Create a new document choose a color from the color or swatch palette to fill the background layer. Choose Pattern Fill from the adjustment/fill layer icon on the bottom of the layers palette. There you will see several Adobe preset pattern fills...
Make a new document. Choose red as the foreground color, press Ok and then Fill the background layer by Alt/Opt Backspace or Edit: Fill. Drag in a photos.com stock flower image, Edit: Transform: Scale it down to a manageable size...
Let's take an image and quickly create a professional looking 'ad' right from a photograph. It always helps to have access to quality stock photography as it will make your role a lot more enjoyable and easier to do. You can also get this design itself from the iPSD Directory...
Here you are going to learn a very simple yet very effective way to create beautiful blends and fades. Create a new document at the desire size that you want. Keep in mind your end format (72 for web, 300 for print)...
Let's do some more layer masking. Here I'll show you how to create a fade to white or fade to black effect. Start with a flattened image or a photograph on a new document...
Start by creating a selection of a person that you are going to use. Here I started to select the background with the magic wand tool and then went into quick mask mode to further define the selection...
Here I'm simply getting the selection of the layer that will be the foreground element (the 'woman' in human terms). Select with the magic wand tool (look at the toolbar) and then right click and select inverse to close the selection in on the forward anomaly...
Create a new document and drag in the layers that you would like to use. You can break this apart, recreate, interact with, etc. when you have the original .psd from the iPSDirectory...
Here I'm going to create an effect which you will see on countless brochures and on the back of your favorite movies in your home collection (especially comedies)...