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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

Layer Mask
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Layer Mask

The ultimate guide to layer masks: techniques, examples, shortcuts, and tips.

Making of the Lute Player
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Making of the Lute Player

Check out this walkthrough of creating this digital painting within Photoshop.

Using Adjustment Layers and Masking
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Using Adjustment Layers and Masking

This tutorial will teach you how to take advantage of adjustment layers in recent versions of Photoshop to enhance your photos with more precise control.

Knockout Text Through Layers
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Knockout Text Through Layers

Learn how to "punch" your text through to reveal layers beneath it.

Working With Photomerge In Photoshop Elements 6
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Working With Photomerge In Photoshop Elements 6

An extensive tutorial on working with the vastly improved Photomerge tools.

Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect
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Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

In this tutorial, we will create this effect using very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects. This tutorial is simple enough for a beginner to understand, but I should warn you that in this tutorial there ends up being over 60 active text layers, which will require a heavy use of your computer’s memory. Let’s jump into this tutorial and layer some glowing text.

Five Looks, One Layout: How to Develop a Library of Web Design Styles
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Five Looks, One Layout: How to Develop a Library of Web Design Styles

Five Looks, One Layout: How to Develop a Library of Web Design Styles

Text Shape Layers
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Text Shape Layers

In this video tutorial Corey Barker shows you how converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.

How To Create a Clean and Futuristic Media Player Skin
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How To Create a Clean and Futuristic Media Player Skin

This tutorial not only by teaching you how to design a clean and futuristic skin interface, but also allows you to have complete control over the end-user interface from the appearance and positioning of buttons to whether or not the volume control can be turned all the way up to 11.

Photoshop Quicktips: Layer Masks
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Photoshop Quicktips: Layer Masks

A layer mask allows manipulation of the viewable areas of a layer nondestructively, allowing for complex affecting and adjustment control for images. In this Quicktip, ZIO Pro's Matthew Hendershot demonstrates the process of setting up a simple layer mask, along with some of its common controls and editing options.

Add Energy and Interest with Layered Images
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Add Energy and Interest with Layered Images

By layering thematically related photographs and colored backgrounds and foregrounds, you can create unique imagery for print and Web projects.

Adjustment Layers
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Adjustment Layers

Learn the wonders of Adjustment Layers.

Benefits Of Working With 16-Bit Images In Photoshop
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Benefits Of Working With 16-Bit Images In Photoshop

The whole point of editing images in Photoshop is to make them look better, so why risk making them look worse in the process if you don't have to? If you've been editing 8-bit images when you could have been working in 16-bit mode, you've been missing out on a world of flexibility.

Metallic Layer Styles
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Metallic Layer Styles

In this tutorial we're going to create a metallic effect using layer styles and gradients that you can apply to different objects. We'll put it on a nice background and create a style for lettering that makes it look like it's embedded into the metal.

MP3 Player Illustration
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MP3 Player Illustration

Design an MP3 player with this tutorial

Compositing with Adjustment Layers
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Compositing with Adjustment Layers

Compositing with Photoshop is one part technique and two parts imagination. Learn how to create a beautiful scene and set the mood with adjustment layers.

Working With Photoshop CS3 Masking Tools
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Working With Photoshop CS3 Masking Tools

Shows you how to take a glass bottle and make it appear in a different photo by using Photoshop's masking tools.

Creating Photo Border Effects With Layer Masks And Filters In Photoshop
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Creating Photo Border Effects With Layer Masks And Filters In Photoshop

Learn how to easily create interesting photo border effects in Photoshop simply by applying a filter directly to a layer mask!

Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop - new layer style to "blingify" ANYTHING!
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Badass Bling Effect in Photoshop - new layer style to "blingify" ANYTHING!

Get crunk with this step by step (and video) tutorial to show you how to create a blingin layer style to make any layer instantly sparkly and gold!

Zoom Player Skin Design
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Zoom Player Skin Design

Learn to create a fabulous looking player interface in this comprehensive tutorial

Beginner's Introduction to Layers
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Beginner's Introduction to Layers

One of the most popular beginner's tutorials from graphicsdistrict.com, this tutorial introduces the absolute beginner to layers, explaining what they are, how they are created and how they relate to each other and the image as a whole. This tutorial caters for those who have only just started learning basic photoshop skills.

Web Video Player Skin
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Web Video Player Skin

We’re going to learn how to create a skin for your web video player. This is just the design part which we will do in Photoshop. Perhaps it will be followed up by a Flash tutorial on how to implement this skin into an actual working player.

Windows Media Player Inspired Menu
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Windows Media Player Inspired Menu

I saw someone using windows media player on vista the other day and it inspired me to make a website menu. So here are the steps I went through to make my media player style menu.

Working with Layers in Photoshop
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Working with Layers in Photoshop

In Photoshop, layers are used to work on individual parts of an image while not affecting other parts. You might say that layers are like transparency papers stacked on top of one another which can be repositioned and separately drawn on without disturbing each other.

Blend Techniques With Layer Mask
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Blend Techniques With Layer Mask

Learn blending techniques by using layer mask

Blend Techniques With Selective Color Layers
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Blend Techniques With Selective Color Layers

Learn some blending techniques by using Selective Color Layers in Photoshop

Eye Enhancement Using the New Vibrance Adjustment Layer in CS4
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Eye Enhancement Using the New Vibrance Adjustment Layer in CS4

Kevin Ames introduces the new adjustments layer panel in Photoshop CS4, vibrance, and demonstrates how to increase saturation of non-primary colors in images at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Working with Adjustment Layers
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Working with Adjustment Layers

This isn’t exactly a tutorial, but it will show you how to use adjustment layers and get the most out of them.

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!

Using Adjustment Layers
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Using Adjustment Layers

In this video, Howard demonstrates adjustment layers in Photoshop. A KEY essential in photo editing.

Photoshop: Filters and Layer Styles
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Photoshop: Filters and Layer Styles

Author and Photoshop World Hall of Fame member Bert Monroy gives a few tips on filters and layer styles in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

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.

Photoshop Quicktips: Adjustment Layers
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Photoshop Quicktips: Adjustment Layers

ZIO Producer Matthew Hendershot demonstrates the functionality of Adjustment Layers, a non-destructive tone and color adjustment tool made even more powerful and easy to use in Photoshop CS4.

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.

Photoshop Layer Tips
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Photoshop Layer Tips

Learn some photoshop Layer Tips.

Layered Supernova Text
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Layered Supernova Text

Ever seen those warping space wallpapers? Ever wondered how they are created in photoshop? Well this simple tutorial will provide you with all the information you need! In this tutorial I will show you how to create a background and following on from that how to create supernova textured text.

Layer Styles In Photoshop – The Comprehensive Guide
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Layer Styles In Photoshop – The Comprehensive Guide

In this tutorial I will show you how to use photoshops layer styles to produce quick and beautiful effects on text or shapes that will make you work stand out and look more professional

How to use Layer Masks in Photoshop
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How to use Layer Masks in Photoshop

Today I`ll speak about layer masks and I`ll show you how to create a black and white picture with some colored areas and how to merge two pictures,using layer masks.

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.

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.

Create 12 Web 2.0 Text Effects Using Layer Styles
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Create 12 Web 2.0 Text Effects Using Layer Styles

Create 12 Photoshop Text Effects using layer styles to make your designing process faster, and also learn how simple layer styles can create outstanding effect when used cleverly.

Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect
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Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

In this tutorial, we will create this effect using very basic Photoshop tools and layering effects.

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 and When to Use Layer Comps in Photoshop
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How and When to Use Layer Comps in Photoshop

Layer comps let you assemble multiple image variations or even independent pieces of artwork inside a single Adobe Photoshop file. The Layer Comps palette gives you the freedom to explore.

3D Mp3 Player
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3D Mp3 Player

Learn how to create a 3D mp3 player

Photoshop styles: metal chrome effect
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Photoshop styles: metal chrome effect

Do you want to create realistic metal and chrome effects in Photoshop with a single click? You can do it using advanced Photoshop layer styles. Learn to configure your own custom metallic style and design pieces of metal and chrome web interfaces in seconds.

Create a 3D Text Effect Using Photoshop Layer Styles
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Create a 3D Text Effect Using Photoshop Layer Styles

Photoshop layer styles are the first tool beginners learn to enhance text effects. In this tutorial I’m going to show you how powerful and flexible this tool is. We will use layer styles and some useful tricks to create a 3D text effect!