Archive for December, 2007

Convert Photo to Painting and Add a Frame

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This tutorial will show you how to give a photo a “painting look” and how to put a frame round it. Ideal for making a gift of a family photo.
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Basic Logo

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Here is how you can create a quick basic logo for your site. Of course you can add more effects that you’ve learnt in the other tutorials to make the design more complex.
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Newspaper Photo Effect

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The proper term for the newspaper photograph effect is half tone. The traditional halftone process converts different tones into dots of varying size. The eye has limited resolving power and, at a distance, is tricked into seeing these dots as continuous tone.

This effect is extremely easy to re-create in photoshop.

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Pop Art

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Create a pop art effect on a picture. I’m going to show you 2 different methods on 2 different pictures.

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Graphic Box

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This tutorial shows you how to create a box with a graphic suitable for surrounding some text. Its pretty basic, but basic shapes and ideas are sometimes needed for a project.

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Text Reflection (Web 2.0 Style)

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Spoof up your header by adding a reflection to its text. This basic tutorial will teach you how to do it. It gives it that Web 2.0 look.
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Website Panel

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Its difficult to describe what this is. I’ve called it a panel. Whatever you call it, its the sort of thing you would use in a website perhaps to contain your navigation controls.
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Psychedelic Effect

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This is a layer style that is ideal for adding a psychedelic effect to an object.
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