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Celebrate the holiday season by learning how to use Photoshop to create falling snow over your favorite holiday image.
This week, Corey is inspired by a Hollywood poster to figure out how to create a colorful background pattern.
Here is a quick and easy way to use displacement maps to create a cool grunge look.
Here we will explore another aspect of custom brushes to create a cool background effect.
Here is an unusual way of using the Smudge tool to generate interesting halftone streaks.
Now this is something that still seems to stump people in Photoshop when it come to Layer Styles. When you apply a layer style to a layer you notice that … Continue reading
Use Photoshop CS6 to create selective softening effects using the new on-screen Blur Filters. Mix and match among the three filters for a variety of depth-of-field and tilt-shift effects. Continue reading
This week Corey shows you how to take simple vector shapes and gives them life with 3D in Photoshop CS6. Using simple extrusions and lighting effects you can achieve a level of hyper-realism you never could before. Continue reading
Make your subject of your photograph stand out using dark edge vignettes. Continue reading
Lesa explores the new Content Aware Move tool in Photoshop CS6. Continue reading
Photo Retouch
Extended Definition ProcessingIf you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don't flatten the layers--use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.
Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
by Colin Smith