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Experimenting with abstracts to create interesting backgrounds.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

7 Comments

  1. geri-jean said on — April 9, 2008 @ 11:58 pm

    Hey, I seem to get stuck at the polar coordinates part.
    Mine doesn’t allow me to use this filter at this stage….
    Am I doing something wrong???
    I am using Photoshop CS3

    Thanks

    Geri-Jean

  2. Texas Corey Fan said on — May 26, 2008 @ 2:39 pm

    It’s amazing how creative Corey is!!

  3. Kyle said on — July 16, 2008 @ 11:26 pm

    I got lost at the “Add an element” which is the coolest part. Could you explain that better?

  4. Carla said on — October 18, 2008 @ 5:28 pm

    I suck at photo shop. I was watching your tutorials trying to learn some tricks on how to fix my pictures of these purses we sell. I thing I need to learn the pencil tool or vector mask. Do you offer a class or suggestions on how to improve photoshop skills. thanks

  5. jay said on — December 15, 2008 @ 5:26 pm

    I don’t understand where you got “add an element”.

  6. Radio538goeroe said on — May 4, 2009 @ 1:38 pm

    Where does that fricking awesome element comes from? Can you make a tutorial for that one?

  7. Artur said on — November 14, 2011 @ 1:00 pm

    Thank you for the tutorial, really good. Made a sig for a guy with it :)

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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.

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