The following tutorial will teach you how to create a rather smooth selection using the gfussian blur filter and curves. This is most useful when you want to move an image in with another and make it aapear like it was apart of that image.
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a brushed grunge text effect similar to the one below. This effect took me about 5 minutes to think about and make and as you can see, the outcome looks pretty cool.