Photoshop isn’t always easy, even if you are a pro…and things can go wrong. Often settings one has never even considered touching somehow manage to change and something strange happens. This is bound to happen from time to time; Photoshop is an extremely complex piece of software. This tutorial is d...

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reate a Web Photo Gallery in Photoshop! Let's start

Many times you could find yourself in a situation when you found a nice object for your picture but the background is not perfect. The object you can cut out but then you'll need a new background for it.

Little update: please make sure to set up the image in Grayscale mode before applying the filter.
And, please, please: it has to be done on a background layer! Don't create a new layer.

Use brush on old fashioned, real white paper to make some more or less straight lines. Scan them in gray or B&W mode on 300 pix/inch resolution.
You should get an image that looks like this:

As you may have noticed, the bevel option is very very cool, as it lets you make a pasted object more realistic, though it is more obvious when it is set with a background, so the depth cue is more obvious.

The layers blending modes are the quintessence and the most powerfull aspect of Photoshop. They interact with eachother differently according to the colors and modes you use; but before get try some funny stuff, we should understand the basics:

The most important thing to master in Photoshop is how to perform perfect cut/paste operations.You may want to try effects, or illustration, a great pic is always simple, and CLEAN. No blurry edges.

Photoshop provides its users with a powerfull brush palette.These brushes options are numerous and just great:we'll just create a custom brush that we'll be able to save and use later.