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Lisa_Kristine_com-Freedom-Ghana-615.jpg (615×415) Free 3D Fonts - Page 5. Top. 42+ Free Photoshop Textures. Awesome Colorful Poster Tutorial. Hey guys this tuto is showing you how to use really cool colors on your images, in my case I created a poster with a good mix of typo and very strong colors. It's a mix of simple techniques and a lot of style to bring your work to a new level, follow the tuto and have fun! For more of my work you can check out my behance Yesterday while creating the post Amazing Ad Campaigns that was one ad campaign that really caught my attention, and it was the Ray-ban Colorize, the images used were so colorful and have so much live to it that amazed me.

So I decided to try to reproduce this effect and teach you guys how to do it. My version is not the same it has a bit of my style into it and I will show you step by step how I did it. First things first, what I had in mind was to find a good portrait to start with, if you look for stock photos like I did on this case, a really good place is DeviantArt Stock, and there I found this photo: The Photo is from katanaz-stock. Photoshop For Beginners: Understanding Layer Masks.

This article is part of a series of tutorials thought for Photoshop beginners. I’ll explain in depth those features that can result difficult to understand for a newbie. In the previous article I’ve explained the core of Photoshop: layers and their functionality. Today I will show you one of the most powerful Photoshop tool: layer masks. They can result difficult to use for a beginner, but once understood how they work, you won’t need the Eraser tool anymore.

Let’s start! What are layer masks? As I often write, one of the most powerful Photoshop features is the possibility to modify the same object again and again and, if you’re not satisfied, go back and return to the original image. I prefer the practical approach so download this free image of a lion and open it in Photoshop. Why do I have to unlock the background layer? Now let’s create the layer mask. Let’s see the basic use of the mask: set black as foreground color and grab the brush tool (B). How the layer masks works: