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Step 1

Start by creating a new document with 1000×300 pixels. Set foreground color to #000000 and background color to #00ae0f. Select Gradient Tool and create a linear gradient.

Step 2

Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper with following settings (Fiber Length: 5, Brightness: 53, Contrast: 73):

Step 3

Select Horizontal Type Tool, font Arial Black with 170 pt and update foreground color to #00b75a. Write something like I did.

Step 4

Merge all layers (Layer > Merge Layers). Rename layer name to “Original”. Duplicate layer using Ctrl+J and apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on duplicated layer (Fiber Length: 50, Brightness: 0, Contrast: 73).

Rename duplicated layer as “1″. This layer will be our first frame of the animation. Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “2″. Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on this layer (Fiber Length: 50, Brightness: 20, Contrast: 73).

Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “3″. Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on this layer (Fiber Length: 50, Brightness: 30, Contrast: 73).

Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “4″. Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on this layer (Fiber Length: 50, Brightness: 40, Contrast: 73). Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “5″. Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on this layer (Fiber Length: 50, Brightness: 50, Contrast: 73).

From now on we will work with Fiber Length. Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “6″. Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on this layer (Fiber Length: 40, Brightness: 50, Contrast: 73).

Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “7″. Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on this layer (Fiber Length: 30, Brightness: 50, Contrast: 73).

Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “8″. Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on this layer (Fiber Length: 20, Brightness: 50, Contrast: 73).

Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “9″. Apply Filter > Sketch > Water Paper on this layer (Fiber Length: 10, Brightness: 50, Contrast: 73).

Duplicate layer “Original”, move it on top of all layers and rename it to “10″.

Duplicate layers “1″ to “9″ and place them as I did.

Step 5

Turn off all layers visibility except layer “1″. Select Window > Animation to open animation panel. Click on button highlighted on screenshot below to convert the timeline to a frame animation.

Update looping options to “Forever”.

Increase delay to 0,2 on frame “10″ of animation.

To complete tutorial save animation bu going to File > Safe for Web And Devices. Don’t forget that image must be a GIF.

Final Image

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Resources

• Robot Y-X

Step 1

Start this tutorial by downloading and opening photo on Photoshop.

Step 2

We need to separate robot from background area. Select Polygonal Lasso Tool to create selection. Hold Shift button to add or Alt to subtract to selection.

Step 3

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected area to new layer. Select all background layer content and press Del to delete. With Paint Bucket Tool selected fill layer with white color.

Step 4

It seems this tutorial is finished but not by any chance. We need to integrate robot into new environment by adding glare and reflexions for example. Select robot layer and apply Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation.

Step 5

Apply Layer > Layer Style > Inner Glow to robot layer.

Step 6

Create a new layer and merge it with robot layer to get all layer effects into one layer. Now we are going to increase shining of glares on robot edges. Select Brush Tool (soft round brush with 20px), create a new layer on top of robot layer and draw white highlights on the edges of the robot on new layer.

Step 7

Create robot selection (Ctrl+click on robot thumbnail on layers palette). After that select new layer, invert selection with Ctrl+Shift+I and press Delete to clear selected area. Remove selection with Ctrl+D and change layer mode to Soft Light for this layer.

Step 8

Add some glares at the bends of the body with the Brush Tool to show the three-dimensional robot. To do that create new layer, apply Brush Tool as on previous step. When you have finished applying Brush Tool update layer mode to Soft Light.

Step 9

Select Eraser Tool (Soft Brush) to clean a bit your glares so they become more realistic.

Step 10

Now we are going to create robot shadow. Select robot layer and apply Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow.

Go to Layer > Layer Style > Create Layer so that we can separate shadow from robot. We now have a new layer under robot layer. With shadow layer selected go to Edit > Free Transform and transform it like i did.

Apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur to shadow layer.

Update shadow layer opacity to 40% and now this tutorial is complete.

Final Image

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Resources

• Guitar Silhouette 3

Step 1

Open Guitar Silhouette image on Photoshop. Go to Image > Image Size and change width to 1125px and height to 1500px.

Step 2

Select Brush Tool and press F5. Choose a hard round brush with 10 pixels and set up following presets for current brush:

Step 3

Create a new layer and make a straight line (white color) by pressing Shift.

Step 4

Apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur with these settings:

Step 5

Duplicate layer with Ctrl+J and merge copied layer with original one by selecting both layers and pressing Ctrl+E to increase effect.

Repeat process several times till you have something similar to what i have below.

Step 6

Go to Edit > Transform > Scale and transform line.

Step 7

Duplicate layer a few times and move each copy right to get same effect as below.

Step 8

Merge all the layers with lines into one layer and apply Filter > Transform > Scale to transform it.

Step 9

Now make selection of current layer with Select > Load Selection.

Apply Gradient Tool with Transparent Rainbow gradient (one of standard Photoshop gradients) for the left part of selection of layer.

Repeat same process applying Gradient Tool to parts of selection but keeping some parts in between with white so line will look more fractional (It will create impression that the line consists of a set of lines).

Remove selection with Ctrl+D.

Step 10

Apply Edit > Transform > Scale to make line longer.

Step 11

Now we go to Edit > Transform > Warp to transform line to similar position as you can see on my screenshot below.

You can Transform the line in whatever way you want to decorate your image.

You can also make different shapes with line as you can see on my example below:

Final Image

Add more lines repeating all steps and position them on canvas and you have learned to created beautifull lines in a simple way.

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Resources

• Grant Cavalry

Step 1

Start by opening photo on Photoshop. Now we are going to create a special blur map to focus attention on the object. To do that start by selecting foreground color as black (#000000).

Step 2

Use the Pen Tool with Shape Layers selected to draw out the figure of a man. Reduce layer opacity to 50% after starting to select man to see the real shapes of the photo.

In the end you should have man selected like on image below.

Update layer opacity to 100% for this layer.

Step 3

Use the Pen Tool to draw out the second shape (left horse) with foreground color #212121.

Step 4

Now draw third shape (right horse) on the photo with color of #4c4c4c.

Step 5

Draw another shape by using color #747474. Keep positioning layers like i have which means that this one should be above the layer with the photo.

Step 6

Draw another shape by using color #9a9a9a.

Move this layer with shape under all the layers but above the photo layer.

Step 7

Draw back horse same way but using color #c0c0c0.

Step 8

Create a new layer and fill with light grey color (#e7e7e7).

Step 9

Merge all layers except photo layer. Select photo layer and open Channel panel by going to Window > Channels or by clicking on Channels next to Layers.

Create a new channel. Adobe Photoshop will automatically name it Alpha 1.

Go back to layers panel. Select all merged layer content by using Ctrl+click on layer thumbnail.

Copy selected layer with Ctrl+C, select Alpha 1 channel and paste layer content with Ctrl+V. Move a little bit to left to place it correctly.

Step 10

Hide merged layer visibility on layers panel and also hide Alpha 1 channel on channels panel.

Select photo layer and apply Filter > Blur > Lens Blur. Don´t forget to change Source to Alpha 1, select Invert and update Shape to Triangle. Also update Blur Focal Distance and Radius like i have on image below.

Final Image

And we are done. We learned to create a nice focus effect on photo with different levels of blur. Hope you liked it.

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Step 1

Create a new document with size of 800 x 600 pixels and fill it with black color.

Step 2

Now I would like to create abstract snowing on the picture. We can do it by using the Pen Tool. But before we can start, we have to change some presets of the Brush Tool which we will be using in the future. Select the Brush Tool, a soft round brush about 15 pixels and opacity at 61%.

Then click the button “Toggle the Brushes Palette” on the Options Bar to open brush preset window or go to Windows > Brushes. Here we can see a couple of presets. Update them for current brush:

Step 3

Set foreground color as white (#ffffff). Create new layer, after that select Pen Tool (you need to make sure you are working with Paths instead of Shape Layers). Draw out one straight line using paths:

Click on start point to close path. Then right-click and select Stroke Path:

A little dialog box will appear as in the screenshot. Choose Brush and make sure there is a tick next to Simulate Pressure. This is important as it will give your line tapered ends which will make it rock!

The picture will be similar to mine:

Step 5

Next right click again and select Delete Path. Then add more lines on the same way.

Step 6

You can change brush size, so the picture will look more interesting:

Step 7

Duplicate current layer (Ctrl+J) and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next parameters:

Step 8

We are finished with creating snow; let’s move to the next step.
Create new layer above, then select the Gradient Tool and fill this layer with Spectrum linear gradient (this is one of standard Photoshop gradients).

After thart change layer mode to Soft Light for this gradient layer and you will see total difference in coloring.

Step 9

Before we start adding text, we have to make some dark mat to divide text from the background. For this effect, select the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create selection similar to mine on screenshot below and fill this selected area with black to transparent linear gradient on the new layer.

Step 10

Remove selection with Ctrl+D. Now is time to add the text. Get out the Horizontal Type Tool and write out some text with white color in two lines. For this Photoshop tutorial I´ve used Arial (30 pt, Normal, Black, Crisp) font which is one of standard Windows fonts.

Step 11

Then we have to add the year, but I want to put it in a small box. Use the Rounded Rectangle Tool (Mode: Shape layers, Radius: 5px) to create small box above the text with white color also.

Step 12

After that select the Horizontal Type Tool again and add the year with the same font (Color: Black, Size: 16 pt, Black, Crisp).

Step 13

Again add one more text line a little bit down. But before you start writing the text, just change some text presets for this text line:

Step 14

Now you can add one more text line:

Step 15

Change opacity for this layer to 40%.

Final Image

We are almost finished with creating our greeting card. The last one thing that we have to add a little bit visible white circles. Select the Brush Tool (Opacity: 20%) and a hard round brush to add different size circles to the greeting card canvas.

Looks cool, isn’t it? That is it. Card looks amazing to you as for me? You can send this card to your friends and relatives, hope, they will be happy to get this card from you!
Happy holidays to everyone!

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Step 1

Start by creating a new document with 600×400 pixels. Fill layer with any background color you would like. In my case i used color #b90010.

Step 2

Select the Ellipse Tool to create our icon basis. Create round shape in middle of canvas with whatever color you want.

Step 3

After that rasterize it by going to Layer > Rasterize > Shape and apply following layer styles by going to Layer > Layer Style.

Step 4

Duplicate current layer using Ctrl+J. Clear new layer style with Layer > Layer Style > Clear Layer Style.
Go to Edit > Free Transform and transform like you can see on image below. Hold down Shift while resizing to keep transform proportionally.

Step 5

Now mess with the fill opacity. Set up fill opacity about 0% and apply Stroke layer style.

Step 6

Select the Brush Tool and hard round brush about 10 px to make the vertical line with any color you want.

Step 7

Apply Gradient Overlay layer style for this layer:

Step 8

After that merge this layer with previous one (be sure that you got all the layer styles from two layers in one layer) and change layer opacity to 35% for new layer.

Step 9

Then load selection of this layer with Select > Load Selection, then go to the layer under with big circle shape and press Delete button to clear selected area.

Remove selection with Ctrl+D and merge all layers together except the background layer. Ok, now move to the next step.

Step 10

The last thing we have to do is to add transparency in some places. After adding the transparency we will get realistic view reflection on the object from the background. For this purpose select the Polygonal Lasso Tool and make selection similar to mine on the picture below.

Step 11

Then hold Shift button to add more selected areas to the icon.

Step 12

After that we have to feather the selection borders a little bit. Use Select > Modify > Feather to feather selection about 5 pixels.

Step 13

Ok, then get ou the Eraser Tool (Opacity: 30%) and a soft round brush about 50 pixels to make small clean work. But please be very careful with the Eraser Tool cause if you will apply to much, the icon will not be looking good.

Step 14

Now, remove selection with Ctrl+D. That is it! Looks very cool, isn’t it?

Final Image

Let’s check how it will be looking on different colors of background.

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Resources

• Japanese dish

Step 1

Open japanese dish photo and let´s start our tutorial.

Step 2

Now we need to decide where we want to put the focus. Let it be dish area. Get out the Elliptical Marquee Tool and create selection similar to the selection on my picture below.

Step 3

Blur selection borders about 50 pixels with Select > Modify > Feather (or press Ctrl+Alt+D or Shift+F6 according to Photoshop version).

Then select the Sharpen Tool (Strength: 30%) and soft round brush about 400 pixels to restore the sharpness of the selected area a little bit. It will be center of focusing.

Step 4

Invert selection with Ctrl+Shift+I and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:

Step 5

We know that the focus should be gradual, so we should slightly increase the area of selection and blur long field more. Apply Select > Inverse to invert selection back and increase selection about 100 pixels more with Select > Modify > Expand.

Step 6

Now invert selection again and apply Filter > Blur >Gaussian Blur with next presets:

Step 7

We are done with creating focus on the photo. And the last one effect that I want to add on my own is to add color to black and white gradient. Press Ctrl+J to duplicate selected area to the new layer and desaturate it with Image > Adjustments > Desaturate (or press Shift+Ctrl+U).

Step 8

Select the Eraser Tool and soft round brush about 300 pixels to remove inner part of upper layer with black and white photo fragment.

Final Image

That is it for now. In this way we got focus on the photo in Photoshop which we usually can make only by professional photo camera. Nothing is difficult! Keep on practice and experimenting!

Step 1

First thing’s first, create a new document with a size of about 500 x 300 pixels with a black background.

Step 2

In a new layer draw a eclipse using eclipse tool. Color used on eclipse tool is #907D44. Right-click the eclipse layer and select option Rasterize Layer (CS5).

Cut half of the eclipse as seen on the picture guide below:

Step 3

Right-click the layer and go into the Blending Options and apply Inner Shadow, Inner Glow and Gradient Overlay layer styles to this layer.

Step 4

Apply Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen More and duplicate layer from step two.

On new layer select entire bullet and go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur.

Right-click on duplicated layer and go into the Blending Options and apply Color Burn and Opacity level at 44%.

Merge both layers into one and after that duplicate it several times. That´s it.

Final Image

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