Videos

3D Compositing

Corey shows you how to add 3D elements to photos complete with lights and shadows. Continue reading →

February 18th, 2011 | Corey Barker | Tutorials, Videos | Comments (35)

3D Light Beam: A New Approach

Corey reveal another technique for achieving realistic 3D light beams in Photoshop. Continue reading →

January 21st, 2011 | Corey Barker | Tutorials, Videos | Comments (28)

Modern Warfare

This tutorial was inspired by the blockbuster video game. Continue reading →

December 11th, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (36)

Bullet Hole Brushes

Here we will uses a series of custom shapes to create a bullet hole on a brush.

November 2nd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (14)

Displaced Effects

Here is a quick and easy way to use displacement maps to create a cool grunge look.

October 26th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (22)

More Fun With Brushes

Here we will explore another aspect of custom brushes to create a cool background effect.

October 20th, 2008 | Corey Barker | Effects, Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (23)

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)

Pirate Text

The steps for creating this pirate text effect start with converting a text layer into paths in order to reshape the lettering and then finishing it off using layer styles.

July 3rd, 2008 | Corey Barker | Text, Tutorials, Videos | Comments (20)

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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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Smart Object Masking Trick
Dave Cross shares a trick he discovered that will help you remove white from around your subject when using smart objects.
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Light Painting
Dave Cross takes a popular trend - light painting - and shows you how you can paint text recreating this cool trend.
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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