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Make a new document, 1000x1000 pixels, white background.
On a new layer, with the eliptical marquee tool, draw a yellow circle. Double click on the layer to bring up the layer style dialogue and check Stroke, 2 pixels (for my image).
CTRL+click on the thumbnail of the circle to see the...
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A luring pile of sparkling gold – all from scratch? It looks so real! Too bad it's not. But it's still worth learning to create in Photoshop!
Create a new document, 1000x1000 pixels, no background.
Create a new layer. Using the eliptical marquee tool, make a perfect round selection and fill it with white. Position it like in my example:
With the selection still active, go to Select>Modify>Contract...
Make a new document, 1000x1000 pixels black background.
On a new layer, with the eliptical marquee tool, create a perfect circle (keep pressed the Shift key) and fill it with white.
Apply a 6 px stroke layer style (Layer -> Layer Style -> Stroke) of color #B59605 to the circle.
Make a new document, 1000x1000 pixels, white background
Get the flag you want and add it to the newly created document on a new layer, on a new document.
Now CTRL+Click on the flag layer thumbnail to get the selection of the flag and make a new layer above it...
Make a new document, 1000x1000, black background
Grab the gradient tool and make a gradient like mine shown below.
Choose from it's options the Diamond gradient and on a new layer make the gradient like in the example:
Open the image where you want to add the water drop. Mine is this:
Make a droplet-shaped selection using the Elliptical Marquee Tool. You can rotate your selection with Select > Transform Selection if you need a selection at an angle.
Right click on the selection and choose "Layer via...
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, March 2006
You are using the digital camera to take pictures? Well, maybe you’ll still want the old-fashioned film effect to embellish your site. Here’s how to do it.
Make a new document, 1000x1000 pixels, white background.
Set your foreground color to #2c8e01 and background color to black. Using linear gradient tool, make a gradient from lower right corner to upper left corner, like this:
Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials, March 2006
This is not a picture from the fifth element, but an image created from scratch by the author in just a few steps. Learn to do it yourself!
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