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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

Shading with Watercolor Textures
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Shading with Watercolor Textures

This tutorial will try and show an alternative way of using the watercolor texture - as shading!

Using Textures to Create Scratches and Distress Your Images
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Using Textures to Create Scratches and Distress Your Images

Have you ever thought about adding textures to your high-resolution digital photographs to give them a worn or damaged look? Or how about adding scratches to make them less digital and more film like? I present several quick and easy ways to apply this effect using grungy textures that can be found virtually anywhere. I also explain how to create a library of textures that you can use anytime you wish. To help get you started, I have made several of my own textures available for free.

Half Naked Part 03 Adding Textures
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Half Naked Part 03 Adding Textures

Last series of tutorial Half Naked. At this stage this portrait is almost done, I just want to experiment and add more textures to this painting. we already tackle the problem of shadows, already acknowledge in the previous stage, from drawing and tone to creating realistic portrait. Below is the final painting compare to the other screen shot in lesson part 2.

Jigsaw Textures
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Jigsaw Textures

A unique effect that turns a layer into a jigsaw puzzle.

Photoshop: Understanding Channels
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Photoshop: Understanding Channels

Author Bert Monroy discusses channels in Photoshop.

Photoshop: Understanding Displacement
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Photoshop: Understanding Displacement

Author Bert Monroy discusses understanding displacement in Photoshop.

Understanding Aspect Ratio for Printing - Photoshop Video Tutorials
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Understanding Aspect Ratio for Printing - Photoshop Video Tutorials

Understanding Aspect Ratio for Printing is very important. I'll show you how to crop your images for printing various sizes like 8x10 or 5x7.

Create Fantastic Stone Textures in Photoshop
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Create Fantastic Stone Textures in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you a quick and easy way to make a realistic stone texture with the help of the Liquify Filter. This tutorial is written for users who have a basic understanding of the tools and techniques commonly used in Photoshop.

Free Photoshop Frame Effects and High-Res Textures
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Free Photoshop Frame Effects and High-Res Textures

Photoshop frame effects, high-res textures, a new way to draw, and -- all free for you!

Understanding Color Settings in Photoshop
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Understanding Color Settings in Photoshop

The Color Settings command is your way of establishing reliable color management policies across the entire Creative Suite. While admittedly techie, it ensures that what you see is what everyone else sees, too.

How to Add Bokeh Textures to Your Photos
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How to Add Bokeh Textures to Your Photos

This interactive video tutorial shows how to add a bokeh texture to a photo.

How to Hand Paint Convincing Metal Textures
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How to Hand Paint Convincing Metal Textures

Metal texturing is something that is all too often done poorly by simply overlaying photos on top of one another. While this can look alright if done properly, it usually ends up looking like stone or concrete, which does not look or act the way that metal does in real life. We can counteract this by making our own low-contrast base texture, using our own brushes, and also using lots of layers and masks, and finally end up with a hand painted texture that looks and acts much more like real life

Modding Faces With Textures
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Modding Faces With Textures

Learn how to create alien faces of normal humans.

Improve Artwork by adding Stock Textures
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Improve Artwork by adding Stock Textures

Learn how to design a quick art piece using the Photoshop basics, then overlay stock textures on the image to add that little extra 'oomph.'

How to Make Seamlessly-Tiling Images and Textures
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How to Make Seamlessly-Tiling Images and Textures

This tutorial provides a basic understanding of how to create a seamlessly-tiling image. This technique can be used with most types of images, but is particularly suited to creating textures. The method is simply but surprisingly non-obvious to many beginners.

Add textures to an image for a dramatic effect in photoshop tutorial.
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Add textures to an image for a dramatic effect in photoshop tutorial.

Add textures to an image for a dramatic effect in photoshop tutorial with layer masks, blending modes and a texturized image.

Understanding Actions
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Understanding Actions

In this video, I'll show you how actions work, and how you can create your own 'action' to improve workflow.

Building Textures from Scanned Art
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Building Textures from Scanned Art

The object here is to learn to start to create your own textures. Using some traditional methods you can create a great texture with simple watercolor wash and scan in to use and manipulate in Photoshop 5.0.

Understanding blending modes
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Understanding blending modes

To help you learn and understand how the blend modes work, I have provided a summary of all the blend modes currently found in Photoshop CS3 Extended

Working with Layer Styles - understanding Drop Shadows
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Working with Layer Styles - understanding Drop Shadows

Adobe Photoshop includes Layer Styles, a number of automated effects that you can apply to layers, including drop shadows, glows, beveling, and embossing, as well as a color fill effect

Working with Layer Styles - understanding Outer and Inner Glow
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Working with Layer Styles - understanding Outer and Inner Glow

We continuing our look at the Layer Style window, especially how Outer and Inner Glow work

Working with Layer Styles - understanding Bevel and Emboss
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Working with Layer Styles - understanding Bevel and Emboss

This versatile effect help create a feeling of depth by adding highlight and shadow to layer shapes. Depending on where these highlights and shadows are placed, a 3D effect can be quickly generated

Seamless Textures
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Seamless Textures

Hi, In this video tutorial you'll learn how to create a seamless tileable texture out of a taken photo. (Fixing light issues, Lens ditortion and image flow).

How to Apply Textures to Portrait Photographs in Photoshop
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How to Apply Textures to Portrait Photographs in Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll be teaching you how to apply a texture to a portrait (or any other) photograph. Textures are a great resource for all types of designers and illustrators, and can be used in many ways to produce many different effects. They are typically used in photo manipulations, print design and web design.

Photo Manipulation with Your Own Photos and Textures
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Photo Manipulation with Your Own Photos and Textures

In this tutorial I will give you some tips on how to take your own photos for the photo manipulation. You will learn, how to blend pictures, apply textures, create your own brushes etc.

Free Photoshop Brushes and Paper Textures!
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Free Photoshop Brushes and Paper Textures!

Download these Free Photoshop Brushes and Paper Textures!

Create distressed textures for digital paintings in Photoshop
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Create distressed textures for digital paintings in Photoshop

Are your images slick and polished, when you’re after a rougher, more urban feel? Mess things up a little: David and Sarah Cousens show you how.

Free Photoshop Textures
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Free Photoshop Textures

This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.

A Thousand Free Textures for Photoshop
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A Thousand Free Textures for Photoshop

You can use these free textures for print and Web designs. With more than a thousand to choose from, there's no shortage of inspiration! The files are compatible with Photoshop, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, and more.

40 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds
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40 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Textures and Backgrounds

Photoshop provides designers with unlimited options for creating unique and attractive backgrounds. One of the most popular approaches is to create some type of textured background, and fortunately there are a number of helpful tutorials to teach you all the tricks you need to know.

Understanding Exposure Compensation in Photography
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Understanding Exposure Compensation in Photography

Sometimes with certain scenes, light meters are fooled by the conditions and make their own decisions. Most times they work great but there are times when they just don’t get it right. This is when exposure compensation can be used.

Understanding Levels and Histograms in Photoshop
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Understanding Levels and Histograms in Photoshop

The Levels command, and its cohort, the Histogram, let you adjust luminance levels on a channel-by-channel basis. The upshot is that you can increase contrast, correct for color cast, and make a bad image good.

Free Photoshop Textures and Patterns, Plus Lots More!
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Free Photoshop Textures and Patterns, Plus Lots More!

This collection of freebies includes textures and patterns you can tile in Photoshop, a geographic symbol font; and online tilt-shift effects.

Cut & paste cool background textures in Photoshop
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Cut & paste cool background textures in Photoshop

Take cut-&-paste further by compositing elements onto textured, colour backgrounds. Brian Grant shows you how on a piece of his fantastic work…

How to create an portfolio layout wih seamless textures
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How to create an portfolio layout wih seamless textures

Learn how to design an web layout with seamless textures

35 High-Res Grunge Photoshop Textures
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35 High-Res Grunge Photoshop Textures

There's amazing breadth and depth to the freebies in this installment. Print designers, Web designers, and artists will all find resources so good, you'd pay for them!

Understanding Exposure Value in Photography
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Understanding Exposure Value in Photography

Before explaining Exposure Value, it helps to know what Light Value means. When you find something, there are (generally speaking) two main levels of light you need to deal with.

How to turn wooden textures in awesome grunge backgrounds
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How to turn wooden textures in awesome grunge backgrounds

After worked in the market of stock resources for a while, I’ve noticed that people love grunge textures. So In this brief tutorial I’ll show you some tricks that will allow you to transform a wooden texture in a unique grunge background.

Understanding Reciprocity in Photography
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Understanding Reciprocity in Photography

Perfect exposure settings: Reciprocity is the law of the relationship between shutter and aperture. It stipulates that one stop increases in aperture is equivalent to the shutter duration doubling.

Understanding Color in Photography
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Understanding Color in Photography

The appropriate use of color in any photography adds a dynamic element to your images that is very pleasing to the eye. Bold colors and bright composition in your photos result in images that sell.

Fully Understanding How to Crop in Photoshop
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Fully Understanding How to Crop in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to harness the full power of Photoshop's crop tool including information on pixels, preserving aspect ratio, pixels/metric unit and more.

Combining Vectors And Textures For A Background With Depth
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Combining Vectors And Textures For A Background With Depth

We are going to combine vectors and textures on top of a flat color and use filters and layer blending modes to create a background with some depth.

Understanding Basic Light Properties for Photography
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Understanding Basic Light Properties for Photography

The way light acts upon a subject will depend on the physical properties each light source presents. Before taking on the challenge of creative photographic lighting it will be worth your while to understand some of these properties.

How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces
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How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode).

Using Light Textures for Beautiful Effect on your Photo
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Using Light Textures for Beautiful Effect on your Photo

This tutorial will show you some tips on how to use light textures for decorating your photo or design.

Free Photoshop Textures
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Free Photoshop Textures

This installment of the column includes help crafting a logo design proposal, free fonts and photo textures, and many tips and tricks for using type on the Web.

60+ Free High Quality Photoshop Textures
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60+ Free High Quality Photoshop Textures

If you are a designer, animator or an artist, than you knows how important textures are! Either it’s a background, icons, text effect, website layout you defiantly need textures to make things look awesome.

Guide to Using Textures with Photos in Photoshop
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Guide to Using Textures with Photos in Photoshop

In this Photoshop video tutorial, we are going to show you how to texture an image in Photoshop the correct way using Averaging instead of using Layer Masks to remove textures over our subjects.