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Water the Easy Way
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Water the Easy Way

1. To begin, have an image open. I've borrowed a piece of stock photography from the Goodies folder in the Photoshop directory.
2. Duplicate the image in a new layer.
3. In the toolbar, click on the Elliptical Marquee Tool. Up in the Options Bar, enter a feather radius of 5 px...

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Ones and Zeros: Creating Quick Circuits
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Ones and Zeros: Creating Quick Circuits

This week I'm going to show you a snappy little way to create circuit patterns. So without further ado, here we go.
1. Create a new image. Make the dimensions square, just in case you like the pattern and want to make it seamless.
2. Fill the image with Black...

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Inner Shading for Great Glass
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Inner Shading for Great Glass

This week I want to cover a nifty little trick for bringing out depth in glass and plastic. I'm sure you've seen the inner shadow effect applied throughout the web. It is the primary tool for making text or an image appear 'behind' the foreground...

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Basic masking and image blending
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Basic masking and image blending

One of the most useful things of Photoshop (and I consider this very important) is the option called "Layer mask". If you want to work professionally or want to do photomanipulation, you really should know how to work using this option for great image's blending...

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Glow Effect
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Glow Effect

1, In order to add a little flair to the glow, you should prepare the background if possible. To do this, I used filter|render|lighting effects with a single omni light in the middle. This will darken the edges.
2, Render your text or your graphic in a new layer above the background...

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Crystal Mountains
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Crystal Mountains

This tutorial is really just a random effect that I came up with after fiddling around in photoshop, but the end result looks rather nice. It shows you have to create what seems to look like a crystal looking mountain with grass on the walkway.

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