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Trendy Background Textures
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Trendy Background Textures

Here's a simple technique using brush strokes for making some trendy background (Texture)effects. Start with a new document.(Choose a large preset for a better effect.) Dark backgrounds work best, so I used Black. Hit the 'X' key on the keyboard to set the foreground color to White...

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Colored Pencil Sketch Effect
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Colored Pencil Sketch Effect

Here's a simple trick to create a colored pencil sketch effect.
1. First, open the image you want to 'pencil sketch'.
2. If your using Photoshop 7, use a 'Layer Set' for organization. Next duplicate, the original photo/image layer( I called mine 'original')...

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Realistic Fire (Dante\'s Inferno)
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Realistic Fire (Dante's Inferno)

Here's a few simple steps to create a realistic fire/inferno effect. First, start a new document, I used 640x480 preset. Then choose an orange color variant for your foreground (I used #DF853B) and Black (#000000) as the Background color. Create a new empty Layer...

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Making Swirls with the Pen Tool
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Making Swirls with the Pen Tool

A simple way to create a swirly pattern or lines using the Pen Tool. Using a dark background works best in this case. So I used black as the background. Select the 'Pen Tool (P)' and up on the 'Options Bar', select the 'Paths' option...

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Tentacles Effect in Photoshop
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Tentacles Effect in Photoshop

First start a new document. I started with a preset of 640 x 480. Next set the Foreground color to #F5840C (Shade of Orange) & Background color to #000000 (Black). (Ultimately, you choose your own varying color swatches, as this effect produces different results but the same effect.)...

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Random Lighting in Adobe Photoshop
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Random Lighting in Adobe Photoshop

On the web, most things that aren't photographs, are two-dimensional, monotone areas, devoid of lighting. The key to making websites that really stand out has to do with two factors - lighting and randomness. This tutorial goes through the steps of making a very funky piece of wallpaper.

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Action Background
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Action Background

1) You need to pick two basic colors to be in your action background, and pick a size for your image. Since mine is going to be black/red, I chose a 400x100 image on a black background. Your first step is to scribble with the pencil, using red. Don't scribble too much. Also, use variants of red, ...

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Rain With Haze
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Rain With Haze

1. Well lets start off with an image. For this one I chose Vicious from Cowboy Bebop. Make sure the subject is on its own layer. To make this easier I suggest starting with a black background. 2. Duplicate the layer that the subject is on. Select the subject and fill it in with white. Now dro...

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