Alignment Tricks
Here's a few Alignment Tricks to help you Center a layer in your document or even within a selected area of your document.
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Logo Design with Fonts: A Preparation
1. Add a Dingbat/ Font to a 'Layer'. Go Big, (with Fonts) ... say, 500 pt in size, 2. Now, Select the Font in the 'Layers' Panel 3. Go to the 'Layers' Menu Option, and choose 'Type', Then 'Convert to Shape'. 4. This is what the 'Layers Panel' should now look...
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Smooth Out Jaggies: Simplified
1. You've got a shape or font created in Photoshop, but does'nt quite appear smooth around the edges. Here's a simplified way to correct this, in just three steps.
2. Got to Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur and choose a setting between 2.5 and 3.5, as i have done. Click OK...
Smooth out jaggies channels
1. You've got a shape or font created in Photoshop, but doesn't quite appear smooth around the edges. Here's a simple way to correct this.
2. Ctrl + Click the layer in question to Select it.
3. Go the Channel Palette and create a new Channel...
Export Paths to Adobe Illustrator
1. First i grabbed any photo from the net. In this case a man in jumping motion.
2. The background color by default is white so I eliminated it by use of the Magic Wand. Selecting only the white area of the image and then hit the delete key.
3. As you can see the image needs...
Animated Christmas Bells
What to learn how to create bells that twinkle and glow? Check out this tutorial!
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Basic Shapes: Part One
1. Select the Shape Tool option (Press the letter U on the keyboard). Hold the mouse click and the drop down option reveals six different Shape options.
2. Once you have selected a basic Shape tool, at the very top of Photoshop's menu area, a new 'Options Bar' appears...
Transparencies to Indexed images
Here's a powerful trick to quickly add transparency to an indexed composite using features in the 'Save for Web' Control Panel. Below is a simple index (.gif) image I loaded into Photoshop. Instantly, you should notice that the image is locked...
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Extract v.1. Default Settings
Select the target layer in the Layers Palette and choose' Alt+Ctrl+X' (Mac: Option+Command+X)('Filter/Extract') to open the 'Extract Filter Tool'.
Using the default settings, except for brush size, I simply selected the 'Edge Highlighter Tool (B)'...
Star Burst Gradient Text
1. Here's simple star bust gradient text effect using just the 'Stroke' style from the 'Blending Options'. For this example I chose a Handwriting Font just to reveal the curves a little more. 2. Next from the 'Layers Palette' right click on the font layer, and from the context menu...
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