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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

Hpw a Simple Layout can be Mixed-N-Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds
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Hpw a Simple Layout can be Mixed-N-Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds

Hpw a Simple Layout can be Mixed-N-Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds

Clone out distracting backgrounds in Photoshop or Elements
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Clone out distracting backgrounds in Photoshop or Elements

Distracting backgrounds can ruin a good picture. This tutorial uses cloning, the patch tool, blur, and layer masks to eliminate clutter. Suitable for any level, the tutorial also includes a layer mask cheat for Elements users.

Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices
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Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices

With Twitter quickly becoming the hottest site to be seen on, everyone wants to stand out from the crowd. There has already been a range of quality designs showcased on various sites, which has shown an emergence of trends such as the ‘sidebar’. Let’s take a look at some of the best practices around Twitter background design and get to work creating our own.

Starfield Tileable Twitter Background Tutorial
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Starfield Tileable Twitter Background Tutorial

Learn how to create a striking tileable starfield twitter background.

Create a Nice Web Portfolio Design with a Watercolored Background in Photoshop
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Create a Nice Web Portfolio Design with a Watercolored Background in Photoshop

In this step by step tutorial I explain how to realize a nice Web Portfolio Design with a Watercolored Background using two brush sets, a icon pack and some basic techniques. The context is clear: a web/graphic designer’s portfolio… fresh, simple and expressive.

Create A Grungy Text Background
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Create A Grungy Text Background

This tutorial will show you how to create a cool grunge background, it also works as a good text effect too. I will provide you with the necessary brushes and resources so don’t worry. You will learn how to use brushes and apply them effectively.

Create a custom/grunge twitter background
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Create a custom/grunge twitter background

If you, like me, love twitter, and would like to give it a bit of a custom spin then why not make your background more of a profile? Give your visitors a bit more to look at when they are reading your tweets.

Creating a Mac-type Background
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Creating a Mac-type Background

This tutorial is about making a “mac” style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious – your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc)

Create colorful background for Valentine’s Day
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Create colorful background for Valentine’s Day

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a colorful background for Valentine’s Day, using Custom Shape Tool, Layer Styles, gradients, and other Photoshop tools. Let’s get started!

How to Do Shadow, Gloss, Gradient, and Reflection Effects
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How to Do Shadow, Gloss, Gradient, and Reflection Effects

An extensive photoshop tutorial showing how to achieve a great effects you can use in your designs everywhere.

Background Lightning Effect
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Background Lightning Effect

Learn how to make an exciting background using lighting and other effects.

Retro Background Effect
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Retro Background Effect

Make an old-fashioned retro background effect.

Using Gradients to Make Light and Shadow - and a Coffee Cup
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Using Gradients to Make Light and Shadow - and a Coffee Cup

In this tutorial we're going to use some simple circles and gradients to make a cup of coffee viewed from above. The end result isn't that useful, but the process is interesting nonetheless.

Christmas Wallpapers and Backgrounds
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Christmas Wallpapers and Backgrounds

Today the topic of our tutorial will be the holidays that are coming very soon. So enjoy the process thinking about Christmas time. We will do a lot of experiments with the brushes.

Create steampunk-style pages or backgrounds
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Create steampunk-style pages or backgrounds

Harness the power of Photoshop's basic tools to create a rich and fantastical steampunk sytle website design

Make a Star-skinned Playstation 3 with Nebula Background
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Make a Star-skinned Playstation 3 with Nebula Background

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate the processes I used to make a Star-skined Playstation 3 with Nebula Background in Photoshop.

Photoshop Retro Grid Background
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Photoshop Retro Grid Background

Learn how to layout and define a retro repeating pattern with Photoshop.

An Advanced Guide to Using the Magic Extractor to Remove Image Background
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An Advanced Guide to Using the Magic Extractor to Remove Image Background

This in-depth tutorial covers how to use the Magic Extractor, one of the most useful tools available in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, which is used to remove the background of photos.

Designing a Mac-like background in photoshop
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Designing a Mac-like background in photoshop

Creating a wallpaper / background in a Macintosh-like style.

Light and Shadows - Feathering Gradients in Photoshop
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Light and Shadows - Feathering Gradients in Photoshop

Learn how to add some depth and realism to your designs using lights and shadows. All made possible through the use of feathered gradients. Come get schooled.

Twirly background
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Twirly background

In this tutorial, you have a chance to learn how to create Twirly background which fits excellently on posters and placards.

Create a Pop Art Style Poster with Urban City Background in Photoshop
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Create a Pop Art Style Poster with Urban City Background in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process I used to create this Pop Art Style Poster with urban city background in Photoshop.

Abstract Background
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Abstract Background

Step by step learn how to create Abstract Background Effect.

Remove Black Background from C4D
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Remove Black Background from C4D

Here is a tutorial on how to remove the black background from your C4D Renders in photoshop. Once you get your render settings squared away it is just a couple of steps in photoshop to do this.

Photoshop: Background Blur
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Photoshop: Background Blur

When we think of blurring we usually think of the Gaussian Blur filter. But the blur photographers get from it tends to look fake. The Lens Blur filter provides a much more realistic blur and, with some setup time, can create some very realistic results.

Design an amazing wooden texture/background
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Design an amazing wooden texture/background

Have you ever seen that wonderful wood like texture or background found on many websites and wanted to know how it is done? This tutorial will teach you a basic but effective way to complete this desired outcome, which would work great as a background.

Photoshop Makeup Tutorial - Metallic or Glitter Eyeshadow
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Photoshop Makeup Tutorial - Metallic or Glitter Eyeshadow

Being able to add realistic makeup in Photoshop is a must for every digital artist. Whether you're adding makeup to enhance a portrait or painting on shimmering eyeshadow for an cartoon character, this Photoshop tutorial will be incredibly useful for you.

How to Create a One-of-a-Kind Twitter Background in Photoshop
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How to Create a One-of-a-Kind Twitter Background in Photoshop

How to Create a One-of-a-Kind Twitter Background in Photoshop

Adjusting Shadows and Highlights with Photoshop tutorial
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Adjusting Shadows and Highlights with Photoshop tutorial

Using the Shadows/Highlights adjustment in Photoshop CS4. This adjustment is available in earlier versions as well.

Design an Awesome Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop
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Design an Awesome Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show the processes involved in designing and creating this really cool, Geometric Shaped Typography with Grungy Background in Photoshop. This is a simple tutorial yet the effect looks awesome, have a try!

Create Photorealistic Reflections and Shadows
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Create Photorealistic Reflections and Shadows

Celebrated digital painter Bert Monroy shares tips on creating realistic reflections and shadows in Photoshop.

How to create abstract colorful rainbow background
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How to create abstract colorful rainbow background

In this tutorial, you’ll go through easy steps for creating a nice abstract rainbow background in Photoshop. We’ll use Photoshop’s simple shapes, layer styles and gradients to create a colorful background. Let’s get started!

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!

Horse in the Night Background
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Horse in the Night Background

A Photoshop tutorial to create a horse in the night background, using some stock photography

How to make Grudge Backgrounds
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How to make Grudge Backgrounds

In this tutorial you learn how to make grudge backgrounds for your work !

Removing a white background in Photoshop
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Removing a white background in Photoshop

Remove subjects from white backgrounds so you will then be able to put them on any background you want ...

Signature Backgrounds
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Signature Backgrounds

This is a tutorial for you to make a nice abstract backround for any forum signatures.

Fading Images Into Backgrounds
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Fading Images Into Backgrounds

Learn how to easily fade your images into any background.

Three Point Lighting model & shadow emulation
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Three Point Lighting model & shadow emulation

This is a 'three point lighting model' emulation from Adobe Photoshop. You'll learn how to draw key, fill and rim sources of light, cast shadows over an illuminated foggy scene, using only native Photoshop filters.

How to: Vertical Lines for a cool background
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How to: Vertical Lines for a cool background

Learn how to create a cool background with vertical lines using adobe photoshop.

Drop Shadow
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Drop Shadow

Add depth and contrast to your imagery.

Drop Shadows
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Drop Shadows

This is a basic tutorial that will teach you several ways to make a dropshadow in Photoshop.

Shadowed Picture Frame
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Shadowed Picture Frame

This tutorial teaches you how to make a simple shadowed picture frame for use in your blog entries.

Website Background Border
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Website Background Border

Create a y-axis repeating background in only a few steps by using the gradient tool and some filters.

Creating a realistic photo effect with soft shadow
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Creating a realistic photo effect with soft shadow

A cool effect that looks like a photo slightly placed on a background

DF Background Tutorial
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DF Background Tutorial

his tutorial will teach you how to create outstanding backgrounds for your web templates.

How to make text overlap in glowing background
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How to make text overlap in glowing background

Cool new technique in photoshop to how to deal with text, link or overlap them.

Create Photo Realistic Drop Shadows By Mapping Them To Your Image
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Create Photo Realistic Drop Shadows By Mapping Them To Your Image

Make your standard Photoshop drop shadows go from fake to photo realistic by learning how to map them to the natural textures and depths in your image with displacement maps.

Fashion Retouch: Shadowy, Sultry Eyes
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Fashion Retouch: Shadowy, Sultry Eyes

Nothing seems to have the power to captivate us quite like a person's eyes, and in this tutorial, we bump up that power even more with a shadowy, sultry look.