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Generate Amazing Text FX
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Create AMAZING Text FX Online!

Generate your own amazing, photoshop quality text effects online! textfx.co

Photoshop Background Eraser Tool
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Photoshop Background Eraser Tool

In this tutorial, we look at Photoshop's Background Eraser and how this powerful and popular image editing tool uses differences in color to easily erase unwanted background areas of a photo!

Create Your Own Custom Photoshop Brushes
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Create Your Own Custom Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop ships with lots of great brushes for us to use, but it's way more fun and interesting to create our own! In this tutorial, learn how to create a new brush from scratch, and how to control the behavior of the brush with dynamic brush options!

Photoshop Black and White Conversion Tutorials
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Photoshop Black and White Conversion Tutorials

In this series of tutorials, learn the many ways of converting color photos to black and white in Photoshop. With few exceptions, the tools and techniques we cover here have been around in Photoshop for years and are available to anyone using any recent (and even not-so-recent) version of Photoshop!

Mapping A Texture To A Face In Photoshop
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Mapping A Texture To A Face In Photoshop

Learn how Photoshop's Displace Filter makes it easy to map an interesting texture to someone's face in a photo!

Photoshop Film Strip Photo Collage, Part 2 - Creating The Collage
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Photoshop Film Strip Photo Collage, Part 2 - Creating The Collage

In the first of this two-part Photoshop tutorial, we used Photoshop's shape tools to create a film strip photo frame. In this second part of the tutorial, we'll use multiple copies of that film strip to create a photo collage!

Photoshop Three Image Photo Frame Template with Smart Objects
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Photoshop Three Image Photo Frame Template with Smart Objects

Learn how to create a simple three-image photo frame in Photoshop, then how to easily convert the final result into a reusable template with Smart Objects!

Photoshop Film Strip Photo Collage,  Part 1 - Drawing The Film Strip
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Photoshop Film Strip Photo Collage, Part 1 - Drawing The Film Strip

In this first of a two-part Photoshop tutorial on creating a film strip photo collage, learn how to use Photoshop's shape tools to draw the actual film strip photo frame!

Photoshop Worn Torn Photo Edges Effect
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Photoshop Worn Torn Photo Edges Effect

Learn how to easily combine the Eraser Tool with one of Photoshop's built-in brushes, along with a few layers and some layer styles, to give a photo a worn, torn edges effect!

Photoshop Action Zoom Blurring Effect Tutorial
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Photoshop Action Zoom Blurring Effect Tutorial

Add some action, excitement and motion to a photo with a zoom blur effect in Photoshop, an easy and popular way to help bring an image to life!

Creating Photo Borders With Photoshop Brushes
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Creating Photo Borders With Photoshop Brushes

Learn how easy it is to create interesting photo border effects using Photoshop's brushes, including how to load additional brush sets and combine multiple brush strokes with different tools, like the Eraser Tool, for virtually endless creative possibilities!

Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Magnetic Lasso Tool
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Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Magnetic Lasso Tool

The Magnetic Lasso Tool is one of the best selection tools in Photoshop, giving us much better results than what the standard Lasso Tool offers in less time and with less effort and frustration. In fact, with a little practice, you may find yourself hopelessly attracted to it!

Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Polygonal Lasso Tool
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Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Polygonal Lasso Tool

The Polygonal Lasso Tool, another of Photoshop's basic selection tools, is perfect for selecting objects in a photo with many straight, flat surfaces or sides, allowing us to draw as many sides as we need in any direction with just the click of a mouse!

Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Lasso Tool
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Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Lasso Tool

Photoshop's Lasso Tool is probably the easiest of the selection tools to use, allowing us to draw freehand selections around objects in a photo as if we were outlining them on paper with a pen or pencil. We'll learn how to combine it with Photoshop's ability to add and remove areas of a selection to fix up problem areas and dramatically improve your results!

Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Elliptical Marquee Tool
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Photoshop Selections Tutorials - The Elliptical Marquee Tool

The Rectangular Marquee Tool may be one of the easiest Photoshop selection tools to use, but it isn't much help to us when we need to draw oval or circular selections. That's where the Elliptical Marquee Tool comes in, and it's every bit as simple. In fact, the Elliptical Marquee Tool is really just the Rectangular Marquee Tool with extremely rounded corners!