Realistic Rainbow
Editor's Pick in Photo Editing, July 2005
You've heard of purple prose. Well, here's a way to sweeten the photographs you take to make them suitable accompaniment for the stories you write.
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Soft Elliptic Border
Load Photoshop and open your image. Select the Elliptical Marquee tool (or press 'Shift' and 'M' to switch to it on the toolbox). Draw an ellipse around the image making sure that it is a fair distance away from the borders...
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Ripped Border
Load Photoshop and open your image. Press 'Shift', 'Ctrl' and 'J' to move your image to its own layer. Now use the Rectangular Marquee tool ('Shift' + 'M') to create a rectangle inside the image...
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Taking Advantage of Blurred Photos
This tutorial shows you how to make use of photos that come out blurred or distorted because of a slow shutter speed. Such photos can make great background objects in other Photoshop works such as wallpapers or Website headers...
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Creating Geometric Shapes with Plastic Wrap
While working with the Plastic Wrap filter recently, I discovered an interesting way to make geometric shapes that can be integrated into backgrounds or used to create what my friend and colleague Scott Kelby calls "Euro collages"...
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Zoom Blur for a Versatile Background Effect
This is a quick and simple technique that you can use to create a background that's extremely flexible. By making changes to a couple of adjustment layers, you've got a variety of patterns, from techno to psychedelic...
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Etched and frosted glass
There are a couple of different ways to simulate etched glass. You may want to etch lettering into clear glass, or you may want to etch glass, leaving a transparent pattern...
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Passport Stamp Effect
Photoshop's Sketch> Stamp filter can do a decent job of replicating a rubber stamp's unevenness. But sometime you might want to have a bit more control over the look. Using several filters in combination gives you a lot of options...
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Quick to Cry - Easy Water Drops
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, July 2005
Stop crying about your lack of Photoshop skills and start creating your own Adobe based teardrops today. It's easy with NAPP's Peter Bauer.
Playing With Polar Coordinates
Here's a technique you can modify to create a variety of interesting objects and backgrounds. After creating a bark-like pattern, we'll use the Polar Coordinates filter to manipulate the effect...
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