Creating and Duplicating a Layer Mask
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials
A layer mask enables you to create areas of transparency without erasing the layer content. Making one is easy, if you know the technique.
More materials by author Pete Bauer - Page 8
Layer "Interlacing" - Weaving Layer Content
Sometimes you need to make it appear that the content of one layer appears both in front of and behind another layer. One example is the Olympic rings. The rings appear to be linked, with each ring "passing through" another. Here's an easy way to handle that problem...
read more
A New Painterly Effect
There are lots of ways to make a photograph look like a painting. Here's another one that simulates painted strokes by blurring dark areas of the image and sharpening lighter areas. It takes just a few steps and works very well with landscapes and other images that include lots of detail...
read more
"Pipe" Background
An interesting background effect, suitable perhaps for a Web interface or layering for a "Eurocollage" image, can be created by separating elements of a black-white-black gradient to individual layers, then using reversed bevels...
read more
Everyone into the pool
Fill a swimming pool with water in seconds! Well, create the appearance of a swimming pool filled with water in Photoshop in just four steps. We'll use the Clouds, Crystallize, Gaussian Blur, and Glass filters to create rippling water...
read more
Quick and Fun Backgrounds
Using a gradient and the Render> Difference Clouds filter, we can quickly create a number of different types of backgrounds. You can produce retro tie-dye 60s-looking backgrounds, more psychedelic looks, and even some elegantly-complex patterns...
read more
Warhol-esque 4-color
Photoshop makes it easy to create a single image that contains different versions of the same original. In this example, we'll borrow a page from Andy Warhol and create four different monotone versions of a photograph, combined into a single image...
read more
Cast Shadows vs. Drop Shadows
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials
Shadows are a part of everyday life and, it sometimes seems, a part of most images we see in print or on the Web.
"Hand-drawn" Circle
When preparing a tutorial, a screenshot for a book or magazine article, or an illustration for a technical document, it's not uncommon to identify a critical area with a circle or a square. Here's how to add a little flair to that emphasis...
read more
Introducing Photoshop 7's Brushes Palette
The key to using Photoshop's new painting engine is the new, high-powered Brushes palette. Let's take a look at the basic workings of the palette.
read moreCopyright © . All Rights Reserved