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Photoshop Tip: The Texture filters
Here we’ve used Canvas Texture at 100% Scaling and Relief set to 4. This creates a bumpy surface that’s just right, but there are many other to try out. You can learn how to paint and use Photoshop’s...
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Photoshop Tutorial: How to create an artistic Pinhole camera effect
Step 1 Start by making sure your Foreground layer is set to black in the Toolbar, or simply press D to reset your colours. Add a blank layer and select the Elliptical Marquee tool (M). Step 2...
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Top 5 features in Photoshop CS6
Select skin tones The Color Range option in the Select menu can make accurate selections of skin tones. In its menu, choose Skin Tones under the Select list then tick the Detect Faces box for more...
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How to create a landscape composition with shapes, part 1
Download the files for this tutorial STEP 01 We’ve supplied a photographic start image here for you to use as an initial guide, so start by opening this start image. In the Layers palette, right-click...
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How to create a landscape composition with shapes, part 2
STEP 11 Another new layer now. We want to indicate the boats themselves as very simple shapes, so once again use the Polygon Lasso tool to outline them, simplifying everything into a series of...
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How to create fire effects in Photoshop, part 1
Download all the files you’ll need for this tutorial here STEP 01 Create a new document that’s at least 1000×1000 pixels set to 300 pixels per inch. This is a good enough quality to print your...
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How to create fire effects in Photoshop, part 2
Follow part 1 of this tutorial STEP 13 Drag the selected model into the composition. Go to Filter>Stylize>Glowing Edges and play with the settings (I used Edge Width-3, Edge Brightness-14,...
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How to create light effects around text in Photoshop, part 1
STEP 01 Being the image by creating a new Photoshop document (File> New). Set the dimensions to 470mm wide by 170mm high with PPI set to 300. Also, set our Background colour to black, we can do...
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How to create light effects around text in Photoshop, part 2
Follow part 1 of this tutorial STEP 08 Copy the layer we just created(Cmd/Ctrl+J and rename the copy Radial Blur. Go back to your Wind layer and select the Polar Co-ordinates filter (Filter>...
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How to use filters in Photoshop Elements creatively
To begin with, create a perfectly square document with the same Height and Width values and then fill with black Apply the Lens Flare filter (Filter>Render>Lens Flare), choosing Lens Type...
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How to make a charcoal portrait in four easy steps!
Charcoal is a lovely medium, but man is it messy! It’s therefore good to know that a very realistic charcoal effect can be achieved in Photoshop. Remember, charcoal images usually have areas of...
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12 must-read tips for digital painting
Digital painting is something that all Photoshop users would love to master, as it uses techniques that we can all embrace no matter the picture. Whilst it looks like one of the most complicated things...
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Create art with filters in just 4 steps!
1. Colour Sketch Open your picture, duplicate it and label the layer Find Edges. Go to Filter>Stylise>Find Edges. Colour will be stripped from the image and thin, ink-like lines will remain. 2....
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Paint and illustrate without the hassle
Unleash your inner painter! 1. Increase the colours In the Quick Edit window, use the Vibrance option within Colour to boost the colour. Now enter the Filter Gallery, pick Underpainting from Artistic...
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Create an underwater room! (part 1)
1. Set the scene First you need to edit your photo of a room. In this example we need get rid of the cars you can see through the doorway. Zoom in and use the Pen tool to draw a path around the bits...
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Create an underwater room! (part 2)
9. Water reflection Open a desert-like image and flip it Horizontally. Hit Ctrl/Cmd_L to open the Curves dialog and adjust it to 51, 0.70, 225. Using the Free Transform tool, adjust the edges. Again...
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What kind of objects can be created using filters?
There are many different types of objects that can be made using filters. For this fish bowl, create a square document, fill it with solid black, and then go to Filter>Render>Lens Flare. Choose...
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Paint by filter in four steps
1. Paint up Start by choosing Filter>Artistic>Paint Daubs. Use a Brush Size of 8, Sharpness of 38 and ensure the Brush Type is set to Simple. Name this layer Paint Daubs. This gives our base...
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5 Alternative Painting Tips
1. Splatter brushes You can find free downloadable splatter brushes all over the internet, including our very own FileSilo! They’re great for embellishing pieces, but have you ever thought about...
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