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Brushes Download Free Photoshop Brushes Gradients Icons. 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it.

So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Here’s a compilation of 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full content after jump. Mental Wave Explosion EffectHow to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power. Create a Realistic Torn Paper Effect in Photoshop Blog.SpoonGraphics. This post was originally published in 2007 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Torn paper is one of the key elements to achieving the distressed / collage look.

This tutorial covers a few simple steps in Adobe Photoshop to create a realistic looking torn paper effect taking you on your way to Destroying the Web 2.0 Look! Start with your blank document in Adobe Photoshop, use the Lasso Tool freehand to create the outline of the torn edge and continue the selection across the lower half of the document. Select an appropriate colour for your paper and fill the selection on a new layer. With the Lasso Tool still selected, Right Click (CMD-Click) on the mask and select Make Work Path from the menu. Select a brush shown above from the Brush Tool Menu, depending on the size of your document you may require a larger/smaller brush.

Head over to the Brush Options window, change the Shape Dynamics settings as show to create a fibrous stroke. 50 Dirty, Filthy Grunge Photoshop Effects - PSDTUTS. Torn Edges, Torn Paper Edges, Photoshop Torn Edges Photo Effect Tutorial. Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to give a photo a worn, torn edges effect. Creating the effect is easy, requiring nothing more than a few layers, the Eraser Tool, one of Photoshop’s built-in brushes, and some layer styles to help finish things off.

Here’s the torn edges effect we’ll be creating: The final “worn, torn photo edges” effect. Let’s get started! Step 1: Duplicate The Background Layer With our image newly opened in Photoshop, let’s begin by duplicating the Background layer. Go to Layer > New > Layer via Copy, or press Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac). If we look in the Layers panel, we can see that our document now contains two layers. A copy of the Background layer appears above the original in the Layers panel. Step 2: Add Extra Canvas Space Let’s give ourselves a bit more room to work by adding a little extra canvas space around the image. Go to Image > Canvas Size. This brings up Photoshop’s Canvas Size dialog box. More Texturing Photoshop Tutorial on Photoshop Contest. By: ledirlo This tutorial demonstrates an effect that gets so photorealistic it led to some cheating controversies in the past.

Aside from the interest of the created effect it also gives key layer technique information. The only material needed is these two photos, the crumpled paper and what we want printed on it. Let's start by opening the two photos and moving the grass photo above the paper's layer; you can turn the grass layer into multiply mode and transform it to get the correct placement. In this case I chose to avoid the darkest tree parts as they don't produce a great effect on the paper. Now you need to mask the paper in order to separate it from its background using the selection tool you prefer. Once finished, press CTRL+I so you invert the layer mask. The selection's edges have very little chance of being perfect already so I used the smudge tool with a large soft brush to push or draw the layer mask so it fits the paper edges perfectly.

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