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Ice Age Acorn

Corey has a special extended tutorial on illustrating the Ice Age acorn. Continue Reading »

Transformers, Part 2

In part two of this tutorial, Corey finishes the Transformers logo he began last week. Continue Reading »

Transformers, Part 1

In this two-part tutorial, Corey begins creating the Transformers logo from this summer’s upcoming blockbuster. Continue Reading »

Planet Works

Corey uses the new 3D features in Photoshop CS4 Extended to re-create the DreamWorks animated title. Continue Reading »

Land of the Lost

This tutorial is a take off the title text from the new summer movie, Land of the Lost. Continue Reading »

Realistic Balloon

This week Corey creates a realistic balloon against a blue sky all from scratch. Inspired by the Pixar’s new movie UP. Continue Reading »

Terminator

This tutorial shows how to take a stock image of a human skull into Photoshop and create a terminator robot. Continue Reading »

Angels and Demons

Corey’s summer movie series continues with this tutorial about recreating the title graphics of the new movie, Angels and Demons. Continue Reading »

Star Trek Poster Effect

With this tutorial, Corey boldly tries to re-create the film poster of the new Star Trek movie, which is warping into theaters this Friday. Continue Reading »

X-Men Logo

With the summer movie season kicking off this Friday, Corey is using a blockbuster-inspired graphic for this week’s tutorial. 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

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