1) Make a 400x400 document. Now press "D" on your keyboard to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white. Make sure your background is BLACK.
2) Go to Filter>Render>Lens Flare and use these settings:...

Most scanline tutorials just show you the most basic of scanlines and leave you hanging, showing none of the potential scanlines have if you take the time to explore them. Not this one. I've showed you the basic, so let's go advanced. Let's get started.

01. Begin by opening up a document larger than the barcode you want. Then go to Filter --> Noise --> Add Noise, with these settings: 400%, gaussian, monochromatic.
02. Then go to Filter --> Blur --> Motion Blur, with these settings: 90 degrees, 999 pixels...

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Designing a realistic brick wall might not be as easy at you think. Check out this great tutorial that will show you everything you need to know to make your brick wall look just right.

Python, snake, or whatever, we can clone a real one.

Create the effect of etching text into a metal plate. Learn to design a metallic texture from scratch using no imported images.

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Rounded Diamond Brush for use with your various photoshop documents, designs, and projects. Overall this tutorial is meant to teach you how to create your own brushes, and save them for use on later app ...

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a very unique background effect for using in your signatures and header backgrounds. The end result is a very abstract result that works great with many alternative designs and themes.

This tutorial is a result of a few filters and tricks. Useful for creating a unique logo for your website.

Photoshop 6 provides many texture/pattern sets, but these may not provide the realism you are looking for in your work, so we are going to look at creating and saving your own textures for application to your design projects. Plus we will make something cool to boot! First I want to find a few im...