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Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles

Mastering Photoshop Techniques: Layer Styles
Advertisement Layer Styles are nothing new. They’ve been used and abused again and again. Despite their ubiquity, or perhaps because of it, many designers do not yet realize the full potential of this handy menu. Its beauty lies in our ability to create an effect and then copy, modify, export, hide or trash it, without degrading the content of the layer. Below we present, step by step, several practical techniques to help you refine your designs, increase productivity and reduce layer clutter. Download the source files (.zip, 1.6 Mb). The Bump Map Effect “Wait, what?” This technique requires two images: one for texture and color, and the other to serve as a depth map. Step by Step We’ll start by creating our bump map pattern. Painting a mask to increase the appearance of light in the background. We now have a textured, bump-mapped background that is completely dynamic; everything about it can be modified easily from within the Layer Styles menu. 3-D Modeling Diffuse vs. X-Ray Vision Quick Tips

Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers 80+ Creative Geek T-Shirts You Can Buy Online We love tees because they have so many rooms for creativity in terms of design. As designers who always strive to maintain originality and uniqueness, we are sucker for creative stuff, that includes what we put on. When was the last time we you walked down the street and people start checking out your attire? It doesn’t have to be something branded, a creative and catchy t-shirt will do, really. Interactive Tees Wi-Fi Detector Shirt You can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt. T-Qualizer A fully functioning graphic equalizer in a handy t-shirt format. 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt During your normal activities two and a half pixelated hearts will light up on your shirt. Electronic Drum Kit Hit the drums on this shirt with your finger and they play through the built in speaker simple but amazing. T-Sketch Light Up Flashing T-Shirt Transformers Light Up Flashing T-Shirt Animated Retro Table Tennis Shirt Geek Tees RRoD Hi!

Useful Adobe Photoshop Techniques, Tutorials and Tools 60 Inspiring Examples of Creative Clothing Design One obvious way a person can express his views and feelings is by fashion. Whatever your taste might be, we can guarantee you will like at least one of the following t-shirts! As creatives, we love to see interesting designs pushed to new heights. Once we find those incredible designs, we appreciate them for what they’re worth. If you are even thinking of starting your own clothing line, the following t-shirts should serve as a great example of what high quality is.

Create Blood and Milk Typography Poster in Photoshop Published on Sun, Apr-18-2010 by Sergey Hi there. Today we show you some Photoshop techniques, how easy with few basics steps you can create awesome typography poster. With this technique you can create interesting flayer for dace club or you can use in advertisements. You May Be Interested In The Following Posts Final Image Preview Stocks Used: 1.Step Well, let’s do it! 2.Step Next I used red splash on the word “Blood” with a nice positioning on it. Result: 3.Step Hereinafter repeat all the same technique only for the text “Milk”. 4.Step Next we create a new layer on top, take tool “Smudge tool” (R) and be sure to check as shown below: Making a smooth transition of the text in the splatter: 5.Step Hereinafter all the same thing only for the text “Blood”. 6.Step Now we will start to the detalization of the work. You must have a similar result: 7.Step Open photo of the girl and cut the girl. Add girl to the work, below all existing layers: 8.Step Now make a little extra text and its foundation. 9.Step

Vintage Greeting Card | PhotoshopStar Welcome to PhotoshopStar.com! If you find this site useful, you might want to subscribe to our free newsletter for updates on our new Photoshop Tutorials and Articles. Are you missing old times? I have one pleasure thing for you… vintage greeting card. So, this Photoshop tutorial about how to create it. Let’s start! After that I would bring some vintage texture to canvas. Create a new layer and fill it with black color. Use Select > Modify > Feather (size about 70 px) to make selection borders softer and press Delete to clear selection, then press Ctrl+D to deactivate selection. Now is the main step. Ok, after that bring photo to the canvas and crop it to the similar sizes: Then click on Image > Adjustment > Desaturate to make your photo black-and-white and change layer mode to Luminosity: We’ve been missing something important up until now, haven’t we… time to add some text! In the above image I’ve used Adobe Caslon Pro as my font of choice, and I’ve used color of #221301.

Create Rockstar Poster in Photoshop Published on Wed, Mar-17-2010 by Marco This time we will show you how to create colorful rockstar poster in Photoshop. In this tutorial we will use plenty of various Photoshop techniques. Tutorial is pretty complex, so you will need to carefully follow each step of this tutorial. You May Be Interested In The Following Posts Final Image Preview 1.step Create a new document 620×860, 300 resolution and 8 bits, rgb color. 2.Step Create a new layer, fill with black color, add gradient – overlay; colors #afafaf and #ffffff. 3.Step Now we will drag our main image. 4.Step Duplicate the original layer and desaturated it (Image > Adjustments > Desaturate) and change layer blending mode to: Soft light. 5.Step Apply Image (Image > Apply image). 6.Step Pay close attention to these steps: this is the technique how to create the robot effect. 7.Step For now, do not use Brush tool. 8.Step Ctrl + left mouse click on previously applied layer (model). 9.Step Repeat this technique to the rest of the leg. 10.Step 11.Step

Stunning Typography Tutorials Collection | Designs Collage Posted on 04. Dec, 2010 by EDDY in 3d Graphics , Graphics , Photoshop , Tutorial , Vector It’s mind-numbing to always locate our favorite tutorial on the web, here we present the top typography tutorials of all time which will inspire you and boost up your creativity. These tutorials are carefully crafted to show the minute details which can transform a Photoshop beginner to a pro! These are all simple ideas which will surely light up better ideas for your Photoshop works. hope u like it. 1] Nature Blur Effect [ Tutorial ] 2] Design design [ Tutorial ] 3] Striking Text Effect [ Tutorial ] 4] Colorful pastel [ Tutorial ] 5] Text Wrap [ Tutorial ] 6] Diablo Styled [ Tutorial ] 7] Typewriter [ Tutorial ] 8] Transformers [ Tutorial ] 9] Harley Davidson Wallpaper [ Tutorial ] 10] Fire Lines [ Tutorial ] 11] Paper Craft Text [ Tutorial ] 12] Smoke Effect [ Tutorial ] 13] Explosive Collide [ Tutorial ] 14] Glowing Sparkles [ Tutorial ] 15] Mac Style [ Tutorial ] 16] Cool Musical Poster from Words [ Tutorial ]

Fresh and Excellent Photoshop Tutorials For Designing Posters (From 2010) Jun 29 2010 Photoshop is powerful tool that can add wings to your creativity. With Photoshop manipulation tools, you can create and edit images for Web and print. Every industry needs poster designs for promotion of their products and services. Advertisement is of utmost importance for building a brand and thus increasing the sales. So every time you have to come up with out-of-the-box ideas. Photoshop Tutorials for Poster Design Design an Out of this World Laptop AdvertisementIn this tutorial, you’ll learn how to design an out of this world cosmic advertisement for a laptop/tablet style PC. Create an Aged and Textured Pirate PosterAn aged and textured pirate themed poster that’s perfect for any booty related event. Create Powerball Effect for Movie Poster This tutorial will cover how to create a powerball (or energy ball) effect. Create Rockstar Poster in PhotoshopIn this tutorial, author will show you how to make a Rockstar poster with vibrant colors.

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009 On Monday past we published the post 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, a collection of the best artistic tutorials for Photoshop from this year. As a follow up to that post, today we have The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design. Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text Create Smoke Text Create a Metal Piece with a Graved Text Impressive-Looking Text Effect Water Text Effect (No longer available) Furry Text in Photoshop Sparkling Text Wallpaper Deep Grunge Text Effect Cool Wet Ink Typography Effect Create A Floral Colorful Solid Text Effect Stunning Detailed Typography Create a Bright Floral Text Effect Create a Frilly 2009 Typo Realistic Scorching Fire Effect Retro Text Effect in Photoshop Create Remarkable 3D Text Aqua Text Effect Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment 3D Type Explosion Create an Ice Text Effect Grungy Rusted Carbon Fiber Text Effect Create Eroded Metal Text

8 Secrets of the Zoom Tool in Photoshop A Post By: Helen Bradley Continuing with my ‘tool’ secrets posts, here are 8 secrets of the Photoshop Zoom Tool. 1. The Zoom tool can be selected by pressing the letter Z – it’s an easy and handy shortcut to remember because it saves you from having to click the Zoom tool to select it. However, once engaged, the Zoom tool operates in only one direction, in or out depending on the option you have selected on the Tool Options bar. 2. If you’re in the middle of painting, erasing or selecting an item and if you need to get access to the Zoom tool, press Ctrl + Space Bar (Command + Space Bar on the Mac) and you’ll get access to the Zoom tool’s current setting – which will be either Zoom In or Zoom Out depending on what you have selected. 3. If your Zoom tool is set to Zoom In, you can zoom to a particular location in the image by dragging with the zoom tool over that location rather than simply clicking on it. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

40 Tutorials for Outstanding Text Effects in Illustrator Fuzzy, sketchy, bubbly, viscous, sleek, shiny, retro, futuristic: you can do it all in Adobe Illustrator. In this showcase, we have collected 40 tutorials that show you how to create awesome typographic effects in Illustrator, step by step. Some of these tutorials require the use of Photoshop for finer details. With these tutorials, you’ll learn how to create these typographic masterpieces and develop the skills to apply them to your own personal creations. If you know of any other great tutorials for text effects in Illustrator, please share them with us in the comments at the end of the article. Create a Variety of 3-D Lettering Effects for Poster Design In this tutorial, the artist showcases three approaches to creating simple 3-D lettering effects for posters. Learn to Create a Variety of Script Lettering In this tutorial, the artist showcases three approaches, this time resulting in three different script styles. Compiled exclusively for WDD by Prakash Ghodke

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