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Creating and Duplicating a Layer Mask

It sounds easy, doesn’t it? Duplicate one layer’s layer mask on another layer. It is easy but only if you know the technique. A layer mask is a channel that determines the visibility of the content of that particular layer. Continue Reading »

Layer “Interlacing” - Weaving Layer Content

Sometimes you need to make it appear that the content of one layer appears both in front of and behind another layer. Continue Reading »

A New Painterly Effect

There are lots of ways to make a photograph look like a painting. Here’s another one that simulates painted strokes by blurring dark areas of the image and sharpening lighter areas. Continue Reading »

Extending the Sky

More often than not, a digital photograph isn’t shaped to fit your picture frame. Most digital images have an aspect ratio of 3:2, while common picture frames are 5:4 (4×5″ and 8×10″) or 7:5 (5×7″). Continue Reading »

“Pipe” Background

An interesting background effect, suitable perhaps for a Web interface or layering for a “Eurocollage” image, can be created by separating elements of a black-white-black gradient to individual layers, then using reversed bevels. Continue Reading »

Create Water Effect

Fill a swimming pool with water in seconds! Well, create the appearance of a swimming pool filled with water in Photoshop in just four steps. Continue Reading »

Rainy Days Are Here Again

The mode of an image can be completely changed by adding rain. Whether a driving storm or a few drips, it takes just a few steps to produce perfect precipitation. Continue Reading »

Quick and Fun Backgrounds

Using a gradient and the Render> Difference Clouds filter, we can quickly create a number of different types of backgrounds. Continue Reading »

Warhol-esque 4-color

Photoshop makes it easy to create a single image that contains different versions of the same original. In this example, we’ll borrow a page from Andy Warhol and create four different monotone versions of a photograph, combined into a single image. Continue Reading »

From Brunette to Blond

Changing hair color is often simply a matter of adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. However, when the hair needs substantial lightening, such as when converting from brunette to blond, the Selective Color command may be more effective. Continue Reading »

Square to Round: Easy Spheres

It’s simple to convert a square picture to a round picture by simply making a circular selection and adding a mask. Continue Reading »

Copying Between Images of Different Size

It’s happened to most of us at one time or another. We drag a layer from the layers palette to the window of another image to copy it and –surprise!– it’s WAY too big. Here’s a way to make sure that doesn’t happen again. Continue Reading »

Quick Painting

This week I’ll show you a quick way to turn your photos into a line art drawing. Continue Reading »

Creating A CD in Photoshop

This week we are going to look at how to draw a CD. We will be using the new opacity options on the layer palette. Continue Reading »

Fun With Faces

Even though I’m ‘into’ crazy effects, for a long time I considered the liquify tool to be pretty useless. Some times it just takes awhile for things to sink in. After some work with the tool, I’ve revised that opinion and now love to liquify. Continue Reading »

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Getting To The Hexadecimal Code

As you may know, there are hexadecimal codes for the colors used in webpages. Not only does Photoshop know these hexadecimal codes, it can extract them from an image and let you paste them into your HTML code editor. First, press the letter I to switch to the Eyedropper tool, and then hold the Control key (PC: Right-click) and click on a color within your image. A contextual menu will appear where you can choose Copy Color as HTML. Now you can switch to your HTML editor and choose Paste to copy the HTML code into your app.

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