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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 Mirror Image Effect
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Photoshop Mirror Image Effect

In this Photoshop tutorial, learn how to easily create a mirror image effect with a photo, turning the right half of the image into a mirror reflection of the left half!

Save and Reuse Layer Styles In Photoshop
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Save and Reuse Layer Styles In Photoshop

Photoshop's layer styles are a great way to create fun and interesting photo effects and text effects without a lot of effort, or even a lot of skill. But remembering how you created a specific effect, with all of its options and settings, can be a real challenge, and recreating it can take time. Thankfully, Photoshop lets us save our layer style creations so we can re-apply them instantly with just the click of a button!

Photoshop Snow Effect - Add Falling Snow To A Winter Photo
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Photoshop Snow Effect - Add Falling Snow To A Winter Photo

We may not be able to control the weather outdoors, but thanks to Photoshop, we do have some control over Mother Nature in our photos! In this tutorial, learn how to add falling snow to a winter scene, and see how the same basic technique can be used to create entirely different effects!

Create A Gritty, Overprocessed Photo Effect In Photoshop
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Create A Gritty, Overprocessed Photo Effect In Photoshop

Learn how to give a photo a gritty, overprocessed look to it with extreme levels of contrast and sharpening, noise and washed out colors. The final effect looks rather harsh, but Photoshop makes creating it quick and painless!

Darkening Photo Edges In Photoshop
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Darkening Photo Edges In Photoshop

Learn how to easily darken or burn the edges of a photo in Photoshop, creating a vignette effect, using a filter that was actually designed to remove things like unwanted vignette effects!

Colorize A Photo With Multiple Colors In Photoshop
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Colorize A Photo With Multiple Colors In Photoshop

Create an interesting color effect in Photoshop by dividing a single photo into multiple sections and colorizing each section with a different color, then learn how to easily change all the colors at once!

Photoshop Split Toning - Add More Interest To A Black And White Photo
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Photoshop Split Toning - Add More Interest To A Black And White Photo

Looking for a way in Photoshop to spice up a black and white photo? Try a classic split toning effect, adding different color tints to the highlights and shadows! We'll start with a full color photo and learn how to quickly create your own custom black and white version, then we'll add more visual interest by tinting the highlights and shadows with different colors, all without harming a single pixel in the image!

Photoshop Puzzle Effect - Turn Any Photo Into A Puzzle
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Photoshop Puzzle Effect - Turn Any Photo Into A Puzzle

Photoshop can certainly seem puzzling at times, but using it to turn any photo into a puzzle is easy! In fact, Photoshop even comes with a free puzzle texture to get us started, but in this tutorial, we're going to take things a bit further and give our puzzle effect a "work in progress" look to it!

Non-Destructive Dodge And Burn In Photoshop
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Non-Destructive Dodge And Burn In Photoshop

Photoshop's Dodge and Burn tools are great for lightening and darkening specific areas of a photo, but they both permanently damage your image. Learn a better way to get the same results without harming a single pixel!

Recreate A Soft Focus Lens Or Diffusion Filter Effect In Photoshop
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Recreate A Soft Focus Lens Or Diffusion Filter Effect In Photoshop

One of the great things about Photoshop is its ability to recreate many of the same effects we'd normally be able to achieve only with special camera lenses or filters. In this tutorial, we look at how to easily create the look of a photo taken with a soft focus lens or diffusion filter, and since we're doing it all in Photoshop, we have complete control over the final result!

Fun With Silhouettes In Photoshop
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Fun With Silhouettes In Photoshop

Learn how to create a basic silhouette from a photo in Photoshop, then learn how to fill the silhouette with an image to create interesting designs!

Create A Classic Starburst Background In Photoshop
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Create A Classic Starburst Background In Photoshop

Learn how to recreate the classic starburst-style background you've seen hundreds of times in grocery stores, department stores and weekly flyers, using a little-known but very powerful feature in Photoshop - Transform Again.

Lights! Camera! Actions In Photoshop!
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Lights! Camera! Actions In Photoshop!

Tired of doing the same things over and over again? Why not let Photoshop do them for you! In this series of tutorials, we look at everything you need to know to get up and running with Photoshop Actions, including what they are, how they work, how to edit and customize actions, and of course, how to record your very own actions from scratch, plus lots more! Includes a complete step-by-step walk thru of an action so you can get a real sense of how actions work and what you can do with them!

Create Your Own Custom Keyboard Shortcuts In Photoshop
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Create Your Own Custom Keyboard Shortcuts In Photoshop

It may not sound as exciting as swapping people's faces in a photo or drawing lightning bolts that shoot out of someone's eyes, but if you're the type of person who loves customizing things to suit your own style, or you just want to be able to work faster and more efficiently in Photoshop, learning how to create your own custom keyboard shortcuts is a great place to start!