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Aug 10, 2005 in Drawing Techniques

Professional Portrait Design Tutorial

Create a new document choose a color from the color or swatch palette to fill the background layer. Choose Pattern Fill from the adjustment/fill layer icon on the bottom of the layers palette. There you will see several Adobe preset pattern fills...

Aug 10, 2005 in Drawing Techniques

Club Style Business Card Tutorial

Make a new document. Choose red as the foreground color, press Ok and then Fill the background layer by Alt/Opt Backspace or Edit: Fill. Drag in a photos.com stock flower image, Edit: Transform: Scale it down to a manageable size...

Aug 09, 2005 in Photoshop Basics

Blur effect

Let's take an image and quickly create a professional looking 'ad' right from a photograph. It always helps to have access to quality stock photography as it will make your role a lot more enjoyable and easier to do. You can also get this design itself from the iPSD Directory...

Aug 09, 2005 in Drawing Techniques

Gradient Work Tutorial

Here you are going to learn a very simple yet very effective way to create beautiful blends and fades. Create a new document at the desire size that you want. Keep in mind your end format (72 for web, 300 for print)...

Aug 09, 2005 in Drawing Techniques

How to Create Gradient

Let's do some more layer masking. Here I'll show you how to create a fade to white or fade to black effect. Start with a flattened image or a photograph on a new document...

Aug 08, 2005 in Photoshop Basics

Blend mode graphic design

Start by creating a selection of a person that you are going to use. Here I started to select the background with the magic wand tool and then went into quick mask mode to further define the selection...

Aug 08, 2005 in Photoshop Basics

Masking Tutorial

Here I'm simply getting the selection of the layer that will be the foreground element (the 'woman' in human terms). Select with the magic wand tool (look at the toolbar) and then right click and select inverse to close the selection in on the forward anomaly...

Aug 02, 2005 in Drawing Techniques