Effects | Page 12

Energize That Photo

Learn how to add excitement and energy to your photo in just a few simple steps.

October 5th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (32)

Design Elements from Photos

Here is a cool way to use parts of you photos as abstract design elements.

September 28th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (23)

Fire Brushes

After creating a brush pattern from a stock image of a horse, Corey applies a layer style consisting of outer and inner glows with a hard light blend mode to … Continue reading →

September 12th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tools, Tutorials | Comments (106)

Lighting Effects

Corey jazzed up this photo by making a custom brush and applying an outer glow layer style to create the repeating patterns behind the subject.

August 25th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (49)

Pin-up Effect

Using a mixture of filters and blending modes, Corey takes a stock photo and transforms it into an old, classic 1950′s pin-up poster.

August 15th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Photography, Tutorials | Comments (148)

Embossed Glass Logo

Instead of using a displacement map, here’s another method for taking a custom file and distorting it to match a background image.

August 8th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials | Comments (31)

Corey stumbled upon this effect while experimenting with the smudge tool and its finger painting feature. Start off by going back to his starry background tutorial and follow along from … Continue reading →

August 1st, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (72)

Blending and Type Tips

In this design, Corey had set out to blend a large body of text with a silhouetted shape. After some experimenting, he discovered the perfect blending mode to do this … Continue reading →

July 29th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (22)

Crumpled Paper

This crumpled paper effect starts with designing a piece of notebook paper and then applying a displacement map to create the texture. Finish the effect off with some layer styles … Continue reading →

July 16th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (35)

Logo Design

Corey recreates a video game logo by building a grid background and circular target using the define pattern and polar coordinate distort commands.

June 13th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (67)

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Photoshop Tutorials

Hollywood Touch-Ups
See how you can add some subtle touches to give that green screen studio shot the Hollywood treatment.
Flare Effects
Corey has a cool trick for creating a flare brush and see how one effect can lead to another.
3D Christmas Ornaments
Corey shows how to create reflective holiday ornaments using 3D in Photoshop.
Styles & Text
This week Corey has a tutorial using layer styles and text shapes to create energetic effects.

CS6 Blur Tools

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 →
High Roller 3D

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 →
Dark Edge Vignette

Make your subject of your photograph stand out using dark edge vignettes. Continue reading →
Content Aware Move Tool in CS6

Lesa explores the new Content Aware Move tool in Photoshop CS6. Continue reading →

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Create A Composite Layer

If 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