve browsed through the large collection of textures over at deviantART and picked out some abstract textures. These can inspire you in making your own ones or you can use them. Just make sure to click on the images to go to the originals and read if the artists behind them have any restrictions or require credits first. Maybe this can be the helpful start to a new project? Let’s dive in! Tutorial Magazine / photoshop / effects. BLEND-IF Photoshop tutorial | Photoshop tutorials.
Master the Blend-if advanced layer style parameters The advanced blending options in the Layer Styles window are extremely useful. We can specify which pixels of the active layer and of the underlying visible layers will be opaque based upon their brightness. This is a very powerful feature often neglected by Photoshop users. This Photoshop tutorial will explain you how to use these advanced settings.
Below you can download the two images you will use in this Photoshop tutorial: Open the image FULLMOON.JPG. Now open the image SUNSET.JPG. We want to knock out the black background around the moon. Select the Moon layer and double click its thumbnail to open the layer styles window. Click the black slider underneath the first bar and move it to the right until you read the tonal value of 40 (see the image below). The black background around the moon has disappeared: How did this happen?
We want to make the moon appear behind the trees. There is another important thing to learn. 7 Free Tools to Identify A Font. So you’re browsing through your favorite website and found a site that uses a font you love. You want that font too, (and must be as quickly as possible!) … so how do we go about finding out what that font is called? Sounds familiar? Yes… we’ve all been there before! One easy option is to simply email the webmaster and ask for the name of the font and where to get it.
This can take some time and not all webmasters will reply. 1. Developed by one of the largest font providers, WhatTheFont is your number one spot for identifying your fonts. 2. This service takes a different approach and finds your fonts by asking a number of questions about the font. 3. This is probably the greatest and largest community of font experts. 4. This site offers a ton of information as well as multiple online tools to help you find your font, by answering questions on the shape of the glyphs of the font in question. 5. 6. 7.
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