Apr 23, 2005 | Layer Blending Styles, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s simple ‘Style’ applied to an Ellipse Shape. This gives the appearence of a door bell. Most effective style’s are created using extreme combinations. Follow along this series, you’ll see just what I mean. Start off with a new...
Apr 20, 2005 | Knockout Tricks, Photoshop Tutorials
This tool finds pixels of similar value and places a selection around them. A selection is formed based on the color of the pixel clicked on, and the amount of ‘Tolerance’ indicated in the ‘Options Bar’. On my first attempt, selected most of...
Mar 28, 2005 | Painting Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a simple trick to create a sketch effect. First, open the image you want to ‘sketch’. (Me) For best practice, I will utilize a ‘Layer Set’ (called Sketch) in this tutorial, and place the original image layer in there.Duplicate, the...
Mar 27, 2005 | Layer Blending Styles, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s simple ‘Style’ applied to an Ellipse Shape. Most effective style’s are created using extreme combinations. Follow along this series, you’ll see just what I mean. 1. Start off with a new document (mine 366×364) , next hit the...
May 28, 2004 | Other Tool Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
Here is a an explanation to the various types of Layer Palette thumbnail previews, and some general tips on how to use them. 1. A Layer Mask 2. A Vector Mask 3. A combined Layer Mask & Vector Mask. 4. Vector Shaped layer.(Coming Soon) Well, what does it all mean...
May 28, 2004 | Other Tool Techniques, Photoshop Tutorials
Here’s a detailed look at how to achieve the popular tentacles effect often created in 3d applications. Follow along, and be amazed at how simple this technique is. Create the Background First start a new document. I started with a preset of 640 x 480. Next set...
