Open a new document with transparent background and 4x4 px. Rightclick Brush Tool and grab Pencil Tool and set the diameter to 1 px in Options Bar.
Grab Zoom Tool and zoom into 1600% and paint the document like the picture below...

Create a new layer on your open document by clicking on the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette as shown. Now you have a new blank layer you can work on. Grab your paint bucket tool (this is one of the methods) and click to fill that entire layer with your foreground color...

While Photoshop doesn't offer a dashed line option, such as that found in Illustrator's Stroke palette, you can easily simulate them by editing a brush in the Brushes palette. The key to dashed lin...

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Free the imprisoned woodsprite of your fat forested soul with the help of Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial takes you through the process of simulating wood.

1. Open an existing picture image.
2. Image -> adjustments -> Desaturate (or 'ctrl+shift+u').
3. Image -> adjustments -> Brightness/Contrast. Play around with the settings a bit and find a good blend (see below)...

1) Make a 400x400 document. You can edit>fill the background layer to any colour you want, I suggest a moderately dark gray.
2) Go to Filter > Render > Difference Clouds and something like below will form.
3) First Ctrl+Click on the layer you just created...

1. Create a new document (Ctrl+N) and render a clouds filter (Filters> Render> Clouds).
2. Duplicate the layer and set the top layer to "Overlay".
3. On the "Background" layer, apply a fibers filter (Filters> Render> Fibre) with the following properties:...

Realistic 3D bathroom tiles in five easy steps.

A pixel art brick texture created using a combination of filters to eliminate the need of drawing.

An optical illusion with solid white dots that seems to blink.