Here is how to load ready to use downloaded Custom Shape .csh files within Photoshop and ImageReady...

Here is how to load ready to use downloaded Pattern .pat files within Photoshop...

Here is a process to creating custom curtain or fabric textures with Photoshop.

Start off with a new document that gives you plenty of room to work with. Because we're working originally from within Photoshop you can choose whatever resolution and image size you want without having to worry about losing image quality when importing bitmap images...

Shiny metal tiles with random textures.

Create a shiny and wavey latex texture.

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How would you like hundreds of free custom shapes to use in Photoshop? You don't even need to download them—they're likely already on your computer. In fact, you may have thousands of free custom shapes installed on your computer without even knowing it!...

One of the primary techniques used by interface designers and text manipulators to achieve the 'WOW' effect is to use Layers to generate the illusion of depth. To take a word and fill it with a color or gradient is fairly easy...

Photoshop's Custom Shapes palette contains a number of very useful objects. You can increase the usefulness of many of them by combining two or more shapes. And you can save these shapes for future use...