Using Grids

1. Open Photoshop. Open an image to apply grid effect. 2. Create New file with 10 pixel width, 10 pixel height and transparent background. 3. Keep Black as a foreground color. Fill the top and left 1 pixel area of transparent background with black color using Pencil Tool. 4. Selec...

Removing Flash Movie Protection (Exclusive Article)

For an attentive study of the work of others, an analysis of their design decisions, understanding one or another moment when Flash technology was chosen in their designs, it can be quite helpful to download what you find an interesting Flash clip in an editor and scrutinize it in frame-by-frame mod...

Make wallpaper from a small image exclusive tutorial

<span>Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, November 2005</span><br/>While browsing my photo collection I came upon a small picture of a girl and decided to place it on my desktop. Here I'll show you how I embellished it to make it look like real wallpaper.

Hi-Tech Skin (Part 2)

Burnt Edges

First open up a new document with a transparent background. I used 300x300. Create a new layer. Create a new layer and fill it white. Next take the pencil tool with a 1px size brush and draw the shape of a rectangle with rough edges (your paper) in the middle of your rectangle...

Sticky Tape

First open up the document you wish to apply your sticky tape to. Create a new layer, and draw on a rectangular selection, then fill it in with a grey colour. Set the fill to about 50% (may need to be higher or lower depending on the shade of grey you used, see image for guidance)...

Glass Orb Design in a Few Steps

First open up a new document with a transparent background. I used 300x300. Create a new layer and call it "Orb Base". Then select the circle marquee tool and draw a circle on the canvas (use shift to make it a perfect circle)...

Band Poster Style Photos

This tutorial will show create an effect often found on posters of bans seen at gigs. First open up the picture you wish to apply the effect to. Duplicate the layer. Fill your background layer with a nice bight colour, I choose a yellow (#FFF568) for this example...

Smoke

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create some smoke and apply it to an image, I'm this tutorial we shall be applying the smoke effect to some cars to give the effect of a race. For the cars i shall be using the following to screen shots i took from the game juiced...

Replacing Cars Lights

A cars back lights can be quite boring so here is how to give them a transplant. First select the car to receive the lights and select the an image with the lights you wish to use (i have cropped my image)...